Join recruiting and HR leaders, Newton Software Co-Founder Joel Passen and SharedHR CEO Paul Finkle, for this informative webinar.

When:  Tuesday, February 14^th, from 10am- 11am Pacific Time.

Register Now! Space will be limited to 100 participants.

Why you should attend.

Competing for talent has shifted again. Are you ready?  As the employment market continues to thaw, employers must be ready to be compete for talent again. Learn about the latest tools to help organize and manage efficient and effective recruiting programs, to asking legally permitted interview questions, to making lawful and compelling offers to employment, to getting workers started off on the right foot.

46 percent of new hires leave their jobs by the end of the first year. Learn how to improve your odds. Learn how to involve your managers in the hiring process in this fast paced webinar as our expert speakers review clear, process- driven systems and offer candid tips for interviewing job candidates, hiring correctly, and orienting new hires and managing documentation.

Areas that will be covered include:

• Why your company should always be in hiring mode
• How to make every employee an effective  hiring ambassador
• How to appropriate involve and support managers in the hiring process to build the “right” team
• How to use technology to effectively collaborate to make the best hiring decisions
• How to promote your organization while institutionalizing hiring knowledge
• How to continually improve your hiring process and the quality of your new hires

Based to time and question volume, there will be an opportunity to have your specific questions answered during the webinar.

About Our Speakers:

Paul Finkle, CEO of SharedHR, brings more than 30 years of startup and business experience, with a bias towards connecting people to strategy. Mr Finkle’s deep HR knowledge spans industries from technology, manufacturing, transportation, professional services, and non-profits. SharedHR helps clients design and implement a business process orientation to HR processes and to find the optimal mix of technology and professional support in areas such as training, staffing, and compensation.  Mr Finkle has lectured at major universities, serves frequently as an expert witness in employment litigation, and serves on the Advisory Boards of non-profits and several client companies.

Joel Passen, Co-Founder of Newton Software, is a recognized leader in the talent acquisition field.  Newton Software is a technology company developing popular, easy-to-use corporate applicant tracking software. Joel has been interviewed by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Business Times, NPR, Fist Full of Talent, etc. on matters relating to corporate recruiting. He is also a frequent blogger interested in emerging issues, trends, and technologies related to corporate recruiting and HR Technology. Aside from his numerous duties with Newton Software, Mr. Passen finds time to sit on the Advisory Boards for two growing companies in the talent acquisition industry.

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.

Alabama Employers: How does the latest legislation impact your Affirmative Action and OFCCP requirements?

Attend a regional seminar led by National and Regional experts regarding the often challenging and confusing AA / EEO / OFCCP requirements.

Participants will receive 3 hours of CE credit for your PHR or SPHR certification

Wednesday, November 2, 2011
1:00 P.M. to 4:30 P.M.

THE WESTIN HUNTSVILLE

6800 Governors West, NW Huntsville, AL
T 256-428-5425    F 256-428-2001

Meeting Room – Mediterranean V & VI

Ticket price: $25

Seating is limited – RSVP today!

Parking available

Register for this seminar HERE

Here’s what to expect.

• How DOL and the U.S. Congress have woken the sleeping ADA giant, and why plaintiffs’ attorneys and the EEOC are excited
• What impact the Alabama immigration law will have on your business, and which provisions are likely to withstand judicial challenges
• Your company’s obligation to solicit race and gender data
• The proposed OFCCP guidelines on compensation analyse
• Guidelines for self-evaluation of compensation practices for compliance with EO 11246 with respect to systematic compensation discriminatio
• How to leverage Applicant Tracking technology for compliance, data tracking and storage

Sponsored by:

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Indeed finally unveiled its resume search service officially taking them from the world’s largest search engine for jobs to a more conventional employment site. We say bring it on. Indeed has always done a good job at keeping their tools easy-to-use and with the added functionality, we’re glad someone is giving the traditional sites (Monster, CareerBuilder) a run for their money.  With that in mind, the resume search service on Indeed.com is free (for now).

The resume search is a straightforward search tool, identical to the site’s job search. Searches can be easily narrowed by simply selecting from a menu that appears with search results. We think one of the coolest features is the ability to roll over a job seekers name to reveal a preview of the resume without a click.  Nice design.

Job seekers will appreciate the simplicity of the system. It accepts all forms of resumes and will import a user’s LinkedIn profile. Users can elect to keep the resume private and not findable in a search, or make it public. In the latter case, the contact information is stripped out. Employers use a form to contact the job seeker, who decides whether or not to respond. Job seekers can also apply to jobs they find on Indeed with their resume.

As with any candidate profile, Newton users can simply cut and paste a profile of the applicant into the system and use the parsing engine to add a candidate to their applicant tracking software.

And as always, Newton customers will continue to enjoy the key elements that have set Newton apart from other recruiting software from day one like:

Newton Software’s Head of Marketing, Joel Passen, was asked to provide his predictions of the top 3 trends in the mid-market applicant tracking software industry that all HR executives and corporate recruiting leaders should be aware of going into 2011.  Primarily based on conversations with 100′s of HR executives and corporate recruiters around the US and UK, Joel’s trends are taken from buyers themselves.

Listen to the Podcast to learn what to expect from the applicant tracking industry in 2011.

When you are a marketing person, it’s easy to take what you perceive as ‘the little’ things for granted. Here’s an example.  The other day, a good customer sent us list of suggestions for our product. At the end of the list he added a marketing idea; put a list of all of the web browsers and OS logos that show which Newton is compatible with. Newton works on any browser on both Mac and PC platforms. You can bet that the next iteration of our home page will have some new logos.

Newton is applicant tracking software that works with any commercial web browser.  We specifically test Newton for use with Google’s Chrome, Mozilla’s FireFox and Window’s Internet Explorer.  Newton works on Safari but who cares? Just sayin’. And, given that Newton is completely web based, it doesn’t matter if you’re a Mac or a PC, we’re platform independent – use Newton as you wish on either platform.

Out of curiosity, I took a poll to see what browser Newton employees prefer.
70% Chrome
30% FireFox

We all have IE installed on our machines.
We all have FireFox installed on our computers too.
Steve is the only one with Safari installed on his computer. He says it’s for testing Newton.

Newton Software has joined technology industry leaders like IBM, Microsoft and Netflix by moving our popular applicant tracking software to  Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing environment.  Moving to Amazon’s EC2 platform makes Newton even more agile and provides existing and future customers significant advantages.

Read our full blog post here.

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.

When: Friday, June 18^th at 8:30am PDT

Where: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

Dial in to listen live: (646) 727-1372

Listen anytime: http://www.newtonsoftware.com/blog/category/ned/

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.

This installment of The Proactive Employer with Dr. Stephanie Thomas features Joel Passen, the Vice President of Marketing at Newton Software. Topics include: Recruiting software best practices and trends, EEO and OFCCP compliance, and recruiting software analytics.

Favorite out take:

“Newton is pioneering this trend in the recruiting software space and other vendors will either have to adapt or will fade away. New vendors in the space will definitely perpetuate this trend. ” – Joel Passen talking about the new business model in HR technology: Providing easy-to-use, affordable, best-of-breed, collaborative products with a pure internet distribution model. “

Listen to the interview here:

http://theproactiveemployer.podbean.com/2010/02/19/hr-tech-recruiting-and-compliance-with-joel-passen/