We’ve recently made some important updates to our app that are designed to improve your experience and make the app more user-friendly. With core updates like improved candidate privacy features and customisable data retention policies, you can stay secure and compliant with your data handling processes.
Improvements in general user experience
- Improved ATS functionality for Interview templates
We've simplified the process of starting interviews from Teamtailor and the Alva app. Now, it takes fewer steps to get an interview up and running. For those using Alva to select from multiple interviews, the process is more intuitive now with a new "Start Interview" button.
Improvements in Data Retention Capabilities
In a digitalised world, it’s more important than ever for our users to remain independent, secure, and compliant with their data handling processes.
That’s why our data retention policies are now fully customisable, ensuring your organisation stays compliant regardless of location, and that candidate data is managed responsibly.
- Tailor your data strategies to individual markets
You can now adjust data retention policies to align with the specific legal requirements of each market you operate in.
- Simplified Global Management
Easily manage data retention for multiple markets from a single Alva account, streamlining your operations across borders.
- Autonomous control
Your team can now adjust these settings autonomously, providing flexibility and control over how you manage candidate data
- Enhanced candidate privacy with Alva
We've improved how we protect candidate information by making certain data anonymous. Our goal is to foster trust and transparency, while protecting candidate privacy over time.
- Data retention policies enable you to anonymise personally identifiable candidate data on our platform after a specified time period.
- How to enable data retention in the Alva app
Navigate to your Alva control panel and under 'Data & Privacy' to personalise your data retention rules. Click on 'Data Retention' to tailor the settings to your company's specific needs.
- Custom settings no matter the market:
- 👍 Here you can define your per-country data retention rules.
- 👍 Users now have complete freedom to define their settings
- 👍Alva’s data logic then applies those settings to future jobs, based on the user who created it
- Seamless ATS integration:
- For those using major ATS systems, location data syncs automatically, applying the correct retention rules for your company.
- Automatically tag job location:
- ✅ If your ATS isn’t integrated with Alva, you can still manage jobs by location, based on where the recruiter who posted the job is located.
- ✅ Simply navigate to ‘Members’ section in the Alva control panel, select ‘Employees’ and assign a location to each user
Create a high-quality interview process with Alva
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