Twitter, Chat and More Career Site Interactivity from Standout Jobs
Imported 7 months ago. See original articleOver the weekend, Standout Jobs released new functionality - primarily aimed at increasing career site interactivity. Those features include:
- Chat. The chat feature allows you to schedule group chats, so you can invite a bunch of people to visit your career site and communicate with you. This could be thought of as a simple, online career fair. You can have different recruiters or individuals at your company in the chat to speak with job seekers and candidates. It’s easy to schedule a chat, create the chat room and then place the chat widget on your career site wherever you want. When someone visits the chat it pops up a new window.
When you log into the chat you can do so with your Twitter username, and this will then send out a tweet letting everyone know that you’ve setup the chat. This is a great way to generate exposure for a chat that you might be running to attract job seekers.
We partnered with TinyChat to provide us with the basic chat technology. And you’ll see more functionality coming in the near future, including the implementation of a white label chat service.
- Twitter Integration. You can now display a handful of your most recent tweets right on your career site. Use any Twitter account you want - just input the Twitter name into the Web Presence widget, and then drag the Twitter widget onto your career site. For most companies you can use a corporate recruiter’s Twitter account or the company’s Twitter account, if one exists. And if you’re not on Twitter, give it a try!
- More Recruiter / People Connectivity. We’ve added a number of ways that job seekers and candidates can interact with recruiters and company employees that are highlighted in the People widget. The People widget allows you to highlight individuals within your organization and tell their stories. It also allows you to publicize your recruiters and how job seekers & candidates can connect with them. In the People widget, you can now add contact and information details for LinkedIn, Facebook, Skype, Twitter, Gtalk, AIM, Yahoo! and MSN. This makes it incredibly easy for recruiters to make themselves available; so job seekers can instantly start chatting with individuals. And it also gives you the opportunity to share much more information about your organization and the great people that work there.
All of these enhancements are designed to increase the interactivity and communication between job seekers, candidates and employers.
We’ve made some additional enhancements as well:
- Category Widget. We’ve added a Job Categories widget, which makes it very easy to give job seekers quick navigation into various job opportunities.
- Twitter Distribution. There’s no doubt that Twitter is growing in popularity, especially with respect to jobs and job hunting. Standout Jobs now distributes jobs to Twitter for free. This happens automatically when you post a job - so you don’t have to do anything. Jobs are distributed to our “job distribution account” — @standoutjobs — which anyone can follow.
We will be promoting our Twitter account actively to get more job seekers following it. As well, by using the #jobs hashtag we’re ensuring that more people using Twitter to search for jobs will find our customers’ listings.
- Application Autoresponder. You can now customize the autoresponder message that is sent to people when they apply for a job. This gives you the chance to personalize the email message further - for your specific company. In the near future we’ll be increasing the functionality around autoresponders, so you can send messages out for different actions; for example, when you change someone’s application status.
All existing customers can immediately start using this functionality. And we’d be happy to demonstrate this functionality as well as the rest of our recruitment communication platform.
