Facebook Recruiting

Facebook Timeline for Pages is now available. What does this mean for your company? There are a plethora of new features that are now available which will in turn give you an opportunity to promote your company further, boost engagement, turn your visitors into fans, and those fans into potential candidates. We recommend that you start experimenting immediately as the changes will be pushed live to everyone on March 30th. So, you have just about 1 month to preview the new look and review your page before the changes take effect. Here are a few tips on how to get started:

Select your Timeline Cover Photo One of the most exciting features of timeline is the large cover image featured at the top of the page. Choose an image that reflects your company, culture and mission and that is dynamic enough to grab a page visitor's attention. The cover image is the first thing that people see when they visit your timeline, so give the person a reason to like your page by selecting imagery that you feel is likeable and represents your company best. You can change your cover images as often as you like, but must adhere to Facebook's policies regarding cover photos: Covers can't be deceptive, misleading, or infringe on anyone else's copyright. You may not encourage people to upload your cover to their personal timelines. Covers may not include:

• Price or purchase information, such as "40% off" or "Download it on socialmusic.com"

• Contact information such as a website address, email, mailing address, or information that should go in your Page's "About" section

• References to Facebook features or actions, such as "Like" or "Share" or an arrow pointing from the cover photo to any of these feature

• Calls to action, such as "Get it now" or "Tell your friends."

Select Your Profile Picture

Facebook will then prompt you to select or adjust your profile picture, which is the image that will be shown next to each of your updates on your page's wall and in user news feeds. Logos are a great choice for this, or an image that represents your company's brand. Share Your Relevant Stories

Go back to the beginning and share and highlight relevant stories on your page's Timeline with your followers. This is where you can share the start of your company, the path it went down and where it is today. Some examples of significant stories include:

• When your company was started

• When your company launched new products or services

• When you expanded

• When you brought on new hires

With each milestone, choose an interesting image to compliment the post and encourage your staff members to share it with their networks. Reply to Candidates and Followers in Confidence

With timeline, page administrators will have the ability to respond directly to users and send them personal messages. Regardless if it is a question from a customer, inquiry from a candidates or comment from a followers, you can send them a private and confidential response that will not appear on your page's wall. Pin Specific Stories That Highlight Your Company

Another great new feature to mention is that you can pin a specific story to the top of your timeline for up to 7 days. You can highlight calls-to-action, promotions, events and other remarkable content. Pinning these updates to the top of your page will prevent it from getting buried by more recent updates. Update Your 'About' Section

Even though the 'About' section of your company's Facebook page isn't exactly a new feature, it is still worth noting due to the prominent placement it gets with the new timeline design. Describe your business and let new visitors and potential candidates quickly understand what your business is about. Keep it brief so that the decryption does not get cut off and include a URL to your company's website. There is a lot to learn and get used to with Facebook's new page design. Have fun over the next month to experiment with it!

In our first year of operation, Jobcast has already managed to exceed our expectations.  We started with a simple idea and it blossomed into a company that we are extremely proud of. We went through a re-branding process from our social recruiting app’s original name, ‘Sydicruit’, to what it is today. We have built an app that is efficient and simple to use, and that was always our goal – to make an easy to use, simple social recruiting application for you, the user, for your social recruitment needs. Our user base has continued to grow tremendously over the past year, and the feedback and comments we have received have been invaluable.  Our app is constantly evolving as we learn from you. What works, what you feel doesn’t. What you’d like to see in the future. The aspects of the app you enjoy. The features you love. Our team has grown as we continue to grow. Our committed and passionate team will assist with propelling Jobcast further as we grow. We are thankful to be working with such a talented group of people. It’s hard to believe that it has been a full year since we started Jobcast. I guess time sure does fly when you are having fun. We are grateful for a fantastic first year and are looking forward to the years to come! Sincerely, Ryan St. Germaine CEO, 

Jobcast.net

With over 1.2 billion mobile web users worldwide, we realized that Jobcast had to be mobile friendly. Therefore, we are pleased to announce the latest advancement to our social recruiting app. Job listings posted through Jobcast can now be viewed on mobile devices!

Users will not be directed to your company’s Facebook Page, however they will be sent to a mobile optimized website that will allow them to view the entire job posting and its details.

We hope that this new feature drives additional relevant traffic to your job postings. As always, we value your feedback, so feel free to send us a message or review our App on our Facebook Page.

Happy (social) recruiting!

Via Mashable: So you’ve got a great job that’s waiting to be filled at your company, and you decide you want to tap into the already measured power of social media recruiting. You start to wrestle with the big kahuna, LinkedIn, and you’re also covering niche social media sites for your industry. But you may be ignoring an intensely powerful tool hiding right under your nose — Facebook. The social media mega-site has proven successful for snapping up young professionals, but it can be a great resource for finding talent at any level. Continue reading the full article on Mashable here.  

With Jobcast, Facebook recruiting could not be any easier. Below are some of the capabilities of our system and how it can help you with your social recruiting needs. Post Jobs on Facebook - Share on Twitter & LinkedIn

Jobcast is simple. It allows you to post jobs on Facebook and source top talent faster and with ease. With Jobcast, you can target the millions of potential candidates that logon to Facebook daily. With Jobcast, you can:

• Drive quality candidates to your company job postings, Facebook page and website, therefore building brand awareness further.

• Manage candidate applications directly through Jobcast. You can also integrate with your ATS. Please contact us here for more details.

• Increase application exposure through social sharing. With Jobcast, you can share jobs through Twitter and LinkedIn and job boards (Indeed, SimplyHired, Juju and Jooble).

Post Jobs Directly on Your Facebook Page

Jobcast is completely integrated into Facebook. The app allows for employers to post, edit and share job postings directly in Facebook. The app automatically creates a ‘Careers’ tab on your Facebook page where candidates can view current opportunities. Jobs are then posted to the Facebook Page wall and can be shared and broadcasted from there. Social Sharing Through Facebook and Beyond

With over 845 million users on Facebook, leverage those users to virally distribute and share your jobs. Jobcast’s social features  encourage users to “Like” and share jobs via public wall/timeline posts, or through private messages. The posts will be seen in throughout social groups from posting to profiles and listed in newsfeeds. Each job posting also includes a direct link that can be easily sent via e-mail or instant messaging. With Jobcast, you are also able to post job openings directly to Twitter or LinkedIn, which increases the number of referrals and therefore increases the effectiveness of your social recruiting. Integrated Administrative Panel Within Facebook

Potential candidates can apply to posted positions directly through Facebook. Applicant information and resumes will be sent directly to the administrative panel, or, there is an option to have the applicant information sent to you via your e-mail account. In the administrative panel, you will also be able to add relevant notes in each applicant file and through our simple Jobcast rating system, give applicants a rating out of 5 stars. Integrate your ATS

Jobcast allows for an option to integrate your job postings from your corporate career page or ATS onto your Facebook Page. For more information, please contact us here. Reporting, Analysis and ROI

With Jobcast’s reporting feature, you are able to see job views by source to determine which networks offer the greatest exposure, applicants by source to see where your applicants came from and total hires by source to identify which networks most often lead to successful candidates. Managing your jobs through social media with Jobcast couldn’t be any easier. Post jobs to your Facebook Page. Get started here.

Social media (SM) recruitment, social recruiting, e-recruiting. They are not just buzz words, they are terms that are current and have become the norm in the recruitment world. Not sure about social recruiting? Below are several reasons why social recruiting is here to stay. 1) Increases Job Visibility

With hundreds of millions of people on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, using social networking platforms for recruiting will ensure that your job openings will be seen and read by a larger number of qualified candidates.

2) Increases the Quality of Hire

People who frequently use social media may be considered early adopters, who are highly desirable in the job market at the moment. Using social media to recruit will therefore attract this group of people, who are normally more technically savvy and innovative. 3) Raises Brand Awareness

Using social media platforms will not only increase your overall company visibility, it will also let potential employees know that you are with the trends of social networking. Opportunities to interact with potential candidates through social networking sites can also help position company brands by targeting workers in a more dynamic way. 4) Improves Referrals

Referrals are definitely of the best kind of business lead, so why not apply the same principal to jobs? Social recruiting can help you make more people aware of your company’s current job opportunities through spreading the information through various social media means. 5) Inspires Employees

Posting jobs to your company’s social media platforms is also an indirect way of empowering your employees to spread the word. Employees and followers can simply choose to share a link to another person’s profile. 6) Reduces the Cost to Hire

The recruiting-related transactional costs through social recruiting is typically lower in comparison to other sources. Less money can be allocated to traditional job advertisements and put towards social recruiting strategies and implementing related tactics. 7) It’s Engaging

Social media is about connecting and having engaging conversations through sharing great content. Putting together a strong social recruiting strategy will help to define what type of content you think will be valuable to share with the candidates with whom you would like to engage. 8 ) Wide Reach

With more than 800 million active users on Facebook alone, 50% of which log on to Facebook in any given day, many recruiters and hiring managers are leveraging social media’s wide reach and large audience for influencing potential candidates. Ready to begin? Start social recruiting with Jobcast.

Thank you to the team at FeedMyApp for a great review of Jobcast! Posted on January 23rd, 2012: "It makes total sense to utilize the outstanding coverage that Facebook delivers when advertising jobs. Let's face it, with the economic climate the way its, half of your potential job candidates are probably sitting on their butts at home using social networking sites whilst job searching. Jobcast is a social media monitoring application for jobs and employment that broadcasts jobs to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other job boards to find the top talent that's out there looking for work. Social Media is changing the way we live, communicate, and work. With so many people having Facebook accounts now it seems the next logical step is to integrate your social life with your work life so that you get the best of both worlds. Jobcast is a simple to use Facebook social recruiting application that broadcasts jobs to Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin as well as major job boards like Indeed, Juju and Jooble. With Jobcast, employers are able to find their top talent where many people spend their time online - on social media sites..."

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Localization certainly plays an important role in building your regional talent pool through social recruiting, and therefore, we are pleased to announce that Jobcast now supports 15 languages! They are: Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) English French German Indonesian Italian Japanese Korean Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Europe) Russian Spanish (Europe) Spanish (Latin America) Turkish To post jobs through Jobcast in one of the languages listed above, click on the Distribution tab, then select the language from the drop down box. Please note: you will need to opt-in in order to use this feature. Happy posting!  

One of the most requested Jobcast features that has been absent in the existing interface is reporting. We are pleased to announce that reporting functionality has now been introduced. With our new reporting feature, you will be able to review which networks offer the best exposure, which networks your applicants come from and which networks most often lead to successful candidates. We encourage you to examine reporting for your existing accounts by following the steps below: 1. Select the account that you would like to view the reporting for 2. Select the Jobs tab, and then click the Reports tab From there, you will see 3 report options on the left-hand side;

Total Job Views by Source

(Analyze which networks offer best exposure),

Total Applicants by Source

(Analyze which networks your applicants come from) and

Total Hires by Source

(See which networks most often lead to successful candidates).

We hope that these simple reports help you further with your social recruiting goals. Because this is a new feature, we would like to use this opportunity to solicit your feedback regarding the functionality of the reporting features. Please feel free to contact us or comment below with any thoughts!

It’s a new year and we are continuously updating our Jobcast careers, job and recruiting Facebook app with new advancements. We are happy to share that we have 6 new features. Here’s what’s new:

1) Social Sharing on Twitter and LinkedIn

We have added a vital feature within our app – the ability to post job opportunities to Twitter and LinkedIn accounts. To do so, follow the steps below:

• Select the Manage Jobs tab and click on the Published button

• Select the position you would like to share with your social media networks

• Click on the Share button and then select the checkbox next to each social media platform you would like to post to. Clicking on the X will then prompt you to activate the social media platform selected (ie: Twitter)

• Enter in your login and password for the selected social media platform(s) After completing the steps above, you will be able to post to those activated accounts for all job postings going forward.

2) Post Jobs to Indeed, SimplyHired, Juju and Jooble

You are now able to post your job postings to three of the top job boards: Indeed, SimplyHired, Juju and Jooble. Here’s how:

• In your Jobcast account, select Distribution

• Select the Search Engines tab

• Click on the checkbox next to ‘Include Jobs in Search Engines’

Please note: due to their strict policies, enabling this feature will not guarantee that jobs will be included by search engines. As a general rule, if jobs are posted directly by the employer and applications are collected directly by this App, then the probability of inclusion will be the highest.

3) Track Applicants by Source

Curious to know where your applicants found your job posting? Now you can.

When applicants click on a link to a job posting through a social network and submit an application for that role, the source (ie: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) will appear  the applicant’s details.

4) Rate Applicants

Rating applicants couldn’t be any easier. Through our integrated applicant tracking system, you now have the ability to rate each applicant through a simple to use 5-star system.

5) Add Notes

As a Jobcast administrator, you are now able to add notes related to applicants. All page administrators have the ability to add notes, which will be shared with other team members automatically through the applicant tracking system.

6) Manage Multiple Pages from One Account

Do you manage the recruiting for multiple companies? Does the company you recruit for have multiple divisions? Do you oversee corporate recruiting across multiple channels?

We have now introduced the ability to manage multiple Facebook pages from one account.

6 new features and more to come. We hope that these advancements further assist in your social recruiting needs. Thank you to those who have provided valuable feedback on our app. We welcome all feedback – feel free to share any input and/or comments by contacting us here.

Want to try out Jobcast? It’s a FREE, simple solution to your recruiting needs. Hire Smart. Click here to download the app now.