This quarter at Kira we released several exciting new features to help eliminate some of those repetitive manual tasks you do every day — freeing you up to focus on the top talent in your applicant pool. From Single Sign-On to automated reminder emails, these new features are helping make admissions effortless.
Sign on in a snap
We’ve made it even easier to review your applicants by adding Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality to the Kira platform.
Single Sign-On makes logging in simple by allowing you to use one set of login credentials to access multiple websites and services, saving you the hassle of remembering lots of different usernames and passwords.
Strengthen login security with a process that is safe as well as seamless. Kira’s SSO functionality is integrated with SAML 2.0 (Security Assertion Markup Language), the leading provider of secure SSO for businesses and enterprises, that lets users balance between both security and flexibility.
Reduce repetitive tasks by enabling staff to access all the necessary platforms without reentering their information. With SSO, you log in once and can then move freely between different platforms, such as the Kira platform and your CRM, without needing to re-enter your username and password.
Keep your applications rolling in
While rolling admissions help spread the reviewing work across the admissions cycle, the continuous scheduling of interviews can end up burying your team in organizational work.
With Kira’s Rolling Applicant Deadlines feature, you determine how long you want applicants to have to complete their on-demand Kira assessment and we’ll do the rest. Once a timeframe has been set, applicants are automatically invited to complete a Kira assessment and are assigned a deadline based on when they submitted their initial application.
Stay on top of time zones by setting Rolling Applicant Deadlines to reflect your school’s location and clearly display the timezone in the applicant’s invitation email.
Get a feel for what works best by monitoring completion times throughout the cycle to get better insight into how long applicants need to complete your assessment comfortably.
Feel free to make adjustments with an easy rescheduling feature that enables you to modify an applicant’s deadline in just a few clicks.
A new way to nudge applicants along
Keep your assessment deadlines top of mind for your applicants with Kira’s automated reminder emails.
Choose when you want applicants to be reminded about their upcoming deadlines and Kira will take care of the rest by monitoring your applicants’ deadlines, calculating when to reach out based on your selected reminder interval(s) and sending out reminder emails to complete their Kira assessments. Once an applicant completes their assessment, they’re removed from the reminder list and won’t receive any more notifications.
