Comprehensive front and back office recruitment software

Temporary, contract and permanent vacancies

Search and selection, CV creation, timesheets/invoicing, interview scheduling, full mail merge capabilities a wide range of reports and much more.

Paloma also offers Fortuna Gemini, designed to sit alongside Fortuna 2000, which provides an easy to use graphical interface for dealing with temporary multiple vacancies and shift patterns.

We can also link Fortuna 2000 to your website.

As well as the overview below, there are software overviews (Powerpoint presentations), with descriptions and screenshots, available from our Downloads page. Fortuna 2000 also has a comprehensive electronic help file which can be downloaded from here too.

Overview

Fortuna 2000 is user friendly and flexible, featuring comprehensive electronic help, which details full instructions on how to use all of Fortuna 2000's features.

It also features:

• A fully customisable skills list, which is used to match candidates to vacancies.

• Automatic candidate to vacancy matching. You can also perform searches using a variety of criteria you specify, such as: skills possessed, availability, location, age, salary requirements. Other searches include text searches for key words contained in CVs.
  Searches which match vacancies to a given candidate.

• A diary facility to track events, record activities and manage your items to do. This also includes an alarm which warns you when you have upcoming tasks and flexible filtering options allowing you to view the diary entries you want to see.

• Simple but effective navigation to quickly find the record you want to view.

• The Fortuna Synchronisation Module allows remote offices and personnel to utilise the data from the main office. Data can be synchronised on a regular basis to ensure everyone has access to the same information.

• Fortuna 2000 simplifies the Recruitment Process, including:

• Recording and tracking of references.

• Shortlist production allowing tracking of candidate's progress towards placement. This also has full mail merging capability, and enables your consultants to utilise their recruitment skills in the final selection process. There is also a facility for automatically emailing candidates' CV documents to the client contact.

• Interview scheduling and tracking.

• A wide variety of searches, through clients, vacancies and candidates. The results of these searches can be used in many ways, such as: to place candidates, to send mail merge letters to candidates/contacts, to export to eg Excel or Word.

• A variety of types of vacancy - permanent, temporary, contract, and multiple (a vacancy for which more than one person is required).

General Features of Fortuna are as follows:

Automatic invoice production, using timesheets and invoice templates we design according to your specifications.
Flexible export facility of accounts data, to payroll packages (eg Sage), accounts software, BACS.
Instant creation and update of CVs as MS Word documents, ensuring a corporate format. This avoids duplication of data entry, using information already entered when adding a new candidate to the database. The CV template is designed according to your specifications.

Documents in a variety of file formats (eg graphics files, Word documents, Excel documents) can be embedded in the database. This includes CVs which candidates provide you with, by email or floppy disc, which can be used for text searches.

Flexible and automatic mail merging facilities, available for sending letters at the touch of a button to:
Candidates,
Client contacts,
Shortlisted candidates,
Successful candidates and vacancy contacts,

All or selected matches to any of Fortuna 2000's many searches.
The ability to keep track of potential clients for marketing purposes.
The ability to keep track of potential candidates and client contacts for headhunting purposes.

Full reports generator ranging from daily monitoring to management reporting. Reports cover all aspects of the database, including candidates (eg all, individual, placed), clients, vacancies (eg filled, live), diary, timesheets and invoicing. Reports can also be filtered by eg consultant, date.
Archive and retrieval facility for both candidates and vacancies, which allows you to keep your data up to date.
Optional Extras which are available for Fortuna 2000 are as follows:
Security.

Links to email software, incorporating CV downloading function.
Postcode searching.
Integration of the database with your web site, which includes the following options:
Candidate online registration, updating of details, searching for vacancies.
Client registration, review of existing vacancies, posting of vacancies, search for candidates.

Live posting of vacancies as they are processed by a consultant via Fortuna.
Submission of CVs via the web.
Submission of job adverts to web sites such as www.gisajob
Submission of timesheets and verification by clients.
SMS text messages to individual candidates or groups of candidates.
Use of Fortuna Gemini in tandem for managing multiple vacancies.

System Requirements

Pentium Processor or equivalent
64MB RAM
6.4GB or above hard disk
56K Modem - required for support purposes
pcAnywhere (v8 or above) host and remote software - required for support purposes
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Novell NetWare

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