Jobvertise July News

Last weekend we updated Jobvertise to increase internal security. The upgrade to Jobvertise resulted in less than 15 minutes of downtime in order to install the changes. We apologize to anyone who was affected by this upgrade. We are doing a lot behind the scenes now, users should not notice any changes but rest assured we are working hard to make the site better.

Jobvertise has seen an significant increase in traffic over the past few weeks, we are always working to increase visitors and provide our customers with as many candidates as possible. On a related note our database is approaching one million resumes! More information on that later as we get close to the magic number.


The Jobvertise Team

Use Social Media with Jobvertise

Use Social Media With Jobvertise

Promote your Jobs with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and More

Dear Employer/Recruiter,

Jobvertise offers you easy to use tools to help promote your jobs on social networking sites. Below are some tips to save you time.

Use the Social Media Buttons in Jobvertise

After you log into Jobvertise you will see the common Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter logos. Clicking on a logo will take you to the respective site with a pre-filled link to show a web page containing all of your jobs. If you are not logged into the social networking site you will be prompted to do so, and then all you need to do is confirm the post. This is a good way to promote a web page with all of your jobs.

While that is convenient, it is better to display each job separately. This will give the social networking sites more content to match on searches and more keywords to catch people's attention. To do this you can log into Jobvertise and click on the 'Add, Edit, and Promote Jobs' link. This will give you a list of jobs with the social networking logos next to each job. From there you can click on an icon for each job. As before you will see that it pre-fills the links and titles with the individual job information. From there you can modify the information as necessary and confirm the post.

Your Social Media Web Page

To make promoting your jobs as easy as possible we also prepared a web page for your account with social media buttons. It also includes html links for each job in your account so you can easily post the links to alternative social media websites.

(replace YOUR_MEMBERID with the MemberID you use to login to Jobvertise)
http://www.jobvertise.com/employers/socialMedia/YOUR_MEMBERID.html

Happy New Year and Happy 2011 Recruiting

2010 was a great year for Jobvertise, we hope you had a great holiday season. However, if you are like most recruiters it's prime time to get to work! Our candidates obviously drop off towards the end of December, but now that the holidays are over job hunting starts to ramp up so you should take advantage of this time of year.

If you don't already have a Jobvertise account there's no excuse to not get going because much of the site is free. You can search resumes (with some restrictions) and post basic jobs at no charge. We do this so you can try our services without needing funding approval from anyone in your organization and can get going right away. We don't like waiting for things when we try to get work done, and probably neither do you. You can create an account at www.jobvertise.com to get started immediately. We hope that the site will work great for you and will consider the premium membership to get all the bells and whistles. But if you only want to use the free services that's ok too!

For those of you who have accounts please log in and post your jobs by clicking on "Add/Edit Jobs". This is your main control area where you can do all kinds of maintenance and keep your listings up-to-date.

And don't forget to upload your jobs to LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to get extra exposure. We make it easy for you to utilize these social networking sites.

You can run some resume searches and also set up 'Resume Alerts' which will e-mail you when new resumes come in. This is a great time saver since you don't have to keep logging in to see new resumes that match your searches.  However it is important to note that you will need the Preferred Membership to actually view the resumes since they are obviously within the 21 day window and considered "fresh". Fresh resumes  are only available to premium customers (until they are over 21 days old at which time they are available to everyone).

Looking forward to another wonderful year!

The Jobvertise Team

Easily Promote your Job using Social Media

We have added convenient buttons for you to quickly and easily list your jobs on Twitter and Linked in. Once you have logged in and click on "Add/Edit Jobs" you will see the Twitter and Linked in buttons under the "Promote" column on the far right. Simply clicking on these buttons will take you to the respective web sites and pre-populate fields so you can easily make your posting.

We hope you enjoy this new feature. If there are other social media sites you would like to use to promote your job listings please contact us through our feedback form.

Jobvertise reduces ads, adds contact info

Recently we have made a conscious effort to give users of Jobvertise a better experience by removing ads, increasing contact information and better communication.

Our CEO has written a letter which gives a little insight on how our company is run.

You may notice on individual job pages we have reduced the ads displayed by 80%. Our business model does work around advertising, but we have found that smaller, more targeted ads give good results and generic run of site ads just are not worth the trade off as far as cluttering the web site and giving you a good user experience.

Additionally we have provided contact information for our company at the bottom of each job detail page so you can easily contact us at any time.

All of these changes to Jobvertise should benefit you the jobseeker. We hope you enjoy the changes to the Jobvetise web site.

Free Resume Filters vs. Preferred Membership Filters

This post is a long time in coming as one of the more frequent questions we receive from employers is a result of confusion over which resume filters are free and which ones require the Preferred Membership.

We term a resume filter as a selection by the employer on how to narrow down resume results, whether it is keywords, category, location, etc.

The full resume search form only appears after you login, and there are two sets of filters, free and premium. The filters on the top are free and they include "keyword", "city", "state", and "zip" or "province". The filters that require the Preferred Membership come next, "category filtering", "only title matching", etc.

For Non-Preferred Members listing both types of filters gives you the ability to try out the premium filters and see what search results appear. However, if the premium filters are selected you will not be able to see the resume details. This was causing a lot of confusion for people who were trying to view free resumes but didn't understand what happens when a premium filter like a "category" is selected.

We have included more verbose language between the free and premium filters which explains what happens if a premium filter is selected. We hope that this makes the resume search page more clear on what is free and what requires the Preferred Membership. If there is more exact language that is easeier to understand please let us know via our Contact Page

Jobvertise Web Links in Job Description Contact Information

In an effort to reduce spam and as per Google and other guidelines Jobvertise has changed how links are displayed on job description pages. Within those pages you can list contact information including a web link back to your site.

For the web link we have added a special tag which still allows the links to act normally, but this link doesn't count towards your search engine rating. By automatically adding the rel=nofollow tag there is no incentive to spam our database in hopes of simply promoting a web site.