As always, a BIG thank to our community. Almost all of these features were suggested by customers like you. We couldn’t have done it without you!

To upgrade webJobs follow the instructions in our documentation.

New Features

• Google Maps support
  Add a map to show an employers location the view jobs and view employer pages.
• CAPTCHA support
  Get rid of those pesky spammers with CAPTCHA on all the important forms
• Social bookmarking
  Add social bookmarking capability to your jobs so that people can build backlinks to your site and drive traffic.
• Dynamic search engine friendly titles
  Improve your SEO with search friendly titles that change based on the page you’re on.
• Sitemap support
  Generate a sitemap for major search engines to make sure they crawl ALL of your pages.
• Portuguese translation
  Added a Portuguese language pack
• WYSIWYG editor for your employers
  A simple WYSIWYG editor was added for all job postings making it easy to customize listings.
• Dynamic META tags
  Added dynamic META tags for additional search engine optimization.
• Job seeker photos
  Job seekers can now upload a picture of themselves.
• Video resumes
  Video resumes can now be created and uploaded by job seekers!
• Job seeker profiles with custom URLs and privacy settings
  Job seekers now have a profile that holds their photo, video resumes, and general information. Job seekers can easily configure their privacy settings.
• ANOTHER new theme
  A great looking new theme called Sleek Black
• Upgraded the licensing system. The software now only authenticates onces, and will never connect to our servers or call home again.

So what are you waiting for? Upgrade today or buy it now!

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.

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.

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 do 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.

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:

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!

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.

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.

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.

How SEO friendly titles work

Site titles will now be dynamically generated for each page on the site. For example, let’s saying you site name is MyJobBoard, and you’re visiting the advanced search page. The title of that page will not become: Advanced Search | MyJobBoard.

More importantly, this comes in handy when viewing jobs. Titles for the view job format will be in the format – | site name. So, for example, let’s saying you’re viewing a job for a PHP programmer in Albany, NY. The title would not look like this: PHP Programmer – Albany, NY | MyJobBoard.

What does this mean for my site?

Simply put, this will help you rank better and increase traffic to your site. By having more diverse titles for your pages, search engine will index your pages more accurately.

The most important aspect of this feature, however, is the SEO friendly titles on the view job page. By having optimized view job pages, search engines are more likely to pick up your site for local searches. For example, let’s say that someone does a search for “php programmer albany ny” on Google. Because your site will have those keywords both in the title and the body of the page, you are much more likely to show up at the top of the search results!

webJobs 3.2 is planned for release in late December 2009.