Over the past weeks there have been further updates to the UN Job List or “the List” how many people call the UN Job List.

Some of these improvements are minor, for instance I’m working on making sure that non US-ASCII characters are displayed properly and that the funny “�” symbols disappear from the site. Two other new features on “the List” that I want to highlight are the new vacancy statistics and the “send to a friend” function.

Send to a Friend

I was requested to implement a ‘send to a friend’ function since many people want to share interesting jobs with their friends. To make that easy for you I added a little button on the vacancy details page that allows you with one click to send this job to a friend per e-mail, tweet the job on Twitter or share it on Facebook. I see more and more people using this feature and it just makes sense: Good friends share good opportunities with their friends.

Vacancy statistics

Another new feature is a click counter for vacancies. Again, on the vacancy detail page you can see how many times a vacancy has been viewed from the UN Job List. It’s a nice way for you to get an idea how much competition you are up against when you consider applying for this job. Just remember that despite the impressive number of views from the UN Job List there are other ways people find these vacancies, too. For instance many vacancies are also shared within the organization, too and of course the “the List” only counts views via the UN Job List itself.

Please let me know if you have other ideas on how to improve the UN Job List and I will try to do what I can do to implement your suggestions.