As you know, Mosambe has come up with a major release early morning today. While you might be familiar with most of the features in the previous version, the current iteration helps extend those features and adds a set of new ones. We have also done a number of tweaks in the background which will help the site feel and function much better.

We will go through the features step by step, so that you have a good idea of what work has gone into it.

Media Dock:

The media dock and the tabbed version of the profile adds more context and information to your profile. It is there to help people and organizations to get more relevant information about you. We have included options to share your tweets, your presentation slides or a video about you via YouTube. Try and add more media to discover it for yourself, simply go to the profile tab and choose edit profile to add media. This is also true for companies so that they can share more information about the campus, any videos on YouTube or presentations on SlideShare. We are trying to get the nuts and bolts in place for better exchange of information on both fronts.

Profile:

We have changed the UI under Edit Profile to make it easier for you to fill up your profile Simply move through the relevant tabs under edit profile and you will be done in no time. We encourage you to fill up your profile and to begin using it for better visibility on the site. It also helps organizations track you better and it also makes it more interesting for people in your network to follow you. Your profile is search engine and social media friendly and does help improve your visibility across networks too.

Water cooler:

The water cooler is a simple way to keep in touch with your network. Many of you might think of it as the familiar ‘newsfeed’. The idea here was to implement network updates, so that it is easy for you to share information with people in your network. This could be about sharing a new job opportunity with your colleagues, tracking their profile or about sharing idle office gossip  It is completely up to you. We have built it to become an easy communication platform apart from messaging on Mosambe. All your updates are seen by people in your network only. Changes to profile and status updates are all grouped together neatly to avoid needless clutter.

Suggested Users:

This was a requested feature that we built in the current version. Users wanted to be able to extend their network apart from being able to quickly communicate with them. This is a nifty feature for you to quickly discover new contacts in your industry. Further iterations will be made to make this better.

Search:

We have tweaked search in the background enabling it to work better. We will also be aligning it with the Indeed.com results in the weeks to come for better output. Overall if you don’t find the jobs you are looking for on Mosambe, we will make sure we do a good job of serving them up to you from Indeed. In the meanwhile give us sometime to get the organization accounts on Mosambe started.

Jobs:

It is now easier for companies to post jobs along with any specific questions they might have for the candidate. So, in order to apply to the job, the candidate has to fill up these queries upfront. The answers get attached to the applicant’s profile in the company’s app-tray so that reviewing and shortlisting can happen in a snap.

All the jobs you have applied to, end up in your inbox. The company can also directly communicate with you through the app-tray and through your profile to push any interesting opportunities. You can also star jobs and save them for later in your inbox.

Upload Resume:

You will see an option to upload your resume under edit profile. For the truly lazy among you, this will help you upload your existing word resume and we will show it under the CV tab in your profile. Since we use the Scribd API to do this, your resume will be in public domain and can also be searched via google.

LinkedIn importer:

We had users reporting issues with the LinkedIn importer in the last iteration. We have a stable version now and it should work without a glitch. Should any issue arise, we will be quick to resolve it.

Finally, the Homepage:

We have re-done the homepage to look better and with revise copy and lay-out. It is easier to quickly sign-up/sign-in or explore further. Hope you liked it.

The road ahead:

We will be pushing for more individual and company accounts on Mosambe. We hope to grow this number significantly in the next 6 months. We will be extending Mosambe to work better with networks you are already in, such as Twitter or LinkedIn. We will try and open up the job-board to new applicants, currently jobs posted are tweeted on @mosambejobs channel in twitter, you can also share jobs via Facebook and LinkedIn. We will try and do more to get potential applicants to look at the right jobs and apply to them. We are looking at creative ways to solve this problem.

How you can help:

The number 1 thing you can do is complete your profile on Mosambe and invite more people to Mosambe We are limited in our capacity to spread the word about Mosambe, we will need your support to help evangelize Mosambe on forums known to you. This could be your alumni network, could be your workplace, or could be friends on Facebook or Orkut. We have a fan page on Facebook that you can join to support us and get new updates, also try blogging about Mosambe if you like it. We need all the help and best wishes that we can get!