What a year 2011 has been! Since our launch at the end of August, SmartRecruiters has continued to release integrative and in demand sourcing functionality. In our quest to be easy, smart, social, open (and entirely free), here is:

The Countdown of the 5 Best Hiring Made Easy Features:

The tech industry is hiring, and SmartRecruiters has added all the top tech job boards to your software. If your company needs designers, programmers, business executives, data analysts, or any other information technology professional, SmartRecruiters has job sites for that. You can now post to some of the best software developer communities, such as StackOverflow and 37signals, some of the best designer communities, such as Coroflot and Authentic Jobs, as well as, some of the best tech publications, such as Mashable and Wired. Here are all the tech job boards:

In the summer, we released a job board recommendation engine, leveraging data to show the best performing jobs boards. We have taken the data aggregation functionality one step further with a sourcing indicator that predicts the likelihood of you getting great candidates. Based on the job boards chosen, the sourcing indicator considers your job, industry, function, level, and location in order to give the percentage chance that you will get enough good qualified candidates to make a hire. This real time data driven approach will help you find the needle in the haystack (while searching through less hay).

This week we introduce Mobile Career Sites for all customers. With 50% of internet traffic soon coming from mobile devices, it’s rather important to give people an easy access to jobs from a tiny mobile screen.

Many of you told us that you wanted to test out the functionality of applicant profiles immediately. And so, for all new users, SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternynck is now waiting for you in the software as a Test Applicant! Many of you also noticed that the ”state” does not accompany “city” on all displays of job postings. So now they do. And to meet the need to mass share a branded and personalized message, we improved the versatility of email templates.

This week, we released a new capability to share reviews for Job Boards.

As announced last week, when you post a job, we bring forward the Best Performing Job Boards. Now you will notice that we also surface Ratings and Reviews

Easy job posting

We’ve improved the job posting functionality so you can quickly create a job, preview it, and post it with one click to job boards, your company website, corporate Facebook page, free sites and social networks.

Job Manager, the WordPress Plugin

This week, we bring the power of SmartRecruiters to the 25 million plus users of WordPress.

Nowadays, almost every company website  has a “careers” page. However, building great Careers pages from scratch is challenging and often ends up with a manual process to publish jobs and collect applicants.

SmartRecruiters’ Job Manager plugin solves that problem by letting you:

• Build great careers page in your WordPress environment with full CSS flexibility
• Automate Job Posting straight from your SmartRecruiters software
• Candidate apply online and are consolidated in SmartRecruiters for easy tracking

This week we have released some security improvements and fixed some bugs. We also prepared for a cool feature coming up next week…