What will the next generation job board features have? In this member only post I’ll tell you just that.
I am constantly thinking about where job boards should be headed as far as new features. Here’s some ideas from my job board vault.
Surfacing Candidates More
- Job boards should offer resume alerts. Let employers signup by keyword/location just like job alerts. This should be a standard feature. And the alert should fire off as SOON as that job seeker resume is uploaded. Timing is everything.
- More featured profiles. Lets job seekers feature their resume for a small one time fee. Put a rotation of featured candidate profiles in the recruiter dashboard and on the home page.
- Social Feed. The job board should feature a social feed of job seeker and employer activity. Show off whats happening on the site. For example: “John just uploaded a resume in the marketing field” or “Employer A just posted a new job in sales”. Also push these updates to your social media channels automatically.
We also need better job alerts
- Text job alerts! Email open rates are dwindling. Seekers must be able to get text based alerts that are true real time ones. As soon as a job goes up, get the alert out immediately.
- Better job description templates. Allow employers to connect social media accounts, what’s the commute, more context around what the company offers potential candidates.
- Mobile Apply that works. Give seekers a simple way to apply on a mobile phone. Name/phone/email is a goods start. Generate leads not resumes.
- Industry news aggregation. If your site is for a certain industry give seekers some more reasons to stay on your site by aggregating industry news and blogs.
- More social networking features. Become more like indeed and let seekers connect with one another. Jobcase has built a huge business on this model.
One other technical thing is to also block certain countries from accessing your site to help prevent spam job seekers from infiltrating you. Candidates from India love to signup on US sites event though they don’t live here and never will.