Job applications just got an upgrade.

Meet Profiles, a new mini app from Hirechain that helps candidates collect valuable references and share them with hiring teams in just three easy steps:

1. Sign up to Profile with LinkedIn or Farcaster
2. Invite colleagues to write you a reference using your personal invite link
3. Publish your best references and include your Profile link in job applications to stand out to hirers!

Ready to take your job applications to the next level? Start building your profile today on profiles.hirechain.io

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Get Based

It is time to bring some of the onchain energy to LinkedIn. Update your profile picture to using our free generator to show your support for crypto. You can try it out here: profiles.hirechain.io/get-based

Hirechain can now enable a 'Pre-review' column to give select client's access to candidates who look promising, but are awaiting a final review from Hirechain. This gives clients the option to see more of their pipeline of candidates which can be helpful in particular situations.

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Miscellaneous

• Simplified link inputs and validation
• Testimonials slider added to the company sign up flow
• New application statuses to better support candidates withdrawing applications
• Improvements to how we handle bouncing email addresses
• We've also been working on some exciting mini apps which we will sharing shorly

Not only can companies now sign up and submit jobs to Hirechain, but existing referrers and companies can invite them to earn rewards.

To be eligible for the rewards the new company must sign up using your invite link and hire a candidate from Hirechain. For referrers this will increase their reputation score on Hirechain and earn them a share of Hirechain’s profits. For companies this will earn them credits they can redeem on future hires.

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Miscellaneous

• Lots of bug fixes and minor improvements
• More educational UI and helpful links to Job Alerts and Candidate Emails
• Improvements to the link inputs on the referral and application forms

We can now seamlessly push candidates into our client's Ashby account (ATS). Candidates will be pushed into Ashby once they have been qualified by Hirechain and are ready to be reviewed by the client. The integration allows Hirechain to seamlessly integrate into our client's existing hiring systems and procedures.

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Speedy Referral View and Review

When users click on a referral, it now opens faster in a side panel instead of loading a new page. This makes it quicker and easier to see and review candidate details. We've also made navigating and updating referrals much quicker using the following keyboard shortcuts for all users.

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Miscellaneous

• Payment Schedules are now visible on the 'Recruiting Tips' tab for all jobs. This is to help communicate how bounties are paid out to referrers.
• Getting Started Checklist for referrers to help get them up and running as quickly as possible.
• Improvements to our AI Assistant and the follow up questions it generates for beta referrers

New clients can now sign up to Hirechain directly on the app instead of having to arrange a call with our team. The simple process also helps new clients setup their company profile and hiring preferences.

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Miscellaneous

• Revised and improved client dashboard
• Improved search results on the job board
• New and revised views on the referrer's Referrals table
• Internal improvements to help our team review more referrals
• DX and scalability improvements

Users can now access their Inbox, from any page by clicking on the notification bell in the top right corner. We rebuilt it in this way to make it easier to quickly glance at your Inbox without disrupting your current workflow.

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Miscellaneous

• Improved interview feature to help clients more easily arrange follow up interviews and add additional instructions for candidates
• Added 'autofill from resume' feature to shareable referral links
• Improvements to Company Job Boards
• Formatting improvements for job descriptions (+ more coming)
• Reduced the number of status updates that clients receive

Companies using Hirechain can now share their own Job Boards which display all of their live jobs.

This allows Hirechain to filter all of a company's inbound applications, not only saving them time, but also drastically reducing their hiring costs if they hire anyone via this channel.

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Hirechain Assistant (beta)

The first version of our Hirechain Assistant, designed to help referrers review their referrals, is now live for beta users. The Assistant raises any concerns it has regarding the candidate to help the referrer refine the referral before forwarding it to Hirechain.

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Company Profile Improvements

We will be adding 'Useful Links' to display links to any of the company's relevant documentation or marketing materials. These links will also be sent to candidates when interviews are arranged to help them better prepare. We have also improved the 'Benefits' section to better communicate the company's employee benefits to referrers and candidates.

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Miscellaneous

• Lots of minor bugs and UX improvements
• Updated and improved duplicate check on referrals
• Improvements to our push candidate to Slack and Telegram features for clients
• New 'Inbox' modal in beta

Users on the 'Recruiter' tier can now create and share 'Job Lists' with candidates. This allows recruiters to curate a list of related jobs e.g. 'Product Design Jobs' or a list of jobs for a specific candidate. Candidates can then easily view all of the jobs and apply.

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Unsuccessful Emails

Referrers can now enable a feature that sends an email to candidate's if their application is updated to unsuccessful. To enable this feature head to 'Account' and then 'Candidates'.

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Miscellaneous

• Bounced Email Notification - If an interview email sent to a candidate bounces, both Hirechain and referrers are now notified on the referral.
• Job Search Improvements - We've improved the search feature on the job board.
• 'Review' View - The 'Review' view is now the default when viewing your referrals.

We've simplified and improved our wallet connection feature so that it is easier for referrers to connect and verify a new wallet. We've also been working hard on improving our own and client tooling to handle more jobs, referrers and referrals.

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Miscellaneous

• 'Push to Telegram' so that clients can review candidates in Telegram
• Improvements to our partner review system
• Improvements to our queue system so that the app can process more tasks

The referral forms now feature an autofill option which looks at the candidate's resume and fills in any readily available information such as their email address, LinkedIn URL, location and more.

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Miscellaneous

• High Priority Jobs → 🔥 Hot Jobs
• Improvement: Statistics and rankings on Referrer Profiles
• 40+ bugs and minor improvements

Jobs are now sorted by high priority to low priority on the job board. We calculate priority using the client's responsiveness and the number of candidates in process to help you decide which jobs to work on. We'll also occasionally flag specific jobs as 'High Priority' to if the client needs more candidates quickly.

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Miscellaneous

• Referral Page Improvements: We've tidied up and reorganised the referral page to put the important information front and centre.
• Daily Digest Emails: You can now opt to receive new job alert emails once per day instead of immediately. ‍
• Performance Improvements: The job board and job pages should load much faster now. This update also applies to the shareable referral links that candidates use to apply for jobs.

Job Insights

Referrers now have more visibility of the hiring process and can see when the hirer was last active and how many candidates are in review or interview.

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Referral Search & Filters

We have improved the search and filters referrers have when viewing their own referrals. This should help those who are managing lots of referrals in particular.

• Lots of updates to internal tooling to help us handle more referrers and referrals
• Lots of minor bug and UX improvements
• Improved location settings for jobs

More exciting updates coming in the next release.

Meet Inbox

We've improved our Notifications architecture and created Inbox, a page where you can see all of your referral updates, job updates and now, any referrals you need to review.

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Status: Hirechain Pass

This status is a neutral alternative to 'Hirechain Rejected' which has been updated to issue a -1 credit penalty to the referrer. Hirechain Pass should be used when you want to pass on the candidate if they are not quite right, but you do not want to penalise the referrer.

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Candidate Updates

Candidates can now opt out of Hirechain and provide a reason when they request to withdraw their application.

As you may have noticed we have moved our marketing website, app and emails from hirechain.xyz to hirechain.io. Everything should be redirecting and working as normal but please do let us know if you spot any bugs or have any problems.

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Miscellaneous Updates

• Lots of improvements to internal tooling to help us manage more referrals and referrers
• Minor UX improvements to client's arrange interview flow

Referrer Performance

Referrers can now see an overview of their performance and ranking amongst all referrers on Hirechain. These metrics are a strong indicator of a referrers reputation and will be used to decide which tier is most appropriate.

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Referrer Tiers

While Hirechain supports both casual referrers and recruiters, we realise that recruiters likely need more of our time and may have questions about the role or hiring process. On top of this we need a way to reduce the impact of poor referrals while increasing the impact of good ones. To accomplish this we have introduced the three following tiers which will be assigned based on your performance and reputation:

Referrer: The default tier for new and casual referrers.

Recruiter: Reserved for professional recruiters and the top performing referrers who actively help Hirechain manage the hiring and interview process. Includes access to higher bounties, office hours and new features.

Restricted: Referrers who repeatedly refer unsuitable candidates will now receive a warning before having their account restricted. This gives you access to an earned bounties but prevents you from creating new referrals.

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Miscellaneous

• Authentication improvements
• Improved visibility of job status
• Improved UI: contrast, readability and responsiveness

• Improved metrics on the Dashboard
• UX improvements to payments
• Hirechain Bot created to communicate some of the more non-obvious updates to users
• Responsiveness improvements

Payments

You can now view your scheduled, completed and cancelled bounty payments. Simply click on 'Payments' in the menu.

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Job Alerts and Email Updates

With your new notification settings you can now: 

• Enable new job alert emails (including custom filters)
• Enable referral update emails
• Customise which jobs you receive job updates and comment notifications on

To access these controls click on 'Account' in the menu and then 'Notifications'.

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Improved Forms

We've updated all of the referral forms to a one page layout allowing referrers to more easily navigate the questions and craft your referrals. The same is also true for candidates applying via referrers' shareable links.

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Slack Updates

We've launched the first version of our Slack Bot which allows us to push new candidates to clients in Slack. We're hoping this update is going to help us handle more referrals and increase the speed of which we get feedback back to referrers.

Job Alerts and Notification Settings are now in beta. If you are a beta user you can head to your Account and then access the new ‘Notifications’ tab to create custom job alerts and update your email settings. Please let us know if you have any feedback or issues.

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Job Improvements

We’ve added some new dedicated sections to the jobs including: Compensation & Package, Interview Steps and Ideal Candidate. These will be populated on new jobs moving forward giving you more information when sourcing and talking with candidates.

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Help Center

We’ve updated our Help Center and documentation to make it easier to navigate and also, ask questions. Simply search or ask it a question and it will generate an answer based on our documentation. Please let us know if you have any feedback or issues.

Placements and payments are now in beta. The Hirechain team will be testing and backfilling placed candidates so that referrers can see which payments have been made and soon when they can expect to receive future payments. If you are a beta user you will see the Payments page soon. If you experience any problems or have feedback, please get in touch.

• Improved candidate application page. This page now displays a status and more information about the referrer.
• Page speed improvements
• Referrer review process improved
• Several new statuses added to better manage referrals and bounty eligibility

New referrals and applications now require users to explain - with examples - how the candidate meets the hiring criteria for a job. This criteria is agreed with our clients and is the minimum requirements a candidate must meet in order to be considered for the job. Please take your time and answer these questions properly as it will significantly improve your candidates chances.

Sometimes job requirements change and adapt over time and instead of simply amending the job description we needed a way to highlight and communicate these changes quickly to referrers. So if hiring is paused, the job is filled or the requirements change, we will be able to communicate this quickly to our network of referrers. To find them in app visit the Notifications page and select 'Jobs'.

Referrers can now connect their crypto wallets to Hirechain. These wallet addresses will be used to distribute bounties and other payments to eligible referrers. To ensure you get paid on time please connect your Wallet in your Account today.