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[brentwilliams2 Friend brentwilliams2Join date: January 2013Posts: 231Downloads:0Uploads:23 Thanks: 4 Thanked: 33 times in 1 posts]

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Right now I have it set that a user has to be registered and logged in to apply to a job. This means, if a guest visits the site, they click the apply link and it tells them to register first. This is a HUGE turnoff for many people. I see many jobs on my site with several hundred views and only a handful of actual applications, because people don’t want to have to create an account on every site they visit. However, I don’t want to allow guest applications because I want to capture these people!

So the goal should be to make them register, but not make it feel like they are having to register for yet another website. Does that make sense?

So here is what would be best: Add functionality to the existing registration page to instead make it an application page if the user is clicking from a specific job. From a coding point of view, that would mean when a user clicks the register link from the job page, they would be sent to the same page as before, BUT not only would it register them, but it would also submit their application to the job they were looking at. That way, they apply for the job, while not feeling like they had to register for yet another website in the process.

This changes the workflow from this:

1) Visit job
2) Click registration link (which nobody wants to do)
3) Register for website
4) Click back to job
5) Apply for job

To this:

1) Visit job
2) Click registration/application link
3) Apply for job/Register for website (in one step)

Does that make sense? I promise it would dramatically increase the number of applications per view rate!!

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#530245

Hi Brent,

Thank you for your suggestion to improve our product.
This feature might help to increase the number of application applied to jobs, however it will also lead to thread of spam application, since guest can freely submit their application without registration.

In the meantime, this update also affects to currect work flow of JA Jobboard component.

Anyway, I has passed your feedback to our dev team for further consideration. Yet I am not in the position to confirm if this feature is added to the upcoming version.
You can follow up further on this feature request at:
http://pm.joomlart.com/browse/JAJBJ25-348

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