Fast Track

Top applicants are often in the job market for only a short period of time. Many companies lose out on hiring great applicants because another company is able to reach out to them sooner.

With Fast Track, CareerPlug provides the ability to quickly identify your top applicants based on their answers to prescreen questions — and you can even have assessments sent to them automatically. This will help you contact your top applicants faster and prevent losing them to competitors.

The value of Fast Track

Fast Track is most valuable for hiring managers who get large numbers of applicants (and have difficulty keeping up with them) and for hiring managers who have jobs with specific requirements that can be evaluated via prescreen questions.

With Fast Track, you can quickly identify qualified candidates sooner. Based on their prescreen questions, you can automatically move highly qualified candidates to the next step in the hiring process. For those who also have Autopilot enabled in their accounts, this can also include sending them directly to schedule a first interview with your team.

Our internal statistics show that utilizing Fast Track and Autopilot together results in up to 8x more interviews than with accounts that manually review each applicant. Hiring managers are spending approximately 91% less time reviewing applicants and scheduling interviews, which means you can spend less time hiring and more time focusing on growing your business.

Setting up Fast Track for prescreen questions

Setting up Fast Track means setting Fast Track as the response type on one or more of your prescreen question response options. The responses you set as Fast Track should be the most important qualifications for the job.

1. From your Jobs page, click the Edit (pencil) icon to the right of the job to which you want to add Fast Track responses.

Alternatively, you can click the Edit button at the top right of the Job Detail page.

2. Click the Applicant Evaluation section to edit prescreen questions.

3. Click the Settings (gears) icon to the right of the prescreen question you want to edit.

Note: You can also add a new prescreen question and designate any response as a Fast Track response.

4. In the Configuring Question pop-up, set the Status of your most important Response Options to Fast Track using the drop-down menu.

5. Click the Save button in the bottom right corner of the pop-up to finish updating this prescreen question with Fast Track responses.

6. Click the Update Job Post button in the top-right corner to save the changes to your job.

An applicant will be considered Fast Track if they provide the designated answer for all prescreen questions with Fast Track response options.

Besides Fast Track, you can also use Auto Fast Track. See below for more information on the different types of prescreen question responses.

Types of prescreen question responses

Normal: This means that no matter how the applicant responds, the response is scored normally and an applicant who selects this answer will not be considered for Fast Track.
Fast Track: This means that if the applicant chooses a Fast Track response, that person has the potential to be considered Fast Track. These applicants must correctly select all other Fast Track responses you have set on a job in order to be considered Fast Track.
Auto Fast Track: This means that no matter how the applicant responds to other prescreen questions (unless a response disqualifies them — see below), if they select a designated Auto Fast Track response, they will automatically be considered Fast Track. This is useful if you have one key response or requirement you know you need an applicant to have in order to move forward with them in the hiring process.
Disqualify: This means that if an applicant chooses this response, they should not be considered for the position. Disqualified applicants appear in their own seperate page. Click the Disqualified tab at the top of your Applicants page to view disqualified applicants.

An applicant who has answered all Fast Track questions with the designated response will appear with two green arrows next to their name. You will immediately receive an email notification or a text (if you have enabled text notifications). Enable these notifications by navigating to Settings > Users and editing your user record (in the Notifications area).

Changing the criteria for Fast Track applicants

To change the criteria for Fast Track applicants for one of your jobs, you need to edit the prescreen questions that include Fast Track responses.

1. From your Jobs page, click the Edit button to the right of the job you want to edit.

2. Click the Applicant Evaluation tab.

3. In the Prescreen Questions section, locate a question with a green Fast Track tag above it. Click the Settings (gears) icon to the right of the prescreen question.

4. In the Configuring Question pop-up, change any of the Response Options or Status of any prescreen questions to update the specific criteria or responses that are considered Fast Track.

5. Click the Save button in the bottom right corner of the pop-up to finish updating this prescreen question's Fast Track criteria or responses.

Note: If you want to add Fast Track to a different question, click the Settings (gears) icon and adjust the response options as shown above.