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● The UAE's leading recruitment platform adds more transparency to the job seekers through its new applicants' dashboard
● The tool tracks job applications by listing the jobs applied for, displaying the total number of applicants for each position, and showing the status of their CV.
● New 'Highlight your application' feature allows applicants to promote their skills, offering recruiters an additional screening filter to further streamline the recruitment process
Dubai, UAE - dubizzle - the UAE's leading recruitment platform - introduces an all-new applicant dashboard and "Highlight your application" service to its jobs section, providing applicants with useful tools to monitor job applications, and recruiters with an additional applicant screening filter.
The applicant dashboard gives users more visibility and control on the progress of applications.
It lists the jobs that the user has applied for, displays the total number of applicants for that position and identifies whether the employer has read, shortlisted or rejected their CV, allowing users to track the progress of their submissions.
"We have received feedback from our users who conveyed the need for an increased level of transparency on the job application process. Through this free and accessible dashboard, the anxiety and ambiguity usually attached to online job applications will be reduced," commented Mireia Mujika, Senior Product Manager dubizzle Jobs.
When posting a job ad, employers are prompted to input two to four skills that are required for the position. The applicant then has the option of highlighting their strengths, should they match the listed skills, for an additional fee, after they successfully apply for the job posting or through their new dashboard. This feature provides job seekers with a competitive advantage over others, and helps employers find more serious and eager applicants for the role.
"The 'Highlight your application' feature provides recruiters with a very useful tool to streamline the recruitment process further. Applications with highlighted skills will appear at the top of the list of applicants on the recruiter's dashboard. This will save the recruiter time that would otherwise be spent reviewing hundreds of CVs that may not be suitable for the role," added Mujika.
Constantly working to enhance the user experience across all sections of the platform, dubizzle recently launched the Video CV feature, allowing recruiters to view a snapshot of an applicant's basic knowledge and demeanour from the moment they apply. Similarly, the applicant dashboard provides yet another tool to support both applicants and employers throughout the recruitment process.
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About dubizzle:
dubizzle.com is the leading free classifieds website for users in the United Arab Emirates. Since its launch in 2005, dubizzle.com has become the number one platform for users to buy, sell, or find anything in their community. A community where underused goods are redistributed to fill a new need, and become wanted again, where non- product assets such as space, skills and money are exchanged and traded in new ways that don't always require centralized institutions or 'middlemen'. dubizzle.com is headquartered in the UAE.
dubizzle is an OLX company:
OLX is the world's leading classifieds platform in growth markets and is available in more than 45 countries and over 50 languages. OLX connects local people to buy, sell or exchange used goods and services by making it fast, easy and free for anyone to post a listing through their mobile phone or on the web. Every month, hundreds of millions of people in local markets around the world are already using OLX's online marketplace to find and sell a wide range of products, including furniture, musical instruments, sporting goods, cars, kids and baby items, motorcycles, cameras, mobile phones, property and much more. OLX operates in fast-growing markets around the globe, where OLX helps people improve their lives through smart person-to-person trade. OLX Arabia has an actively expanding existing presence in the MENA region in Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. OLX employs more than 1,200 committed employees worldwide located in places like Bangkok, Buenos Aires, Cape Town, Delhi, Jakarta, Lagos, Lisbon, Manila, Nairobi, Poznan, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.
Media enquiries:
Abdallah Touqan
Senior PR & Communications Lead
Abdallah@dubizzle.com
+971 55 9866 891
OR
Grayling PR
dubizzle@grayling.com
+971 (4) 360 0527
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