TalentLink Guides
National Recruitment Portal
Myjobscotland is the national recruitment website and portal used by Fife Council and all other Scottish local authorities. A new portal and website was launched during January 2015. Please click https://www.myjobscotland.gov.uk/ to view the website.
To support managers with using the new portal, managers are asked to attend a mandatory training session. Details are on CLMS.
Following attendance at the mandatory training session user account details will be ordered from COSLA. These will take a few days to be received.
In addition to the mandatory training session recruiting managers should use the range of self-service training guides itemised below. Recruiting managers should also refer to the guides:
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Manager – on receipt of their account details, logs into and sets up TalentLink using the training guide 'Initial Set up'.
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Manager – Approves advert in TalentLink – Recruitment Team sends the approval request through TalentLink to the Approver(s) of the vacancy. Approvers of the vacancy should follow training guide 'Approve a Vacancy' to see what action they need to take to approve a vacancy.
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Recruitment Team – Make job live and advise Manager advert is live
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Manager – Shortlists in TalentLink – Recruitment Team – Sends task through TalentLink to recruiting manager to carry out a panel review for each application in TalentLink. The recruiting manager should follow training guide 'Bulk Rejection After Application Review'.
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Manager – Sets up interviews in TalentLink. The recruiting manager should follow training guide 'Schedule Interview Time Slots' to set up their interview time slots.
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Manager - After following Schedule Interview Time Slots, the next step is to invite candidates to interview. To invite candidates to interview:
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Manager – Once the interviews have been held and your successful candidate has verbally accepted you should advise the Recruitment Team of successful candidate(s). Complete the 'Successful Candidate Information Form' in TalentLink ** You must ensure you upload the successful candidate’s documents to TalentLink **
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Manager – Once the interviews have been held and your successful candidate has verbally accepted you should follow the training guide 'Reject After Interview'.
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Manager – Once the interviews have been held complete a 'Candidate Assessment Form' for all candidates after Interview in TalentLink following guide 'Feedback form after Interview'.
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Recruitment Team – Issues conditional offer of employment to the preferred candidate, requests references, carries out safer recruitment checks and advises the recruiting manager once complete.
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Recruitment Team – following all safer recruitment checks, issues the unconditional offer of employment to the successful candidate(s). Manager to contact the successful candidate to make their start arrangements.
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E-Learning versions of the TalentLink Guides are now available
Tel: 03451 55 55 55 + Ext 44 42 52 Contact Nicola Harris online
By Post: Fife House North Street Glenrothes Fife KY7 5LT