Two nice little product updates for you today! Ability to save jobs for later use Many of you have asked us to add the ability to “save this job” as a function for job seekers, so that they can refer back to it when they have time to finish an application. Well, here it is! There is now a bookmark icon in the job search results and job details page, which enables job seekers to save jobs. (Job seekers will …
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There is a tangible shift happening in the job board market. Job seekers want to land a perfect gig reflective of the climate, economic opportunity, and their values. And on the flipside, employers want the same thing—a passionate candidate who can help their organization grow in a competitive and opportunity-rich environment. We’re sure you’ve heard the expression, “Jack of all trades, master of none” and if you haven’t, let us break it down for you. In the past, it was …
As of today, we are thrilled to open the door to more job board automation with our Zapier integration! Zapier is an online automation tool that makes it easy to connect a great variety of apps together. It allows you to automate repetitive tasks without coding or relying on developers to build the integration. As a job board owner, this means that you’ll be able to connect Smartjobboard to other tools that you use to run your business. For example, …
As the world continues to change, so do the specific needs of our workforces and hiring processes. With those changes, comes increased importance to be nimble and offer custom functionality. Many of you have requested expanded capabilities with application forms to meet these needs on your job boards. It has always been our top priority to continue tweaking our platform in order to provide you with the best user experience and functionality on the market. Our latest product update includes …
There is a revolution fully underway in the behavior of consumers online. From SaaS apps to exercise bikes, from Amazon’s “Subscribe and Save” to streaming services and prepared meals, we seem to be in the middle of a shift when it comes to online business. In fact, research shows that the subscription market in SaaS companies have grown by over 100% a year over the past 5 years. In case you haven’t heard the news, recurring revenue is where it’s …
Multiselect, application confirmation, data layers, oh my… you have asked, and we have delivered. This month we have a few fun new product updates for you. For details on setup, please read below. Multiselect for job type For many use cases, we have found it to be very helpful to have the ability to select more than one job type (i.e. listing a job as full-time and part-time). This should help improve your job board architecture and filtering process. With …
We are happy to announce our integration with Adzuna! We have been working with Adzuna to develop a partnership that now gives job boards an opportunity to promote their jobs free of charge. Adzuna is a search engine for job ads used by over 10 million job seekers every month that aims to list every job, everywhere. This integration will enable job board owners to send US, UK or Canada jobs to Adzuna website and get free traffic. You can …
Building a job board can often feel like building on quicksand, as the ground is always moving underneath us. And as we all know, companies like Google are constantly changing and updating their algorithms. For job board owners, this happened again, in 2017 when Google introduced its new “job search interface”, which began to affect the search engine rankings and traffic to many of their job boards. While the Google initiative was designed to give all job boards a fair …
In our efforts to constantly create more value for our users, we have released a new product update to improve job alert forms, provide more security with the Stripe payment process, and now for the first time, we have enabled Apple Pay. As always, reach out to us with any questions or recommendations. Improved forms for job alert Users can now enter their email straight on the search result page, instead of opening a popup first. We also added a …
Since the team at Smartjobboard is globally distributed, we are familiar with hiring for remote positions and we understand how remote job seekers look for them. This was the genesis for creating some new functionality. We’ve essentially scratched our own itch so that it’s now possible to post remote-based positions, and to search for them as well. We now support Remote Jobs Directly in the job posting form, a job posting can be defined as “remote”. On top of that, …