Johnny Oshika

Solving the Cropped Facebook Page Tab Problem

November 25

Earlier this year, Facebook started experimenting with a new website design. Pages became wider and design elements became larger. The reviews were mixed but Facebook proceeded with their plan to completely switch to their new web interface by September 2020, and switch they did! When you now visit facebook.com, you will be greeted with the new Facebook!Around the May timeframe when Facebook was rolling out the new design to some users, Facebook App Developers (including Jobcast Engineers) noticed that their Facebook apps were getting cropped at 800px height. That was a problem for many Facebook apps that needed to display a lot of content on a single page. Jobcast experienced this problem ……Read More

Introducing Job Widget - An Embeddable Widget for Your Company Website

August 22

A couple of months ago, we introduced Job Sync, an incredibly easy way to automatically synchronize your jobs between your existing career site and your Facebook Page. But what about those of you that don't have a career page on your corporate website? We've found that many of you are using Jobcast as your exclusive ATS, and as a result, you want a way to embed jobs on your company website. In other words, you want to use Jobcast to manage all of your recruitment efforts.Introducing the Job WidgetOur Job Widget is easy to set up: just copy and paste one line of code and a career site will appear instantly. Your visitors will be able to search jobs and apply to them directly from inside of your website. And fo……Read More

Improved "No Jobs" Messaging with Rich Text Editing

June 7

We hope your company is growing and you have open positions to fuel this growth. However, we realize that there are times when you don't have any open positions to advertise. In those situations, you can still use Jobcast to communicate your values, culture, and what it's like to work at your company to prospective hires. Up until recently, we didn't provide much flexibility in how this message was presented until a few weeks ago with the introduction of a rich text editor. So instead of just plain text, you can now style and highlight your message, and most importantly, add links to external sources.Simple Rich Text Editor Customized "No Jobs" message on your Facebook Page So the next time you don't have any ope……Read More

A Focus on the Share Button

June 7

A couple of weeks ago, we replaced the “Send” button with the “Share” button on your posted jobs on your Facebook Page. We blogged about why here:http://blog.bcjobs.ca/jobcast/share-button-meets-the-like-send-button/Over the last couple of weeks, we been experimenting with a new way to share your jobs on Facebook. The goal of this experiment was to have the “Share” button appear alongside the “Comment” and “Like” buttons on any message you shared using the Jobcast app. These messages appear on your Page Timeline, as well as the News Feed of your fans.The feedback from our clients has been overwhelmingly positive, so these changes are here to stay.You will now notice that your shared messages ……Read More

Share Button Meets the Like Button

May 23

Jobcast’s Facebook recruitment app makes social sharing of your job postings easy. As a Facebook Page administrator, you can share your jobs to Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn at any time through Jobcast’s administrative tools.Your public job detail page included Facebook ‘Like’ and ‘Send’ buttons. These buttons have become ubiquitous on the web because of their powerful sharing capabilities. Visitors express their interest in a job by ‘liking’ it, and when they do, the job gets broadcasted to their friends on Facebook. The ‘Send’ button on the other hand allows visitors to selectively send a job posting to friends.While both the ‘Like’ and ‘Send’ buttons have served their purpose well, neither of these buttons allow you th……Read More

Distributing Your Jobs to More Search Engines

May 16

We recently added more search engines to our list:JobrapidoYakazJustJobsWowjobsBy simply enabling the Include Jobs in Search Engines option, your jobs on your Facebook Page will automatically distribute to these new search engines, which we hope will greatly increase the exposure to your job openings. Just like sharing your jobs to your Social Network, you will be able to measure the success of these search engines through our reporting tools: We will monitor the quality of candidates referred from these search engines and add and remove from the list to continue improving the exposure to your job openings. Happy recruiting!…Read More

Add Your Own Custom Job Categories

May 10

When you install the Jobcast Facebook app, it comes pre-configured with a list of 20 generic job categories, such as Accounting, Sales and Marketing, and Software and Programming. When you post a job, we ask you to select up to 3 categories from this list. This allows your candidates to better filter and find the job that they’re interested in. This would have served you well if you had job openings that fall nicely into these categories, but what if you wanted to hire a Chef, an Architect, or a Pilot? We didn’t have categories that matched these job openings, so you were left to select Other as a category, which was a problem for a lot of our clients. To solve this problem, we are introducing a way to add your own custom ……Read More

Changing the Tab Image on your Facebook Page

April 5

With the recent switch to Timeline for Facebook Pages, tabs on your Pages are now represented by large images:Did you know that you can customize these images? For example, the Jobcast tab image by default looks like this:You can change both the image and the name by editing the tab settings. To do this, first expand your list of tabs by clicking the arrow on the right of the images:Now when you hover over the tab image, a pencil will appear. Clicking on it will reveal the Edit Settings option.Note: It’s important to first expand the list of tabs even if the tab that you want to edit is already visible. If you don’t do this, the tabs won’t become editable.Clicking Edit Settings will pop open a dialog, and from here you can cu……Read More

Facebook Page Redesign for Timeline

April 2

Last Friday, all Facebook Pages were upgraded to Timeline. In anticipation of this upgrade, we've been working hard on an updated version of our Facebook app to better showcase your job postings. I'm excited to announce that the update to our app is now complete. Here are some of the highlights:More Real Estate for Your Jobs One of the biggest benefits of the new Timeline design is that apps installed on your Facebook Page get a lot more real estate. This allowed us to rethink how jobs should be listed and displayed. We hope that this new design will make it easier for your candidates to filter and apply to jobs that are most suited to them. Improved Job Application ExperienceOne of the use cases that we wante……Read More

Sharing Jobs Made Easy with Facebook Like and Send Buttons

July 15

One of the most requested features of Jobcast.net's Facebook App has been the addition of a Facebook "Like" button on job postings. I'm excited to announce that it's finally here! Your jobs on your Facebook Page will now show the ubiquitous Facebook "Like" and "Send" buttons:When a user clicks the "Like" button, your job will appear on the user's Wall and will be published on his/her friends' news feed...letting them all know about it. When "liking" a job, the user will also have the opportunity to add a comment so that s/he can add some context around the "Like". This is an effective way for your visitors to promote your jobs on a large scale. However, often times it doesn't make sense to promote jobs to everyone in ……Read More

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