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.

Jobvertise increases security with new CAPTCHA

Jobvertise has changed the CAPTCHA interface for employers and recruiters wishing to log in. The CAPTCHA system is necessary to prevent bots and automated logins to Jobvertise.

We have upgraded the old image format from 5 letters and numbers to the new system which requires 2 words to be entered. We are using the reCAPTCHA system which is highly secure and also provides some of our users accessiblity with spoken words so they can use our system easily.

We apologize for the inconvenience for having to use CAPTCHA at all, but we do take our users privacy very seriously and owe it to them to have a higly secure environment.

The new CAPTCHA system can be seen at the employer login page.