Newton Enters the European Market with Prime RPO

Newton has made a leap into the European recruiting market by signing Prime RPO, a UK-based recruitment process outsourcing company. Prime RPO picked Newton based on our software’s flexible nature that was easily adaptable to the needs of a UK recruitment outsourcer.

Charlotte Murdoch, Prime RPO’s head of product delivery, spoke openly about why they picked Newton in a recent article on Recruiter UK: “Initially I was sceptical that a US provider would fully understand – and be able to deliver on – what we needed in the UK and globally thereafter,” she said. “But it was refreshing to get guidance from an ex-RPO recruiter who was able to translate the software jargon and what it meant in real terms for our customers and/or users.”

We look forward to continue to gain global market share by showing our international customers the features that have made Newton so successful in the US.  These features concentrate on solving fundamental problems for RPOs like applicant experience, hiring manager experience, and user adoption.

Newton’s Joel Passen Featured on The Proactive Employer Discussing Newton’s EEO / OFCCP Functionality

Check out our the recent Proactive Employer Podcast featuring Joel Passen discussing Newtons’s new EEO / OFCCP Functionality
Proactive Employer: Newton Software and EEO / OFCCP Functionality

NED Podcast: William Tincup – “Change Your Bait”: Marketing Tips for the Human Capital Industry

William Tincup, of the human capital marketing powerhouse, Starr Tincup, will join NED on April 16th. This is show is not to be missed.  William is a brilliant marketer that brings a fresh approach to both employment branding and marketing businesses in the human capital space.

William and the rest of the team at Starr Tincup have helped more than 150 clients in the human capital space innovate marketing. Whether you’re selling a new talent management solution, a whiz-bang HCM-oriented social media gizmo or good ol’ human resources consulting, these guys know your buyer – likely better than you do.  Starr Tincup wrote the book on human capital marketing – get yours here.

We’ll start this show with William providing a “state of the union” of recruiting over the past year and we’ll dive into what to expect in the future.

When: Friday, April 16th at 11:30am EDT

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

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

Listen anytime: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

About William Tincup:  William is a Principal at Starr Tincup, strategic marketing consultancy for human capital firms. His tombstone will read “harsh but fair”. He’s a seasoned entrepreneur and a sophisticated marketer. He’s  made thousands of mistakes in being both an entrepreneur and a marketer. Like most people, William tries to learn from all his experiences – good, bad and ugly.

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.

NED Podcast: “Recruitment Process Optimization – How to Make Recruiting Work Better”

NED, a podcast series that showcases recruiting industry influencers and innovators, is kicking off an exciting month starting with an interview with Carol Schultz, the CEO of Vertical Elevation.

Carol and her team are pioneering a new trend in the recruiting industry, a fundamental shift from the one-size-fits-all mentality that permeates current, traditional recruitment practices. During this podcast we’ll learn more about Carol’s brainchild, RPOptimization, and how it works.  Undoubtedly, Carol will also  provide us with some tips and techniques on how to better implement recruiting best practices.

When: Friday, April 9th at 11:30am EDT

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

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

Listen anytime: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

About Carol Schultz: Carol Schultz is a pioneer in the Recruitment Process Optimization and Career Strategy Industry. She has built a client base of countless individuals and myriad companies from early stage pre-IPOs to publicly traded companies. Over the past 25 years, she’s honed her industry expertise and formed an intrinsic understanding of successful recruiting processes.  Carol’s company,Vertical Elevation,  combines best-in-class process auditing, executable strategy, and expertise to provide integrated and customized talent-acquisition solutions.

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.

Newton RPO Software and Customer, Buller Group, Featured Online on Recruiter

Newton’s RPO Software and customer, Buller Group, are  featured on popular UK-based Recruiter.

US-based software developer Newton has launched applicant tracking software designed for recruitment process outsourcers (RPO).

Joel Passen, co-founder of Newton and who ran an RPO company handling some 30 Silicon Valley clients for several years, told Recruiter that until now many RPOs hadn’t been leveraging the benefits of technology because they’d tended to use outdated legacy or homegrown systems.

“RPOs manage a multitude of recruiters, thousands of jobs and thousands of hiring managers. This has been designed from the trenches as we know the challenges they face,” he said. Passen believes that the software’s built-in analytics and dashboards will help RPOs sell themselves to prospective clients because of the transparency it brings. “This is a tangible platform that demonstrates accountability and offers clients high visibility into processes.”

Newton RPO is similar to the company’s software-as-a-service product aimed at employers but has a different database structure and additional features which are tailored to external recruiting practices.

Available worldwide, one of the early US users is Virginian-based The Buller Group where managing partner Rob Buller describes it as “the epiphany” software in the RPO world. He told Recruiter that before Newton, applicant tracking systems were just about talent acquisition but Newton adds another layer and provides easy access to key metrics such as time-to-fill, cost-per-hire or submission-to-hire. “It allows businesses to run talent acquisition as a business [process] with real-time, comprehensive and accurate statistics,” he said. “How can you run a people business when you don’t know how the business of hiring people is working?”

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The Recruiting Guru Grills Joel Passen on Newton and the Applicant Tracking Software Market

The Recruiting Guru (@recruiting_guru) is passionate about all things recruiting: tricks, tools, tips, technology and beyond. As an avid blogger and recruiter at heart (day job), the Recruiting Guru is a sleuth, a social media junky and an all around curious guy seeking out the next big things in recruiting. He asks the tough questions and isn’t afraid to speak his mind.   Interview taken from The Recruiting Guru – ‘Interview with Joel Passen of Newton Software’ 3/10/2010

[Guru] Joel, thanks for agreeing to the interview.

[Joel] The honor is mine. I read your tweets.

[Guru] You guys claim to have the easiest to use applicant tracking software. Easy-to-use – I hear this all the time. What makes Newton any different?

[Joel] Frankly, most vendors can’t really explain what makes their software easy-to-use. We can. Newton is easy-to-use because it has recruiting DNA built in. This is particularly evident when you look at Newton’s workflow. It’s flexible and is designed to work the way that recruiting works.  So, from day one, our customers get an application that is smart and understands what they are trying to do. This smart, flexible workflow also allows us to enable critical features like automatically tracking EEO and OFCCP data, sending thank you letters to every candidate and providing real-time analytics.

With Newton, on day one, you get a login, get your job listings online, do a short walk-through with one of our product specialists and that’s it- you’re ready to go. Giving Newton to hiring manages is simple too. And,  it takes just minutes to get them entirely set up. Tell them to hit the green button if they like someone and the red button if they don’t. They love it and they use it which makes life easier for recruiters.

[Guru] So, you can activate Newton in a day?

[Joel] To us, easy-to-use translates to easy to activate – easy to get started. We don’t require customers to wade through paperwork or sign their first born away to get started. And, even better, it doesn’t take much training at all to get started with Newton. Recruiters are up and running in an hour and training a hiring manager takes a matter of minutes. We activate 95% of our customers, soup to nuts in less than 24 hours. And, activating Newton is 100% free – no activation or implementation fees. Oh, and we don’t charge for support either.

[Guru] Ok, so what do you charge for?

[Joel] (laugh) We have tiered pricing plans at Newton and charge for only staffing users. Hiring managers, interviewers, executives and HR stakeholders are all considered general users and we encourage companies to create as many general users as they want for free. And, we never require long-term contracts. Newton is a month to month service, pay as you go. This forces us to earn our customers’ business every month and holds us accountable. We’re forced to provide a stable platform and to continually strive to make Newton better, to be innovative, to listen. We have a saying here: “We design software that we’d want to use and we sell it the way we’d want to buy it”

[Guru] With this type of model, how do you make money? How do you compete?

[Joel] Well, my simple answer is that we charge people to use our software Guru. And, we have quite a few customers so we’re doing really well. But, I know what you’re really asking – how can we survive? Listen, we’re pioneering a trend that’s taking place not just in the applicant tracking space but in the software industry as a whole. With the availability of common platforms and open source tools combined with pure internet distribution models, delivering software is getting more efficient every day. Simply put, it’s gotten cheaper to offer better technology and we’ve built our company and business model reflect the times. Plus, we don’t have the baggage that our competitors have, the debt, the huge teams to support, the fancy offices, the tradeshow booths. We don’t need to charge exorbitant prices or charge for training implementation or any of that peripheral stuff that makes buyers weary.

[Guru] What do these new models mean for the recruiting software space?

[Joel] Well, for the buyers of applicant tracking software, these new trends are great. There’s finally some innovation in the market. It means that software is getting better and less expensive at the same time. Buyers like that. It’s a buyer’s market and it will remain this way.

As for the vendors, this means that they are going to have to find ways to adapt. The competition is going to continue to increase as new vendors come on line offering innovative technology delivered in more economical ways. It’s going to get harder before it gets easier for vendors that aren’t prepared to adapt to the new software economy.

[Guru] So what’s next for Newton Software? Are you guys heading into Talent Management or the HRIS space?

[Joel] Well, as you know, we just released Newton RPO, a version of Newton designed for recruitment outsourcers. We’ve actually had customers using this edition since 2008 but just recently started to market it. We’re comfortable in the recruiting software space. We know recruiting and there are other opportunities in this space.  Otherwise, we have a full product roadmap for scheduled for Newton for the rest of the year consisting of some really killer new features that continue to focus on improving and simplifying recruiting. Beyond that, we have some plans for a new product that we’re not talking about at the moment. You’ll have to stay tuned.

NED Podcast: “Be a Proactive Equal Opportunity Employer in 5 Easy Steps”

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.

Date: Friday, March 5, 2010

Time:  8:30 AM PST

Call-in number to listen live: (646) 727-1372

Listen to this podcast anytime at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

PODCAST: Recruiting Software Best Practices w/ Joel Passen

Date / Time: 2/19/2010 11:30 AM EST

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Call-in Number: (347) 945-5651

In this installment of The Proactive Employer with Dr. Stephanie Thomas we’ll be discussing recruiting technology with guest Joel Passen. Joel is the Vice President of Marketing with Newton Software. Topics include: Recruiting software best practices, EEO and OFCCP compliance, and statistical analysis of recruiting and hiring practices.

About Newton: 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. Featuring the most modern, intuitive application on the market, Newton is not only pushing the boundaries on how recruiting software is designed, it’s also changing the way business software is delivered and purchased. Newton is not just another recruiting tool-kit.  Rather, it’s an application that works like recruiting works from day one- no massive customization required. Requiring very little training to get started, Newton can be activated in less than 48 hours and implementation is always free. Tiered pricing, no long term contracts, no hidden costs and free seats for standard users all make purchasing Newton hassle-free – a unique experience in the HR Technology space.