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Follow the steps outlined below to set up campus events for your account.
Campus discovery tips
Review the below questions with your CS Representative to discover what your team's needs are and how the campus events solution can be built to best serve those needs.
- What is your current process?
- What is your current product suite or softwares used?
- Who are you hiring for at your campus events?
- What is most important for your campus hiring?
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What are your desired outcomes and goals?
- Examples include: ROI tracking, robust candidate pipelines, data collection, etc.
** Additional discovery questions are included in each configuration section below. **
Configuration
Step #1: Enable the appropriate settings in customer Setup
Users with full access to the customer Setup permission can complete the following steps.
- Select All Apps in the top left corner of the header and then Settings from its drop-down menu.
- When the Settings page opens, select customer Setup under the Paradox Tools section.
- From the left panel, scroll down to and open the Conversational Events section.
- Ensure that Conversational Events and Hiring Events are enabled.
- Save the page.
- From the left panel, scroll up to and open the Campus section.
- Toggle on the following settings:
- Campus
- Campus Planning
- Approvals (if using the Campus Approvals feature)
- Save the page.
- From the left panel, open the Campaigns section.
- Toggle on Campaigns.
- Save the page.
- From the left panel, scroll down to and open the Q&A section.
- Ensure Content Management System is enabled and save the page if any changes are made.
- From the left panel, scroll up to and open the More section.
- Toggle on Surveys and then Evaluations.
- Save the page.
Step #2: Build custom list select attributes
List select attributes are used in several aspects of campus, including reporting and filtering and segmenting candidate lists. Click here to learn how to create list-select enabled attributes.
If you wish to report on these planning fields, they must be tied to an Event Attribute. Event Attributes are configured in System Attributes, more configuration details for Event Attributes can be found here.
Not sure what attributes to build or if you should add a Candidate Attribute vs. an Event Attribute? Click here and navigate to Step #2 to learn more.
Step #3: Update user permissions
Reference this Permissions section to determine what access users will need to best utilize various campus features.
Step #4: Build approval flows (optional)
If you are utilizing approval flows for campus events, then ensure to set up approval flows as needed and assign them to their corresponding schools. Click here to learn more.
Step #5: Set up campus profiles
Add all of the schools/campuses where you will host events. Click here to learn how to add the necessary school profiles.
Step #6: Create student evaluations (recommended, optional)
If you are utilizing student evaluations, then you will need to create student evaluations that your team members can use to evaluate students/candidates during a campus event. Click here to learn more.
Step #7: Create the pre-event & on-site registration conversations
Build your pre-event and on-site registration conversations that will be used in your Campus Events. Learn how to build Hiring Event Conversations here.
Step #8: Add Kiosk Mode templates and event registration forms (recommended, optional)
If you are going to use Kiosk Mode, where students/candidates must register for an event offline, then you will need to design the Kiosk Mode experience and create the event registration forms that candidates/students will complete when registering for the event. Learn more about Kiosk Mode and Event Registration Forms here.
Step #9: Create pre-event & on-site phone numbers
Your CS Representative will configure the pre-event and on-site phone numbers and keywords for you.
Step #10: Create custom event planning fields
You can create custom event planning fields that can be available within the default campus event creation process or be tied to specific event templates. Creating these fields and templates in advance makes the campus event creation process more efficient and consistent every time. Learn more about creating custom event planning fields here.
IMPORTANT NOTES: It is strongly recommended that all answer options for all questions are list select Custom Candidate Attributes, with the expectation for free-entry questions that will not require future tracking, filtering, and complex reporting needs.
Step #11: Add custom event planning fields to event templates
Learn more about how to add custom event planning fields to an event template here.
Step #12: Create a campus event
Create a campus event based on an event template or from scratch within the Events Builder. Reference this Campus Events Builder documentation to get you started. If you want to create a campus event without interviews and to generate leads, create a Lead Generation event.
- Note: For efficiency purposes, you may want to build event templates and then create events based on those templates. Click here to learn more.
Step #13: Host/attend the campus event
If the event is in person, then ensure to check students/candidates in; register candidates, schedule interviews, and add candidate information via Career Fair Mode; have candidates register themselves for an event in Kiosk Mode or via keyword; and complete Student Evaluations, as needed.
Step #14: Finalize event budget and expenses
Once the event is complete, add in your actual event costs and finalize your expenses. Follow the process outlined here.