Explain more about new JobTarget feature?

Oh yeah, and if we don’t want this functionality (though I think it sounds like it could be great!) can it be seamlessly disabled?

@mikeyarce — this is very helpful in understanding this feature better (and I definitely had some misconceptions about it, thinking it was a front-end option for users posting jobs), so thank you so much for the speedy and detailed reply, I really appreciate it.

Are there plans or ideas about the ability to promote a job being incorporated into the front-end for users posting jobs to decide on?

I can imagine that there are a lot of job board operators that would (1) want the decision to promote a job to be the posters (as the job board operator won’t automatically know if promotion is wanted or not by the poster), and there are probably a lot of job board operators that would (2) also want / need that extra expense for promotion (depending on how much the cost is, at least) to be paid by the poster as opposed to the job board operator.

Can the JobTarget options to have posts shared to other job boards be limited on the back-end?

Can you tell me more about what you mean by this?

This question was based on my misconception of it being a front-end option, so can be disregarded. Thanks!

• This reply was modified 10 months, 1 week ago by hastibe. Reason: Extra details on front-end question

@mikeyarce — Oh, and one other reason for a front-end integration is also that there are job board operators that would (3) need the extra work to promote a job to be handled by the poster (e.g. if a job board gets ~8 jobs a day, and it takes even just a minute to promote a job, that means an extra hour of work each week).

What you said about seeing how it’s received and what else comes up before planning next steps makes a lot of sense, though, and I’ll be curious to explore using it and to hear more about how it is working, etc. for other folks, as well!

@mikeyarce — a few more questions before we hopefully can try this feature out! On the documentation, it notes that you must complete registration for JobTarget “so JobTarget can contact you when needed,” and then highlights the following:

Important! Ensure your email is correct! Your email address will be your JobTarget ID, so it can’t be changed once added to the system. 

Some questions about this, just to make sure I understand:

• Is the email address we use made publicly accessible in any way by how JobTarget uses it?
• What is the implication of an email address being our JobTarget ID? And what is a JobTarget ID? Is it just the term JobTarget uses to register and identify accounts in their system, or something else?
• Despite best intentions, sometimes the email address that some of us used in this first step will need to be changed, though, right, so what options are there in this case?

@mikeyarce — the documentation also notes the following:

You can also provide a Contact Email specific to this job to receive applications from candidates and for job seekers to contact you for information about the job. This is helpful in order to be able to attribute job applicants to a promotion. If no email is provided, the Site contact will be used instead.

For context for the question below, on our regional job board, we are using a custom textbox field for the details on how to apply for the job listing, where the various employers who submit the job listings to our board will provide a link to a form (on their own website or applicant tracking system) and/or provide an email address to which to send the specified details (typically a cover letter and resume, though it varies), among other details (like the application deadline, etc.).

If possible, we’d like job seekers on other job boards who are viewing a job that we promoted to be redirected to the job listing on our job board to see the application details and complete the application process–is this possible (and, if so, should we provide no email address when promoting a job listing, or would that mean that these job seekers will see the email address that we provided as the JobTarget ID or some other “Site contact” email address)?

Thanks in advance for your help in clarifying all these questions–it is highly appreciated!