We are excited to announce the general availability of our enhanced e-signature capabilities. With this enhancement, electronic signatures in Onboarding are aligned with more robust standards of signature intent, consent, authenticity, and integrity. These enhancements include new consent pop-ups, expanded access to audit trails, and emails to candidates with approved PDF copies. We encourage you to call Support and have this enabled after your environment is updated to the August release! Our enhanced electronic signatures will eventually be enabled in all customer environments by default – at present, customers must currently opt-in by calling Support.

Details about electronic signature regulations and Bullhorn’s approach to compliance can be found at http://www.bullhorn.com/products/onboarding/e-signature-compliance/

An issue has been identified wherein custom notifications for timesheet approvers were not displaying in the newly redesigned timesheet approver portal. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the custom notifications will display as expected.

We are excited to announce a newly refreshed Timecard Approver Portal for Bullhorn Back Office and Onboarding! Approvers will find approving timecards easier than ever with our new streamlined interface. Approvers will still default to the legacy app, but are able to go to the new app by clicking the “Here” link at the bottom of the app. For users unable to access Flash sites, this is the app for you. You are able to approve and reject timesheets and run your most pertinent approver reports.

The Manager and Employee in app help links have been updated to consistently load the proper help site for each user.

An issue has been identified wherein the Admin List was timing out with large numbers of administrators. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the admin list will load more efficiently for lists of any size.

An issue has been identified wherein special characters in document titles were causing 404 errors when trying to the view the PDF of the document. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the PDF will open as expected.

An issue has been identified wherein a blank expiration date for documents in List A,B, and C that didn’t require an expiration date was causing the E-Verify integration to display an error. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to leave the field blank for certain identification types without receiving an error. Please follow all guidelines put forth by the USCIS.

An update has been made to Bullhorn SMS to allow for restricting usage of phone numbers across departments in your company. With this setting, users in different departments will send SMS messages from different phone numbers, without reusing the same number across departments. Please contact Support to enable this setting.

An issue has been identified wherein elements of the phone number did not parse correctly to the candidate record. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the phone number will parse completely to candidate records.

An issue has been identified wherein the parsing process that supports the Find Matching Candidates feature passed the detected language of the resume as a keyword to the candidate search. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the parsing process for Find Matching Candidates will not add the detected language of a resume as a keyword.

An issue has been identified where occasionally not all values for Note Action are available for Advanced Criteria searching. This issue is resolved and you can now search for all Note Actions using the Advanced Criteria search.

An issue was identified wherein the $CurrentDate$ tag on Merge Docs was not returning the user’s timezone. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the proper timezone will be returned with this tag.

An issue has been identified wherein the parse as existing workflow would not correctly perform a name match search against records and resumes without an email address. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the parse as existing workflow will correctly perform a name match against records and resumes without an email address.

A new field has been added to field maps for Client Companies: requirementCertificationID. By default, this field is hidden and has an edit type of Picker:Certification.

An issue has been identified wherein newly added candidates are being automatically opted out of receiving SMS messages. This issue is now resolved and newly added candidates will be opted in and upon receiving their first message, candidates will be given the option to opt out.

An issue has been identified wherein the Open Source Career Portal (OSCP) is not respecting the Candidate.countryID default value and as a result Candidates parsed into the system with the incorrectly defaulted Country. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the OSCP will default the Country field to the correct Country.

An issue has been identified wherein using the change industry, skill, or specialty drop down option on a Candidate record does not update the edit history. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the edit history for Candidates will updated as expected.

An issue has been identified wherein exported lists display some dates incorrectly. This issue is now resolved and upon receiving the latest release exported lists will display dates as expected.

An issue has been identified wherein the Open Source Career Portal (OSCP) is not respecting the Candidate.countryID default value and as a result Candidates parsed into the system with the incorrectly defaulted Country. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the OSCP will default the Country field to the correct Country.

An issue has been identified wherein an application from Indeed would add in a candidate but would not parse the resume. This issue is now resolved and upon receiving the latest release resumes will parse as expected.

An issue has been identified wherein attempting to parse a job or opportunity from an attachment would instead parse the email body. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the attachment will parse as expected.

We have expanded the REST API to include new calls querying on entity edit histories. The edit histories for Job Order, Job Submission, Appointment, Placement, and User entities can now be accessed via the REST API.

Full documentation is available at developer.bullhorn.com

An issue was identified where with certain configurations, PDF snapshots were not generated for Onboarding document status changes. This issue has been resolved and PDF snapshots are generating as expected.

An issue was identified where Managers and Admins were unable to reset passwords with the “Change Password” button. This issue has been resolved and passwords are able to be reset when needed.

When publishing jobs to the SEEK job board, all dropdown menus now appear in alphabetical order.

An issue has been identified wherein SEEK web responses are not being sent to the automatic resume parser. This issue is resolved and upon receiving the latest release, SEEK web responses will parse into your Bullhorn database as expected.

Each Standard Report now displays an updated description.

An issue has been identified wherein the Placement Change Request list correlatedCustomText4 column shows correlatedCustomText5 data and correlatedCustomText5 column shows correlatedCustomText4 data. This issue is resolved and upon receiving the latest update these columns and the related data will show as expected on the Placement Change Request list.

Details for version 2.0.1 are available on Github.

An issue has been identified wherein a Client Submission (Sendout) that is generated from a Web Response rather than an internal Submission will not appear under the Activity tab. This issue is resolved and upon receiving the latest release, Client Submission will record as expected.

A change has been made so that when Data Mirror becomes inactive, Data Mirror will fail to re-start. Data Mirror being inactive is defined as 7 days of inactivity and/or 1 million request statuses. An email will be sent to notify you that Data Mirror is inactive and you will need to contact Bullhorn Support to restart the program.

DataMirror now has access to the reportsTo field for corporate user records.

An issue has been identified wherein when the Multiple Assignees and Contacts on Tasks setting is enabled, the contact task references would not appear. This issue is resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the contact task references for tasks affected by this setting will appear.

Bullhorn Accelerator now supports the latest version of Google Chrome. With Accelerator, it’s easy to quickly parse text from the web into Bullhorn Candidate, Contact, and Job records.

An issue has been identified wherein the requirement to have unique names for fields on Onboarding documents is not being enforced. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, you will now be prompted to use unique names when creating fields on a document.
Note: Existing non-unique field names will not be impacted unless you select “Save Field Mappings” on a document. You will then be prompted to update any duplicate field names.

An issue has been identified wherein tax exemptions fields were not displaying the same behavior as other fields when marked confidential. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the tax exemptions field will behave as expected when marked as confidential.

If you import a contact and include company information in the import, Bullhorn will create a new company if the system is unable to find a matching company in your database.

Previously, all new companies created this way would default to the United States for their country. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the system will default to the specified country upon uploading.

Data Mirror has been optimized to better handle replication of tearsheets and related entities.

We are excited to announce that you are now able to schedule reports in Canvas. With this new feature you will be able to:

• Automatically send reports (PDF, Excel, CSV) via email
• Schedule reports to be sent daily, weekly, monthly, or annually. You can also set repeat sends.
  • Timezones are determined by the user that scheduled the report.
  • Currently, you cannot schedule reports with containing a prompt. This ability will be released at a later time.
• Select recipients by user, department, or automatically send to all users who are entitled to see the report

An issue has been identified wherein administrators with restricted branch access are encountering errors with the proper permissions to run reports. This issue has been resolved and administrators are able to run reports according to their branch access.

An issue has been identified wherein notes listed in the slideout view are sorting oldest to newest for users with a particular combination of usertype entitlements. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, notes will sort from newest to oldest in the slideout for all combinations of usertype permissions.

An issue has been identified wherein upon selecting the LinkedIn button on candidate and contact slideouts an error message appears. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the LinkedIn button will open LinkedIn as expected.

An issue has been identified wherein publishing a job with quotations in the job description results in an error. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, job descriptions containing quotations will no longer display an error upon publishing.

An issue has been identified wherein the inclusion of submission comments in a client submission (also known as a Sendout) email resulted in inconsistent formatting in the delivered message.

This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, client submissions with submission comments added will have consistent formatting.

An issue has been identified wherein the Last Note column on a candidate list is displaying the wrong date for certain time zones. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the Last Note column will reflect the correct date according to the user’s local time zone.

We are excited to announce a better way to manage your tearsheets. If you need to add or remove a single record, you no longer need to navigate to the tearsheet list to do so. You will now see a Manage Tearsheets option within the slideout or on the record itself under the Select An Action menu. This button allows you to either add or remove current tearsheets as well as add the record to a new tearsheet.

When publishing a job to the SEEK job board, you will now only see formatting options available for SEEK job advertisements. These formatting options include:

– Bold
– Italic
– Bulleted list
– Numbered list
– Hyperlink
– Add horizontal line

Note: SEEK is a job board that is specific to the APAC region.

We are excited to announce that SEEK Job Publishing is now in Open Beta. You can post directly to SEEK from Bullhorn and your applicants will automatically appear on the job record.

Please contact Support if you have a SEEK account and would like to participate in the Open Beta.

Previously, applications from the career portal added a candidate record with a resume file and a web response. Now with this enhancement, the candidate record will also include work history and education information if it can be parsed from the resume provided.

Normally, Opt Out verbiage only appears on emails that are sent to more than 10 recipients.

A new setting has been added to enable the option to include the standard Opt Out verbiage on all emails sent from Bullhorn.

This setting is optional and will not be enabled by default. Please contact Bullhorn Support if you would like to enable this functionality.

As part of ongoing security and privacy enhancements, email messages tracked against contacts and leads that have email domains that match any internal Bullhorn users within your database will no longer be discoverable. Please contact Bullhorn Support with any questions about this update.

Example: You have a Bullhorn user with the email address recruiter@acme.com and you add a contact record to your database with the email address legal@acme.com. Emails sent to and from legal@acme.com will not be visible on that contact record.

Bullhorn is pleased to announce that Canvas, our powerful business analytics and intelligence suite, is now available for purchase by Bullhorn customers. Canvas allows users to glean powerful insights from otherwise hidden data, including relationship velocity, employee performance, KPIs, and business metrics.

If you are interested in learning more about Canvas, please contact your account executive.

Two issues have been identified that prevent task reminder emails from being sent as expected:

1. Marking a recurring task as complete via the list view will prevent the subsequent recurring task from sending a reminder.
2. Updating a task due date via the list view will not update the task reminder due date.

These issues have been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, task reminder emails involving the above scenarios will send as expected.

Note: This is for the Bullhorn SMS feature and not IceTrak SMS

An issue has been identified wherein sending more than 200 SMS at a time often results in timeouts. To optimize the SMS service, we have reduced the max number of SMS recipients from 500 to 200.

An issue has been identified wherein if you perform an advanced search for Candidate notes based on multiple words, the search does not return expected results. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, searching for multiple words on Candidate notes will work as expected.

An issue has been identified wherein task data is not returning with placement data when calling via REST API. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, Task data will be available on placement records via REST API.

We’ve recently enhanced the Placement Change Request list to support filter and search features as well as the ability to create a Favorite search.

Bullhorn is pleased to announce that we have completed an upgrade to our parsing services in order to provide you a better and faster parsing experience along with extended language support when parsing.

An issue has been identified where notes were sorting in ascending order within the slideout view with a certain combination of usertype entitlements. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, notes will sort in descending order within the slideout view regardless of usertype entitlements.

An issue has been identified wherein if a user has an appointment where the reminder is set to none the user is unable to view that appointment using a mobile device. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, these appointments will be visible on a mobile device.

An issue has been identified wherein users had to click multiple times to add a note on Bullhorn mobile. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release users will be able to more easily add notes via mobile.

An issue has been identified wherein if you utilize the Projects entity (also known as Jobs) and rename the entity you will not be able to view Projects via the mobile site in certain cases. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to see Projects/Jobs on Bullhorn Mobile regardless of the name of the entity.

A recent change to searching in LinkedIn caused the candidate and contact LinkedIn button to return an error message when navigating from Bullhorn. This issue has been resolved and all candidate and contact searches are working as expected.

An issue has been identified where spaces before or after an email address in an email field on lead records were getting saved and would cause issues with mass mailing and message tracking. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, leading and trailing spaces are ignored when Lead records are saved.

An issue has been identified where upon converting a lead to a contact, emails sent to that contact do not associate with the contact’s company. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, emails for converted contacts will track to the company as expected.

An update has been made to allow for multi-brand job publishing. Now, when a brand is selected on the job publishing screen, the available social links (Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter) will provide links to the corresponding brand selected by the user. No change has been made to branded publishing to the Open Source Career Portal or the Indeed Syndication.

Multiple brands can be set up under Menu > Tools > BH Connect within the Branded Career Portal Posting option.

We’ve recently enhanced the Job and Candidate lists to include the same Client Submission and Placement count columns included when exporting other entity lists. Upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to export these columns.

An issue has been identified wherein using the feature that replaces General Candidate/Contact Comments with note comments was not adding edit history to the candidate or contact record. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, events will be replicated as expected.

An issue has been identified wherein updating Placement Change Requests via the SOAP API would not update the edit history. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, events will be able to be replicated as expected.

Lead and Opportunity Edit Histories are now available to be replicated through Data Mirror.

An issue has been identified wherein the field “nickName” was creating errors with Data Mirror and Data Loader when certain values were entered into the field. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, errors will no longer be generated.

An issue has been identified where if you create/edit a user using SOAP API, the actions are not being replicated by Data Mirror or Data Mart. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, these actions will replicated as expected.

Note: This issue does not impact additions/updates made from the user list in Bullhorn. Only those changes made via the SOAP API.

An issue was identified wherein if you added a contact and used the “update contact address to match company address” feature, the contact’s state was not updating correctly. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the contact’s state will update as expected.

An issue has been identified wherein leads were unable to be saved when parsed with the email gadget. This issue has been resolved and leads are able to be saved when parsed with the email gadget.

Would you like to be able to decide whether or not your attendees receive an invite for your appointment? With this latest enhancement, we have added the ability for you to control if an email invitation is sent out to your attendees. Upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to add or edit appointments and take advantage of this new enhancement.

An issue has been identified wherein an appointment will not log if the location on the appointment exceeds 100 characters. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, appointments will log as expected.

If you’re designated as a Support or Account Contact, a new “Live Chat” button will be available to you within Bullhorn. Upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to use this button to quickly connect you with one of our Support representatives in order to ask questions or submit issues.

Note: This feature is only available to Support or Account contacts.

A new InvoiceLines API controller has been added to the Bullhorn Back Office and Onboarding API library. Upon receiving the latest release, you will be able to add note lines to existing invoices with this new API controller. Notes are added to the invoice each time the controller is called using API and can then be edited or deleted from the invoices themselves.

We have expanded Bullhorn SMS to support SMS messaging to and from the Netherlands! Previously, Bullhorn SMS supported sending messages to and from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia.

It is now easier to search all available Onboarding documents using the document/packet selection functionality in Bullhorn ATS. Previously, when searching for Onboarding documents and packets from the document/packet picker, users would only see the first 50 available results. Upon receiving the latest release, this restriction will be removed and you will be able to search for all available packets and documents.

The open source career portal has been updated to allow you to collect OFCCP/EEOC information such as gender, ethnicity, veteran status, and disability status. These options are available on both the standard apply and “Apply with LinkedIn”.

If you are interested in this feature, you must update your Open Source Career Portal via GitHub.

An issue has been identified wherein dates entered on an Onboarding document were clearing if the format entered did not match the format specified on the document. This issue does not apply when users enter a date with the date picker. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, dates entered will not clear from the document.

An issue has been identified wherein line breaks were not appearing when employees were editing Onboarding documents with paragraph input fields. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the paragraph input will display line breaks correctly.

Upon receiving the latest release, Approvers will be able to see projects on timesheets in the Manager portal.

An issue has been identified wherein an error occurred upon sending an email and you would be forced to manually select all users or approvers by the branch option. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release you will able to send email messages to all users or all approvers.

An issue has been identified wherein timesheet notification emails were not being sent if a timesheet was re-submitted within two hours of original approval. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, the timesheet reminder emails will now be sent.

We are excited to announce the addition of custom data exports for Bullhorn Back Office and Onboarding! Our Professional Services and Support teams are now able to create custom data exports for various applications, from custom Back Office reports to consolidated exports of Onboarding documents completed by your candidates. The new, flexible custom export tool is now available via a simple user interface in the Back Office and Onboarding application.

If a custom export has been created by our Professional Services or Support teams, you are able to access the export from the Reports tab in app. Previously, this was only available via API access. To have a custom export written for you, please contact your Account Manager or Support.

An issue has been identified wherein batch invoices were not displaying in search view. This issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release, batch invoices with display as expected in search view.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a new I-9 form as of 11/14/2016. Employers are expected to use the new form for all employment as of 1/22/2017.

The USCIS offers two types of I-9 forms – a dynamic Adobe Reader “fillable” PDF which changes when data is entered, and a static I-9 form for use outside of Adobe Reader.

We will continue to support electronic images from the static I-9 form. The default I-9 form for the E-Verify process will change over on January 1, 2017.

We encourage you to visit https://www.uscis.gov/i-9 to review all updates related to the new I-9 Form as well as to review your I-9 collection and storage processes to ensure you are in compliance with the requirements put forth by the USCIS.

If you have any questions, please contact Support.

We have upgraded our integration between Onboarding and E-Verify to the latest, recently-released version (Version 29). This was required in order to maintain compliance with E-Verify requirements. End users will see no change with this upgrade.

An issue has been identified wherein administrators were receiving an error when attempting to enter an overnight shift with a break. The error indicated times entered overlapped. The issue has been resolved and upon receiving the latest release administrators will be able to enter overnight shifts with a lunch break.

An issue has been identified wherein total time for a given timesheet was not equal to the amount entered by the employee when latency occurred during time entry. This latency issue has been addressed and the total time is now calculated according to time entered by the employee. Upon receiving the latest release when time is entered at a rapid pace, employees will be presented with a brief loading message before they are able to submit the timesheet.

An issue has been identified wherein running an Unsubmitted Timesheets report with all branches selected only one branch would be returned. This has now been resolved. Upon receiving the latest release, the selected branches will now apply when running the Unsubmitted Timesheets report.

An issue has been identified wherein work history would sort incorrectly when adding candidates via the resume parser. Upon receiving the latest release, the issue has been resolved and candidate work history will sort as expected when added via the resume parser.

An enhancement has been made to SalesDuel that enables a tournament creator to quickly select all players who have a certain title and add them to a tournament.

When a user is creating a tournament, they can type a title at the top of the Add Players dialog, and, as a result, only players who have that title will appear for selection. At that point, the user can select individual players or they can select all of the players in a department who have the associated title by clicking the plus icon beside the department name (which adds only the filtered players as opposed to all of the players in the department).

Note: A player’s title in SalesDuel is the value that appears in the Occupation field on their user record in Bullhorn. If a user’s Occupation field is blank, SalesDuel will display “No Title” for that user.

An enhancement has been made to SalesDuel that enables users to create a new tournament by copying an existing tournament.

When a tournament is in progress, you can copy the tournament by accessing its properties and clicking the Copy Tournament link found at the bottom Edit Tournament dialog.

Additionally, when a tournament has ended you will notice a link to recreate the tournament at the bottom of the Tournament Recap dialog.

Upon receiving the latest release, the ability to copy tournaments will become available.

We have enhanced our REST API to include Create, Update and Delete functionality for Placement Change Request data. Upon receiving the latest release, your developers will be able to insert, update, and delete Placement Change Request data via REST. For more information, see developer.bullhorn.com.

We have now added Client Submissions (Sendouts) as an option for assigning Goals within the Goals and Quotas feature. Upon receiving the latest release, client submissions will appear as an option with assigning goals.

Goals and Quotas is available for Enterprise Edition only.