Three reasons to open an IdealCandidate account NOW

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:50:03 +0000

You have a blog about design/programming/tech, and you are considering using TheIdealCandidate to do something a bit different. Here are three reasons you should do it right now!

You earn money for your work.
How much is advertising earning for you? $25/month? $50? $100? Unless your blog is really popular, you are probably not making thousands. However, with TheIdealCandidate, the commission structure is the same regardless of your site popularity: 50% of the job post price at the time. That job will show on all the blogs in our network, but you get the commission since it’s coming from your site.
So if the jobs are currently at $200, you earn $100 for each post, which can quickly turn out to be more than your advertising earnings.
You give something useful to your audience.
Banner ads are not amazingly useful to your audience. Ok, you need them to earn income but what about achieving both goals : income+relevance? With TheIdealCandidate you give something genuinely useful to your audience: If your blog is about design, your audience will mostly consist of designers, so they will be interested in design jobs! You have just given your audience one more reason to come to your site.
You can start straight away!
Unlike advertising, where you have to wait for advertisers to spend some of their budget on your site, you can setup a TheIdealCandidate job board right now. So within seconds you have added a piece to your blog that gives something to your audience AND can earn you money straight away.

So there you have it, you now can add a new income stream to your blog alongside to advertising. And this one is a win-win for you and your audience, as both parties benefit from TheIdealCandidate.

Customising the wordpress plugin (1)

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:44:21 +0000

In this article I’m just going to talk you through the download, installation and then finally, through the file structure and template tags of our wordpress plugin.

The plugin simply allows you to have a job listing page on your wordpress installation. You can customise how it looks with your knowledge of html and CSS.

You can see live examples on the inmeres and uniquecss websites – send us your examples, if they look cool we’ll stick em here too. Added traffic!

download the wordpress plugin directly from wordpress.org here

Install the plugin

Unzip the “job-listing.zip” folder
INSIDE the unzipped folder there is another one called “job-listing”
Upload this job-listing folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Navigate to new The Ideal Candidate menu item.
Enter your PayPal email address and a password (if you already have an Ideal Candidate account just enter your admin address and password).
Enter the amount of characters you want to show in the summary
If you like, you can can set filters for each property. For instance if you only want “creative” jobs showing – type “creative” into the “categories” field.

Right, create a new page. Title it. “jobs” (or whatever you like!)
Paste [tic-job-list] into the content.
Publish it.

Done. Ish!

See part two… coming soon!

The Ideal Candidate

Three reasons to open an IdealCandidate account NOW

Customising the wordpress plugin (1)