RecruitMilitary Blog

My team and I are fervently working on an alpha release of a new job board for RecruitMilitary.

Our goal with the project is to build a well-engineered, flexible system with modern features, which required a rewrite from scratch from the ASP/SQL system. We're using Ruby on Rails, and we're taking the time to make sure the product is awesome, not rushing it out to market.

Alpha features

• Locations - We are taking a modern approach to locations, by allowing people to enter in any string to represent a location and then we push it to the Google geocode service, which returns back to us the full details. This allows us to support any address on the globe. Very elegant solution to what can be a messy problem. Every location is tagged with latitude and longitude, so it allows us to have radius searches that cross borders if desired. We have primarily been dealing with US candidates and employers historically - this change to how locations are handled give us a greater capability to operate globally.
• Employers - Can post jobs and get basic stats on activity. Can upload a full profile and logo for the company that'll show on job postings. Can view job as candidate sees it. Can search resume database, with faceted browsing (license required). Can send a candidate info about a job with two clicks. Can save search with auto-email or RSS of new matching candidates. Can manage your own account/users.
• Candidates - Can search for jobs, with faceted browsing. Can apply to a job with one click. Can search jobs with masked contact information, allowing a quick try before registering. Can save search results with auto-email or RSS of new matching jobs. Can submit a rich candidate profile model, system encourages profile completeness (similar to how LinkedIn works). Can view profile as employer sees it. Can upload resume that is parsed into full-text search for employers.
• Moderation - We have staff moderation feature to review free job postings before they're made live, and to review jobs that have been flagged as inappropriate by our users.

Beta features

• Targeted email - We plan to do something cool here using a credits based system, where the customer can target past and/or future registrants according to one of their saved searches.
• OFCCP report generation
• Referral codes & rewards for all users
• And more...

It'll be interesting to find out how client feedback affects what we're planning to release vs. what we actually release. Time will tell.