We get nerdy about figuring out ways to make people more efficient. So, we’re excited about the September release of Newton, our popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software.
Newton has always been designed to provide users with helpful dashboards to tell the story of exactly what’s going on in your recruiting program. Now, with suggestions from of our user community, we’ve designed some features to surface more relevant information about jobs without polluting our best in class user interface.
Watch the video to learn more. Oh, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. More to come.
We’re super excited about our upcoming release due out September 10th. Over half of the new features are customer recommendations. Last month, we did a large performance release to ensure that Newton has the capacity and speed to keep up with our growing customer base (we’re serious about performance). September is all about cool new features. Our development team is working away at building and testing 10 great new additions to Newton. We’ve figured we’d give you a quick look at what’s to come.
We’ll release more details on the “Tracking” feature in a couple of days. It will be the only feature of it’s kind in the applicant tracking software world. In the meantime, think “Twitter feed” for your recruiting program.
Here’s a discrete preview of what’s on tap for September.
Last week, we introduced a new utility that enables Newton customers to design even more elegant, powerful careers sites – better places to visit so you can attract and engage candidates and make their first impression memorable.
The first company to take advantage of our newest careers site functionality is MarkLogic, a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, and others. MarkLogic is headquartered in San Carlos, California with field offices in New York, Washington, DC, London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. As a rapidly growing business, MarkLogic understands that creating a great applicant experience is a key differentiator and sets the tone for how seriously they take attracting the best talent.
For more information about how your company can leverage cutting-edge, easy-to-use applicant tracking software to create an amazing careers site like MarkLogic’s contact us.
Often times the terms used in software marketing aren’t that sexy. Take “performance release” for example. Doesn’t sound that cool huh? I agree. But, there’s a concept behind a performance release that’s actually pretty darn important.
This week, we released Newton v3.9.2.5. Our product team is referring to this as a large performance release. We in the marketing department like to call this a tune-up. This tune-up is significant for our users whether they know it or not. For most, Newton is a utility. Our customers rely on Newton. They need their applicant tracking software to be as reliable as possible. Acutely aware of this, we’re committed to constantly making Newton faster and more reliable. So, the features that we released during this development cycle are all geared towards making Newton work better.
Here are some highlights from Newton’s recent tune-up.
Newton response times dropped 50%.
Maximum concurrent users increase 240%.
Candidate Search response times were reduced by 60%.
We issued a press release today to announce that we’ve added over 50 new enhancements to Newton this week. All the new features in the latest release are designed to bolster adoption, further automate tasks, and promote consistency and process improvement. We’re told that this marks the largest release from any mid-market applicant tracking vendor so far this year. We’re also hearing from the analyst community that we have a far more aggressive release schedule than anyone in the HR technology industry. Our product team is aiming to release new enhancements to Newton about every 5 weeks.
It’s great to have new features in Newton and so far, the feedback from some of our nearly 100 customers has been extremely positive. But, the coolest part of this release is that over 60% of the enhancements were generated by our users. That is, we listened to the people that use Newton the most and want to improve the user experience for everyone.
We’re fired up to announce that we won the most substantive segment of the first annual HRtechnology(R) Ironman Competition hosted HR systems integrator, HRchitect. Four vendors including, Newton Software faced off against one another in a competition judged by panelists that preregistered for the event in order to learn more about mid-market applicant tracking software.
The event was comprised of 4 categories during which vendors were asked to showcase their advantages over the competition. We won the coveted “biking” segment which called on the vendors to feature technology, functionality, and usability. The event was a good opportunity for prospective ATS buyers to learn more about the strengths of all the vendors. And, this was a huge morale booster for us as we edged out companies that have been in the applicant tracking industry for 10+ years.
In effort to build awareness for our upcoming NED podcast showcasing the implications of social recruiting on equal opportunity employment, our partner Minimax Consulting put together this short presentation.
Social media is changing the recruiting landscape. And while people are racing to figure out how to harness the power of social recruiting (and even define it), issues related to discrimination and equal opportunity employment are imminent. As you can imagine there’s information available on social networking sites that violates anti-discrimination laws. And, recruiting exclusively with social media can potentially lead to disparate impact. What does this mean? It means that it’s time to better understand the impacts of social media and the implications that it has on recruiting – and your recruiting program.
During this special episode of NED we’ll discuss recruiting via social media and the potential for disparate claims impact claims with Dr. Stephanie Thomas, the Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division of Minimax Consulting.
About Dr. Stephanie Thomas: Stephanie Thomas is the Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division of Minimax Consulting. She specializes in the application of economics and statistics to questions arising in employment decisions. Dr. Thomas has more than a decade of consulting experience, and has provided expert economic and statistical testimony in federal and state courts throughout the country. She has published several papers in professional journals and regularly speaks on equal employment topics. Dr. Thomas is the author of a blog, Statistical Analysis in Employment Law, and hosts “The Proactive Employer” podcast.
About NED: NED is a series of interactive, web-based discussions sponsored by Newton Software, makers of Newton, popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software. NED showcases recruiting industry influencers and innovators who share their tips, tools, techniques and knowledge with our diverse audience. Whether you’re a recruiter, HR professional, business leader or someone generally interested in talent acquisition, we provide valuable information relevant to the business of recruiting. Tune in live or catch up when it’s convenient.
Release the hounds! Ok, that may be a little dramatic. We have one of our biggest releases ever scheduled for June 10th. There are 6 major new features being added to Newton such as:
Newton Email assistant
Online Employment Applications
New Newton Online Knowledge / Support Center
In addition to the new features, there are over 20 enhancements in this release. Many of the enhancements (over 60%) are requests we’ve received from our customers. Finally, we’re not done here. We’re going to turn around and do another special release by the end of June before we ship Newton 4.0 in July. It’s going to be a busy summer.
Ever wish you could automate phone screens and conduct reference checks automatically? Well, now you can and Guy Hirsch, the founder and CEO of SayHired is going to tell us how on the June 4th installment of NED. SayHired’s system automatically phone screens candidates and conducts reference checks without a recruiter ever having to pick up a phone. With flexible pricing plans that work for any company, SayHired is automating some of the most time consuming steps of any recruiting process.
About Guy: Guy Hirsch is the founder & CEO of SayHired, the start up that disrupts the recruiting services. As CEO, Guy sets the overall direction for SayHired. Prior to founding SayHired, Guy founded Vestopia, a social investing site with over 50,000 members and $20M in tracked assets. Before Vestopia, Guy founded and sold Patus Inc., a Homeland Security company selling olfactory based solutions to Police and Military forces worldwide. Before Patus Guy was the CMO for the Economic Company, Ltd, a boutique financial consulting firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Guy hold LL.B. and BA from the IDC, Israel’s highest ranked private University.
About NED: NED is a series of interactive, web-based discussions sponsored by Newton Software, makers of Newton, popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software. NED showcases recruiting industry influencers and innovators who share their tips, tools, techniques and knowledge with our diverse audience. Whether you’re a recruiter, HR professional, business leader or someone generally interested in talent acquisition, we provide valuable information relevant to the business of recruiting. Tune in live or catch up when it’s convenient.
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We’re fired up to announce that we won the most substantive segment of the first annual HRtechnology(R) 
Social media is changing the recruiting landscape. And while people are racing to figure out how to harness the power of social recruiting (and even define it), issues related to discrimination and equal opportunity employment are imminent. As you can imagine there’s information available on social networking sites that violates anti-discrimination laws. And, recruiting exclusively with social media can potentially lead to disparate impact. What does this mean? It means that it’s time to better understand the impacts of social media and the implications that it has on recruiting – and your recruiting program.
About Dr. Stephanie Thomas: Stephanie Thomas is the Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division of 
Release the hounds! Ok, that may be a little dramatic. We have one of our biggest releases ever scheduled for June 10th. There are 6 major new features being added to Newton such as:
About Guy: Guy Hirsch is the founder & CEO of