My thoughts on the VIVAHR software are included in this post, based on the thoughts and opinions as a previous employee and now business owner. I hope this is of value to you. I’m an independent blogger who often reviews products and services from a critical standpoint.

Managing a huge pool of job candidates for your organization is a painstaking and time consuming process. You’re monitoring and managing multiple applicant sources while scouring to find the most qualified candidate for the job position. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use one easy-to-use recruiting platform that does it all for you? How about an “applicant tracking system on the market that provides your HR team with the tools to make them recruitment marketing experts. Automatically post your job to free job posting sites and leverage the power of culture marketing, while improving hiring efficiency and efficacy?” Sounds like a solution to your HR issues? We’re talking about VIVAHR. Let’s dive right in.

VIVAHR is packed with innovative tools that make your hiring experience more efficient and effective. With its full suite of Applicant Tracking System (ATS) integrations, you’ll be finding those needles in the haystack soon enough.

Are you looking to build unique culture profiles for each position you are seeking to fill? Check. VIVAHR’s Recruitment Marketing Tools like the Custom Career Page Builder, increase your recruiting productivity and improve your conversion rates, whilst letting you maintain control because you can customize every step. This is an awesome feature because not all teams within the same company share the same culture, value system, and atmosphere. With VIVAHR, you can customize your team cultures to give the candidates a more accurate and defined perspective.

Do you want seamlessly and instantly communicate and collaborate with your entire hiring team? Check. With VIVAHR’s free ATS software, you’ll get an instant overview, you and your team will be able to easily review and evaluate unlimited candidates without losing any in the hiring shuffle. You can track each candidate in pipeline and you’ll always know the source from where they found your job posting. It’s a simple candidate management tool and it works!

What else can you access in the Full Feature Set?

• Customize Team Collaboration. Here you can collaborate as much or as little as you want. With the User Access Controls, you’ll be able to give team members access to a potential candidate’s resume and all your notes pertaining to that candidate. Then, together with your team, you can create an “overall rating,” that you can refer back to anytime throughout the entire hiring process.
• Robust Pre-built Reports. Accessing data, built into comprehensive reports, is a feature I particularly like because it cuts down on the time you need to build lengthy reports when you need to present to your team or an executive board.
• Resume Upload. Here, it lets the candidate do the work. They can upload their resumes directly into your database that gives you a headstart for future interviews and assessments.
• CSV Export. Easily export data about your candidate anytime into a CSV for reporting and analysis.
• Candidate Database. Don’t lose prospective hires anymore by creating a personal candidate database that lets you corral their information in one place.
• Candidate Profiles and Scoring. Team assessments go faster and smoother when you can create candidate profiles using VIVAHR’s cutting edge tools.
• Job Posting and Sharing. VIVAHR collaborates with all the major job boards so you can build your job positions then post them anywhere you want. Get a job posting URL that you can circulate to literally everyone, especially on social media.
• Email Templates. Choose from several email templates (or customize your own) for your most common candidate communications. You’ll save a lot of time from crafting one email at a time.

VIVAHR is not just a excellent platform from a recruiter’s perspective but it’s also great for the candidates. When your application process is tedious and downright exhausting, you’re gonna lose candidates along the way. This platform improves on the candidate experience as well so your conversion rate will be much higher, without compromise on the recruiter’s part.

With any VIVAHR plan, you can post an unlimited amount of jobs. You read that right. UNLIMITED. With each account, you’re also able to create internal-only job offerings. Plus, ALL plans include in-app and email support. If you are a paid account, you’ll receive a dedicated account manager to work through all your hiring needs with VIVAHR. You can also access their online knowledge base and watch their training videos anytime.

All Accounts

Publish and Share Jobs Online

Social Job Sharing

Resume Upload

Structure and Customize Your Interview Process

Branded Careers Website

Robust Set of Pre-Built Reports

User Access Controls

Custom Recruiting Pipeline

CSV Export

Custom Scorecards

Rich Candidate Profiles

Parsed Resumes

Candidate Database

Candidate Feedback Portal

Custom Pre-screening Questionnaires

Tagging

Email Templates

Bulk Candidate Emailing

Culture-Profile Builder

Team Collaboration

Paid Accounts

Full Customer Support

Powerful and Secure APIs

Native Integration with Zapier

Unlimited Job Postings

Unlimited Applicants

Unlimited Culture Profiles

For sure, you’ll have plenty of questions about integration and importing your data to the VIVAHR platform, every new account will get a 30-min “success call.” This is great because you don’t need to waste time exploring and at the end of the success call, you’ll be ready to post your first job and start managing candidates right away.

Any questions or issues with integration? VIVAHR has one of the best APIs in the ATS market and they have native integrations with Zapier. But let’s say you need something customized, they have a super friendly tech team solely dedicated to help you leverage their API to automate and integrate into any tool you may use.

Try VIVAHR using their free trial with up to 25 candidates/month from 1 location. If you’re ready to upgrade, you can choose from their subscription plans. GROW (for small businesses) is for $59/month with unlimited job postings and candidates/month and from 10 locations. CORPORATE (for established businesses) offer unlimited job postings, candidates/month, and locations. You’ll need to contact their CS team for a quote for this plan. If you want the best deal, consider an annual billing, this will save you 21%. Start finding those rockstar hires today!

Today I wanted to cover Canvas X GIS within this review, and this is the 2019 edition. Read more as you’ll discover whether this is right for you and your needs.

Canvas software has always been held in high esteem for those who need to create and edit raster images and vector objects, particularly in graphic designing and engineering. It’s used by engineers to document and share complex objects and systems. With the release of the Canvas X GIS 2019, certain specific industries now enjoy the benefits from its new and updated features, with particular emphasis in the fields of aerospace, energy, engineering, and scientific industries. Canvas X GIS 2019 is a treat for GIS professionals as it’s complete geographic information system module is specially developed for them. Some of their customers are largest companies in the aerospace, defence and manufacturing markets like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Rockwell Collins, Caterpillar, GE, and BP. They use Canvas as an integral part of their documentation workflow so it’s safe to say they’re definitely doing something right.

This new release boasts to be an all-in-one graphic design and technical illustration software with comprehensive vector illustrations and image editing tools. People looking for industrial precision and accuracy will appreciate the 0.035 micron accuracy and the built-in Canvas Assistant is huge plus if you get lost along the way. You’ll also love the comprehensive video tutorials on their website that expound on the new features and tools packed into the Canvas X GIS 2019.

So what are we in for with this new release? Canvas X GIS 2019 includes a powerful set of GIS-based features and commands that support, among other things a range of geospatial data formats, defining complex map projections, and performing advanced property operations. I think users will also love the new optimization that allows you to quickly open and work with documents containing over a million objects. We’re talking about seconds vs. minutes and that’s a fantastic improvement! It also has support for DPI settings for high resolution monitors, which makes this feature-packed software an essential tool for GIS professionals in the oil & gas and energy sectors, aerospace and automotive industries, education, and government.

Canvas X GIS 2019’s unique and integrated design environment means technical illustrators can work with and combine all graphical elements, and to apply high-end effects in a single document. You will also be able to import and export a wide array of geospatial data formats.

Here’s a more detailed look into what else is in store in the Canvas X GIS 2019:

1. It comes loaded with the impressive and comprehensive set of vector object illustration and advanced raster image editing tools you need to get the job done – all provided in one integrated, flexible design environment.

• Painless Projection Population
• Real World Representation
• Portray and Position Perfectly
• Glorious Graticules
• Coordinate Convenience
• Set Your Real World Target

1. You can create project-specific customized queries based upon unique properties, values, or other related criteria. Edit your query to meet new project needs, save for ongoing use, or share with colleagues.

• Explicit Objects
• Shipshape Schematics
• Better Buffers
• Design Dexterity
• Vivid Data Visualization
• World-Class Warping

1. New awesome features and improvements!

• Select shapes meeting your defined spatial criteria.
• Highlight shapes in your documents meeting specific criteria with geoprocessing functions Intersection, Difference, Symmetrical Difference, and Union.
• Import maps from OpenStreetMap.org, and file formats including SQLite, GeoPKG, and GeoJSON.
• Create tables for your data: components, changes, parts lists, legends, and can copy data straight from Excel and other sources.
• Mirror tool will make a reverse copy of selected objects in 2 clicks. The mirroring axis can be drawn or snapped to other objects and rotated freely.
• Annotation Notes now supports auto-numbering and auto-alphabetizing so you can use an EasyShape like a circle, rectangle, or diamond shape for annotations.
• Save and share your settings file for consistency across your organization.
• Additional template files to start off your illustrations.
• Additional scripting functions to automate your workflow.

Canvas X Features

From one fully integrated application, you get to illustrate, design, and share your technical illustrations with ease, precision, and quality.

1. Illustration. It comes loaded with a comprehensive set of vector object illustration and advanced raster image editing tools that allows you to draw with precision, work with vector and raster images, add objects on the fly, have vector object versatility, raise the bar with raster images, communicate with CAD files, do purposeful pasting, draw with data, and present complex data in engaging flowcharts.
2. Design. It’s a comprehensive toolkit for technical design with emphasis on precision so can work within industry standards and seamlessly with others, be able to use thorough text tools, have definitive dimensions, articulate with annotations, and many more. It basically allows you to use Canvas X’s templates to create documents for illustration, publication, presentation, animation, or for whatever purpose you have in mind.
3. Sharing. It makes sharing your work and collaborating with your peers a breeze by allowing you to produce and share complex, leading-edge documents without the need for separate word processing or layout programs. You can easily insert some interactivity into your documents and it comes fully stocked with all the necessary text formatting and style tools, editing, proofing, and annotation capabilities. Even with the advanced import and export features, making it possible to return annotated illustrations to specialized formats without losing data, rest assured because you can maintain complete control over who can open, edit, and print your designs and data. Plus, Canvas X can preserve the ability to edit documents even after rendering to PDF. Finally, enjoy autonomy over the appearance of your printed output including color management for accuracy, optimization of image resolutions to your printer, output format options for image data to a PostScript device, multi-page documents suitable for commercial printing, and virtually any advanced image and export format.

System Requirements

Hardware

I​​​​​ntel® Pentium® 4 or better 64-bit processor​

4 GB RAM installed

2 GB free hard disk space (4 GB recommended)

16-bit color or higher (True color recommended)

1024×768 or higher screen resolution recommended​

Software

Windows® 7​, Windows® 8, or Windows® 8.1, Windows® 10 (all 64-bit OS)​

If you want to try out the Canvas X GIS 2019 before buying it, it comes with 30-day money back guarantee. Depending on what you need, you can purchase a perpetual license for $499 (previously for $799), subscribe for $299/year, or upgrade $299 (previously for $399). It supports a multitude of data and design formats (CAD, CGM, GIS, text, jpeg, etc), and retains non-visual data—often found in 3D CAD files. So if you’re looking for precision, as those required in high-quality drawings accurate to a sub-micron level in a professional setting, and more control  in your technical illustrations, like engineers who illustrate to ATA standards, the new features of the Canvas GIS 2019 might be the answer.

This post cover my thoughts on the CrankWheel software for screen sharing. I felt a review was necessary having looked at multiple other software platforms online.

When you’re in a business meeting that requires screen sharing, the last thing you want to happen is waste precious minutes setting it up or fidget around trying to make sure everyone is connected on their various device of preference. Same goes for instant demos and phone conferencing. A seamless transition and use of screenshare can make or break an important deal. What you need is a reliable and secure platform that requires no software installation and works across all devices and browsers, even when there’s a bad connection!

What you need is CrankWheel. It’s sales solution for screen sharing, instant demos, and phone conferencing. It allows users to easily and securely share either their full screen or a specific web page during a call. It’s a quite a simple setup, you can either send a screenshare link via text message, chat, or email or customers can directly access the file themselves by logging onto a portal, that can be customized to reflect the company through branding elements.

CrankWheel offers four key features:

1. Screen Sharing. This is specially designed to sales professionals and is essential when you want to bring that extra wow factor in your presentations. Here you can show your products to your customers in real-time and you’ll always be on the same page whenever they have questions. You can invite customers to join by sharing a link, emailing them, or sending an SMS; it’s really that easy! For conference calls, you can  ask customers to dial a local number in any of 72 countries so the chances of losing them is greatly reduced. One feature that I highly appreciate is the possibility of a live preview that lets you see where the customer zooms in, when you start losing their attention, or when they are experiencing any delay. And you can stay professional by having complete control of what you share with the customer via targeted sharing. They don’t need to see all the Facebook alerts you keep getting all day, right?

1. Remote Control. This is a great feature where you can give your viewer remote control access of your screen anytime without them having to prepare or download anything from their side. Whatever device they use, it will have intuitive controls that will lessen the time need to get the ball rolling. But, even though you’re handing over remote control access, you can choose exactly what you grant control over so there’s no chance of viewer going rogue on you and going to places you don’t want them to. They are limited to a control area of your choosing so you jump in anytime and you can easily end access by locking your screen, pressing a hotkey or and on-screen button, or if you change the focus from the shared tab.

1. Instant Demos. When you want to capitalize immediately on the interest of a potential customer, you can add a “Call Me Now” or “Request a Demo Now” button to your website that will quickly find an agent to call once a request has been made then immediately and easily screen share when needed. Fully customizable conversational forms you can add to your website or in email campaigns also creates more leads by instantly notifying sales reps about online prospects. You can also greatly enhance your client database by being able to include actionable information, like social media profiles and phone numbers.

1. Works Every Time. Bad network connections? Old browsers? Archaic devices? No problem! Whatever the device, whichever the browser, CrankWheel doesn’t need installation or dedicated plugins to get it going so you’ll make that connection whatever the circumstances may be. There’s no need to install the software as it launches as a browser extension, thus eliminating the need to give dial-in codes or run executable files.You and your customer will also enjoy enterprise-grade SSL encryption paired with expiring screen sharing session links that guarantee that your live sessions remain secure at all times.

CrankWheel is great for people who are not particularly adept with technology because it integrates super easy-to-use functions. You are able to give your customer a great experience without having them go through hoops and your sales agents can get to work immediately to convert inbound leads to a concrete sale. Once they click a Call to Action button, they’ll just need to provide their phone number for verification purposes and CrankWheel gets to work to quickly connect them to an agent for a sales call and a matching audio-visual presentation can commence in seconds. If your business relies on being able to connect to prospective customers quickly and a demo or screenshare is the ace up your sleeve, then you might want to look into CrankWheel.

Here’s the best part, you can sign up for FREE! Well, free forever for limited commercial use, so if you have simple needs between colleagues or your unlimited professional network, the Free for Life plan is all you need and you’re all set. You don’t even need a credit card when you sign up. Outside the Free for Life plan, you have four other subscription options; the Starter Team for $75/ month, the Team for $195/month, the Department for $495/month, and the Enterprise which will be available for a customized quote based on your needs and requirements. The main difference in the monthly packages are in the number of interactions you can do per month and the phone support you’ll have access to but all paid plans include an unlimited number of user seats.

Since you can basically test drive their entire system without having to pay anything upfront, you’ll be able to know right away if CrankWheel is for you. Also, don’t hesitate to request for a demo so you can see CrankWheel in action right away. During the first month you usage is unlimited and once that trial period is over, you’ll have a more limited use of its functions, like meeting limits. Each plan includes a given number of meetings per month but don’t worry, CrankWheel won’t cut you off in the middle of meeting when you meet or exceed your limit. By then, they’ll give you a 30-day grace period and you can speak with any of their agents to discuss whether to upgrade to a larger plan, or switch to hard limits.

Bonus tips! You can also choose to pay annually and this gets you two months free so be sure to request this if this is something you are thinking of considering. Also, if you are working for educational institutions, CrankWheel offers a full range of benefits and discounts so those that want to integrate this in their schools or universities, you’ll definitely going to be enjoying some perks.

If you also have some direct experiences with CrankWheel, then please drop them into the comments below.

I use TextExpander in my business every day, and felt that this review was necessary. You’ll discover why I choose to use it, and how it saves me countless hours every month in my business and its operations.

This blog is really just my hobby, created to document tools, courses, software and resources that I’ve used throughout my eCommerce journey. It’s certainly an exhaustive list, and I hope you find it of value. I’m the dude who tells things as they are as well, approaching everything from a critical stand-point.

I use the paid version of TextExpander as the free version is very limited for my business needs. I really do believe it’s worth the price, and I also chose the annual subscription as the cost is quite minimal compared to the dozens of hours it has saved.

Within my business, I sell on eBay and Amazon. Creating eBay listings is an exhaustive process, and I choose not to use their built-in templates. Previously I would copy and paste critical bits of data from a document into my listing, but I would have to find that data first, copy it, paste it and ensure it was formatted correctly. That is, until I found TextExpander. Super win!

I now just use 2 to 3 keystrokes to input certain data. I’ve created approximately 35 different keystrokes, each are unique and are not words within the English alphabet. For example, when I type in ‘epo’, I straight away get 2 to 3 sentences that I’ve pre-programmed to tell my eBay customers that an express postage option is provided at the Checkout page if they wish to receive their item faster. Hence epo stands for Express Postage Option within my self-created system and needs to be typed as one word, so the word ‘Depot’ would not outlay the text accidentally.

There are some that I use daily, and some that I use seldom. The best part is that I can add more keystrokes as my business needs increase, or delete keystrokes as I wish if they become redundant. The process is very simple, and you can nominate upper case, lower case, or case irrelevant. It also matches the same font characteristics of your existing text.

Best I give you a look at the inside, and please note that I don’t just sell books online, I also sell clothing, some electronics and my biggest cash cow is the private-label brand as well on Amazon, within the homewares niche.

So TextExpander has saved me 75+ hours! For roughly $100 per year, I feel that’s excellent value for money. Almost 2 million characters there that I haven’t needed to type, or copy and paste over from documents. Super winning again! That 80 words per minute rate is generous too, it’s 100+ hours if I drop my WPM down to 60. My average is the 70 mark, having been a speed typist for many years.

If you feel that this experience of mine has brought you value, then you’re welcome to use my affiliate link below. Yes – I may receive a tiny commission for referring you, one that goes towards keeping my blog online and the inherent costs that go with that. Don’t worry, my income is from my existing eCommerce business and this blog is just a hobby. You’re most welcome to go directly to TextExpander instead of using me as your affiliate, it’s just that some people value my honesty and openness.

The referral link is here: www.workwithjoshua.com/TextExpander

I really do feel that most people will benefit from the TextExpander software. There’s a free 30 day trial that will help you decide whether this is right for you or not. If you have questions regarding the software or this review, please drop them in the comments below.