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Your BD profile is your agency’s ideal client: the industries, cities, company sizes and roles you place. Set it once, and every hiring search Flo runs starts from it, so nobody has to repeat it in each question. Owners and Admins set it. Everyone in the agency can read it.

Steps

  1. Open Settings › BD profile.
  2. Tick the Industries you pitch to. Searches start in these industries.
  3. Add your Cities: type a city and press Enter. Searches look for roles there.
  4. Tick the Company size bands you want, and pick Local, Multinational or Both under Company type.
  5. Tick any Excluded industries. Recruitment agencies are always left out, so you don’t need to add them.
  6. Under Roles you place, add the Job titles your consultants fill, for reference. A search uses job titles only when you name a role, such as “banks hiring DevOps”; “tech companies hiring” counts every job.
Each change saves straight away. The bottom of the page says Saving…, then Saved. If a save fails, the page says so and offers Try again. Your change stays on screen until it saves. When you ask Flo a hiring question, for example “Which companies are hiring now?”, the search card fills in what you didn’t say from the BD profile, and each chip from it says “your BD profile”.
  • What you say wins. Ask for “banks hiring DevOps”, and the search uses Banking and DevOps instead of the profile’s industries. It still uses the profile’s cities, sizes and type.
  • To leave a profile value out of one search, select × on its chip, or tell Flo, before you click Run. The profile itself doesn’t change.
  • Searches can’t filter on company size, company type or excluded industries. The card lists them under “Not used” as “Checked on each result”: each company in the results is checked against them from the details its job ads carry. A company outside your sizes, with its head office abroad when you chose Local, or in an industry you excluded is left out and counted. When the data shows no size, head office or industry for a company, it is grouped under “Not confirmed” with the reason. A head office in Vietnam can’t prove a company is a multinational, so with Multinational chosen those companies stay not confirmed.
If your agency has no BD profile, the search card says so. Owners and Admins see a “Set BD profile” button, and everyone else is asked to tell an Admin. The search still runs without it.

Refresh a market

Searches can find employers that post only on their own careers pages. The Refresh market section, at the bottom of Settings › BD profile, adds more of those employers for Vietnam or Singapore in pharma, consumer goods and finance.
  1. Read the button: it says the most the click can cost, from this month’s BD budget.
  2. Select the Vietnam or Singapore refresh button. The button says Reading while it works.
  3. The page then says how many new employers it found and what it spent. Ascern reads their careers pages within a day, for free, and their jobs can then appear in searches with a link to each job and its date.
Each market can refresh once a week. If your role can’t spend the BD budget, the buttons are off and the page says who to ask. If the budget has too little left, nothing is spent and the page says so.