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Requirements and first steps

Check your Excel environment, then follow the instructions included with your workbook.

Choose your Excel environment

Tested with Microsoft 365 Excel for Windows. The workbooks use modern Excel features, including dynamic arrays. Excel 2016/2019 are not supported for this launch. Our Windows desktop checks cover recalculation and formula-error scans across all five files, plus data refresh in the three intelligence tools. Mac compatibility has not been tested.

The three intelligence tools also need a supported Power Query refresh environment, internet access and the appropriate license. Excel for the web can refresh Power Query for supported connections. These workbooks’ web refresh, authentication and editing workflows have not yet completed compatibility testing. Google Sheets is not a supported operating environment. Microsoft’s guidance on web refresh.

Common questions

Do I need ChatGPT or an add-in?

No. Customers use the workbooks in the supported Excel desktop app. The three connected intelligence tools require internet access and a purchase license for refresh. You do not need your own BLS or other federal API keys.

How do I refresh a connected tool?

If prompted for this trusted download, choose Enable Editing and then Enable Content. These can appear as separate prompts. Open Setup, enter your license, select your inputs and choose Data → Refresh All. Wait for completion, then review the result and source periods. Salary and Campus include Refresh Details to explain failed keys or requests.

How often does the data update?

Data updates follow each source's release schedule. Refresh All retrieves the latest validated release available through Hire Logix; it does not create new source data, and the results may be unchanged since your last refresh. A source release must be imported and validated before it becomes available here. Check the source periods in your workbook, not just the time of your refresh.

  • Market Difficulty: BLS OEWS wage and employment estimates update annually; JOLTS hiring-demand data updates monthly. O*NET reference attributes are static in this version.
  • Salary Intelligence: OEWS wages update annually. Department of Labor LCA disclosure data is released quarterly, but Hire Logix serves a separately imported snapshot; a new government release is not automatically available in the workbook.
  • Campus Intelligence: IPEDS data is collected annually, and College Scorecard measures have their own release dates and reporting periods. Hire Logix serves separately prepared snapshots, so refreshing does not automatically import a new annual dataset. Its OEWS wage context follows the annual OEWS schedule.
  • Recruiting Dashboard: This offline workbook uses your entries and has no hosted data feed.

Publication schedules describe the source data, not a guarantee of immediate availability or how long a purchase includes hosted access.

What if my key is invalid or the result is blank?

Check that the key belongs to the product, review Setup and Refresh Details, and refresh again after correcting your inputs. A blank result may indicate unavailable data or a failed request; do not treat it as a zero.

Do the files include sample data?

The website shows example selections from the workbooks. Market Difficulty and Salary include labeled sample results and blank license fields. Campus begins with cleared results and a blank license field. Recruiting Dashboard supplies a separate fictional example and blank starter.

Can I use Recruiting Dashboard offline?

Yes. It works from your entries and does not require a license key, internet connection or external data refresh.

Can I track every candidate in the Dashboard?

It records requisition-level cumulative candidate totals and interview events. It does not provide a full applicant record or automatic stage history. Source scorecards group requisitions by their primary source.

What does the bundle include?

The three intelligence workbooks and Recruiting Dashboard. They share a workflow, but remain separate files with no automatic synchronization.

What is your refund policy?

30-day money-back guarantee. Try Hire Logix with your recruiting workflow. If the product isn’t right for you, email patrick@hirelogixlabs.com within 30 days of purchase for a full refund. Include your purchase email or order number so we can locate your order. This applies to individual products and the bundle.

Need help getting started? We’re happy to help, but troubleshooting is not required to request a refund. Feedback is optional.

How do I get support?

Email patrick@hirelogixlabs.com for setup, refresh or product questions. See what to include with your request.

How do licenses and refresh access work?

Market Difficulty Intelligence: Purchase includes at least 12 months of hosted refresh access to the datasets included with this version, updated as the sources release new data. Future premium feeds are sold separately.

Purchase and download through Gumroad. Each connected intelligence product supplies its own purchase license for refresh. Recruiting Dashboard works offline without a license key. The workbooks remain separate files and do not automatically synchronize. No lifetime hosted-service commitment is implied.