MembershipWorks is proud to announce our new Job Board plugin for Weebly. Many organizations pick Weebly because they appreciate how easy it is to use. But it doesn’t always offer all the features you need. That’s where the MembershipWorks job board comes in. You can easily add a job bank to your Weebly website — all without any code knowledge.
Why do You Need a Weebly Job Board?
Adding a job board to your Weebly site can help your organization become a hub for career opportunities. An online job bank can take the place of in person career fairs or other events that many networking groups used to hold. Many types of organizations — especially associations — publish a career page for their members. How a job board can improve your organization:
- Earn money by charging employers to post jobs. Employers are looking for more opportunities to reach candidates. If your members are highly skilled, employers would appreciate the ability to promote jobs with them.
- An organization with a job board is more likely to retain members. A job lead can impact a member in a big way.
- If you have been manually posting jobs, an automation tool like the MembershipWorks job board enables employers to add, edit, and remove listings themselves.
- Having a job bank that is tied to a Weebly membership plugin enables additional revenue streams such as requiring membership to view or post jobs.
Weebly Job Board Features
There is not a huge list of job board apps that work with Weebly. The ones that are available are not all built alike, so it’s a good idea to create a list of “must have” features versus “nice to have” features. Read on to learn more about the MembershipWorks Job Board for Weebly.
Easily customizable
Although the job board is pre-built with common job-related fields, administrators can easily add and remove fields. Admins can also create tags to customize the job board to the industries they are targeting. For example, a chamber of commerce website may seek tags related to the specific types of employers that are present in their region.
Mobile responsive
It’s critical that a job bank is viewable on smaller devices that most website visitors will be using. MembershipWorks job bank for Weebly scales to the size of the device being used. The employer dashboard, job listings, and the administrative interface can each be viewed on a full range of screen sizes.
Coding skills not required
Adding a jobs board shouldn’t require hiring a programmer, and thankfully MembershipWorks provides snippets for easy installation. You will need at least three pages on your site dedicated to your job bank. The snippets will generate the content for these pages:
- Listings page
- Employer job bank submission form
- Listings management page with login
What Makes a Weebly Jobs Board Special?
Some job boards only offer job board-related features, but MembershipWorks’ job board also provides a built-in membership software for Weebly. This seamless integration with membership management features allows the job board to generate non-dues revenue and creates additional value for organizations that already have members. See what a job board on Weebly looks like.
Create an apply link to direct website users to the page that collects resumes or CVs
With the MembershipWorks job board for Weebly, you’ll automatically have a field for employers to enter job application links. If an employer doesn’t provide a link, the employer should be sure to include information in the job description as to how and where to apply and upload resumes.
Showcase job postings in the best way
Detailed job descriptions are more likely to get applicants than job listings that are shorter. Admins can take advantage of the default job posting fields or they can add additional fields to get further information from employers for more thorough listings. Including fields that ask for details like whether a degree or certain education is required helps candidates make a better decision about an opportunity. Most employers will have a summary block of information that they can copy and paste into the form to tell more about the job or their company, so it’s typically not a lot of extra work for them to share additional details.
Add as many job openings as you wish
Having a number of job listings attracts prospective employees looking for job leads as well as companies who seek to post employment opportunities. With this in mind, it may be a good idea to allow employers to list jobs at no charge initially. This way employers see that it is worth their investment if you start charging for listings later. Start promoting your job board to employers first. You can allow them unlimited free listings for a given time period and then begin charging for listings at some point. Your second promotional effort should be to prospective job applicants so that you create viewers for the job listings.
Describe the job thoroughly and disclose salary, job title, and required skills
Employers should be encouraged to fill in as much information as possible about their job postings. The MembershipWorks job board includes fields for salary range, job title, requirements, and more by default. Including this information in their job board posts helps both the employer and candidates save time by discouraging unqualified applicants or those with higher salary demands. It also doesn’t hurt to include information about company culture in the job description. For example, some candidates may not be looking for a “highly competitive sales environment” while others may thrive in that scenario.
Leave contact information including name of your company, department, and location
Human resources sometimes forgets to disclose important information when searching for new hires. They might list their corporate headquarters location in their job postings, but may neglect to mention that the positions they are hiring for are actually in a field office or are remote. Including the company name and department helps a candidate do more research before applying or attending an interview. Job board admins can make these fields required to increase the accuracy and value of the listings.
How to Add a Job Board to my Weebly Web Page?
Adding a job board to a Weebly website with the MembershipWorks plugin is simple. It’s ready to go “out of the box,” but you can customize it to your organization’s needs if you wish. Note that the job board plugin does not work with Weebly + Square Store sites. The steps involved are:
- Set up an account with MembershipWorks.
- Enter your payment gateway information in MembershipWorks > Organization Settings if you plan to collect funds online (this step is needed if you are taking payments for job listings and/or memberships).
- Optionally create membership levels (set prices, set billing options, system emails, etc.) in Labels & Membership and add the membership sign-up snippet to a page on your site. This step is applicable if you are requiring membership to view or post job board listings.
- Create a job board under Jobs/Other Boards.
- Add the job bank snippets to the three pages on your site (snippets can be found under your job board’s Dashboard within the Embed tab).
- Add a member manage account snippet to another page if you require membership to access the job board. Members will be able to login and use this page to manage their membership and edit their profile.
You can optionally customize the job board plugin by adding, editing, and removing fields. Admins can also create tags to classify jobs. Finally, you can edit the system emails that are sent instead of using the default messages.
Weebly Job Board Plugin
As Weebly doesn’t have a job board feature, using a job board plugin is a good workaround to add this functionality to your website. Not all job board plugins are created equal, so research the features that each plugin offers. A great job-board solution includes:
- Listings management – Employers may want to go back to edit or remove their listings without asking administration to take care of it.
- Job categorization – Job hunters appreciate categorized job listings so that they don’t have to scroll through all of the listings to find the ones that interest them. For example, you could categorize jobs by: industry, location, job title, or other factors.
- Monetization – Make money either by charging employers a listing fee and/or by restricting the ability to see listings to only paid members. Consider the downsides with both choices; you may have less job postings or fewer eyeballs on your job listings.
- Field customization – While it’s nice to have a job bank that’s ready to go “out of the box,” some organizations will want to be able to add fields that pertain to their industry.
- Admin screening – To maintain high quality listings on your board, you can enable an approval process where admins screen listings before they are posted. Admins should be able to add, edit, and remove listings.
- Stats for employers – Recruiters love being able to see how many views and clicks their listings have.
- Automatic expiration – Job applicants can feel discouraged from applying when they see old listings. To avoid this, admins can set job posts to automatically expire after a certain number of days.
- Accounting system integration – With MembershipWorks you can export transactions related to the job bank to Quickbooks or Xero.
- Card on file payment – Employers who are frequent job bank posters will save time with the ability to charge their card on file for each job listing (this feature is only available for organizations using Stripe or Authorize.net as their payment gateway). This ease of use may encourage them to post jobs more often.
- Design – Look for job boards with the ability to have a responsive design on Weebly. See a sample Weebly job board.
- Support – Often plugins do not come with support, or when support is available it can take an extended period of time to get an answer. The MembershipWorks Job Board plugin offers unlimited free support by phone, email, and live screen share training.
- Stability and security – When you use a plugin like MembershipWorks, your job bank data is safely stored and managed for you. This can give you more peace of mind, especially if the job bank is a mission-critical source of revenue or an important member benefit.
- Secondary admins – The primary admin can decide to grant access to the back end of the job board to additional administrators. This can help delegate tasks like job board post approval. These secondary admins can have more restricted access to only see parts of the system without having access to other controls or to be able to edit other parts of the website.
See the full list of features.
Weebly Job Board Frequently Asked Questions
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