The Yahoo! HotJobs Recruitment Center is the central point from which you can manage all your recruiting activities.

• You can quickly post a new job using the Post a Job button, or drill down on a job title to view its detail information.
• To view resumes for a job, click one of the links in the Resumes column. The values represent the number of new resumes resulting from the latest search, the number of previously received but unread resumes, and the total number of resumes received.
• If you’ve purchased a search license, click the Search button to run a quick search based on keywords, location and category, or click the More Search Options link to specify more detailed search criteria.

  You can also view and reuse one of your previously successful saved searches.

• You can store candidate records in different folders and run reports on your recruiting activities.

All these functions are also available by clicking the tabs across the top.

The My Products list on the right shows all the recruiting products available for you to use. Click the Use Now link to use a product (post a job, run a search, etc.).

Check out the Tips & Training section for Frequently Asked Questions and information about the various HotJobs recruiter products and services.

• Account Representative: Account Representative is a person at Yahoo! HotJobs who is specifically allocated to assist in managing your account and provide any help required in addressing your recruitment needs.
• Administrator: Administrator is a role within an account that enables the user to add new users, manage users, allocate products among users, as well as manage the company account (editing payment profiles, managing company profiles, viewing contract offers, etc). This role gives an account wide control.
• Boolean search: A Boolean search is an advanced search using Boolean logic. The keywords field in Yahoo! HotJobs Recruiter Search uses Boolean logic. The following rules are used in a Boolean search.
  • AND returns only results containing all the specified words or phrases (sales and marketing returns resumes containing both words, not necessarily used together)
  • OR returns results containing at least one of the specified words or phrases (sales or marketing returns resumes containing at least one of the two words)
  • NOT excludes results containing the specified words or phrases that follow "not" (sales not marketing returns resumes that contain the word “sales” but do not contain the word “marketing”)
  • ( ) around keywords groups them together, so (sales and marketing) not administration returns resumes that contain both "sales" and "marketing" but do not contain "administration."
  • " " around keywords returns results in which the words appear in the specified order, so "sales and marketing experience" returns resumes containing those words in that order.
  • * allows partial matches. A search for sales* returns resumes containing words like "salesperson" and "salesman."
• Candidate Activity: Any time you take any action on a candidate, Yahoo! HotJobs automatically logs the activity. For example, viewing a resume, adding a note, forwarding a resume, and generating an automatic email response are four different activities taken with that candidate's information. You can use the Candidate Detail view of activity and notes to remind yourself of actions already taken with any candidate.
• Confidential Job Listing: Confidential listing is an attribute of a job post or job slot where the name of the hiring company is not disclosed to the job seekers and is displayed as confidential.
• Contract Offer: A Contract Offer is an online quoting process for purchasing products. A Contract Offer is created by a Yahoo! HotJobs representative and sent you the customer for acceptance. When the customer accepts the offer, the contract is confirmed and products are allocated as per the contract terms.
• Credit: A credit is a product asset available to you. Credits can be referred to as Job Credits or Company Profile Credits. For example, if you have 10 Job Credits, you post up to 10 jobs at any time. Likewise, if you have 3 Company Profile Credits, you can make up to 3 Company Profiles Active.
• Customer Care: Customer care is an internal Yahoo! HotJobs group that is dedicated to help address any customer issues while using products, managing account or managing any other recruitment needs.
• Direct Apply: Direct Apply is a job attribute which lets users define an Apply Process such that resumes can be directly emailed to a specified Address when Candidates submit their Resumes. This apply process can be used only when you purchase a Direct Apply product.
• Job Post: A job post is used for a single job listing for a fixed period of time (duration). You can purchase job posts to be used in specific locations only, or All Access job posts that can be used in any single location in the country. You can also purchase Nationwide job posts, to post a job without regard to location, so that all job-seekers in the country can submit a resume to it.
• Job Slot: A job slot is a reusable job posting placeholder in which you can post one job after another, for the length of time (term) of the contracted job slot. Think of it as a parking space in which multiple cars can park, but only one at a time. You can purchase either All Access job slots, allowing you to post jobs in any two locations in the country, or Nationwide job slots, to post jobs without regard to location.
• My Ratings:Information about each candidate includes a column called My Ratings, which initially contains five gray stars. If you want, you can use the stars as a quick and easy way to rate each candidate. Click the number of stars you want to rate that candidate. You can sort by number of stars, and change your rating at any time. Your rating system is unique and personal to you only; if you copy or forward candidate information to someone else, your rating system does not go with the candidate. Use of the 5-star rating system is optional.
• Primary Administrator: Primary Administrator is a role within Yahoo! HotJobs for someone designated as the central point of contact for your account. Primary Administrators are responsible for managing user permissions and distributing credits or licenses to users. Every account must have one Primary Administrator.
• Recruiter: A recruiter is a role within an account that enables the user to use the products allocated to him/her by an Administrator. This role has much restricted privileges compared to an Administrator role.
• Recruiter ID: Recruiter ID is the email address you use to log into your Yahoo! HotJobs account. Recruiter ID is same as login user name.Use this as your login user name.
• Recruiter Tools: Recruiter Tools are options you can use to enhance and manage your job postings and candidate activities. Reports display information about the responses to your job posting, job candidates attributes, specific job attributes, and job import activity. Information is displayed in list, graphic, and table form. Questionnaire Templates let you design questions that can be attached to a job listing for an extra level of candidate management. Job Templates let you construct basic job descriptions that you can customize to create a job listing, instead of starting from scratch each time. The Address Book contains contacts you use in your recruiting work. Email Templates are electronic form letters you can customize to respond to job candidates at any point in the recruiting process. Job Export Settings gives you the opportunity to control which job boards besides Yahoo! HotJobs you want to send your job postings to.
• Saved search: A saved search is a set of search criteria that you want Yahoo! HotJobs to remember, so you can use it again.To run a saved search manually, go to the Search tab and click My Saved Searches, choose your saved search and click Run. Follow these steps to have Yahoo! HotJobs periodically run a saved search for you and email you the results.
  1. Run your search
  2. On the Search Results page, select Save Search from the More Actions pull-down menu
  3. Give the search a name and select the run frequency from the pull-down menu
  4. Specify the email address to which you want candidate resumes sent, and the format to be used for the email
  5. Click Save Search.
  6. You will begin receiving emails on a regular basis, with links to candidate information. Click the links to view candidate resumes and save them in folders or associate them with jobs.