The job boards page currently has nearly 70 boards to date, and new boards are continuously added.

Best performing boards relevant to your job and location are displayed first and can be searched or quickly sorted by specialty, general or diversity categories.

Base pricing, special discounts and overall user performance ratings are clearly indicated on each job board. When adding one to your cart, available purchase options, including packages for blocks of posts and multiple board bundles, are displayed for selection.

We also include smart analytics based on your job type and the combined performance of your job board selections that indicate the chance of you hiring the right candidate.  As you add boards to your cart, the Chance of Hiring metric at the top of the page is updated to reflect the overall performance of your selections.

Finally, you can now clearly view a list of the boards added to your cart and their price points on the page. As a default, free boards are included in the cart but can easily be removed by clicking the In Cart button on the free board list.

Post Your Jobs to the Free, Specialty, General or Diversity Job Sites by Using SmartRecruiters Today.

Content is another very important element. Classic.

However, a lack of vision could lead to content based on job postings and basic press releases. Not very engaging.

Before dealing with talent content, let’s get focused on two questions:

Q1 – how value creation is being defined?
Q2 – what are employees recognized for?

Standard answers may go like:

A1 – Accumulation of profit
A2- For generating cash or squeezing costs

This sounds like an excessive focus on financial capital, and we’ve seen the limits of this kind of thinking. We could call it the “Profit-Only Approach” where the best managers are needed for manipulating resources with dexterity.

Of course, it’s still important to make a profit! Commercial successes and awards are strong signals for attracting candidates.

But, what if we add the Sustainability and the Art elements?

We’re getting another definition of value creation. Making a profit, executing (contributing to) a sustainability vision and being artists.

Sustainability and Art are two very important additional boxes. In the Sustainability one, we find actions for people development, workplace innovation, societal impact, volunteering, environmental campaigns, etc…

The convergence of Profit and Sustainability provides growing talent content opportunities. By taking all these actions as stories, one of the talent marketers role would be to contribute, document and share them.

With Art, it’s all about creativity. For example, Facebook uses this to run hackathons. One of the latest one was about space hacking with near 3,000 tweets about it. It turned out that hackathons are also “art projects” because of the important amount of creativity.

We could also add the Google Museum Project as another great illustration. By going from outdoor photos to indoor ones, the Google Maps team just flipped the normal thinking of what a Maps service should be.

Therefore, Art is about abstract and emotions. And with the rise of tools/channels like Pinterest and Instagram, it does make sense to go for “Art Projects.”

Lilian Mahoukou is a France-based marketing professional interested in leveraging social media to spread the word about people-centric initiatives. He also blogs at Doppelganger.name on the use of social media for employment and talent marketing.

The two biggest websites in the world wide web are free to the user. This fact about Facebook and Google often gets overlooked. And Wikipedia too. Remember when Encyclopedia salesmen used to sell door-to-door, lugging around volumes upon volumes? Time’s have changed. The weight of your encyclopedia is as light as your SmartPhone, and by the way, it’s free. What other industry does not charge for its most popular products?

Most industries do business online. The percentage of transactions and services within many industries – including the $400B recruiting industry –  that are now taking place online has never been higher. Business solutions are finally catching up to the way consumers use the internet. If software as complex as Facebook’s is free to the individual, why would complex software not be free to the business? This is consumerization.

Businesses exercise the best service in use by individual; this is consumerization. And it is happening at an internet connection near you. Whether at home, in the office, or writing emails on the bus, the modern internet user is accustomed to free functionality and information. Facebook and Google are free because other websites pay them for the chance to a viable option when the user leaves Facebook or Google, or pays for something within Facebook or Google. These other websites generally sell goods, services or advertisements, and one way or the other, they pay (or sacrifice time to) Facebook and/or Google in order to be listed as a hyperlink or featured as an application.

SaaS (Software as a Service) is the gateway to the portions of many industries that are also portions of the internet industry. People often pigeonhole Facebook as a Social Networking site, but be wide eyed, Facebook has some of the most functionality rich software on the internet; Facebook is also SaaS. Gmail is also SaaS. At SmartRecruiters, we believe SaaS should be free. The user wins! Here are the three major benefits to free recruiting software:

• • Free Unlimited Users. Every user has value in spreading the product and brand. Penalizing an organization for involving the relevant workers in the hiring decision is simply bad business. When a business actually needs to hire, whoever will be working together should have the option to comment on the potential candidate. On Facebook, all are welcome to signup, and anyone can create unlimited number of pages. If you want to share your input, you should be able to do so without the barrier of cost.

• • Open to Partnerships. The open platform has an inherent need for partners in order to monetize. This creates a healthy competition for: who is the best partner? Who wants only one channel on their TV or only one band in their iTunes? Variation of services is essential to a complete experience. In the social web, comparison of services is a given, whether you are purchasing a hair dryer on Amazon, uncovering the best local Thai restaurant on Yelp, or choosing which job board to post on for your open accountant position in Lansing, the reviews and results of people who have done this before greatly influence your decision going forward.

• You’re Already Doing it (Consumerization of Free SaaS). After Facebook became big, the businesses said, ‘Hey, let me in!’ And Facebook business pages emerged (you can also post jobs for free on Facebook). Gmail stayed in beta for six years, perfecting the product for the individual. Today, many businesses, especially small businesses – the lifeblood of our economy – use Gmail to power their communication. Shortly after Wikipedia became a reputable source, businesses began inputing their story into the Wikipedia’s collaborative software in order to become a part of the world’s encyclopedia. If people do it, businesses follow.

The business of fees per user, subscriptions, is becoming more irrelevant by the minute because the modern business values your time. The opportunity cost to do business, the meeting per se, should not by default be absorbed by the consumer. With modern SaaS, the knowledge of software itself (and not the copy & video of the product page brochure) is the meeting. The software is the organizational process that gets you the relevant information, consolidates your collaboration, and tells if you are interested in that – you just may – want this service.

Question: is the Internet driven more by Google or Facebook? Actually, the Internet is driven by the user. Where is the individual on the Internet? Google remains number one in pageviews, but Facebook is number one in terms of the people’s most valuable asset, time.Facebook now has over 2 billion users, so when it comes time to post a job, how can you not post your job on Facebook? By not posting jobs on Facebook, you are choosing to abstain from, what I see as, half the Internet. Facebook is the medium accounting for a whooping 56% of all shared content.

Through what one medium can you reach nearly every potential candidate? Nearly every potential candidate in America has a Facebook account. This is the world we live in. However you look at it, the social web starts on Facebook.  So, so, many candidates are sitting on Facebook, looking at pictures, reading the that status updates of friends, and browsing the pages they like.

By recruiting on Facebook, you can tap into the network of current employees, and the networks of Company Facebook Fan Page visitors:

• Employee Connection Network. Friends read status updates. Tailor the display of job openings to the potential candidates’ habits. By posting your job openings as your Facebook status update, you will be able to recruit from your entire network of friends and subscribers (and your co-worker’s) without having to work the phones, do lunch, or send emails to long lost connections. Not that those are bad things, but why not let Facebook save you time so you can eat lunch whenever with whoever you want. Every SmartRecruiters job ad offers one click posting to to Facebook Status updates. If everyone on the hiring team posts the open position as their status update, Facebook will create thousands of free impressions on your job ad. This practice will source your co-workers’ talent networks.**

• *Company Facebook Fan Page Visitors. The primary network that must be sourced is the fans of your organization. People that believe in what you do, or simply love your product, naturally become some of the best employees. Don’t miss out on these potential superstar employees.  Post jobs on your company Facebook page. It’s a no brainer.  This is why SmartRecruiters created Careers Tab. Careers Tab is a free app that creates a tab on your Facebook Company Page to display your open jobs and job descriptions without leaving the Facebook environment. People logged into Facebook are most interested in staying on Facebook. It’s just inertia. In our growingly social world, Careers Tab is as important, if not more important, than having a career site on your traditional website.

Jobs at Facebook

You can not keep up with the competition unless you include your own networks and your company fans when sourcing. They are essential networks to source. Follow the SmartRecruiters mantra, recruit where the people are, and in considering where the best candidate for you is right now, remember what I like to say, People go to Google to leave Google. People go to Facebook to stay on Facebook.

** Also CheckOut the LinkedIn Q and A: Should Every Job Be Shared on Facebook?

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The tech industry is hiring, and SmartRecruiters has added all the top boards for tech jobs to your software. If your company needs designers, programmers, business executives, data analysts, or any other information technology professional, SmartRecruiters has job sites for that. You can now post to some of the best software developer communities, such as StackOverflow and 37signals, some of the best designer communities, such as Coroflot and Authentic Jobs, as well as, some of the best tech publications, such as Mashable and Wired. Here are all the tech job boards:

Designers

37signals job board focuses on programmers, designers, and iPhone developers jobs,and is used by Apple and American Express.

Authentic Jobs specializes in jobs for web professionals, including design, development, mobile, apps, content strategy, and more, and its users include Facebook and ESPN.

Coroflot is a global job network for creative professionals that distributes jobs in graphic design, product design, UX and interaction design, across the best design publications. Each posting is 90 days.

Krop is a designers’ community and job board that also broadcasts jobs through industry blogs, job search websites, and social networks.

Developers

StackOverflow is a community of professional developers and technologists, as well as, a job board. Reach 15,000+ Software Developers.

GitHub is the largest code host and most social site in the world. Reach their engaged programmers, developers, and tech people here.

Marketing

Talent Zoo is a job board for top advertisers, marketers,  and news media industry professional. Over 200,000 registered candidates receive the newest job listings daily. Each posting is 60 days.

Tech Industry At Large

Mashable is the blog for “All That’s New on the Web” by Peter Cashmore. Reach savvy tech readers here.

Wired is one of the top publications on how technology changes the world around us. Reach worldly tech readers here.

VentureBeat is a technology blog on innovative companies and the forward-thinking executives behind them. Reach tech, marketing, product management talent here.

Content Producers

paidContent is the online media hub that covers news and analysis of the digital media business. Reach the best digital content producers here.

And don’t forget the top tech sites we already support, such as CrunchBoard, Dice, and LinkedIn. Also don’t forget to check out top job sites by niche.

If we have missed any tech job site where you prefer to post jobs, just let us know, and we’ll dive into making it an add-on.

Post jobs for free to all these boards, and more, in one click and use SmartRecruiters job board software to post jobs.

This integration with CrunchBoard, along with our capability to recommend high-performing, relevant job boards, will ensure that CrunchBoard is recommended and easily accessible to you for Internet and tech jobs. Your jobs will then automatically appear on TechCrunch.

Promote your jobs on your website using SmartRecruiters Job Widget: Last week we announced easy personalization of the out-of-the-box SmartRecruiters Careers page that you can use to link to your existing corporate site. This is a great option for companies that do not already have a Careers section on their website. This widget simply lists your open positions in a tabular format and can be inserted cleanly to any existing webpage. See samples here: Blue Star Energy, SatMetrix and Star Tribune.

This week we worked on improving the interface to personalize this widget. In the Change Design tab you can change the look-and-feel of the widget to match it to your brand colors. In the Select Columns tab choose how much information you want to display per job (Title, Location, Department etc). Finally use the Filter Jobs tab to determine which jobs you want to display for any instance of the job widget – all jobs or jobs in a certain location and/or department. After you are done, simply click on the Grab Code button, copy the HTML code of the job widget and embed it in the HTML code of the page you want to add the widget to.

Also with the SmartRecruiters Job Widget, you can display your open positions on more than one page of your corporate site, say on your Careers page and your Blog. One very important thing to note with the job widget is that you can have multiple versions of the job widget on different pages of your website. For instance, you may choose to display all your jobs on your Careers page using one version of the widget and only your technical jobs in San Francisco on your technical blog page. To do this, just customize the widget twice, grab the code that is generated each time and add it to the respective pages. There is no limit to how many job widgets you can have on your website!

Opting out of sending rejection emails: While at SmartRecruiters we strongly believe that every applicant should be promptly and continuously be informed about the status of the application, we understand that it is not always feasible to do so. Keeping the customer demands in mind, we have made the ability to send a rejection email optional. You can opt out of sending the email by simply un-checking the “Also send a rejection confirmation email” checkbox. This will ensure that the applicant is moved to the rejected state but no email is sent out to the applicant.

This week’s bug fixes

• In the payment checkout process, when you are on step 4, step 3 was incorrectly highlighted. This was confusing and has been resolved.

• A personalization field “User Full Name” that has been discontinued for a while now, was still appearing as an option for Formal Job Offer template. This option has now been removed from the list of available options. We urge existing users to update their templates and use “My First Name” and “My Last Name” instead of this one field so that the template is functional again.

• We have also updated the working of email templates so that adding personalization fields will add them to the area in the template where your mouse is pointing. This way, the personalization field will get added in your template at appropriate location instead of the end of the template.

• Users were able to update their own user role/privilege access in the system. This had caused some of the Admin users to accidently change their access from Admin to Extended or Standard roles resulting in loss of available functionality. This issue has now been resolved. You will not be able to change your user role.

• Mark as Withdrawn action that was missing from the Applicant List has been added to the list of available actions.

• Buying a single job posting on certain boards was accidently changing your selection to a (more expensive) job-posting package. This issue has been resolved. You will only be charged for a single posting that you manually selected.

• New applicants were appearing on the job pipeline on job pages after some delay due to refresh issues. This has been fixed now. Candidates will appear as soon as they apply.

• IE9 browser compatibility issue that was causing IE9 users to time out when rejecting candidates has been fixed.

• Editing a job that is copied from an existing job was creating formatting problems. This issue has been resolved. You should now be able to easily copy jobs and make relevant changes before posting the new job.

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Direct Integration with Simply Hired and Bright.com: We are happy to announce that we are fully integrated with Simply Hired, a free job search engine, and Bright.com, a free job board. With these additions, you can post your jobs to as many as six free job ad aggregators, in one click.

Job Posting Improvements: Consider this scenario – you prepare a job ad, review it for any typos and other errors and are now ready to post it to your career site, free job boards, tweet about it, post it to Linked, Facebook etc. So you go ahead and hit the “Post” button. Oh wait! You forgot to add a note about the possibility to work-from-home!

No problem! Correcting, editing, and improving your job postings across whatever boards you have posted on is as simple as making the changes once and clicking “Post.” We have made the edit workflow as forgiving as it can be – after all everyone makes mistakes occasionally and should easily be able to recover from them.

Previously, editing a posted job ad and re-posting this job meant your previously shared job ad URL would no longer work. This meant that you had to re-tweet this job, post another update on Facebook and LinkedIn, or where ever you socially shared it, but also, if an applicant grabbed a link to your the job-ad, it would no longer work.

With this update, if you edit and re-post your job ad, the unique URL for the job ad will remain the same. So irrespective of when your applicants grab a link to your job ad, or how many people retweet your job ad in order to help you find the right candidate, the original URL will always work. We are proud to have solidified this candidate pipeline.

How do I edit a job that I have already posted?

Its simple! Go to the job page or the job list and click on the “Edit” link. Make the changes that you want and hit the “Post” button. You may choose to tweet about this job again, post another status update on Facebook and LinkedIn (remember you don’t have to, the older link will still work but it doesn’t hurt to shout-out about your job openings every chance you get!).

Commenting on applicants: With the recent improvements we made to the applicant profile and collaborative reviews on applicants, we accidentally took away the ability to simply comment on an applicant without having to rate the applicant. We have fixed this issue by letting you enter comments; the rating will be defaulted to your previous rating so that you do no have to manually rate the candidate again. This will also not affect the overall rating that you give to the applicant. Note that this is the first step to bringing commenting back. SmartRecruiters product roadmap absolutely has time carved out for ability to add notes, totally independent of the rating and reviewing capability.

This week’s bug fixes

• The spelling error on the applicant page (Received was misspelled) has been corrected.

• The action menu on the job page pipeline was not opening in some browsers. This issue has been fixed now.

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The rise of free job boards and communities like Craigslist drastically changed how recruiters and companies engage job seekers and fill positions. Under this model, companies use social networking as well as free job boards to build communities and publish openings. Unlike expensive recruiting options, job boards, newspapers, third party headhunters and recruiters, using free job posting methods comes at its own price, your time.

For many small businesses and recruiting teams, they can’t afford to use these expensive options. Large job boards, depending on their functionality and additional options offered, can cost from $250 to thousands of dollars a month. This doesn’t include time spent finding the right job board or the amount of time you spend combing through the potentially hundreds of resumes from candidates who are overqualified or under qualified for your position.  And the reality is that posting on job boards is just as complicated and time consuming for the recruiter as it is for the job seeker. [Editors Note: This is why SmartRecruiters made a job posting wizard. One click to the top free job boards saves time, and money.]

While using these free job posting websites and social networking communities requires time spent, companies often find unforeseen benefits in return – engagement and relationships with job seekers as well as a greater scope of employment branding and control.  Controlling your message, content, and brand in a way that only a corporate recruiter or hiring manager can.

Post Jobs for Free on Job Posting Sites

Some of my favorite sites to post jobs for free are not really job board sites at all. Craigslist offers a job posting option as well as a resume database where you can find a newly relocated candidate.  Additional sites where I’ve had much success are Indeed, Glassdoor, and Simply Hired.

With a little creative thinking and research, posting your job opening and recruiting on free job sites can save you money reaching a new and different candidate audience. As the recruiter you control to spend as much or as little as you want. Control to use your recruiting dollars and hiring resources in the best possible way. Get your team involved in the hiring process. Small companies can look big –  together – and are poised to make an impression with prospective candidates while filling positions at a much less cost per hire all on a shoestring budget.

I’ve always believed that posting job openings shouldn’t be expensive or difficult and with a little effort, research, and gumption posting your jobs to free sites like social networking platforms and other free communities and job boards can lower your cost per hire.

And in a world where conversations often focus on reducing expenses, stretching your dollar, and lowering your cost per hire, free job postings can do just that.  Because when the boss is happy, everyone’s happy.

Also don’t forget to check out top job sites by niche.

Create a job
 

 
Use our simple intuitive wizard to create your job. As always, we tried to make it as easy as possible. You can even take advantage of saved job templates and pre-set styling settings to save time and ensure a professional and branded look of your jobs.
 
One-click Post
 
In a single click, get your job distributed across the internet to multiple free sites and aggregators as well as to your own career site and job widgets.
 

 
Social Networks
 
You can then easily start distributing your job on social networks, share it with friends onFacebook, connections on Linkedin, twitter followers and anyone you’re connected to in over 100 social networks worldwide.
 

 
Job Boards
 
SmartRecruiters also comes integrated with all the leading job boards allowing you to seamlessly dispatch your job across multiple sourcing channels.
 

 
Manage Candidates
 
Even better, with SmartRecruiters, all applicants are automatically consolidated in one place so you can start communicating, managing, and sharing them together with your colleagues.
 
So give it a try and let us know what you think!
 
Nik Hristov, Client Success Advocate