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Product Release Notes

balanceTRAK 3.4 Release Notes

May 28,2015

Previous balanceTRAKBerkshire Release Notes

To continually improve our products and services, Berkshire is pleased to announce an upgrade to balanceTRAK. While deploying this upgrade, balanceTRAK may be intermittently unavailable on Thursday, May 28, 2015 from 9:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time.

This upgrade will include the following:

  • The User Management section has been redesigned to improve functionality and usability when managing your balanceTRAK users. New features include:
    • Copy to User and Create from User tools to expedite the creation of new balanceTRAK users.
    • Filter and search tools for finding specific users or groups of users, based on user access level and function or data profile.
    • Enhanced User Management reporting, accessible on the Reports page.

  • The Form Template editor has been redesigned to better reflect the Job Seeker application process:
    • The overall “look and feel” now provides improved usability and better reflects what the Job Seeker will see as they are applying for a Requisition.
    • The form sections include new menus, icons, and working areas to streamline form and question creation and management.
    • Additional functionality has also been added to the form editor, including:

The header, footer, and instructions in forms can now accept formatting such as bold, italics, etc.

Cover letters may now be marked as required.

Education, employment, and reference fields can be renamed by contacting Berkshire's Product Support department.

  • Job Seekers that have been hidden from view due to the Requisition Job Seeker Filter, can now be viewed through Profile Management permissions. For more information on this feature, please contact Product Support.

  • balanceTRAK users can now be notified when a Job Seeker has been placed into an Applicant Stage.
  • A balanceTRAK user’s ability to update a job code’s default Job Description can now be restricted through Profile Management settings.
  • The Job Description editor is now fully compliant with the recent versions of IE, Chrome, and Firefox.
  • Additional bug fixes
  • The Help documentation has been restructured into a "Wiki" format.

balanceAAP / BALANCEhub 3.3 Release Notes

January 28, 2015

Previous BALANCEaap / BALANCEhub Release Notes

To continually improve our products and services, Berkshire is pleased to announce an upgrade to balanceAAP on Wednesday, January 28, 2015. This upgrade will include the following new features and enhancements, as well as fixes for previously reported issues.

IWD/Veterans

The accuracy of the Jobs Opened calculation, in the Hiring Overview activity, has been improved by counting all hired applicants in addition to the unique requisitions where a job seeker has not been hired. Unique Promotion IDs can also now be included to incorporate internal openings into this calculation.

Roster Data Table

The Roster Data table has been updated to include additional fields required in the most recent Scheduling Letter, including: Grade, Wage Rate, Typical Hours in a Work Week, Other Compensation, Status, and Protected Veteran.

Compensation Data Export

The ability to export the compensation data, as outlined in the revised Scheduling Letter, has been added to the Data Export page.

Adverse Impact Reporting

Also in response to the recent changes from the OFCCP’s Scheduling Letter, the following changes have been made to the Adverse Impact reports:

  • The Traditional Adverse Impact reports previously available, can still be accessed through balanceAAP, but are now called “Adverse Impact….Traditional."
  • Plans created after this January 2015 release will have these plans hidden by default, but can be displayed by unchecking the “Hide Legacy Reports” option, located in the Global Settings on the Select Reports page.
  • Adverse Impact reports have been modified to analyze the data, based off the Favored Group analyses. These reports will now compare the selection rate for each individual race or gender against the group that has the highest overall selection rate.
  • Adverse Impact reports will no longer be specifically identified as being run by Favored Groups. New plans will only show Adverse Impact and Adverse Impact Detail reports.
  • Adverse Impact Detail reports have been updated to support the Favored Group analysis and enhanced to further breakdown by selected groups into Hired, Internal Successful, and Offer Extended.
  • In addition to running Favored Groups by Race and Gender, a new section has been added to compare Total Minorities versus Whites.
  • BALANCEhub will also include all corresponding Adverse Impact changes to calculations, Reports, and DASH graphs.
  • Adverse Impact reports can be filtered by Job Group to help minimize the amount of information produced in reports that must be submitted for review.
  • balanceAAP now supports multiple versions of Narrative Templates so that updates can be phased in, as necessary.

balanceAAP Narratives and Reports

  • A new version of the balanceAAP Narratives has been included to comply with the most recent changes to the Scheduling Letter. The modifications include:
    • Overall language changes have been made to the default Narrative Templates.
    • Additional Narrative template tags have been added, including: Top US Official and their Title, Review of Personnel Processes Detail, Review of Physical and Mental Job Requirements Detail, and Additional Monitoring Actions.

  • The Data > Export tab is now directly accessible from the Select Reports page.

  • The Compensation Summary report is now run by Favored Group.

Help

The Help documentation has been restructured in a "Wiki" format.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Berkshire’s Product Support department at product.support@berkshireassociates.com, or use Product Report Request, which is also available from the software's Support button in the page header.

Thank you, Berkshire’s Product Support Team