The job profile page tells you how attractive your job is to applicants and helps you evaluate your hiring process. For example, use the Overview section to show you how close you are to making a hire and use the Source Conversion Performance chart to show you your click-to-apply rate broken out by each applicant source.
Watch this three-minute video about using your job profile page, or follow along below.
Your job profile page
To view the job profile page, click the job title link on the Jobs page.
The Overview section provides an at-a-glance view of the number of applicants your job has received as well as where applicants are in the hiring process. You can get more information about which hiring process stage applicants are in by clicking the View Details button on the In Progress tile.
By default, the Applicant Flow Summary charts the job’s monthly applicant flow, day by day. Hovering over the bar for a particular day will provide more details about the status of the applicant(s). You can also adjust the date range (in the top right corner) to expand or shrink the scope of the graph’s data.
The Recently Active Candidates section lists the most recent applicants for the job. Click View Profile to open the applicant’s profile or Go to all applicants to view all applicants for the job.
The Activity section lists the most recent activity taking place on the job, such as someone editing the job or contacting an applicant. Click View All to see the entire history of activity for the job.
The Applicant Sources section is split into two tabs:
- Manual Share - Gives you options for where to share your job to get more applicants. This section is called manual share because CareerPlug does not automatically post your jobs to these sources. Click the Share button to get a custom tracking link to share to various sites or More Sources to create a custom source.
- Automatic Sources - Lists all of the sources to which CareerPlug automatically posts your jobs.
The Source Conversion Performance chart shows the number of applicants and job posting clicks per source, allowing you to see which of your sources are producing high numbers of clicks and/or applicants. Hovering over the bars will provide the exact number of applicants and clicks for that source.
You can adjust the date range (in the top right corner) to expand or shrink the scope of the graph’s data. You can also configure which sources are displayed on the graph by clicking View More Sources, toggling on/off which sources you want to feature, and clicking Apply to save.
The Source Conversion Performance chart is a great tool to evaluate your applicant conversion rate, also know as your click-to-apply rate. Your applicant conversion is calculated by taking the number of applicants you receive for a job divided by the number of clicks you receive on your job from job seekers. This number can tell you how many candidates are abandoning your job posting without applying. If, for instance, one of your job postings has received a lot of clicks but few applicants, you might have a problem with your job title (it's misleading), job description, or application requirements (unique logins, sensitive personal information, too many prescreen questions).