Accurate candidate job travel distance and time

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Providing accurate job travel distances and expected commute times for candidates is a time consuming process. You would typically open your preferred mapping platform such as Google Maps, paste the work location, paste the candidate address and click for directions. Repeat for all candidates and your day has disappeared.

That’s why we created an accurate job travel distance and commute time solution, that can even work in bulk, helping candidates see which jobs are within their acceptable commute duration or helping recruiters filter candidates willing to travel to the job.

How many times have you found the perfect candidate to then have them reject the job as it’s too far away, or it’s within their radius but will take too long to travel?

Commute time, not just distance

Gone are the days when you can just set a commutable radius. A 10 mile commute can take 10 minutes in one location and an hour somewhere else. It’s much easier for the candidate to state their acceptable commute duration.

Car, bus, train, cycle or walk, our new commute time calculator can provide times for each transport method.

How to use our distance and time calculator

We’ve got you covered, our tool can be used almost anywhere.

  • Backend CRM, filter candidates by their allowed travel time, remove ineligible candidates right from the start
  • On your website, let candidates quickly generate travel time and map right on the job page or filter job results by travel duration
  • Wherever fits your workflow

How about a demo

This demo will map two distinct addresses, you don’t have to give away actual address on your website, we can hide the map or give a generic address or simply provide distance and time info to the candidate.

How cool is that?

How does the distance and time calculator work?

We leverage the Google Mapping API to provide the magic. They have a generous free tier meaning many of our customers can use the tool free of charge, heavier users will hit a charge, you can estimate that here https://mapsplatform.google.com/pricing/

How do I get it?

Simply get in touch, letting us know how and where you want to use the tool. Each customer uses the tool in a different way meaning we don’t have a set fee, instead we cost per project making for a fair price depending on the work involved.

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