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The new JobAdder is now live

by Brett Iredale November 12, 2008



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).


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Congratulations to SMF Recruitment : Winners, Recruitment Extra best recruitment agency web site

by Brett Iredale October 27, 2008

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}.

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Australia's heirarchy of needs

by Brett Iredale September 26, 2008

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?





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SEEK buys 10% of Jobstreet

by Brett Iredale September 17, 2008

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.

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Job ads processed by JobAdder up 54% in July

by Brett Iredale August 4, 2008

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.




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Now Hiring sells job board business to Counting Jobs

by Brett Iredale May 12, 2008



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.



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