We are delighted to announce the addition of 2 new job board partners in Asia. 

Monster Singapore and Monster Malaysia.

The addition of these 2 Monster sites further underlines JobAdder's commitment to the Asian online job market. 

Here is the list of JobAdder's current Asian job board partners;

Jobstreet.com
South China Morning Post
eFinancialCareers
AsiaXpat.com
Recruit.net
Monster Malaysia
Monster Singapore


To start posting jobs to any of these sites please contact your Account Manager today.

JobAdder is hiring.  Please see job description here:

http://jobadder.com/jobs.aspx

We will be recruiting this role directly however if you know anyone who might be interested please put them in touch. 

Praise, love, karma and an amazing dinner for 2 will be heaped upon you if you refer the successful candidate.

Brisbane recruiters and HR people, join us for the launch of the new JobAdder Recruitment Management System (RMS) on Thursday November 5.

 

Come and see a live demo and jump online and have a play on one of the computers set up in the venue.

 

There is plenty of room for everyone so email darren@jobadder.com to confirm your spot.

 

 

Every 12 months we re-write our products from the ground up. 
Every 2 years we re-invent something about our business.
This year we are doing both.

I am delighted to formally announce that at the end of September we are releasing the next generation JobAdder.  The next generation is a full recruitment management system (RMS) that allows you to manage your entire recruitment process from within JobAdder. 

What does it do?

Some of the key areas of functionality include;

• Job orders
• Companies and Contacts
• Candidate management
• Job posting
• Candidate communication
• Notes
• Folders
• Comprehensive graphical reporting
• Resume parsing
• Automated import of job applications
• Duplicate record management
• Digital desktops
• and more

So how is JobAdder's recruitment system different?

1. It is a pleasure to use.
2. Is is web based and utilises the latest web technologies to make difficult tasks dead easy.
3. It is suitable for recruitment agencies AND corporate recruiters.
4. It is easy to setup and maintain
5. It is Australian software designed for Australian users
6. It has the best job posting software in Australia built right in. 

A couple of important points

• You can still use JobAdder just for job posting.  This will not change.
• Existing customers who want to continue just using job posting can do so.  Nothing will change for you.
• The new system will still be called JobAdder.  There will just be 2 versions of JobAdder, Job Posting and Recruitment Management.

A few other changes

• This blog is being retired.  Blogs are yesterday's news so moving forward we will be interacting with our users and friends in a more integrated, communal way.  More to come on that.
• The public home page will be changing to reflect the new offerings
• For everything else it is business as usual.

Arrange a Demo

• To arrange a demo please contact Darren Watts by clicking here.

We are proud to announce that JobAdder has been certified as an Accredited Ad Loader in SEEK's new accreditation program.  From what we understand we are one of a very small number to have achieved this accreditation.

From SEEK's accreditation guidelines;

 

"The Program has been developed to help clarify the availability of SEEK products and the service levels our mutual customers can expect when they use a SEEK Accredited Ad Loader. They’ll be able to see which Ad Loaders have the full suite of SEEK products and features available so the most appropriate advertising options can be used to attract the most relevant candidates to their roles."

 

This accreditation program is an important initiative by SEEK as they are the first job board in Australia to set and enforce a quality benchmark for third party job uploaders.  Hopefully this will help to declutter the job posting landscape and ultimately increase the quality of ad loading for all online job advertisers in Australia.

 

JobAdder has always committed to supporting all functionality of the job boards we integrate to.  We are also extremely rigorous with testing and quality control and this is evidenced by the very low number of support calls we receive from such a large client base. 

 

We are chuffed to receive this recognition and look forward to raising the bar even higher in our upcoming new release of JobAdder.

We are pleased to announce 2 new job board partners in Asia. 

Classifiedpost.com is the most visited online employment site in Hong Kong. It has the biggest and best source of premier jobs on offer, catering to a valuable range of qualified candidates.

It utilizes the power of the Classified Post, Hong Kong's and the region's premier recruitment leader. This feature section in the South China Morning Post carries more employment advertisements than any other in Asia.

Classifiedpost.com allows job seekers to search for jobs using our large database gathered from the Classified Post and Jiu Jik. New jobs are added daily and job seekers can search jobs by industry, job type, qualifications, salary, work experience and keywords.

Since 1995, JobStreet.com has grown to become one of the leading Internet recruitment websites in the Asia-Pacific. Through utilization of JobStreet.com’s comprehensive suite of interactive services, international and local Asian corporations recruit from JobStreet.com's ever-increasing pool of top talent and manage their recruitment process via the Internet through uniquely developed software applications.

If there are other job boards you would like to post to in Australia, New Zealand or Asia please let us know.

If you would like to know more about posting your job ads to Twitter please call Stuart on (02) 9955 1555 or email us.

For existing JobAdder clients it is a doddle.

If you are not a current JobAdder client we can have you set up within 24 hours.  If your ATS or job posting provider does not post to Twitter then we can still post your ads to Twitter for you.  You can send your job ads to us in XLS, CSV, XML or just about any other format you like and JobAdder can distribute your jobs for you.

Call now to find out more.

You can also follow us on Twitter @JobAdder.  We practice what we preach so come and join the conversation.

Twitter is this week's hot new thing.  Get onboard now before the next hot new things comes along.

Download our free whitepaper now to find out how you can have your job ads listed on Twitter.

Click here to download your free whitepaper now.

After weeks of industry rumour and speculation JobsJobsJobs and JobX have today announced that they are merging.

JobsJobsJobs.com.au will be the job board face of the new business and JobX will be renamed to JX Technologies and will focus on "recruitment technology and content distribution".

Guy Sigston, CEO of JobsJobsJobs.com.au says "Job hunters will enjoy a broad range of content, similar in volume to other major job boards".

It is unclear from the media releases what will happen to the current JobX.com.au web site but we will keep clients updated as more information comes to hand.

We are pleased to announce that SixFigures.com.au is integrated and available for posting through JobAdder.

Six Figures is a job site catering exclusively for jobs and contracts over $100,000 p/a.

Read more about Six Figures here.

Philip Tusing at Destination Talent Blog has spent many months compiling the first edition of the Australian Job Board report.  The report is free to download and you can get yours by clicking on the image below.

JobAdder is proud to be a sponsor of this report as we believe the Australian market is long overdue a quality production where you can quickly and easily find a comprehensive list of Australian job boards and recruitment solutions.

Download yours today.

If you have seen the JobAdder home page in the last few days you will have seen that we have just launched a major new release.  JobAdder is now just a month under 2 years old and has come a long way in a short period of time.  Months of hard work and customer feedback have led to what is a greatly enhanced user interface and an even better job posting platform.

The reasons for the upgrade were simple;

1. Modernise a 12 month old user interface
2. Implement a host of new features
3. Implement a lot of the latest technology we have been eyeing off

The new release has been a big success and feedback to date has been universally excellent. 

A few of the more substantial improvements include:

• A new job posting platform
• New job board integration platform that allows our consultants to create new job board integrations in as little as 1 hour
• A completely new graphical reporting interface and enhanced management reporting
• Enhanced spell checking options
• Hundreds of hours of development time in enhancing the HTML editor to be compatible with all versions of Word.  Cutting and pasting from Word was good before in JobAdder but now it is the best in the business.
• Greater job board feature visibility.  Management know at all times which features and functions are available and which ones they could be using.
• Improved job board partner pages (more improvements coming soon)
• New look and feel for job posting pages
• Larger customisable user desktop including more graphical widgets (as requested by users)
• Ability to try JobAdder free of charge on a limited trial (coming very soon).
• and plenty more...

The new platform enables us to roll out a continuous flow of enhancements and the next few months will be an exciting time.  Note that all enhancements will continue to be required to pass the JobAdder "simplicity" test.  That is "if very easy to use, looks good and adds value to users then do it, else bin it". 

Thanks to all customers for your fantastic ongoing support and to our development team for your great work (as always).

Congratulations to SMF Recruitment for winning the inaugural Recruitment Extra "Best Recruitment Agency Web Site" award on Friday night.

I wasn't there but a little birdy tells me there me there weren't any SMF representatives present to collect the award (no doubt busy making placements).  I am sure it will find its way safely to their offices.




{Shameless mention : the SMF web site was designed and developed by the JobAdder team so naturally we're a little bit pleased for SMF. Congrats to Chris and Camilla for their great work}.

According to Google Trends (and let's face it - they should know) the average Australian's heirarchy of needs is:

1. Sex
2. Jobs
3. Cars
4. Property
5. Money

There are 3 particularly interesting things about this for me.

1. In the last 4 years 2008 is the first year when "jobs" searches have outranked "cars" searches. 

2. South Australians and Tasmanians search for cars more than jobs. If you've been to either place I guess you will know why.  The first car I drove was my Mum's orange Torana in Adelaide.

3. People search for sex less in the ACT than anywhere else in Australia.  Is that related to legalised porn, a largely government population or the fact that it is so damn cold?

Today's papers report that SEEK have just purchased a 10% stake in Jobstreet - one of South East Asia's largest job boards.

Following on from their recent investment in Zhaopin this move further reinforces SEEK's plans to be a major player in the Asian region.

In going through the July stats on the weekend we were pleasantly surprised to see the number of job ads distributed by JobAdder was up by 54% in July.

JobAdder has been growing steadily month on month since launch but a leap in significant new client acquisitions in June resulted in a big increase in the number of job ads distributed in July.

Some of you may have seen the Shortlist article last week but for those who didn't we are extremely pleased to announce that we have successfully finalised the sale of our Now Hiring job board business to Counting Jobs Pty Ltd. 

Last week's Shorty article sums it up pretty well so you can click here to download the article.

Our reasons for this move were simple.  We want to focus all our financial and human resources on JobAdder.com.

We are extremely fortunate to have created 2 successful businesses in their own rights - JobAdder and the Now Hiring job boards.  As each business continues to grow it was clear we had a choice to make - ramp up resources on the job board business to accommodate the growth or find a new home for it. 

All things considered it made most sense for us to find a good home for the job board business and focus all our energies on JobAdder.  JobAdder is growing rapidly and we are very excited to be able to now give it all the attention it deserves.  In just one week since the sale was finalised there have been a whole raft of improvements made including the integration of over 6 new job boards.  JobAdder customers will benefit from a dramatic increase in functionality and job board integrations and as a business we feel the timing is strategically perfect.

As the Shortlist article states, we are absolutely delighted to have the Counting Jobs team take over the Now Hiring brand and our job board babies.  We have worked tirelessly on the job boards for 5 years so it was really important to us that they go to a business who understands job boards as well as we do and who shares our vision and passion for the business.  Mike Thomas built his first job site with his own hands and knows intimately what it takes to make a job board business successful in this market.  Mike and his team have a clear focus on the job at hand and have some very big plans so watch that space carefully!

Please also note that we are changing our company name from Now Hiring Pty Ltd to JobAdder Pty Ltd and Counting Jobs will be taking over the  Now Hiring name and brand.   Please update your address books as our email addresses will now be @jobadder.com. 

So JobAdder customers and prospective customers, hold on to your hats as we take the snake to a whole new level.