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Add Your Own Custom Job Categories

May 10
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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
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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

Sharing Jobs Made Easy with Facebook Like and Send Buttons

July 15
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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

Boost your Facebook "Likes" by Offering Exclusive Access to Jobs

June 23
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We now offer you the ability to only show job details to those users who have "liked" your Facebook Page. You may want to enable this to boost the number of "likes" on your Facebook Page, but be warned that if users are reluctant to "like" your Page, then fewer users will see your jobs.  To enable this feature, go do "Admin Options" and change your "Like Button Settings" as shown below:Once enabled, users will still see a list of your published jobs, but viewing job details will require them to "like" your Page first:Similarly, jobs will still be visible on your Facebook Page's Wall, but once users request details, they will be asked to "Like" the Page:I hope you find this useful.  If you have any feedback or comments, please send……Read More

Deleting Jobs From Jobcast.net's Facebook App

May 20
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When the Jobcast.net Facebook App was launched in February, we didn’t offer customers the ability to delete jobs.  Jobs could be archived (either manually or automatically when the expiry period passed) and while these archived jobs were no longer publicly visible, you could still view the job applicants and any statistics associated with those jobs from the Admin Panel:With archiving in place, we didn’t think it would be important for customers to be able to delete jobs. Besides, why would you want to lose valuable statistics about your job? Well, it turns out that we were wrong. We received a number of requests for a delete option and here are the reasons:When a lot of our customers first install our Facebook App, th……Read More

Customize Your Facebook Wall Post Messages

May 8
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This is a quick blog post to let you know that we now allow you to customize the message that gets posted to your Facebook Wall when you publish a new job.  You will find this option under “Admin Options”:And this is how it will look on your Facebook Wall:Please note that this “Wall Message” is specific to each Facebook Page. This means that if you have our app installed on multiple Facebook Pages, then you can set a unique “Wall Message” for each one.  This also means that if you have multiple users that administers your Facebook Page, then regardless of who publishes a job, this “Wall Message” will be used.I’ve had  several customers ask for this feature, so I hope you find it useful.…Read More

Select Multiple Job Categories, Job Types, and Subscribers

March 22
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This is another in a series of posts I’m doing that cover some of the enhancements in our updated Facebook App:Facebook Job Recruitment App Redesign (March 8th)Applicant Routing (March 10th)Customize Your Email and Empty Jobs Tab (March 17th)We often heard from our customers that it’s sometimes hard to classify a job posting into a single category (e.g. Accounting, Administrative) or type (e.g. Full Time, Part Time). For those times, we now offer you the ability to select multiple categories and types from the “Create Job” or “Edit Job” form:Also, if you have more than one administrator for your Facebook Page, you can select multiple recipients to receive job applications: I hope you find this feature useful.  Also……Read More

Customize Your Email and Empty Jobs Tab

March 16
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This is another in a series of posts I’m doing that cover some of the enhancements in our updated Facebook App:Facebook Job Recruitment App Redesign (March 8th)Applicant Routing (March 10th)In today’s post, I’m going the cover 2 important enhancements that our customers have been requesting:Change the email address where job applications are sent.Customize the content of the Jobs tab when you’re not actively recruiting.Both of these requests are now supported.Changing Your Primary EmailBy default, we use the email address that’s stored in your Facebook account when sending you job applications. This was convenient because this email addresses was pre-approved by Facebook and we didn’t need you ……Read More

Applicant Routing

March 10
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This is another in a series of posts I’m doing that cover some of the enhancements in the new Facebook App Redesign:Facebook Job Recruitment App Redesign (March 8th)In today’s post, I’m going  the cover our new “Applicant Routing” option.  In the past, we collected all job applications on Syndicruit so that you can retrieve them at any time from within the Admin Panel of the Job Recruitment Facebook App:We also emailed these job applications to users who have subscribed to receive them. But we’ve heard from some customers that they would like to route users to their own website and collect job applications there. For those circumstances, we now offer you an “Applicant Routing” feature. It’s available when yo……Read More