Product Updates

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

How the Jobcast.net Facebook job App works

November 27

If you haven't already installed our Facebook Job app, This post is meant to explain how the app works and provide some screenshots of the app in action! With our Facebook job app your company can post jobs and receive applications on Facebook pages. It’s a great tool for recruiting staff within Facebook. Easy to use and can be set up in minutes! for instructions on getting started, please visit our How to Install page.…Read More

Jobcast Update: Share to Facebook Groups!

June 9

Facebook is a great tool to connect with everyone from your family and friends to any of the other 1.65 billion monthly active users on the site. Did you know that there are hundreds of millions of Facebook Groups that you can join? With that much reach and potential, it’s no surprise that Facebook Groups present a great opportunity to share your job postings with tons of people who share common interests with you and your company.Jobcast knows that more and more people are using Groups to look for new jobs and further their careers. To help you take advantage of this, we’ve introduced a new feature:You can now share job postings to Facebook Groups directly from your Jobcast Dashboard! To start using your ……Read More

Jobcast Update: Dashboard Redesign!

May 17

Here at Jobcast, our product development team is always looking to build and improve on our product and now, it’s easier than ever to manage your Jobcast account with our newly redesigned Dashboard!Our users have spoken and we have listened. We know that these are the Jobcast features that you use the most, so we’ve put them on the front page and given you easy access:Post a New Job – We know that you want to start finding candidates so we’ve added quick access to add your latest job opening.Manage Current Jobs – Have you found a great new employee through Jobcast? Great – just click from the Dashboard to update or close your current job postings.Invite Your Team– Give members of your recruit……Read More

One Job Post: All Your Social Networks!

August 11

The main pain point with adopting new hiring platforms is having to share the same job ad over and over again. Sharing the exact same job ad to each of your individual social networks and job boards is a huge waste of time. It is also frustrating because you are must adjust your ad along the way to fit each platforms’ unique standards. Not fun, not efficient, and thankfully, not necessary! With Jobcast you can use our Auto-Share feature to automatically share your job ads to your Facebook Timeline (Personal and Business), Twitter Feed, and LinkedIn Page (Personal and Company). You can even use the Auto-Share feature to push your job ads to several different job boards such as Indeed, and Simply hired. Here’s how……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

Job Sync. No one should have to post a job more than once!

June 12

Many of our clients have expressed that they use Jobcast as their Facebook Career Page while still using their existing ATS or career site. If you have an existing solution for posting your jobs on the web, maybe you're asking yourself, "why should I have to post this job twice?" With our Jobcast API your ATS can now send jobs to your Jobcast Facebook app. But, if your ATS provider isn't ready to use our API, that still leaves you with the pain of manually posting jobs. For those situations, we can help!Job Sync. Provide us with a link to your jobs page, RSS feed or XML feed and we'll have your jobs synchronizing on Facebook daily. Pricing starts for as little as $99 a month and varies depending on job volume. To sign u……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

Introducing the Jobcast API. Send us your jobs!

May 24

Our development team has been hard at work building an API that opens up Jobcast to work seamlessly with your current recruitment technology .What does this mean for non technical folks? If your company has the technical capabilities, you can have your jobs published to your Facebook page from your own career page or ATS. No more re-posting your jobs manually! For technical details, and for access to our API, please refer to our Jobcast API documentation If technology isn't your company's specialty, no need to worry - we can do it for you. Just send us a link to your career page, RSS or XML feed and we will have your jobs feeding to your Facebook Page within five business days. Pricing varies but starts as lo……Read More

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