We upgraded the Jobster Service to version 1.1 last night. It’s a relatively minor upgrade, but it’s definitely moving in the right direction. For example, it’s slowly moving away from an email-a-job model. Evidence of this shift can be seen in the new “public link” feature, which allows the creation of job links appropriate for publishing to mailing lists and web pages. Previously, job links were targeted at individual users, which allowed for better tracking but limited propogation.
I’m experimenting with this feature myself, posting a link in this very post to a Web Producer position available at my company. If you’re interested in working at a Seattle startup in this capacity, or know someone who would, feel free to click on the link to learn more.
Command of Excel?? I’m almost afraid to ask.
I like the feature, though.
Yeah, I don’t know what to tell you there. I have no idea what they’re planning on doing with Excel wrt producing for the web. I imagine if you had similar competence in a competing spreadsheet application, we wouldn’t turn you away.
The ability to create “public” links for websites isn’t terribly impressive in and of itself. I mean, it’s just a link to a job posting. The real power comes when people inquire or recommend their friends, and the recruiter can then sift through these prospects and see exactly how the candidates made it into the system. Currently, Jobster is primarily an “invite-only” system; you can’t inquire about a Jobster-managed job unless you’re given an invitation to do so. Now with public trackable links, the net we’re able to throw has grown appreciably.
That was an old web producer ad that somehow was still around. The real one is here, though we’re really close to finding a great person. Our systems ops team needs a great person — command of Excel probably useful, but not critical.