JobRainbow.com - Employer Help

You can post jobs only when you have a posting plan. You must activate a free posting plan before you can post any jobs. Before your plan can be activated, we will have to check out your company to make sure it is a legitimate employer or recruiter.

To post a job, log in to your account and click on Post Ads or Post New Job Ads. You will see the Job Submission form. Just fill it out and then click on Post the Job Now if you don't need to check how it looks or View the Job First Before Posting if you do want to see it first. After viewing the job, you can edit it again to make changes by clicking on Edit Job.

To see what your job ad looks like to job seekers, log in to your account and click on Job management - view and work with your current jobs. This will take you to your Job Management page. Click on View under the job you want to see as a job seeker would see it. When you view the job, you will also be able to see the statistics on the job - i.e., how many times job seekers have seen it.

You can make changes to any of your jobs on JobRainbow.com. Log in to your account and click on Job management - view and work with your current jobs. This will take you to your Job Management page. You will see a table of the current jobs you have running on the website. Click on the Edit button under the job you want to edit - a form will come up with all the current information in it. Change the relevant information and then click on Click here to submit this ad.

Updating a job is different from editing a job. When you edit a job, you make changes. When you update, all you do is put today's date on the job so that job seekers will see that you are still actively seeking a candidate.

Job seekers are generally more eager to apply for jobs with a more recent posting date. Also, the jobs are generally sorted by date - so the jobs with the most recent date go higher on the page. This makes your job more visible to job seekers.

Updating a job will also reset the date that the job will expire to 35 days from the current date.

Jobs can only be updated every 14 days. If you try to update a job and it was edited or updated less than 14 days ago, the date will remain the same.To update a job, log in to your account and click on Job management - view and work with your current jobs. This will take you to your Job Management page. You will see a table of the current jobs you have running on the website. Click on the Update button under the job you want to update. If the job is less than 14 days old, you will get a message telling you the job cannot be updated yet. If the job is 14 or more days old, it will be updated and the Date Posted changed to the current date.

If you have not been updating your jobs on the site, they will get close to their expiration date and you will receive an email asking you to renew them. If you do not want to renew the job, do nothing - the job will automatically expire and be removed from the website in 2 days. If you do want to continue the job, click on the link in the email or renew the job through your account. To do that, log in to your account and click on Job management - view and work with your current jobs. This will take you to your Job Management page. You will see a table of the current jobs you have running on the website. Depending on when the expiration date is, the job will be visible in either the Current Jobs table or the Jobs you can renew table. You can renew the job by clicking on Update in the Current Jobs table or by clicking on Renew in the Jobs you can renew table.

To replace a job, log in to your account and click on Job management - view and work with your current jobs. This will take you to your Job Management page. You will see a table of the current jobs you have running on the website. Click on the Replace button under the job you want to replace.  You will see a confirmation page first, then you will be taken to the job submission form.

To delete a job, log in to your account and click on Job management - view and work with your current jobs. This will take you to your Job Management page. You will see a table of the current jobs you have running on the website. Click on the Delete button under the job you want to delete. A page will come up to confirm that you really do want to delete the job. After you confirm the deletion, the job will be removed from the website and will not be available to candidates. However, the job will be kept in your Old Job Box in case you want to repost it later.

If you delete a job or it expires, it is not lost forever. All deleted and expired jobs go into your Old Job Box. From there, you can repost your jobs. In your account page, click on Repost old job ads. This will take you to your Old Job Box. You will see a list of all your old jobs. You can view the job as job seekers would see it by clicking on the View button, or repost it with the Post button. If you want to permanently delete the job, click on the Delete button. Please remember that once you delete a job from your Old Job Box, it will no longer be available for reposting.

You can see how many times your job has been viewed by job seekers in the last 3, 7, 14, 30, or 60 days. Log in to your account, then click on Job management - view and work with your current jobs. This will take you to your Job Management page. You will see a list of your current jobs. Click on the View button under the job you are interested in. You will then see the job ad as candidates would see it, except that there is a table at the top of the page with the statistics in it (job seekers would not see this).

All the jobs on JobRainbow.com are part of posting plans. When you first open an account with us and want to post ads and/or search resumes, you must activate a free posting plan. Before we approve the activation of your plan, we will have to check out your company to be sure it is a legitimate employer or recruiter. Once the plan is approved, you will be able to post up to 500 jobs and do unlimited  resume searches. The plan has an expiration date of 10 years from the time it is activated.

Log in to your account, then click on Search Resumes. You will be taken to the main resume search page.

You do not have to fill in something in all the fields. If you only want to search by keyword without specifying a location or citizenship or years of experience, you can do that. If you only want to see all the candidates listed in a certain State, you can do that. If you only want to see all the candidates with a Bachelors' degree who are US Citizens, you can do that.

• Keywords - enter the keywords or a phrase you would like to search for. In the drop-down box, select Any Keywords, All Keywords or Exact Phrase.
  • If you select Any Keywords, the search will find all resumes with any of keywords in them. For example, if you searched for cost accountant, all resumes with cost and all resumes with accountant in them would be found, even if both words were not in the resume.
  • If you select All Keywords, the search will find all resumes with both cost and accountant in them - both words must be in the resume.
  • If you select Exact Phrase, cost accountant must be found in that exact order. The search would not find cost analyst / accountant or accountant with cost experience.
• Candidate location & citizenship
  • Country: If you select Any Country, all candidates from all countries will be shown. This is the default setting. Otherwise, select USA only, USA and Canada, or Canada Only.
  • Area code: enter the area code where you want to search for candidates. Please remember that many candidates do not give their phone numbers, or enter their phone numbers incorrectly, or make their resumes confidential. In all these situations, searching by area code will not find the candidate.
  • State: you can choose up to 4 by clicking while holding down the Control key. If you don't choose any State, candidates from all States will be found.
  • City: enter the name of the city. Please note that only exact matches will be found. For example, if the candidate entered Oakland as the city and you enter San Francisco, the search will not find that candidate.
• Candidate Qualifications
  • Type of degree: You can select up to 4 degree types by clicking while holding down the Control key. For instance, if you want someone with either a Bachelors' or Masters' degree, select both of these in the list.
  • Date on resume: you can choose to only view resumes submitted or updated within a certain time period. The default is 90 days. However, we keep the resumes for 365 days - so if you select "All resumes" you will see all the resumes back to 365 days ago. You can also choose to only view the resumes submitted or updated in the last 24 hours, 3 days, etc.
• A couple of things to remember about searching:
  1. Remember that candidates do not always use the keywords you are looking for when they input their resumes. For instance, your job title might be cost accountant. However, not all the candidates with significant experience in cost accounting would necessarily have the phrase cost accountant in their resumes. They might have a phrase like experienced accountant with great cost background or Cost Analysis and Accounting with MBA. If you searched for cost accountant as an exact phrase in the first instance, you would not find these resumes. If you searched for accountant as a keyword you would not find the second one. So you need to put yourself in the candidate's shoes and imagine what wording they might have used in the resume.
  2. Candidates often make mistakes when they input their resumes and this can impact your search. For instance, they might misspell the name of the city they live in. If they input Atlnta and you are searching for Atlanta the resume will not be found.

There are 2 ways to save resumes for future reference: you can save them in your account on JobRainbow.com or you can save them on your own computer.

• Saving a resume in your account on JobRainbow.com - at the top or bottom of the resume, click on Save this resume. The resume will be stored or saved on your Stored Resume Page. You can store as many resumes as you want to. However, please remember that these resumes will only be available to you if the resume stays in the resume database. If the resume expires or the candidate deletes it from the database, it will no longer appear in your list of stored resumes.
• Saving a resume on your own computer - there are several ways to do this, but let's look at a couple:
  1. You can save the resume as an HTML file on your computer. In your browser, click on File, then Save As, then assign a name to the file and select the folder where you want to save it.
  2. You can save the resume as an MS Word document. Select the entire resume by doing Control-A (hold down the Control key then press A). This will select the entire resume in your browser. Then do Control-C. This will copy the resume to the clipboard on your computer. Then transfer to MS Word, open a new file and do Control-V. This will paste the resume into the new file in MS Word. Then save the file in MS Word as you normally would - click on File, then Save, then assign a name and folder to the file.

We always stress that it is very important for customers to place job ads and not just rely on searching resumes in the database. This is because only a minority (about 1 in 7) of the candidates visiting JobRainbow.com put their resumes in the database. Experienced candidates in particular are often less likely to add their resumes to online databases because of concerns about confidentiality and because they are not working that hard at finding a job. They probably already have a good job and may just be browsing on the Internet looking to see what's "out there." These are often the passive candidates you want to access, and you may not access them through the resume database. It is a bit time-consuming to post jobs and manage them, but our experience is that you have a much better chance of getting results that way.