Parsing Tool

FastTrack 360 includes parsing technology to support automation of application processing. The parsing technology is utilised in the following processes:

• Outlook Extensions

  • Where a Candidate is created or updated via Outlook Extensions, the parsing tool scans any attachments to determine if there is a resume. The first resume found is deemed the primary resume and data is retrieved to apply to the Candidate record. Where there is no attachment, the tool scans the email subject and body.

  • Where the tool finds a valid Job Order ID, a Job Referral to the Job can be created.

  • A Review Candidate Data Screen is displayed with extracted data, for you to select if you wish to proceed with create / update, or cancel the process.

• Online Job Application

  • Where FastTrack 360 has been integrated with the on-line Job aggregator 'Broadbean', if a Questionnaire with a resume attachment requirement has been assigned to the Job Advertisement, the parsing tool parses details from the resume to the new Candidate Record.

• Unsolicited Candidate Registration

  • Where a Candidate Registration Page has been configured to capture unsolicited registrations, if the attached 'Form' requires a resume attachment and there are mapped fields in the form, the parsing tool parses details from the attached resume and applies this data to the mapped fields. Data from mapped fields is then applied to the new Candidate record on submission.

Parsing Process

Depending on what options are configured by the business, the tool may retrieve data for Contact Information, Work History and Skills sections to aid in the creation or update of the Candidate record.

The parsing tool parses resumes and CVs regardless of the layout format, so a particular order or location of information is not required for this process.

During the parsing process, a converter is used to translate the resume / CV into plain text data. The converter is optimised to retain significant whitespace, punctuation and other indications within the text that is useful for detailed parsing. Despite the converter's best efforts, there may be inadequate or inaccurate conversions that create incorrect parsing results. For example a corrupted MS Word document could contain thousands of garbled 'garbage' characters and detailed formatting, which would cause data to be incorrectly interpreted.

File Types: The parsing tool will endeavour to render text from any 'document' file type, however the file must contain actual text ie; PDF documents that are scanned images and do not contain actual text, cannot be converted to plain text, therefore these documents cannot be parsed. Files created from applications that are not used for word processing ie; Excel, PowerPoint, Project etc cannot be parsed.

Supported Languages

The parsing tool supports many languages, and additional languages are being added each year. These include:

• Chinese (Simplified)

• Czech Dutch

• English, all markets

• French, all markets, including Canada

• German, all markets including Switzerland, Lichtenstein and Austria Greek

• Hungarian, contact info only Italian

• Norwegian Portuguese Russian

• Spanish, also Catalan, Galician, Basque Swedish

Planned

Region support for all of South America, Mexico, Portugal, Poland, Romania. Language and region support for Italian, Danish, Polish, Romanian, and Flemish.

Supported Countries

Supported countries include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States. Additionally the parser recognizes major international cities in other countries.

As there are varying standards and cultures in each country, items supported for the listed countries include: Postal address parsing, local cultural conventions, companies, schools, etc. Name, phone number email parsing.