December 2024

We are super excited to announce that Performance Management is now available in Spark.Work. This long-anticipated addition empowers our partners to establish transparent performance standards and structured evaluation flows, fostering a culture of growth, alignment, and excellence across their teams. Alongside this significant update, we introduce a series of updates designed to enhance your hiring workflow. These updates include Multiple Hiring Managers' Support, an Enhanced Candidate Hiring Process,  Improved Requisition Coverage, and Improved Search Functionality for Efficient Candidate Management. Also, we've enhanced Employee Search and Filtering to simplify adding employees to time offs, positions, and other relevant sections. Explore the details of these enhancements below👇.

What's New This Month?

PERFORM

Simplify Performance Management and Foster Growth

Take the first step in redefining success and excellence in your organization. Performance Management in Spark.Work is designed to inspire, lead, and grow your teams by providing a well-defined methodology that ensures fairness, consistency, and actionable insights at every level.

Here's what's now available to you:

• 360-Degree: A holistic evaluation approach that captures feedback from multiple perspectives—managers, peers, subordinates, and self-assessments. This method ensures balanced and unbiased insights into individual performance.
• Manager Performance: Specifically tailored to assess managerial capabilities, this evaluation focuses on leadership effectiveness, team management, and the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Potential Performance (9-Box Matrix): This methodology combines current performance metrics with potential for future growth. The 9-Box Matrix helps identify high-potential employees, future leaders, and areas requiring development.
• Value Engagement: Evaluates how well employees align with organizational values and measures their engagement levels. This insight is critical for fostering a cohesive company culture and improving retention.

HIRE

Multiple Hiring Managers Support

We've enhanced the hiring process by enabling the assignment of multiple Hiring Managers to requisitions and job openings. By assigning various Hiring Managers, you can make more informed decisions, improve candidate experience, and hire top talent.

With this improvement you can now:

• Assign multiple Hiring Managers to a single requisition or job opening;
• View the names of all assigned Hiring Managers in the Hiring Team section of the Requisition and Job Opening pages.

Enhanced Candidate Hiring Process

To improve the hiring process for candidates without existing employee profiles, we've introduced several enhancements:

• Hire Confirmation Popup:

• Hired Stage Profile Details:

Improved Requisition Coverage

We've introduced a new Covered By field in the Covered section for Hired employees. This update allows you to select a recently hired candidate to cover for the requisition. The system will display the candidates with a Hired record in the relevant Candidate dropdown menu.

Enhanced Search Functionality for Efficient Candidate Management

To improve the efficiency of candidate search and retrieval, we made it possible to search by phone number and personal email address. This enhancement is now available in various sections of the platform: Applicants Page, Job Opening Page, and Recruitment Pipeline Page.

GENERAL

Enhanced Employee Search and Filtering

We've simplified adding employees to time offs, positions, and other relevant sections by introducing a new filtering option: Employee Groups. This enhancement lets you quickly find and select employees based on their group membership. For example, you can add a report to or reporter to an employee's profile by filtering employees within their respective groups.

Bug Fixes

This month, we addressed a critical bug that prevented users from editing or terminating employee records. The issue was causing an incorrect "Editing Rejected" error message to appear, even for employees without assigned approval flows.

WE → Employee Profile → End of Employment

✔ The system incorrectly identifies the employee as an approver in various
approval flows, preventing the necessary status changes (Position and Employee status) and button visibility updates (End of Employment button remains visible).