It matters to many employers to see what the candidate submitted originally (in addition to her Proven profile). How did she organize her resume? Is the information clearly laid out?
Making the original submission available also gives the candidate the best shot at getting her skills and personality across to the employer.
For these reasons, we have now made it possible for employers to toggle back and forth between the candidate’s profile and their original submission.
As always, we love to hear your feedback on how to make our product even more useful at support@proven.com.
Our customers tell us that they often go through resumes and then they come across a name that feels familiar. Of course, they have seen hundreds if not thousands of resumes over the past six months…but has this particular person applied to their company before?
Now Proven.com gives you an easy way to find out. If a candidate has applied to your company previously, we show you when it was, for what position, and what the outcome was that time.
This way we help you close the loop on that nagging feeling and give you a great chance to re-engage with candidates whom you have seen before.
At Proven.com, we are passionate about helping candidates showcase themselves in the best possible light. In an ideal world, local businesses would spend a long time looking at every candidate’s qualifications, but the reality is that owners and managers have very busy lives and often have to make initial decisions with limited information.
This is where confirming your references and claiming badges for your profile can help.
When an employer sees confirmed references and badges that validate candidates’ skills, this can often improve the legitimacy of the candidate in the employer’s eyes. Then, later, they can learn more about your experience in more depth.
So log into your profile today and get your references confirmed and claim your badges today.
Please submit new ideas for badges to support@proven.com
We are constantly trying to make our customers lives easier and make a better hiring experience. One of the problems with posting to different job board services is that unless you get a lot of candidates or find someone you want to hire, it’s difficult to know what you’re getting for your money. Is anyone even reading your job post? Are your requirements too specific and they are scaring off potential applicants? Did you post on the best day to maximize your views?
Jobs on job boards that are chronological typically see a substantial drop in views after the first 12 to 24 hours. To help our customers monitor the visibility of their jobs, we’ve released a graphical statistics view displaying how many views their job is receiving on 3rd party job boards, on Proven.com and how many applicants have submitted each day during the lifetime of the job.
We hope that these stats will help customers determine whether they need to tweak their job post descriptions, titles or possibly re-post on a different day.
We collect a lot of data about your job postings. Is there other information you would like to see?
Our customers love their businesses. By and large, we hear local business owners and managers talk about their company culture with passion and pride.
We love helping our customers, such as One Market Restaurant and the Lark Creek Group of Restaurants, represent what it’s like to work at their establishments. Here is another example from Wayfare Tavern.
Each local business is unique. We help you create a beautiful page to showcase what YOUR business is all about. Create yours today here.
How do you like to showcase your culture?
We are proud to work with Aneesh Chopra, the CTO of America and the White House to help get returning veterans jobs.
Today we met with Aneesh, Dr. Jill Biden (wife of VP Joe Biden) and a great group of entrepreneurs dedicated to connecting veterans with jobs.
We are excited to support blue button funcionality in our Veterans Page.
We will also soon enable employers to tag jobs when they have a preference to hire a veteran, so that the job may be included in the Veterans Job Bank.
To our veterans, thank you for serving.
To our customers, let’s hire more veterans!
Coffee is for recruiters….or closers as Alec Baldwin’s character in Glengarry Glen Ross would remind us.
If you are a small business, you cannot afford to not be recruiting.
Why is this?
Ask yourself what would happen if two of your employees in the same function quit at the same time.
Ask yourself what would happen if your main lieutenant decides to move across the state.
Larger companies have a lot more leeway in this respect, but if you are operating a small or medium-sized local business, the stakes are much higher.
Virtually every business owner and manager we speak to aspires to Always Be Recruiting…but the truth is that few of them actually do.
At Proven.com, we make it easy to ABR, with passive job posts you can always show on your recruitment page.
How do you do make sure you have an ABR mindset?
We are excited to announce that you can now share the jobs you post with Proven.com on Twitter and Facebook.
We built this feature after some great feedback from our customers.
As social media becomes more important for small businesses, an obvious next step is to use social media audiences as part of a solid recruitment strategy.
We would love to hear your feedback, and as always, keep the great ideas coming!
We love spending time with our customers in their environment. We learn a lot about them and get to breathe in their air and feel their challenges firsthand.
In talking with a restauranteur yesterday, she shared with me that she likes to post jobs on Sundays and sometimes Mondays. This is because many restaurant employees have Monday off, and that is the day when they are most likely to look for a job.
This can vary by industry, and a few different studies have shown that Wednesday is the best day to post jobs.
When do you like to post jobs and why?
Technology continues to advance at an amazing pace, and hiring is no exception.
That said, we often find that our customers like the feel of a paper resume, especially when it comes to interviewing candidates.
Do you think paper resumes will ever go away?
We love to help local businesses hire. Over time, we have noticed some interesting patterns regarding when people log in to look at candidates.
Our customers are busy owners and hiring managers of local businesses, and they have very little time to go through the process of sorting out applicants to their jobs.
This may be why we see a majority of our customers logging in after-hours and on weekends to quickly go through candidates when they have fewer competing tasks.
What time do you like to go through your candidates?
Local hiring is tough, and most business owners and managers dread it.
One of the biggest challenges is that local businesses get flooded with dozens, if not hundreds of responses.
The task of going through these responses is daunting, and many hiring managers put it off for as long as possible.
When we talk to customers, we often hear them talk about how they don’t like to go through a high number of resumes.
However, when we narrow choices for them, they claim that they want to see everyone just to see if someone good “slipped through the cracks.”
A lot of this is human nature…we want to make sure we are not “missing out” on anything.
We are continuing to learn more about each one of our customers to help them make good hiring choices.
How would you like to see your candidates narrowed and presented?
We have one goal: to help local businesses connect with the right employees. We will share with you our insights and welcome your comments.
Thanks for reading,
Pablo and Sean
Proven.com Co-Founders
