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.
EEO Compliance. Make you nervous? Applicant flow logs, hired/offers logs, reasons for non-selection for every applicant, minimum requirements for every job. Tracking all of this is nearly impossible let alone actually reporting it – until now.
We’ve designed an elegant, powerful feature in our recruiting software to track and report all of your EEO data for you - automatically. No more going back in time to add missing data, no reason for spreadsheets and no extra work for your team. Newton’s EEO / OFCCP tracking feature is the most advanced on the market and we’ve designed it to be the easiest-to-use too.
Track reason for non-selection for every candidate, build appropriate minimum qualification questions for every job, ensure that you’re being an equal opportunity employer and build the same reports that used to take you weeks or months in minutes. Sign up with Newton, it’s like insurance for your recruiting program.
Newton now automatically captures reasons for non-selection.
EEO Compliance. Make your stomach turn? Applicant flow logs, hired/offers logs, reasons for non-selection, minimum requirements - how do you capture and keep track all of this information? Until now, we know it’s been a time consuming struggle. So, we’ve designed an elegant, intuitive new feature in our recruiting software to track all of this data for you - automatically. No more going back in time to add missing data, no reason to maintain multiple spreadsheets and no more extra steps for your hiring managers. Newton’s EEO / OFCCP compliance feature is the most advanced on the market and we’ve designed it to be the easiest-to-use too.
With Newton you’ll automatically capture, store and track required EEO information without ever creating more work for your team. You’ll build the right content with your labor attorney or HR experts ahead of time so you’ll never scramble when your number comes up with the auditors. From now on, avoid the headaches and never worry about costly fines, EEO / OFCCP compliance is at your fingertips. Newton’s EEO/ OFCCP tracking feature is like insurance for your recruiting program.
Newton Software’s EEO / OFCCP tracking feature is going to be available January 1, 2010.
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.
So here’s the deal. For the past couple of months, our customers have been asking for an efficient way to acknowledge candidates that don’t make the cut. At first blush, this seemed easy enough. But, as our product team began researching and designing the feature, all sorts of complexities became evident.
Some interesting questions were raised. Questions like:
What if a candidate has applied to or is assigned to more than one job? And. What if she is active on multiple other jobs?
Who should send thank you letters? Should hiring managers be able to? Only HR?
Thank you letters should be stage specific. How can we make them more intelligent?
Should thank you letters come from HR or an individual’s email account?
What if you’ve already sent a thank you letter to someone in the past? Should you send another?
If hiring managers are not permitted to send thank you letters but your company still wants to send them, how should you store them to be sent later?
What if you source passive candidates? Will Newton help you determine whether you’ve spoken with someone before sending a thank you letter?
Yeah, some stuff to think about huh? So, what we thought would take a couple of weeks to design, has taken nearly three solid months and a lot of brain cells. But, the good news is Newton’s Thank You Letter feature is super thoughtful and ultimately will improve life for both employers and applicants. That’s the goal!
Right now, we’re just making sure everything works great. Look for Newton Thank You Letters in two weeks.
This weekend we released an enhanced version of Newton Analytics, our performance management dashboard. Not only have we made the dashboard more intuitive and easier to read, we also improved some of the algorithms making Newton more powerful than ever. Here are the improvements:
New Newton Recruiting Analytics Dashboard
New Outflow Graphing:
The new “Outflows” graph shows you candidates that were inactivated, and candidates your company pursued including percentages for easy, at-a-glance reference.
Improved Candidate Source Tracking:
Newton now surfaces stage-to-stage applicant source information instantly. See where you are getting your applicants from in real-time. Take a deeper dive to see which sources give you the best candidates too.
Improved Time to Pursue Information:
Drill into your process, use the “Average Days to Pursue a Candidate Bar” to identify slow moving jobs, or “curve-busters” that skew your data. “Time to Pursue” is a great tool to identify stages in the recruiting process that may need your attention.
New Candidate Distribution Graph:
Easily identify which jobs are receiving the most or least activity. Newton now ranks each job by candidate flow—at every stage.
Today we released a new feature that allows you to ask applicants to submit additional documents during the job application process. Now you can further customize your application process by hiding, requiring or giving applicants the option to upload additional documents when they apply to jobs.
To customize your application process, go to the “Administration” tab and then select “Careers Page”. See all documents associated with each applicant including their original resume, cover letter, references, etc.
Now, when you are looking at an applicant in Newton, you will notice that on the bar above the applicant’s profile, there is a list of the documents associated with that applicant. For example, Bobby Filet has his original resume, a cover letter, and another document attached to his record. Upload any document to store with an applicant’s record. It’s easy!
Pulling from the emerging movement of evidence-based management, Newton helps people answer important questions that arise in recruiting programs with real-time data. Simply put, Newton helps people solve problems and make decision based on the most up-to-the-second information available.
Next week we are releasing the newest version of Newton Analytics. Expect a formal announcement on September 23rd. In the meantime, here is a sneak preview.
We just made it faster and easier to analyze your recruiting program using Newton. Now you’ll see a tab on your home page called “Analytics” replacing the “Overview” tab. Click the Analytics tab to open a an interactive dashboard that will help you slice and dice you recruiting program. You can analyze your recruiting data based on a selected period of time or by job, or both.
This release, v3.6, is the first of several planned releases to tackle analytics. With a focus on measuring stage-to-stage metrics, we wanted to help our customers answer fundamental questions.
Where do I have bottlenecks?
Where can I get involved to make an immediate impact?
Is everyone in the process doing their part?
Am I spending money on the right resources?
Most importantly, we want to give our customers the power to know when something is going wrong before anyone else notices -to be proactive. After all, as John, our product manager, says, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
Today we released version 3.5 of Newton™. Only six weeks we have elapsed since our last release and this was actually a fairly large upgrade. Going forward, we are going to accelerate our release cycles introducing enhancements every four weeks or so. Stay tuned for information on v3.6, which will include our game-changing analytics feature.
In the meantime, here are the highlights of release v3.5:
• Advertise your jobs for FREE on Indeed and Simplyhired – get candidates for open jobs faster
• New careers site option: Show job locations on your careers site, including international support
• Customize your “Thanks for Applying” Message to candidates who submit their resume to your careers page- let’em know your careers site isn’t a black hole
• Capture and track candidate source data from job advertising sites– know where you are getting your best candidates from
• Edit “Source” Values – easy to add unique candidate sources like alumni boards, niche job boards, etc.
• Various UI improvements make using Newton™ easier to use than ever.
60% of the feature enhancements in v3.5 stem from customer suggestions. We love customer feedback. Thanks to all of our valued customers for their suggestions, comments, and encouragement.
