Newton Software, a leading provider of on-demand applicant tracking and recruiting software solutions, and Minimax Consulting, a leading provider of expert statistical analysis of employment decisions and employment litigation risk management, are pleased to announce a joint marketing agreement that will provide significant benefits to customers.
Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D., Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division (EEA/LS) of Minimax Consulting stated, “Our agreement with Newton will position both organizations to enhance service offerings to new and existing customers. We’re looking forward to introducing our clients to Newton, and to providing expert insights and analysis of EEOC and OFCCP compliance for Newton’s customers.”
“The services offered by Minimax’s Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division are a perfect complement to Newton’s capabilities,” said Joel Passen, Newton Software’s Co-Founder and VP of Marketing. “We have a growing number of customers that are relying on our EEO and OFCCP Compliance feature to capture, track and report critical employment data. Dr. Thomas and the Minimax team will now offer our customers the ability to analyze this data to make better employment decisions and to manage employment litigation risks.
About Newton Software:
Newton Software is a leading provider of on-demand applicant tracking and recruiting software solutions. Newton software delivers an easy to use, fast-to-deploy, affordable solution for creating, managing and improving corporate recruiting programs with no hardware to buy or software to license. With deep domain knowledge in corporate recruiting, a best-in-class software-as-a-service platform and a fast-growing community of customers, Newton enables smarter recruiting practices that allow for companies to quickly become more competitive, compliant, and efficient.
Minimax Consulting is a full service consulting firm providing quantitative services across a wide variety of industries. The Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division of Minimax Consulting brings more than ten years of experience in expert statistical analysis of employment decisions and employment litigation risk management. Headed by Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D., the EEA/LS Division provides consulting services, dispute resolution support, and expert testimony to small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, major law firms, and local, state, and federal governments and agencies.The EEA/LS Division specializes in labor and employment issues in both advisory and litigation contexts.
We get asked about careers pages pretty often. Every Newton customer receives a fully-branded careers site that looks exactly like the rest of their corporate website, same colors, same fonts, same everything. Typically, it takes just a couple of hours for our team to set up a job listings page for a new customer. And, best yet, it’s always free.
Now, you’ll add and remove jobs easily, on your own, without any special training or support from IT. And, Newton makes it easy for applicants to apply to your jobs, online, without creating yet another user name or password. And, we don’t believe in lame popup windows or sending applicants to a new browser. With Newton, the applicant’s experience is seamless. You’ll even be able to link Newton to all of your job postings and funnel your online applicants’ right into Newton – No more email folders, no more spam.
Broadcast your openings to the largest job advertising sites, Indeed and SimplyHired, for free with just one click. And, we know that you will want to keep track of your best sources of applicants. Newton will do this for you so you’ll know exactly where to advertise your jobs in the future to get the best results.
In 2004, when we started to design the first iteration of Newton, one of our core ideas was to design applicant tracking software that could easily show someone what’s happening inside of a recruiting program at a glance. We wanted Newton’s home page to be “air traffic control”, only the stuff you need, the blips, not a bunch of peripheral clutter. We also knew that this “dashboard” needed to be interactive so users could drill into the data unlike the spreadsheets that so many people still use today.
Lately, we’ve been exploring some very cool ways to expand on the progress we’ve already made. Recently, we announced an enhancement that gives our customers the ability to view and manage recruiting data for multiple divisions or business units from on central dashboard – one login. Now our customers with multiple recruiting teams can stay on top of what’s going on in various BU’s or regions simply.
Currently, we’re working on enhancing the Newton home page by surfacing more critical data for our users in our 4.0 release due out in several weeks. And, our product design team is also working on improving Newton Analytics, currently our most popular recruiting dashboard. We even have some secret things in the mix that will come to fruition in the summer, stuff no one has seen yet. More to come.
EEO Compliance. Make you nervous? Applicant flow logs, hired/offers logs, reasons for non-selection for every applicant, minimum requirements for every job. Tracking all of this is nearly impossible let alone actually reporting it – until now.
We’ve designed an elegant, powerful feature in our recruiting software to track and report all of your EEO data for you - automatically. No more going back in time to add missing data, no reason for spreadsheets and no extra work for your team. Newton’s EEO / OFCCP tracking feature is the most advanced on the market and we’ve designed it to be the easiest-to-use too.
Track reason for non-selection for every candidate, build appropriate minimum qualification questions for every job, ensure that you’re being an equal opportunity employer and build the same reports that used to take you weeks or months in minutes. Sign up with Newton, it’s like insurance for your recruiting program.
Newton now automatically captures reasons for non-selection.
EEO Compliance. Make your stomach turn? Applicant flow logs, hired/offers logs, reasons for non-selection, minimum requirements - how do you capture and keep track all of this information? Until now, we know it’s been a time consuming struggle. So, we’ve designed an elegant, intuitive new feature in our recruiting software to track all of this data for you - automatically. No more going back in time to add missing data, no reason to maintain multiple spreadsheets and no more extra steps for your hiring managers. Newton’s EEO / OFCCP compliance feature is the most advanced on the market and we’ve designed it to be the easiest-to-use too.
With Newton you’ll automatically capture, store and track required EEO information without ever creating more work for your team. You’ll build the right content with your labor attorney or HR experts ahead of time so you’ll never scramble when your number comes up with the auditors. From now on, avoid the headaches and never worry about costly fines, EEO / OFCCP compliance is at your fingertips. Newton’s EEO/ OFCCP tracking feature is like insurance for your recruiting program.
Newton Software’s EEO / OFCCP tracking feature is going to be available January 1, 2010.
Join Matt and Joel for an internet WebMingle and open discussion on Friday, December 8th at 1:00pm CST. It’s sure to be a lively talk covering topics ranging from evidence of the improving recruiting market, to emerging trends in the recruiting software space. This is a live broadcast and you are invited call in during the show to ask Joel questions.
As the leading HR Systems consulting firm, HRchitect created this weekly WebMingle to provide some insight into the puzzling world of HR technology. Matt Lafata, VP of Sales & Marketing at HRchitect hosts these weekly broadcasts and Tiffany Appleby, Director of Marketing & Corporate Communications serves as Program Director for the WebMingle.
Automated rejection letters aren’t a new thing. But, having used these features ourselves over the years, we felt it was time to reinvent them.
Introducing Newton Thank You Letters, they’ve been a long time coming. Now you can quickly and easily send automatic, stage specific thank you letters to any candidate that has ever applied to or interviewed for any job at your company without additional administrative work. And, best of all, the feature is smart so you’ll know if applicants are assigned to other jobs or have received previous thank you messages.
We designed this feature to be flexible, to save you time and to help you continually improve your recruiting program. So far, our beta users are really excited about Thank You Letters. And,the feedback from applicants has been overwhelmingly positive too. People love to know where they stand.
Our product team spent a lot of time working on the experience (both employer and applicant), the interface, the workflow, and the efficiency of this feature. Many variations and hundreds of little tweaks later, we’re pretty sure we nailed it. We hope you’ll agree.
Here are some Thank You Letter “highlights”.
Newton comes standard with pre-built, customizable, thank you letter templates for every stage of the recruiting process. There is a set of corporate templates and a set for each user to personalize.
Choose the email aliases from which to send Thank You Letters, corporate or personal email addresses.
Decide which members of your team are permitted to send thank you letters.
Preview and customize individual thank you letters easily before sending. Choose your desired email alias too.
Newton will alert you if an applicant is a duplicate, interviewing for another role at your company and if they’ve received previous thank you messages.
Pending Thank You Letters are stored so you can send them later and even send them in bulk. This gives HR / recruiting departments better control of the messaging.
Here’s another company worth watching. Check out Bamboo HR. Bamboo HR is an online HR database that gives you easy access to your employee records, relieves paperwork headaches, and reduces employee management costs for businesses of all sizes. Bamboo HR allows you to manage employee records, track required training, and store important documents securely on the web so all of you HR information is in one place.
Not only is their name cool, we love their business model too. Bamboo HR offers a 30-day free trial, simple pricing for companies of all sizes and their service is pay-as-you-go. Seem like a no-brainer.
Help us win a Crunchie! What the heck is a Crunchie? The Crunchies are to technology what the Oscars are to Hollywood. The awards celebrate the best technology and design accomplishments of 2009. Sponsored by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, the awards will be presented to a packed house on Friday January 8, 2010 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
Starting today, you can nominate our popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software, Newton, for “Best Design”. The Crunchies Committee will choose five finalists per award category based on the submitted nominations and the company accomplishments made during 2009. Popular voting will open on Monday, December 21 and run through midnight PT, Wednesday January 6, 2010.
Here’s an example of our design work:
Newton Software has already been nominated for “Best Design” and now we need your support.
1. First, we need your help getting noticed by the judges so NOMINATE us yourself! or click on the badge below.
2. When we make it, we’ll need your vote sometime between December 21st and January 6th 2010. We’ll let you know when we are in the running. You can vote here
The Top Reasons to Nominate Newton Software for a “Best Design” Crunchie
You are a friend, an associate, or a contact that respects us and wants to see us win an award.
You feel bad for us for starting a recruiting software company amidst the worst recession in decades, possibly centuries.
We are underdogs and it’s cool to vote for underdogs.
We have only one and a half designers at Newton Software. They are both self-taught.
We are bootstrapped. We use our own minds, our own ideas, and our own money to design great recruiting software.
For us, great design is core to our philosophy. In fact, if you’ve ever read our blog posts about design, you may think we’re a little obsessed it.
We are indeed obsessed with designing easy-to-use software.
If you’ve used Newton, our kick-ass applicant tracking software, then you’ll know that we design software to make people’s jobs easier.
We think so. For the past several months, we’ve worked with our customers, lawyers, and even an OFCCP compliance officer to design Newton’s compliance module. Today, our development team finally started implementing this feature that will make OFCCP and EEO compliance a breeze. While we’ve always allowed our customers to collect EEO data, we recently decided to expand this feature providing our customers the easiest way to collect, store and report critical information often required by the US Government.
By mid-December, customers of Newton who are subject to laws administered by the OFCCP (Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs) will have the most advanced tracking and reporting feature available in any applicant tracking system. And, for our larger customers, those over 50 employees, Newton EEO/ OFCCP is going to be a veritable compliance blessing spitting out applicant flow logs that export to the same form required by the US Government.
So stay tuned, we’ll have more information on this time saving feature out soon.
Newton Software, a leading provider of on-demand applicant tracking and recruiting software solutions, and Minimax Consulting, a leading provider of expert statistical analysis of employment decisions and employment litigation risk management, are pleased to announce a joint marketing agreement that will provide significant benefits to customers.
Here’s another company worth watching. Check out Bamboo HR. Bamboo HR is an online HR database that gives you easy access to your employee records, relieves paperwork headaches, and reduces employee management costs for businesses of all sizes. Bamboo HR allows you to manage employee records, track required training, and store important documents securely on the web so all of you HR information is in one place.
