Importing candidate details from documents is one of the main feature in an applicant tracking system. Zoho Recruit's integration with Rchilli, automatically parses the candidate details from documents and adds them into your candidate database, along with the resumes attached. The records are easily searchable. You can import the documents individually or in bulk. Once the import activity is done, the status will be notified through an email.
Resume parser addon: $6/month/recruiter
Import Checklist:
Before importing the resume from documents, please go through the following checklist:
Permission:
Make sure you have the access to import candidate details from documents. If you do not have the privilege, the "Import resumes from documents" link will be hidden in the user interface.
In order to provide users the permission to parse the resumes you have to purchase the Resume Parser from the subscription page. The access permission can be given only to recruiter admin and recruiters.
To provide users the access permission to resume parser:
- Click Settings tab.
- Click Manage resume parser, located at the right panel.
- Choose the users from Admin Recruiters/Recruiters.
- Move the selected users to the Resume parser enabled users.
- Click Update.
File Format:
The supported formats are DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, TXT, HTML and ZIP.
Import limits and file size: You can upload upto 10 files at a time, but should not exceed 10MB.
Mandatory fields:
First name, Last name and Email id is mandatory fields in the DOC, DOCX, PDF, RTF, TXT, ODT and HTML. a) If email id is a mandatory field and if it is not available in the document then that file will be ignored. b) The resumes from documents will be uploaded even if the first name and last name is not available in the document.
Fields:
The following fields will be parsed from resume documents:
First name
Middle name
Last name
Email
Phone
Address
Skills
State
City
Zip
Experience
The data in the resume document will be parsed into Zoho Recruit as:
| In resume document | In Zoho Recruit |
| First name, Middle name and Last name | First name and Last name |
| Email | Email ID |
| Phone | Contact number |
| Address, State, City and Zip | Contact address |
| Skills | Skill set |
| Experience | Additional info |
Duplicates:
Importing updated file will overwrite the existing record in Zoho Recruit.
To import resumes from documents:
- Go to Candidates tab.
- Click "Import from document", located at the right panel.
- Click "Click here to browse file(s)" link and add the file from your desktop.
- Select resume format type from the dropdown list.
- Click Import resumes.
