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Product Release Notes

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balanceAAP and balanceTRAK 3.5 Release Notes

July 29, 2015

To continually improve our products and services, Berkshire is pleased to announce an upgrade to balanceAAP and balanceTRAK. While deploying this upgrade, balanceAAP and balanceTRAK may be intermittently unavailable on Wednesday, July 29, 2015 from 9:00pm - 11:00pm Eastern Standard Time.

This balanceAAP upgrade will include the following:

  • The VETS-4212 Federal Contractor Veterans’ Employment Report, and an export file for upload to the VETS Web site, are now available. The report has been added to the Reports module for plans with a Plan Date on or after January 1, 2015.
  • The Adverse Impact Analysis has been augmented to better assess the groups that can be considered favored or non-favored. When this option is enabled, the analysis looks at both reasonable recruitment data and applicant or pool results to ensure a group has at least 2% representation to be considered as a favored group, or considered to have adverse impact.
  • The Roster Data table provides a tool to set employees’ Reports to Plan and Report Location fields, based on the assigned supervisor’s Plan Code.
  • A Validate Zip Code feature has been added to the Recruitment Area Wizard. When the option to use zip codes is selected, this validator will review your selected zip code list, identify invalid entries, and allow you to correct invalid codes.
  • A new IWD and Protected Veteran Hiring Overview option has been added that will match values for Jobs Opened and Jobs Filled.
  • The Plan Summary report now includes IWD and Protected Veteran information.
    • •       The Shortfall number in the Adverse Impact reports has been corrected so that results display properly when run by Individual race. All affected areas will recalculate and be automatically resolved when the report is loaded.
  • Video tutorials have been updated throughout the application.
  • Additional bug fixes and minor enhancements.

This balanceTRAK upgrade will include the following:

  • ZipRecruiter has been added to the balanceTRAK integration list.
  • Creating Approval Process for individual requisitions has be enhanced to allow the addition of approver groups.
  • The option to exclude closed requisitions when viewing job seekers by requisition has now been added to improve load time and performance. To enable this feature, or for additional information, please contact Berkshire’s Product Support.
  • A new requisition workflow option has added that will automatically change a requisition’s status when the requisition reaches the Posting End Date. To enable this feature or for additional information, please contact Product Support.
  • BALANCEbTRAK’s Data Profiles have an expanded security feature, which restrict viewing of job seeker forms for specific users.
  • Additional bug fixes

We thank you in advance for your patience during this upgrade. 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