Automated job requisition processes aren’t just for large companies anymore. If you are familiar with Newton, you already know that Newton is applicant tracking software that’s specifically designed to manage and organize corporate recruiting. Now small and medium sized businesses leverage Newton to create user friendly, effective job requisition approval processes.

Having used complicated, rigid tools in the past ourselves, we felt it was time to reinvent job approval. Say hello to Newton’s job requisition approval process. It’s easy, it’s effective and it’s flexible!

Here’s is a quick overview of how it works. Just click the box below.

Newton’s products team continues their agile sprint, shipping another important release just 4 weeks after making over 80 improvements to our popular, best-selling applicant tracking software. The release of Newton 3.9.6.2 is the third major release this year further solidifying our commitment to continually improving Newton, smart corporate recruiting software.

New Features and Configurations

Improved Careers Page Functionality:

Creating a streamlined, straightforward applicant experience has always been one of our major goals. Starting today, Administrators can make it even easier to organize jobs on careers pages integrated with Newton. And best of all, there’s no IT support required to make changes. Newton enables companies to display their jobs in over 20 user friendly configurations including:

• Show an alphabetical list of all jobs
• Show as list of jobs with location
• Group Jobs by Department
• Group Jobs by Location
• Include a search box that allows candidates to search jobs by key word
• Include a filter for department
• Include a filter for location

Internal Jobs Feed URL:

Choose to post jobs internally and even both internally and externally. We’ve created a feed for internal jobs that webmasters can use to post jobs on your corporate intranet site, SharePoint site, internal wiki and other internal communication vehicles.

Home Page Enhancements:

Hiring is hot and many of the internal recruiters that use Newton are managing more jobs than ever. In effort to keep their home pages clean and orderly, we’ve added the ability to toggle between pages of open jobs. Newton’s home page remains the useful dashboard in the applicant management software industry.

One of the qualities that we’re most proud of is Newton’s ability to clear the ‘fog of war’ that often envelopes corporate recruiting programs. At the end of the day, the most important benefit that applicant tracking software can provide is visibility. Recruiting is a ‘busy’ business process that creates a massive amount of information. Organizing and managing this information into easy to access, easy to read dashboards is paramount.

We’ve designed Newton’s home page to be ‘air traffic control’ for corporate hiring. See all of the jobs that are important to you at a glance and all of your applicants in the pipelines for those jobs organized by what stage of the process they are in. Newton’s home page creates an automatic staffing report just by logging in and doesn’t require any clicking around. Now, turn on Newton’s enhanced interview tracking feature and get detailed, real-time visibility into each candidates’ interview stage like 1st phone screens, 2nd interviews and even rescheduled interviews automatically. You’ll track the number of phone screens, the number interviews and even reschedules for each candidate right from your home page.

Using Newton’s enhanced interview tracking feature will allow your recruiting team to gather more meaningful and powerful recruiting metrics with very little impact on your hiring managers. Coupled with Newton’s state of the art custom reporting engine, Newton’s interview tracking capabilities empower organizations to continuously improve recruiting efficiency and overall effectiveness.

You made suggestions. We listened.

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.

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.