Jobsketing

Hi all. What a release. You’ll be asking yourself, is this an update release or a brand new Jobsket?

We have a new release of Jobsket packed with new features. Once again most of these features in this release were
asked by yourselves from our feedback page, something we are really grateful for.

The most important change we have implemented is the new CV viewer. We have updated the look and feel of the CV viewer. It has also been upgraded to include several features that the previous one was missing. For example you can now use the mouse-wheel to scroll up and down, you can view any CV in full-screen mode or you can use the new search text field to find any word on the CV.

That is not the only change. Now you can also use the new “send as email” feature to send an email from Jobsket with your CV attached to it. You will find an icon with an envelope in the new viewer’s toolbar. If you click on that icon you will be redirected to a new screen from which you can create an email and send it to any person. You just have to create the email, and we will take care of sending the email with the CV as an attachment on it. It is that easy. So, now you can send your CV from Jobsket to anyone at any time.

With the new viewer we have also improved the different ways you can promote your CV. Until now the only way to promote your CV was embedding a thumbnail of your CV in your web page. But now you will be able to embed the whole CV in your blog or web page and you also will be able to customize its dimensions. If you find the thumbnail or the new embedable viewer too big for your page you can also use one of our new promotional icons. You can access all these features and start promoting your CV from the Embed your CV page.

More stuff. There is no doubt we are in the social networking age. So what better than publishing your CV in your favorite social networks to promote yourself. You can do it now from Jobsket just clicking on the Share your CV link at your profile page and a new dialog will pop up allowing you to publish your CV in social networking sites like Facebook or Linkedin or to bookmark it at applications like Twitter, Delicious, Digg, FriendFeed, etc.

And talking about social relationships. Another feature we’ve added is the possibility of getting recommendations from other users. So now if you know your friends you can ask them to give you a recommendation and you can also give recommendations to other users. To give a recommendation you only have to visit a CV and click on the Recommend link on the CV actions menu. The more recommendations you have, the more attractive your CV can be to a recruiter. Recruiters will be able to see your recommendations and get a feeling of the work you’ve been done. So we encourage you to start giving and getting recommendations from your contacts!

Another nice feature we are bringing you today is Xing support. Until now you could import your CV from your Linkedin profile. From now on you will be able to do the same with your Xing profile. So, no excuses! If you haven’t got a CV but you have a Xing profile, you can now go to our hResume upload page and import your CV.

We’ve also done some updates to our notifications system. Up to now we’ve been sending you emails with job offers that exceed the estimated value of your CV. To allow more flexibility in these emails we have updated the configuration in such way that you can now define a range of salaries for which you want to receive job offer alerts. You can define your salary range at the alerts configuration page.

Finally, another important change we’ve done is that now you will be able to get a live stream of all the activity of your contacts. Has your friend updated his CV? Has he added a new connection that you both know about? You will find this kind of information and much more. Go to the page with your contacts activity and check it out.

We’ve also fixed many issues that have been popping up and that you have told us about. We also want to thank you for all the tags suggestions that you guys have been sending. All this stuff helps us to improve Jobsket and we’d like to encourage you to keep sending us precious feedback.

We hope you’ll like this new release!