Tune into to DriveThurHR on Thursday, Feb 9th, 2012 at 12:00pm CST for a lunch conversation with Newton Software’s Head of Marketing, Joel Passen.
Joel will join Wempen and Tincup for clever bantor, real insights and interesting thoughts on HR, HR Tech and other issues that are front of mind with all Human Resources pros.
Newton Software a leading provider of mid-market, corporate applicant tracking software announced the appointment of Jonathan Chenard to the position of Vice President of Services.
“Bringing Jonathan on board is huge step forward for Newton Software as he will serve as highly valuable member of our executive team but the real winners are our customers ,” said Joel Passen, Newton Software’s Head of Marketing and Co-founder. “Jonathan couldn’t have a more relevant background for a recruiting software company like ours. His 10 plus years of experience with business software combined with his most recent 7 plus years in the corporate recruiting industry will provide our customers with unparalleled competence and subject matter expertise.”
Prior to Newton Software, Jonathan was Vice President of Services and Delivery at GravityPeople, a leading provider of talent acquisition and recruitment outsourcing (RPO) solutions. GravityPeople was recently named to Fortune Magazine’s Fast 500. Chenard also served as a Professional Services Manager and Sales Engineer at Marketsoft (now IBM), a global provider of sales and marketing automation software and services. Jonathan started his career as an International Systems Analyst at The Mathworks, the world’s leading developer of technical computing software for engineers and scientists in industry, government, and education. Jonathan, originally from Massachusetts, is a graduate of Manhattanville College.
“I’ve watched Newton grow firsthand from just a couple of lines of code to now the fastest growing recruitment software platform in the industry”, said Chenard. “I’ve been continually impressed with the company’s ability to rapidly deploy new, thoughtful features which push the limits of what anyone else is doing. I’m thrilled to be joining Newton at a time of explosive growth and am eager to partner with our clients to help them leverage the best application tracking software around to better manage and organize their own top notch recruiting programs.”
About Newton Software
Newton is modern, easy-to-use applicant tracking software designed to organize and improve internal recruiting programs for small and medium sized businesses (30-3000 employees). Newton features best-of-breed dashboards that create unparalleled visibility and transparency. And, Newton is the only ATS designed to drive the decisions that drive hiring taking into account all users in the corporate recruiting workflow. Industry leading adoption rates (+90%) ensure easy collaboration and powerful performance driven metrics allow HR and Recruiting users are in control.
We’re always looking for ways to share information with with our customers, contacts and folks that are interested in learning more about our company and our smart, easy-to-use applicant tracking software. And, recently, we’ve keenly interested in the social media space as we’re designing Newton’s social recruiting strategy (yes, it’s coming and it’s going to be sweet). So, we figured it would be fitting to develop a strong presence on Google+. Please “like” our Newton Software Google+ page or add us to one of your circles.
Here is a preview our Google+ page with pictures, screenshots and videos.
Newton Software’s Recruiting Software Blog was recently listed as one of the top 50 recruiting blogs on the web. Beyond content specifically related to our award-winning applicant tracking software, our blog is a great resource for people that want to stay on top of trends in the corporate recruiting space, HR Technology and more.
As many of you know, we’ve grown very quickly in the past two years. In fact, this year alone, our active user community has grown by over 1000%. By the end of the year, Newton will be managing nearly 1 million candidate records.
Given our growth and commitment to providing a stable, fast and ever-usable product, we are informing our user community that on Sunday morning for about 90 minutes we are going to be enhancing and improving Newton’s Infrastructure. There may be short periods of downtime during our 90 minute maintenance window.
Our technical team and cloud administrator are doubling Newton’s database size, implementing advanced load balancing technology and tuning a couple of other things to improve Newton’s performance in the Cloud.
Newton is modern, easy-to-use applicant tracking software designed to organize and improve internal recruiting programs for small and medium sized businesses (30-3000 employees). Newton features best-of-breed dashboards that create unparalleled visibility and transparency. And, Newton is the only ATS designed to drive the decisions that drive hiring taking into account all users in the corporate recruiting workflow. Industry leading adoption rates (+90%) ensure easy collaboration and powerful performance driven metrics allow HR and Recruiting users to be in control.
Whenever we design new features for Newton, our leading mid-market applicant tracking software, we always keep in mind that knowledge is power. We understand that a variety of people involved in the recruiting process come to Newton for answers so transparency and visibility are key. People who use Newton liken the home page to air traffic control for recruiting. It’s an instant staffing report online.
Well, we just made Newton’s home page more powerful by adding enhancements that provide even better visibility. Based on feedback from our user community and some ideas of our own, we’ve made some enhancements. In our most recent release, we give our users the power of viewing more information about jobs on the home page. And, you can now arrange jobs in a variety of different ways to meet you needs.
Starting next week, you can arrange jobs by:
Location
Job ID
Department
Date activated (oldest to newest)
You can choose how many jobs you want to display on your home page.
You can sort jobs alphabetically or sort them by oldest to newest.
And, you can even filter jobs on your home page by location or department.
To learn more, request a demo, or speak to a Newton applicant tracking specialist, contact us.
FlashCamp is a free developer event focused on Flex 2, Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder. The event will be hosted at the Adobe San Francisco Office on Friday night, May 29th. Building off the experience from ApolloCamp, this even will focus on the next generation of Flex and other flash technologies.
Newton’s recruiting software is one of the first enterprise Rich Internet Applications to utilize the Flex platform. The FlashCamp event is an opportunity to cover everything you need to know about getting started with building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe technology. Learn why Flex is the tool of choice for web-based applications.
Hosted by Adobe, the event will include food and drinks for all participants. Adobe’s Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, will be making the keynote speech about the future of Rich Internet Applications. Adobe engineers will also be available to chat with at the event.
To register for FlashCamp San Francisco: Click Here
Welcome to the Newton News, our most recent addition to Newtonondemand.com. The Newton News section will cover company developments, recruiting software, the human resources industry and the job market. Our goal is to update you with company news and keep a finger on the pulse of the industry as a whole.
Stay tuned for regular updates and editorials. We will try our best to post the most interesting developments from inside Newton and shed some light on the state of technology in the human resources field.
Tune into to DriveThurHR on Thursday, Feb 9th, 2012 at 12:00pm CST for a lunch conversation with Newton Software’s Head of Marketing, Joel Passen.
