One of our biggest Jobster releases ever went live last night.

Among the notable additions are Cost Per Applicant (CPA) job advertising, redesigned Jobster profiles, and a number of improvements to networking.

We see Cost Per Applicant (CPA) job advertising as a first step toward a set of ecommerce offerings representing more efficient models for online job advertising. With our CPA job advertising, there are no flat posting fees. Employers advertise a job and only pay when jobseekers apply.

In addition to our new CPA advertising, we introduced a number of feature enhancements that we believe will be a valuable to professionals:

Improved Networking:  Consumers can now expand their Jobster network by importing webmail addresses from Gmail, LinkedIn, and other popular online services.  We also show which contacts are already Jobster members.

Improved company profile pages: Hoover’s and D&B information about companies in addition to our user-generated content.Jobster now incorporates

Inline salary data: When jobseekers find a job they’re interested in, they can now quickly research salary information about the job from the Jobster search result page.

Microformat support: Jobster now provides vCard data to allow consumers to export contact information about network contacts to an address book, hResume support for downloading profiles as a digital resume, and tag data for cross-site lookups

Profile statistics and visits : Consumers can now see the last 50 people who visited their profile and connect with them in one click.

Email network members: Consumers can now email members of their Jobster network directly from their profile pages.  Privacy settings for this feature are available under the new Account Settings page.

Network news feeds: Now consumers can keep track of what their contacts are doing on Jobster.

Improved profile view: Profiles now better display experiences, skill tags, career network members, video resumes, and any endorsements.  Profiles also have a more polished look no matter how much information a consumer adds. 

Improved profile edit : Creating and editing your Jobster profile has gotten much easier.  Entering your skill tags, uploading your resume, setting your availability, adding links, adding work and school experiences and answering questions have been completely redesigned using feedback from several usability studies to help make the profile creation and editing process easier and more powerful. ‘Make a connection’ and ‘Things you can do’ boxes let you know what you can do with Jobster.

Endorsements: You can now endorse people who you agree to be references for and those endorsements will appear prominently on the user’s profile.