We’ve made some changes….
I run Remote Circle — a job board for jobs you can do at home — filtered by your timezone
Since launching RC around 2 months ago, we’ve received a ton of feedback via our feedback widget and have made several tweaks along the way based on what our users do and don’t like. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this feedback has been incredibly useful to us and we’re really grateful to all those users who have taken the time to complete it as it has resulted in an all-round better product. We hope to continue building RC in this same vein and continuously improve the site with small incremental changes.
But today is not about small changes. Today we’re releasing several new(fairly big) features. These are:
- Company dashboards
- Keyword search
- Company search
- Auto-removal of expired jobs
- Improvements to timezone feature
The biggest change is our new “Company dashboards” feature. Previously, companies had to add each job individually and had no control over it from that point. They would need to contact us to request any changes to be made. From today, companies can now create accounts where they can add, edit and remove jobs at their own convenience. They can also update their own basic company information such as company name, logo etc. This has been a highly requested feature from many of the companies we work with who want more control over their job listings.
We’re also releasing 2 new updates to our search filters. The first is “Keyword search”. This is a free-text search field which allows you to enter any skill e.g. social media, SEO, HTML, Javascript etc. and it will return all jobs that mention this skill……but we all know how search works so I don’t need to explain this one any further.
The second filter is the new “Company search” filter. This is an auto-suggesting field that allows you to filter jobs by company. Let’s say you only want to view jobs from Shopify. Add “Shopify” in here and you’ll see all the current roles from Shopify only. Simple.
We’ve also made improvements to our jobs process which means that jobs with broken links will now be removed from public view automatically each day. The company who posted these jobs will still have access to the job to allow them to update the details and add a new link etc. This feature is pretty minor but it’s really important because if we have a load of expired jobs, we are no good to anyone. It’s all about relevancy.
On top of these changes, we’ve also made some usability improvements. These include quicker access for new beta users, timezone popup only showing up once and a little note at the end of the job listings to let you know there are no more results….to name a few.
We’ve also just uploaded a lot more jobs from many new companies we are working with. From now on, we plan to be adding new jobs most days to keep the opportunities flowing.
Some big changes. Some tiny changes. To us, whether it’s a big change or a small change, it doesn’t really matter. It’s all about making the experience better. Our mission has always been “To simplify remote hiring for companies and candidates” and that remains our primary goal. Finding remote staff is still a time consuming task and finding a remote job is no different, but we want to change this by democratizing remote work by making remote job search as easy as non-remote job search and making hiring remote staff cheap so that every company can afford to do it. We’re working towards a platform that solves ALL our users issues. The only way to do this is to work closely with the people and companies that are actually using RC and find out what their biggest issues are. Our users are just as responsible for the direction of RC as we are.
We hope you like these new features. Let us know if you don’t and feel free to submit your own feature requests.
Try out the new features and join the BETA here
Thanks
JT
