Job Board Administrator Manual (Control Panel)
Login

To login to your "Job Board Control Panel", point your browser to http://www.yourdomain.com/admin.

1. Type in your User Name and Password.
2. Click Login.
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Site Management screen

When you log in with the account details supplied in your Job Board Software introduction email, you are logged in as Site Administrator and the Site Management screen appears as shown below.

As shown above, a Site Administrator has access to all the menu items shown at the left of the screen. Also, there is System Settings menu in upper right corner. These are the functions and services that the Administrator can manage.
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Employers

Employer section allows you to view, edit and delete employers.

1. Search for employer. To search for employer, choose criteria (id, company name, email, username or password), enter string in text field and click on 'Search' button.
Note: You can also search for more employers that satisfy searched criteria. For example you can see all employers whose company names start with 'm' letter by choosing company name and entering 'm' in text field.

2. View/Edit Employer

Employer Name - click to view or change employers info;
Jobs - number of jobs currently posted. If more than 0, you can click on job number to see all jobs posted by this employer;
Login - click to login or hold mouse pointer over it to see username and password, last login and registration date;
Access - set employer's access rights:
  • Job Postings - number of available job posts;
  • Membership - date until employer will have unlimited job postings;
  • Resumes - number of resumes employer can view;
  • Featured Job Postings - number of available featured job posts;
  • Featured Employer - date untill employer will be shown on home page.

Note: If membership is active, job postings will have no effect.

Billing history - see employer transactions(see transaction history for more info);
Mail - send a email to employer(see newsletters for more info);
Delete - delete selected employer and all jobs related with him.

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Job Seekers

Job Seekers section allows you to view, edit and delete job seekers.
1. Search for job seeker. To search for job seeker, choose criteria (id, name, email, username or password), enter string in text field and click on 'Search' button.
Note: You can also search for more job seekers that satisfy searched criteria. For example you can see all job seekers whose email addresses start with 'john' by choosing email in drop down box and entering 'john' in text field.

2. View/Edit Job Seeker

Job Seeker Name - click to view or change job seekers info;
Resume - click to view job seeker resumes;
Login - click to login or hold mouse over it to see username and password;
Mail - send email to job seeker(see newsletters for more info);
Delete - delete selected job seeker and all resumes related with him.
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Jobs

Jobs section allows you to view, edit and delete jobs.
1. Search for jobs. To search for jobs, choose criteria (id, employer id, company name, job title or job reference), enter string in text field and click on 'Search' button.

2. View/Edit Job Posts

Job Title - click to view or edit job post;
Employer - click to view employer;
Active - click on or to activate or deactivate job post;
Views - number of job seekers that viewed this job post;
Applies - number of job seekers that have applied through apply form(some employers want job seekers to apply to email specified in job description and that applicants are not counted)
Featured - click on or to make job posts featured or standard(Featured job post is placed on home page and in job search results page job post is highlighted;
Posted - job posting date;
Expire - job post expiry date;
Delete - delete selected job.

Import Jobs
This button enables you to upload job ads from XML file. Browse and select file using Source XML field. Optional, you can use map file Url field to set specific mapping.

For more information on uploading jobs, open JobImport.pdf

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Resumes

Resumes section allows you to view and delete resumes.

1. Search for jobs. To search for resumes, choose criteria (id, jobseeker id, name or resume title), enter string in text field and click on 'Search' button.
Note: You can also search for more resumes that satisfy searched criteria. For example you can see all resumes that have '.NET' word in resume title field by choosing title in drop down box and entering '.NET' in text field.

2. View/Delete Resumes

Resume Title - click to view resume;
Name - Resume owner full name;
Views - Number of resume views;
Modified - Most recent resume modification date ;
Delete - delete selected resume.
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Job Categories

Job Categories section allows you to view, add, edit and delete job categories.

Add Category. To add category, click on Add Job Category link, type category name in category text field and click on 'Add/Edit Category' button.
Change Category Name. To edit category, click on category name, change name in category text field and click on 'Save' button.
Place job category link on home page.
To add or remove job category link on home page click on or .
Delete - delete selected job category.
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Countries

Countries section allows you to view, add, edit and delete countries.

Add Country. To add country, click on Add Country link, type country name and country code and click on 'Save' button.
Change Country. To edit country, click on country name, change name in country text field and click on 'Save' button.
Delete - delete selected country.
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States

States section allows you to view, add, edit and delete country states/provinces.

Add State. To add state, click on Add State link, type state name, code, select country and click on 'Save' button.
Change State. To edit state, click on state name, make changes and click on 'Save' button.
Delete - delete selected job category.
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Statistics

This screen provide basic statistic data. Select time period you want to retreive data for and press Go button
  • Jobs - number of active job posts in database
  • Employers - number of employers registered
  • Job Seekers - number of job seekers registered
  • Jobs - number of jobs posted
  • Job Views - number of job views for jobs posted in selected period
  • Job Applications - number of job applications (works only if " is marked as checked on settings page)
  • Resumes - number of resumes posted

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Pricing Plans

JBS Ecommerce module allows you to charge for 5 different types of services:
  • Job Postings
  • Membership Fee
  • Resume Search
  • Featured Job Postings
  • Featured Employer
Pricing plans section shows pricing plans that are already created.
Pricing Plan - click to change pricing plan;
Active - click on or to enable or disable pricing plan;
Delete - delete pricing plan.

To add new pricing plan click on 'Add Pricing Plan' button.
On new page choose service, select quantity, enter price and click on 'Save Changes'.
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Transaction History

With Transaction History page you can:
  • View list of transactions
  • Process non credit card payments
  • Review orders
How it works
Whenever employer choose service he is interested in and click on 'Confirm Order' button a record is saved and placed in transaction history. That order is marked as 'Not processed'. If for any reason employer give up, record will be deleted automatically after some time.

This record can be marked as processed by two ways:
1. Manually
You can click on button to confirm payments and autmatically update employer credits.
2. Automatically
When employer has completed payment through credit card processing page, system will update his access status and order will be marked as processed.
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Banners

Banner Management allows you to set rotating banners(468x60) on top of your pages.

Add a banner
To add a banner click on Add Banner button.
  • File Name - banner filename without extension ('banner',not 'banner.gif')
  • Link - when visitor clicks on banner, he will be redirected to this url
  • External Src - if you are using banner from other location (Use this option if you don't want to upload a banner)
  • Upload a File - upload file to a server

Click on 'Save Changes' button to add a banner.

This way you have added banner to banner list, but note that it is marked as disabled (Active set to ). To mark your banner as enabled, click on button.

How to make my new banner settings active ?
Since banner display script is programatically created, you have to click on 'Generate Script' button every time you make changes.

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Newsletters

With Newsletter Management you can contact your members and subscribers and send them newsletters.

Newsletter Groups screen show you 4 mailing lists.
  • All Employers - this list should be used for important notice to all employers
  • All Job Seekers - this list should be used for important notice to all job seekers
  • Subscribed Employers - this list should be used for newsletters
  • Subscriber Job Seekers - this list should be used for newsletters

To see subscribers list click on button. To download group list as .txt document, click on Download link.

Creating Template Newsletters

To create template newsletter click on 'Newsletters' button and then click 'Add Newsletter' button.


Sending Newsletter
To send neswletter to mailing list click on 'Send Newsletter' link.
You can choose newsletter template from drop down box or you can create it by editing subject and body fields.
if Html checkbox is checked, messages will be sent as html messages, otherwise they will be sent as plain text messages.

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Settings

This section is used to view and edit job board settings
  • Company Information
    • Company Name
    • Address
    • Country
    • State
    • City
    • Zip/Postal Code
  • Site Settings
    • Website Name
    • Website Url - enter URL path to job board root (ex: 'http://www.yourdomain.com')
    • Directory - if your job board root folder is not marked as application in IIS, enter folder name (ex: if job board url is 'http://www.yourdomain.com/jobs/' and 'http://www.yourdomain.com' is marked as application you should set Directory: 'jobs/')
  • Emai Settings
    • Mail Server - set mailserver that is used for sending messages from No Reply Email Account. 'default' will work with default mailserver and if used, username and password are not required.
    • No Reply Email Address - automated emails are sent from this email address.
    • No Reply Acc. Username - username needed to send email messages from No Reply Email Address.
    • No Reply Email Acc. Password- password needed to send email messages from No Reply Email Address.
    • Contact email - job board visitors will be able to contact you over this email address
  • Regional Settings
    • Default Country - choose country you want to mark as default
  • Registration Settings
    • Email Confirmation - after user is registered, email address verification can be requested by sending email with account activation url.
  • Job Settings
    • Job Activation - set this to 'Automated' if you want job posts to be active as soon as employer saves them or set to 'Verified by Administrator' if you want to activate jobs manualy.
    • Job Application - to request from job seeker to apply using system and post resume, this field should be marked as checked. To allow user to apply without logging and posting resume, this field should be marked as unchecked.
    • Job Details - if checked, job details will be available only to registered and logged job seekers
  • Ecommerce Settings
    • Free Job Posting - allow employers to post jobs for free
    • Free Resume Search - allow employers to search resumes for free
    • Payment Processor - company used to process credit card payments
    • Account ID - needed to identify yourself when accessing payment processor services (neccessery if you want to charge employers)
    • Field 1 & 2 - optional fields needed for different payment processor
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Users

This section is used to add, view and edit administration users

Add New User
Click on Add New User button.
  • Username & Password - this info will be used to login
  • Rows per Page - how many table rows will be displayed when showing lists
  • Permission - set files user will be able to access. default.aspx page must be enabled for every user. For example, if you want new user only to see your statistics, you will add default.aspx and statistics.aspx pages.

Click on 'Save Changes' button to add new user.

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