Save Time with Smart Emails

July 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Experienced recruiters and hiring managers know that they can spend a lot of time dealing with email communications to job candidates.  It’s both time consuming and tedious to send out large numbers of different types of emails to candidates.  Even worse is the possibility of making mistakes when copying and pasting from a template.  We’ve all sent the “Dear <firstname>” email out by mistake. And it can take a lot of time to sift through your inbox to see what past emails you’ve sent somebody.

Introducing Smart Emails

JobFlo’s new Smart Email feature can help!  You can now use JobFlo to send templated emails to your candidates directly from your Smart Inbox.  We’ve given you a few samples of common email templates to start from, and you can easily edit them to suit your needs.  No more copying and pasting!  Better still is we keep a record of every email you send to candidates and you can quickly see a complete history of all of your communications to them on the JobFlo candidate profile page.

Email Deliverability

Worried about email deliverability and getting past your candidate’s spam filter?  JobFlo Smart Emails are all sent using the two most popular email authentication systems – Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Email (DKIM).  While we can’t guarantee that some spam filters won’t block the occasional email, we can tell you that because we send out all emails with SPF and DKIM records, you will get the highest email deliverability rate possible.

And chances are your current business email account is not enabled with both SPF and DKIM authentication.

Getting Started

It’s easy to get started with JobFlo Smart Emails.

Step 1. Bring up a candidate profile page in your Smart Inbox and click on their email address in the upper right side of the screen.

Send a Smart Email

Step 2. Choose an email template to use.  You can modify the content of the email if needed, then click on the Send button.  You can customize templates by expanding the View/Edit Templates link.  Note that you can add template variables such as the candidate name, the job position title, your company name, etc., which are then replaced with the actual values for that particular candidate and job position.

Choose an email template

Step 3.  JobFlo keeps a record of every email you send to the candidate so it’s easy to get a quick glance of your complete communications history with them in one place.  Just look under Contact History for any applicant, and hover over Details to see the complete email that was sent.

Contact History

Emailing Multiple Candidates

Even better still, you can send a Smart Email to a group of candidates at one time.  Let’s say you’ve reviewed a large number of applicants and want to send an email to the top group of candidates to arrange a phone screen or interview.  Just go to the Smart Inbox, make sure you’re on the All tab, and place a check in the left-side checkbox next to your top rated candidates.

You’ll see a Mail Checked button appear at the bottom of the Smart Inbox.  Go ahead and click that button, and you’ll see the Smart Email page which will send and record a templated email to each of the candidates.

Group Smart Email

JobFlo’s Smart Emails saves you a bunch of time and removes the hassle of sending accurate templated emails to your candidates. Go ahead and give it a try!

Filed Under: Feature Highlight, New Product Features

Introducing Simply Hired Premium Listings

May 9, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We’ve just partnered with Simply Hired to offer our customers a quick and low cost method to attract high quality applicants for their open positions.

With Premium Placement on Simply Hired:

  • Reach 20 million job seekers
  • Enjoy broad distribution on Simply Hired’s exclusive network of 25,000 partners
  • Attract top talent quickly and cost-effectively

With over 8 million job listings worldwide, Simply Hired is the largest job search engine and recruitment advertising network. SimplyHired.com allows job seekers to search in one place for jobs on thousands of sites across the Web. Simply Hired offers a cost-effective solution that drives targeted applicants to your job posting.

Premium Placement gives your job maximum exposure and results by placing your jobs before free listings for a full 30 days on SimplyHired.com as well as on targeted sites in Simply Hired’s exclusive partner network. Simply Hired’s partner network consists of 25,000 sites, including LinkedIn, CNNMoney, The Washington Post, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, as well as niche sites and blogs such as Mashable, Girls in Tech, and Political Wire.

Candidates interested in your job apply directly to you, via JobFlo or your Applicant Tracking System.

Special Introductory Pricing

For the rest of May we’ll be offering the $175 Simply Hired Premium Placement to our customers for $99 – that’s $76 off of list price!

Get started by going to your Job Posting page on JobFlo and click the “Add Simply Hired” button for your open job position.

Filed Under: Company Updates, Feature Highlight, New Product Features

Introducing JobFlo Pro!

April 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment

We’re thrilled to announce the release of JobFlo Pro, along with a ton of new features to help you recruit faster and with less effort than ever before.  We want everyone to get a chance to try out all of the new capabilities of JobFlo Pro, so we’ve given all of our existing users a 30 day free trial of the new edition.  At the end of the free trial you can subscribe to JobFlo Pro, at an introductory price of $39/month, or continue to use the free JobFlo Lite edition.

What’s New in JobFlo Pro

Resume Center

The new Resume Center let’s you organize all of your candidate resumes in a single place, using your own Box.com account.  Box is the leader in secure, reliable cloud-based file storage and collaboration.  We’ve partnered with Box and built the new JobFlo Resume Center on top of Box’s enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Just sign up for a free Box account if you’re not already a user, go to the JobFlo Resume Center, and link your JobFlo and Box accounts.

Here are some of the awesome features you get with the JobFlo Resume Center:

  • Resume storage in the cloud – no more worries about backup
  • Full-text search – leverage your existing resume archive to find qualified candidates
  • Automatic copying of new applicant’s resumes to your Box.com account by JobFlo
  • Access resumes from your iPhone, iPad or Android device by downloading the free Box mobile applications
  • Easy sharing – send a link of any resume to your colleagues and clients

More Options for your Applicants

Attract more high-quality, passive candidates who may not have resumes ready. Job positions powered by JobFlo now give applicants the option to Apply with LinkedIn.  You get a PDF of their LinkedIn profile in your JobFlo Smart Inbox.

Applicants can now use JobFlo to ask for references, further helping you streamline your recruiting process to find the most qualified candidates.

The Smart Inbox Just got Smarter

Rate candidates in your Smart Inbox with a single click to better manage your applicant flow.  And you can now send templated emails to your candidates – customize our starter templates or create your own.  JobFlo keeps track of every templated email you send out – look at the new Contact History section.

Analytics

When you visit the new Analytics tab you’ll see a variety of graphics that give you better insight into your recruiting pipeline.

See which job boards are working best for your positions.  This is just the start, and expect more analytics on the way soon.

 

JobFlo Connect

Most small companies lack dedicated in-house staff for their recruiting efforts.  When they do need recruiting help they often don’t know where to start.

JobFlo Connect is a new online marketplace that links companies who need help recruiting with qualified recruiting professionals.

There’s More!

There’s too much to cover in a single blog posting, so we’ll be publishing follow-up posts over the next couple of weeks to help you learn how to get the most out of JobFlo Pro.

Filed Under: Company Updates, New Product Features

Understand where your applicants come from: Custom tags

January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Understanding where your applicants come from can help you better decide how to focus your recruiting efforts and dollars. JobFlo has implemented a new feature on your Job Posting page that allows you to create custom tags for your job postings. These custom tagged job postings can then be sent to different online resources like job boards or social networks.

You can create as many different custom labels as you wish. In each instance the applicant information and resume/cover letter will be directed to your Smart Inbox – for that specific job. The custom tag will show exactly where the applicant found the job posting.

Read more about the How and Why of custom tags.

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Get more and better job applicants: ZIP codes

January 11, 2012 By Leave a Comment

A good job posting contains details that help prospective employees understand if they are qualified. Clearly stated requirements of education, technical knowledge and experience help define the job and encourage applicants.

Unless the job is performed strictly through telecommuting, applicants will always need to know where the job is located. Job seekers first search by title and location. When those criteria match, they look at the other requirements.

JobFlo has changed the way ZIP codes are used in describing your job location. As long as you enter the ZIP code when setting up the job, the location will be displayed as “Location: City, State” – right under the job title.

If you do not enter the ZIP during the setup process, your default ZIP (your company’s home office ZIP) will be displayed.

In the examples above, the job itself is located in Parkersburg, WV, while the home office is located in Mountain View, CA. Which of these postings do you think will get you better applicants?

For more information about setting up a job posting in JobFlo, see steps 3-7 of our JobFlo Quick Start Guide.

Filed Under: New Product Features