This weekend we launched another small Newton enhancement: when assigning candidates to jobs you can now copy attachments over to the new job. We also increased the maximum file size for attachments to 2.5MB.
We have another large feature release coming near the end of the month. We’ll be addressing the following:
Hiding system history messages
Adding “review request” email templates (the end of alerts as you know them)
At Newton Software we’re passionate about recruiting. We’ve been members of the recruiting community for over a decade and what motivates us day in and day out is continuously learning about and trying new things. This is why we created NED, a series of web-based discussions, that showcase 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.
Join Newton’s, Joel Passen, for an interview with Stephanie Thomas, the Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division of Minimax Consulting, as she outlines 5 easy steps to take to be a proactive employer.
Dr. Thomas specializes in the application of economics and statistics to questions arising in employment decisions. She 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.
Doing the right thing (sending Thank You Letters to every candidate that has ever applied to or interviewed for one of your jobs) feels good. While we didn’t invent the thank you letter, we did make them easy to send and both employers and applicants are speaking up.
“Just wanted to let you guys know that I’ve sent out two thank you letters to “non responsive” candidates. Both of them got back to me the same day.” – Sr. Recruiter, SolutionStream
“I really appreciate your feedback!Almost all the time, I hardly get any reply back from the employers/recruiters I apply to for jobs.You’re one of the very few exceptions.” – Job Applicant, Newton customer
Thanks for send me a note to let me know where I stand. A couple of my co-workers are looking right now. I will suggest that they check out your open jobs. – Job Applicant, Newton customer
“I love it! I was able to send out all my Thank You Letters today -thanks” Recruiter, Relyon
“It’s nice when recruiting software can actually do some of my heavy lifting and at the same time provide such a high level of service to candidates. You guys built a double whammy” Sr. Technical Recruiter, Proofpoint.
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.
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.
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.
Join Newton’s, Joel Passen, for an interview with Stephanie Thomas, the Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division of Minimax Consulting, as she outlines 5 easy steps to take to be a proactive employer.
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.
