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You asked for it, we delivered.  The last feature we’ve kept hidden before the upcoming 3.2 release is a new theme! We’re really psyched about this one. It looks great and even has a couple nice improvements to usability.

Take a look:

Look closely. You’ll notice the menu system has been changed for this new theme. That’s right, we’ve built hoverable menus for this one. Any menu that has subitems will appear this way, allowing your users to quickly access items.

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Now that we have photo and video support for webJobs, it’s time to put them somewhere, right? That’s where job seeker profiles come in. Profiles have been added in webJobs 3.2 which allow each of your job seekers to have a custom profile URL like http://www.yoursite.com/person/username.

What does it look like?

In addition to showing photos and videos in the profile, their profile information during signup is available to employers. Educational history, work history, desired employment, and resumes are all shown on the profile page.

It’ll look something like this:

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What about privacy?

We realize that privacy is a huge concern for you. Not all job seekers want their name plastered all over the Internet, letting their current employer know they’re on there market. That’s why we implemented privacy settings.

Job seekers can choose to hide their:

• Real names
• Photos
• Videos
• Locations

Why is this feature good for me?

It’s good for you, your employers, and your job seekers. It makes everyone happy and helps you add more value to your web site.

It helps you

Job seekers can setup a great looking profile that they can link to. As we’ve covered before, more links means better rankings in the search engines, which means more traffic and revenues for you!

It helps your employers

This is also a great feature for employers. Employers can now see a basic overview of the job seekers, a video introduction, and what they look like. It’s a more personal way to connect with job seekers and a quick way to see if they’re the right fit.

It helps your job seekers

A unique profile highlighting their strengths with a video introduction will really help job seekers sell themselves. By being able to present their pitch three different ways: through the profile information, video resume, and actual resume, your job seekers have three unique and different ways to grab an employers attention and get that job.

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Attention all you recruiters out there. We want your input.

webJobs has been used by many of you out there and we’ve had many more ask how it can be used in the recruitment field. Your needs vary depending on size, goals, and so many other factors. We want to hear about them.

• What benefits do you see in using webJobs to source candidates?
• How do you see webJobs fitting into your recruitment objectives?
• What features in webJobs could be tailored better to suit the recruitment market, rather than the general job board market?
• What features would you say are “must haves” that webJobs currently doesn’t have?

Due to your strong interest, we’re seriously considering building recruiter-specific features, plugins, or maybe even an entirely new product if necessary.

Sound off below (leave your e-mail, it’s always private) and we’ll personally contact you first with developments!

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Video resumes are catching on like wildfire. Now your job board can be ahead of the curve with a great new feature to allow video resumes to be included in your site.

What are video resumes?

Video resumes provide job seekers a way to showcase their abilities through a video rather than the traditional resume. Since many households now have high quality webcams available, employers are starting to accept video resumes for many of their job ads. This allows people to put a face to the paper, and show off their personality and capabilities in a creative way.

How does they work?

We put a lot of thought into how video resumes would work. After doing our research, we decided to allow your users to submit a video embed tag from any popular video sharing site (such as YouTube). Many major job boards such as Jobster are handling video resumes the same way.

This works great for two reasons. First, your hosting provider doesn’t need any special system requirements to convert the video to a file format that can be played through a Flash player. YouTube handles that part for you. Second, job seekers are likely to personalize their video resume for your site. The videos can lead to backlinks or your site being mentioned, providing a new traffic stream for you.

How does this help me?

Our job board software is already advanced enough to keep up with the big guys. This new addition will really give you the extra edge you need to compete. Unlike your competition, you can provide job seekers and employers with a feature that many job boards don’t even have yet. It’s just one more great way webJobs helps distinguish your site from competitors.

webJobs 3.2 is planned for release in late December 2009.

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A very popular feature request for our job board software has been to allow job seekers to upload a picture of themselves for employers to see. This personalizes the job application process and puts a face to the name. It’s something that many popular job boards have started doing, and we’re making sure your job board is part of the growing trend.

During registration or in their account settings, your job seekers will now be able to (optionally) select a photo to upload. webJobs will accept all major file formats, and uploading takes just a few seconds, and all photos are automatically resized to fit. Included below is a screenshot of how it looks once the photo has been uploaded:

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META tags are a powerful tool that is used for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We’re glad to introduce dynamic META tags in our job board software.

What are META tags?

META tags are HTML elements which show up at the top of the HTML source code. There are two important META tags which search engines use: description and keywords.

META description

META descriptions are used in the search engine results to below the title of the page.

For example, in the picture below, the META description is show in the Google search results under the Sales Jobs – Sales Recruiters – Sales Careers Online link.

Effective SEO means that you should optimize this META description to make it attention grabbing so that users are more likely to click your link when they read the description.

META keywords

The second type of tag is the META keywords tag. This specifies the search keywords you’d like to rank higher on. Different search engines give this tag different weight. For example, Google relies more heavily on page content than on the META keywords, but they still carry some weight for SEO.

How do dynamic META tags work?

webJobs will dynamically adjust the META description fields of your site, and allow you to specify the META keywords in the administrative area. META descriptions for view job pages will be optimized to include a short description of the job and its location. Combined with our dynamic page titles, this maximizes SEO for your job board site. Now, instead of having search engines determine your descriptions for you, you can tell them what to show in the search results and attract more traffic with attention-grabbing descriptions.

How does this help make my site better?

We’ve been doing everything we can to improve your site’s search engine rankings. This is another great piece of the SEO puzzle. Not only will it help search engines figure out what search phrases relate to your site, but it’ll make you site look great when it does show up in search results. We hope you like it!

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Employers who post jobs through your site are not techies, but at the same time they want to make their job ad attractive to prospective job seekers. Most of the things that make a job ad attractive (such as bolding, colors, fonts, etc) require HTML knowledge, this can be difficult. That’s why our job board software will now have a built in WYSIWYG editor to allow employers to easily make their job postings stand out.

Employers can add font types/colors, a background, bold/italics, bullets, numbered lists, and much more. This is a feature that your members are sure to love.

webJobs 3.2 is planned for release in late December 2009.

We’re wrapping up development of webJobs 3.2 with a few more exciting features that we’ll announce shortly. In the meantime, we’re happy to announce a couple great new features for the next version.

A Portuguese translation has been added to webJobs. It’s the sixth most popular language in the world, and for those of you running international sites, is a great addition.

Other improvements

We’ve also added the ability to set the number of featured employers that show up on the front page. Previously, you could only have one. Now you can choose to have as many as you’d like simply by changing a setting in the administrative area.

Stay tuned for more updates on the new release!

webJobs 3.2 is planned for release in late December 2009.

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Leaving it to the Google, Yahoo, or Bing search bots to crawl all of your pages is a risky proposition. That’s why we’re including a new sitemap feature in the next version of our job board software. This will ensure that all of your pages are indexed by search engines, and give you greater exposure in search engine results.

Sitemaps are a list of all pages accessible within a particular site. webJobs 3.2 will automatically build an XML file readable by all major search engines. All you will need to do is tell the search engines to look at this file, and you’ll be doing all the heavy lifting for the search bots, instead of hoping that they crawl all your links correctly. Even more importantly, this will help get your pages crawled more quickly and start ranking in the search results.

webJobs 3.2 is planned for release in late December 2009.

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