Good Faith Efforts

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Overview

The Good Faith Efforts (GFE) tool provides you and your team with the ability to track and document all of your organization’s GFE events, outreach efforts, and general activities in an easy-to-read format. By default, the Good Faith Efforts tool includes recommended fields that are commonly used to track outreach efforts. The list of available fields is below.

Value	Description	Required	Default
Location	Name of the location where the activity took place	Yes	Yes
Date	Date of logged activity	Yes	Yes
Activity / Service / Website	Name of the outreach activity of the service or website used to facilitate outreach	Yes	Yes
Description	Brief description of activity or service	Yes	Yes
Evaluation	Description of how you evaluate the effectiveness of this activity	Yes	Yes
Targeted Group	Name of group(s) targeted by this outreach activity	No	Yes
Effectiveness	Scale rating of how effective you found the activity	No	Yes
Requisition Number	Requisition number of outreach effort	No	No
Number of Candidates	Number of candidates received from this activity	No	No
Number of Hires	Number of hires which originated from this outreach activity	No	No
Hours Spent	Total hours were spent on this outreach activity	No	No
Cost	Total cost of outreach activity	No	No

Functionality

Entries can be manually added into the GFE one at a time, or multiple entries can be added by importing an Excel document.

Add/Edit Entries

Click [Add Entry] to create a new entry, or select the edit option next to an existing entry to make a change.

A window will appear where you can add new information or edit an existing entry. Click [Save] when done, or [Cancel] to undo any changes.

Import

Click [Import] to import entries from an .xlsx, .xls, or .csv file. When the Import Good Faith Efforts window opens, use the [Browse Spreadsheets] action to locate the file you wish to import. Once the file is selected and validated, the import process will begin automatically. If the file contains errors and needs to be corrected, users will be prompted to download the error report, make the appropriate changes, and upload the corrected file.

Export Selected

Individual or multiple GFE entries can be exported into an Excel file by first selecting the entry on the left-side checkbox column. Once the desired rows are chosen, the [Export Selected] action will begin the process.

Configure Columns

Additional columns can be moved, selected, hidden, or created from the main GFE display by first selecting the [Configure Columns] settings option.

From the window shown below, individual columns can be moved within the list through the left-side drag-and-drop action. Use this action to move the fields into the desired display order.

Additional columns can be added to the GFE tool by clicking the gray show icon on the right side of each entry. Existing columns can also be hidden from view through the same action by selecting the blue hide icon.

If additional fields are needed, the [Add Custom Field] action will open a text box where the new field(s) can be added. The maximun number of custom fields that can be entered in 10 per account.

Click [Save] when done, or [Cancel] to undo any changes.

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