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Friday, May 09, 2008

Job Posting at Outdoor Ed

"Outdoor Ed continues to be our #1 online resource for generating qualified job applicants. Thank you for making it easy to match the right people with the right job! For a seasonal business like ours this website is one of our best assets. Keep up the good work!"

Erik Schorr
Anacortes Kayak Tours

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If you already have a profile just purchase your Annual Company Profile Renewal and get a year of free job postings. If you don't have a Company Profile yet, purchase one at the Outdoor Ed Store and starting posting!

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new New Feature - Apply Online Beta!

  • Just like GOOGLE we ramp out new features as fast as we can build them. Try out our new Apply Online Feature. If you check the Apply Online button on your Job Posting, you create a button on your Job page that allows a prospective applicant to email their formatted resume directly to you! You get an immediate response to your posting while it's fresh in the mind of prospective staff. Our HTML formatted email means not having to worry about opening an attached Word document from someone you don't know. It's the fastest way to go from your online posting to new staff hires.
  • To to upgrade your current postings to Apply Online go in to Edit your Postings and check the Apply Online box. (You must already have a direct Job Email address in your posting for this to work. If you don't, go into the Edit Details page and add a Job Email.)
  • new Changes to Job Starting Date and Application Closing Date for Jobs: To give you more flexibility in your Job Description we've changed these fields to text instead of dates. Now you can list either a specific date for the Job Start or add your own descriptive text like "When filled."

Add it all up and you'll see why Outdoor Ed's advanced features make it the best site for advertising your jobs and finding your staff.

  • Advanced Job Listing Criteria: Outdoor Ed offers the most detailed job listing criteria. You can define your position in detail including job type, location, job categories, job activities, and populations worked with.
  • Professional Looking Job Display: How your job is displayed says as much about you as it does about us so we take our Web Site Features & Design seriously. We ensure that your job listing is presented in an attractive and easy to read (and print) format unlike some other sites. We even include a rich text editor with spell checking so that you can format a professional presentation for the Web. Cut and paste directly from Word and maintain most formatting.


  • Displays Properly on All Modern Browsers: Unlike some other sites, our site displays your job properly and complelely in all modern browsers. Don't lose potential staff by disappearing off someone else's page.
  • Your Job is Center Stage: Other job sites clump the job search results into one page forcing the user to scroll down through everyone else's listings. Web research shows that users quickly tire of single long Web pages and move on, that means your listing may not get seen. At Outdoor Ed we present easy to scan search results with links to take job seekers directly to the detail page for each job position you post so that you are not competing for visibility. Users are more likely to see and read your posting.
  • Quick Searching: Job Searchers want to get to information quickly and easily. Our fast and intuitive search page helps people find just what they are looking for, your company. Our advanced job search algorithm offers more search criteria for your position than any other experiential job site.
  • Job Stats: We record each time someone views your job posting detail so you can track how many times your job has been viewed since the posting date!
  • Jobs Newsletter: Job Seekers can subscribe to our weekly Job Posting Newsletter, another way to get your information out to prospective staff. Check out the online version to see how we continually get your jobs out to prospective staff.
  • RSS Job Feeds: Users can subscribe to our RSS New Jobs Feed updated daily giving you another way for your message to be syndicated across the Web. RSS 2.0 Feed (Click the icon to view if your browser supports RSS)
  • Other Jobs from Your Company: If you have multiple job listings and a job seeker finds one, they can immediately click to see any other positions you have. Outdoor Ed is the only site that provides this service.
  • Easy Posting: Posting a position is easy. Once you have entered a company profile you log in and can enter the details of multiple jobs. Job Postings are active for 60 days and can be renewed easily. If you job fills early you can easily remove it from the visible listing but still keep it in the Jobs database for up to a year to reactivate at any time.
  • Room to Say What you Need to Say: Don't get caught up by the text limits on some job newsletters or sites. With the range of fields and the large size of our database you can describe your job in a detailed way that attracts future staff.
  • Printing Job Postings: On other sites it is difficult to print your job posting. Users can't print up a single job posting that is clumped on one page with lots of other postings. At Outdoor Ed the Job Details page provides a Printer Friendly version of your page so that users can easily print out your job listing.
  • Immediate Access to your Site: From the Job Details page users can jump to a page with your company details, send email directly to your company, and jump directly to your Web site for more information.
  • Detailed Company Profile: Your company profile page allows you to store more detailed information about your company or organization than other sites. Users can search based on type of company, categories, activities offered, and populations worked with. The separate searchable company database allows people to locate companies they are interested in working for.
  • Send to a Friend Service: All the pages at Outdoor Ed including Job Detail listings and company listings use our 'Send to a Friend' service. Users can email the complete link for your Job Detail or company profile to someone they think would be interested to spread the word to other people. The recipient can click on the link in the email message and go directly to your job posting. Try it by clicking on the Send to Friend link below and email this page to a friend or back to yourself.
  • Email Protection: Like everyone else we hate spammers so we encode your email address on the Web page so it can't be harvested by spambots. People can still email you, but robots won't be sending you Texas Poker emails.

Outdoor Ed offers the most advanced services for getting your job postings out to potential employees.