This week, we’ve added an easier way to manage payments for recruiting services in SmartRecruiters with a new business account.

Your Business Account

Instead of using your credit card to purchase job boards, candidate databases, or other services, we will send you a single invoice for all purchases made in your company account each month. Your business account is a new Payment Method in Account Settings that allows you to charge purchases in the Store to your account.

Flexible Payment Options

If you have multiple cost centers or departments, we can provide you with a business account for each one to track purchases against your budget. You can share an account with multiple users, and once added, they can charge purchases in the store to your company. Users can also have access to additional business accounts or credit cards to make purchases.

Apply Today

If your company spends at least $5000 a month on recruiting services in SmartRecruiters and has a credit card on file, we can quickly activate this option in your account. Go to Payment Methods in Account Settings and select Invoice to apply.

Need more help? Please feel free to ask a question in our customer community.

Organize applicants throughout your hiring process 

Out of the box, we provide the ability to organize candidates in the following stages: New, In-review, Interview, Offered, Accepted, Hired, Rejected or Withdrawn. However, if you have a more granular process or would just like to add simple reminders such as “call back” or “follow up” or “meet team” you can quickly tag applicants with any or all of these tags.

To see all the candidates that you intend to say call back, simply go to the applicant list and filter by the tag you added, in this case “call back.” You can un-tag an applicant at any time or add a new tag to the same applicant. This means that you can use tags to keep track of applicants as they progress through your hiring process.

Create Talent Pools

You can easily tag candidates with skills (e.g Java, User Experience) or with roles such as “Product Manager” or “Developer” to quickly create talent pools. You can then filter your applicant list by a certain tag to see the applicants in that talent pool.

How does this work?

To add a tag, go to the applicant profile and click on the add tag link. Any new tag that you create is automatically added to your list of tags and you can use it as many times as you like.

Use the applicant list to filter candidates by tags.

Email Recommendations

This week we also introduced an email notification that sends you job board recommendations, right to your inbox. We track and analyze all your jobs, and if you receive fewer than 5 candidates, we make job board suggestions that will work better than the ones you have posted to. We email these suggestions to you so that you can act quickly and smartly. We believe this will help you source better faster. Happy hiring!

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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.

 
• Fine-tuned our anti-spam filter so that we can better whitelist new accounts.

 

• Improved behavior of some candidate actions that were taking long to load.

 

• Set up a redirect so that the “www” is not needed in your Career Site URL. So, now smartrecruiters.com/yourcompany should work fine.

 

• Fixed some issues on color settings in the new Website set up pages.

 
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• Validate the candidate experience by previewing Job Ad and Application Form on a sample job

 

• Personalize your Job Ads by adding a logo or a banner

 

• Take the steps to Post your first job

 

• Invite co-workers to join SmartRecruiters so that you can share and review applicants collaboratively

 

• Advertise your jobs on your website using your SmartRecruiters Careers Page or embedding a list of jobs directly on your website

 

• Turn Fans into Hires by adding a Careers Tab to your company Facebook page

 
Careers Page & Job Widget
 
We have also added a page to guide through the Career Website set up process.
 

 
From this page, you can :

 
• Personalize and Embed our Job Widget to display a list of jobs in your website, your blog or any webpage in fact.

 

• Personalize your SmartRecruiters Careers page (www.smartrecruiters.com/mycompany)

 
Some bug fixing. We also fixed the following issues:

 
• Newly created users don’t appear immediately in Select Widget

 

• Links to Sample websites

 

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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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Stability and session time-outs: Last week, a number of our customers reported that they were getting logged out of the system due to inactivity, even when they are not actually inactive! We spent a lot of time this week looking into this issue, and found the causes. The good news is that we have figured this out and released a fix that will ensure fewer to no session time-outs. It was a little bit like looking for a needle in a haystack but we found the needle and sewed up the seams!

This week’s bug fixes

• Users who were running into issues when setting up career site should now be able to configure and embed career sites. This bug has been resolved.

 

• Emails sent out from the system will use UTF-8 encoding. This means that the emails will now retain international characters. This is particularly useful for companies that send emails and invites in languages other than English.

 

• Copying a job was affecting the job ad URL (was displaying copy of job ad in the URL, making it unintuitive). This issue has been resolved. The URL will no longer contain the terms “copy of job.” The job that is copied will have a unique URL.

 

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Automatically unposting jobs (contd.): We previously released the ability to automatically unpost your job ad if the position is filled, on-hold or cancelled. This week we have enhanced this feature so that it works from all areas of the application; the job list as well the job page. Irrespective of where you move the job from any status to filled, on-hold or canceled, you will be reminded to take down your job ad from your career site, job widget and free boards. Doing this ensures that applicants can no longer apply to positions for which you are no longer accepting applications.
 

This week’s bug fixes

• After last week’s feature update, there were some job ads that were no longer displaying descriptions correctly. We have now migrated all our users and all their job ads so that all the empty ads are now correctly populated with job and company descriptions.

 

• Career page URLs are no longer case-sensitive. Applicants can type www.smartrecruiters.com/companyname or www.smartrecruiters.com/CompanyName to access your career site. Both these URLs will work.

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Using this widget, you can display all your open positions or you can filter the positions by department and/or locations and embed multiple job widgets on different places on your website. Example: if you have a corporate website and a San Francisco specific sub-site, you can configure one job widget to display openings in all locations and another one to display positions in San Francisco and embed these to the respective sites. Utilizing jobs widget to share your jobs on your site, blog, or other sites just got really easy!
 
By default, the widget is set up to display all locations. You can grab the code, as is, and embed it to your main website. Note that the job widget will display ALL your jobs, irrespective of when you embed the code. So if you now have job openings in a new location, this configuration will automatically display jobs in the new location – no need to re-configure and embed the widget again.
 

For the San Francisco-specific job list, you can specific “San Francisco; SF” in the Location filter and grab and embed the code.
 

This week’s bug fix

• Some users were experiencing difficulties while editing and re-posting their jobs. They were unable to get to the next step and their hiring team selections were being reset to only include the team member who originally created the job. This issue has now been resolved. You should be able to edit and re-post all your jobs.

 
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The post Weekly release: Enhanced Job Widget & Improved Job Ad Editing first appeared on SmartRecruiters Blog.]]> https://www.smartrecruiters.com/blog/weekly-release-automated-unposting-of-withdrawn-and-filled-job-postings/ Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:10:05 +0000 http://www.smartrecruiters.com/static/blog/?p=1523 SmartRecruiters is dedicated to building the product businesses demand.This week as well as fixing a number of bugs that were bothering our users, SmartRecruiters automated the job posting withdrawals. Automatically unposting of cancelled, on-hold and filled jobs:  We have heard from a number of our users that when job postings go on-hold or have been […]