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Why you should include salaries on your SEEK jobs

by Brett Iredale December 22, 2008

The recent changes to SEEK's user interface have made the salary filter much more prominent.  On the left hand side of every job search you can now filter job search results by salary range.

I do not have access to the data on how many people are using that filter but I am willing to bet my bottom dollar that it is a very high percentage.

If you are not including salaries in your SEEK ads then your ads will not be displayed when a person filters their job search by salary.  It is as simple as that.  I know all the reasons why some people don't like including salaries on jobs, but remember if you use the "search salary" fields then the salaries are not actually displayed on your ad.  It is simply used to determine if your job should be included or excluded when someone searches for jobs in a particular salary range.

If you are one of the many who still think it is not wise to include salary info on your job ads then I am afraid it is time to reconsider.





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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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