Job Posting
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As a member of the Online Community, you may use the Job Posting service as a place to advertise job openings at your business. If you are looking for a job, you may come here to search through the database of job postings.
This starting page offers two ways to begin. If you are ready to add a new job posting, you may click on the Create a Job Posting link to bring up a form into which you may enter a new posting directly. If you wish to start by searching existing postings (your own or those posted by others), click the Search Job Postings link to display the Search menu. From either of these forms you may navigate to any other part of the Job Postings service. However, the Search menu is the best place to start in most cases.
If you wish to send a question or comment to the administrator of the Job Postings service of the Online Community, click the Feedback link at the bottom of the page. This will start up your email application (e.g., Netscape Mail or Microsoft Outlook) with the "To:" address already set to the administrator's email address, and with the "Subject:" preset with information which will help the administrator to identify the service to which you are responding. [Note: for best results, do not change the "To:" or "Subject:" settings.]
Enter your Feedback message and post it as
you would any other email message.
From this page you may access all Job Postings functions. Most of these functions require that you first search for and select a particular job posting.
To search for job postings, enter the criteria for the desired search and press the Search button at the bottom of the form. If you specify more than one search argument, the search will return only results which meet all of the criteria you specified. For example, if you select "Illinois" from the State/Province drop-down list, the search will return all postings for jobs located in Illinois. If you select "Illinois" and then enter "Accountant" in the Job Title field, the search will only return postings for Illinois where the job title is "Accountant". By selecting multiple search criteria, you refine your search and increase the probability that you will quickly find the postings you want and no others. Be as specific as you can be.
To return only postings you yourself have created, check the box labeled "Find my postings only." This can be combined with other search criteria to narrow the search if you have created a large number of job postings.
You may not be able to locate or view all job postings. The "Select Target Audience" function allows the poster of the job listing to target specific communities and/or geographical areas. If you are not in one of these communities or areas, you will not see the posting. See "Choose Target Audience," for more details.
The owner of a job posting is always able to search for and display it.
If you simply wish to create a new job
posting, scroll to the bottom of the Search form and click the
Create Job Posting link.
This page displays the results of a search in summary list form. To display a detailed view of any item in the list, click its Job Title. The Previous Page and Next Page buttons allow you to scroll through lists which are longer than a single page.
If you are not satisfied with the results of a search, or if you have finished viewing all the search results in the list and want to do a new search, click the New Search hyperlink at the very bottom of the page.
If you wish to create a new job posting,
scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Create Job Posting
link.
When you select a job title on the Job Posting Search Results page the Job Posting Detail page will be displayed.
This page displays the complete data for
one job posting. Most sections of the posting have
self-explanatory labels. Near the bottom, the email address and
home page URL (if present) are hyperlinks. If the email address
is clicked, your email application will start, with
"To:" address preset to the address shown. If the home
page URL is clicked, your browser will display the page
indicated, if it is found. To return to the Search Results page, click
the Back button of your browser. To execute a
fresh search, click the New Search hyperlink at the bottom
of the page. To respond electronically to the posted
job, click the Respond hyperlink below the posting. This
will cause the display of a form into which you may enter the
text of an email message expressing your interest in the job.
When submitted (see next section), this message will be sent to
the poster of the job. The "Update Job Posting" page is
in most respects identical to the "Create Job Posting"
page (see description above). The most obvious difference is that
when this page is first displayed, data for an existing posting
is shown rather than an empty form. Note also that two dates are
displayed. "Listing Date" is the date the posting was
created. "Expiration Date" is the date on which online
viewers (except for you, the owner) will no longer be able to
view the posting. If you start to update an existing posting
and then change your mind, you can restore the data to what it
was when you first displayed this "Update" page by
pressing the Reset Form button. A job posting may only be deleted by its owner and by first
displaying the posting, then clicking the Delete
hyperlink on the "Job Posting Detail" page. The posting
will not be redisplayed; instead, a new page will appear,
confirming that the posting has been deleted. This page permits you to respond online to
the individual who posted the job which you are viewing. You may
enter the text of your message in the large text area labeled
"Message:". Do not attempt to change the Subject: text,
as this tells the job poster to which job you are responding. The Submit button sends
your email response. The links at the bottom of the page take you
to the Create Job Posting page or the Search menu. To create a job posting, you must enter all
of the information that describes the job into this form.
Information identifying the prospective employer is optional. If
you wish to hide the identity of the prospective employer, check
the box labeled "Hide Company Information" at the top.
If you do so, the employer name, division name, email address,
and URL will be hidden from users who display this posting, even
if you have supplied it when creating the posting. A community
member who wishes to respond to the posting may still do so using
the Respond hyperlink on the Job Posting Detail
page (see above). It is important to use care in selecting
Job Type and Job Title, since these are the primary means by
which users will identify jobs of interest to them. Job Type may
be thought of as "Industry Sector". The Job Description text box is where you
should enter all of the textual description of the job's
responsibilities, the type of individual you are looking for, and
experience desired. Once you have created a job posting, you
need to decide which Online Community users will get to view it.
The Targeting page gives you the ability either to permit all
users to see your posting or to restrict its visibility to users
in selected Online Communities and/or geographic areas. For
example, if a requirement of the job is that the applicant must
live within the city limits of Philadelphia, PA, you may want to
target it to users whose current primary address is in
Philadelphia, PA. (Note: You may target more than one community
or geographic area by pressing the "Ctrl" key and
selecting the respective communities and/or areas.) By default, when the Targeting page is
first displayed for a new job posting, the check boxes for
"All communities" and "All geographic areas"
are preselected. If you press the Submit Targeting
Information button without making any changes, the
target audience for your posting will be all users in all
communities. If you wish to restrict the audience, go to the
desired list box and click on each target grouping you wish to
add. (When you click the first specific grouping, the
"All" check box will be automatically deselected.) You may select more than one item in any or
all of the list boxes. This allows you a great deal of
flexibility in selecting your target audience. For example, to
target a job posting to all users who either (a) belong to the
Ivy Halls College Community, (b) live in the state of Illinois or
Kentucky, or (c) live in the St. Louis, MO metropolitan area, you
would select the single entry "Ivy Halls College" from
the "Choose Communities" list, select both
"Illinois" and "Kentucky" from the
"States/Provinces" list, and select the single
metropolitan area "St. Louis, Missouri, United States"
from the "Metro" list. Since a given job may be of interest to job
seekers residing in a large number of different towns or suburbs
located in the same general area, the Targeting page allows
targeting by Metropolitan Area rather than by city. If the job
you are posting is located in a suburb of a major city, or in a
smaller nearby town or city (even across state lines), in most
cases you will achieve best results by targeting the metropolitan
area identified with the major city in question. For example, if
the job is in southern Connecticut, you should consider targeting
the New York City metropolitan area. Whereas a metropolitan area may include
parts of different states, a region (see the "Region"
list box) is a grouping of states, such as "Midwestern
United States."