Introducing Newton’s Document Viewer

Check it out below and please know that the entire Newton Software team wishes you and yours a healthy and happy New Year!

As many of you know, we’ve grown very quickly in the past two years. In fact, this year alone, our active user community has grown by over 1000%. By the end of the year, Newton will be managing nearly 1 million candidate records.

Given our growth and commitment to providing a stable, fast and ever-usable product, we are informing our user community that on Sunday morning for about 90 minutes we are going to be enhancing and improving Newton’s Infrastructure. There may be short periods of downtime during our 90 minute maintenance window.

Our technical team and cloud administrator are doubling Newton’s database size, implementing advanced load balancing technology and tuning a couple of other things to improve Newton’s performance in the Cloud.

Newton is modern, easy-to-use  applicant tracking software designed to organize and improve internal recruiting programs for small and medium sized businesses (30-3000 employees).  Newton features best-of-breed dashboards that create unparalleled visibility and transparency. And, Newton is the only ATS designed to drive the decisions that drive hiring taking into account all users in the corporate recruiting workflow. Industry leading adoption rates (+90%) ensure easy collaboration and powerful performance driven metrics allow HR and Recruiting users to be in control.

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.

A preview of Newton's Job Approval feature

In just a couple of weeks,  we’re going to announce the availability of our newest feature in Newton, Job Approval.  We’ve spent several months scoping, designing, redesigning and testing our Job Approval feature and we’re certain it’s going to provide a ton of value for our clients. We could have just built our Job Approval process like every other ATS vendor. It would have taken a lot less time and energy.  But, true to Newton form, we wanted to make the feature easier for everyone to use from hiring managers, to approvers, to administrators. And, having used clunky approval processes in the past ourselves, we want to build something that we’d want to use if we were still in recruiting and HR.

First, here ‘s a little background if you’re not familiar with the notion of Job Approval.

What is a job approval process?

A job approval process allows hiring managers and supervisors to request approval for a requisition. The requested job is then put through an email driven approval process before it can be activated.

What are the top reasons companies need a  job approval process?

Consistency:  Organizations want to ensure that when there is a request to add headcount, a consistent audit process is initiated.

Control:  Human resource teams want to ensure that the appropriate audits are completed before resourcing the recruiting process to fill a job.

Readiness: In addition to being certain that they are working on approved requisitions,  recruiters like the visibility that a job approval process creates. They know what reqs are coming down the pike.

Sometimes, I hear people comment that Newton has ‘made a better mousetrap’.  That’s flattering and frankly, we try. After all, applicant tracking software isn’t a new concept. We’re not creating a new category here. We’re building modern technology that works better.  So in that spirit, here are some of the considerations that we took into account when our team designed Newton’s Job Approval feature.

We look at Job Approval as a simple matter of checks and balances.

Visibility: Until now, job approvals have been difficult to track as they go from one person to the next person to the next with very little visibility. As a result, jobs get parked/locked in someone’s inbox and take too long to get approved.  Administrators of Newton’s Job Approval feature will always have a dashboard to oversee approval processes in real time so they can address bottlenecks before they become log jams.

Automation: It is time consuming to forward approval requests from one person to the next manually. In Newton, once approval processes are set, the platform will automate the distribution of approvals to promote efficiency.

Transparency:  Think about the very nature of the term ‘approval’. Users need proof that jobs  are authorized by proper authorities before finance is asked for budget.  Newton creates complete transparency so approvers know who else has ‘touched the gun.

Flexibility: The Job Approval processes that we used as recruiters back in the day were rigid and clunky, designed as a one size fits all solutions.  We designed Newton’s Job Approval feature to be dynamic. Whether your organization that needs an agile, just-in-time process or rules-based, sequential Job Approval functionality, there’s a workflow in Newton that will easily work for you.

Stay tuned for a general availability announcement soon.

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’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.

Last week we made over 80 enhancements to Newton, our popular applicant tracking software. Many are behind the scenes improvements to ensure that Newton remains fast and works better than ever. This marks our 3rd release of the year so far and we’ve only just begun.

We’ve also added the following new features.

• You can now upload documents to jobs including .xls files. That’s right you can upload Excel spreadsheets to Newton now to both jobs and candidates. Why not right?
• For those folks working on small monitors, we’ve added a Zoom feature.  Just go to your personal settings and adjust the size of Newton to fit your monitor.
• We’ve continued to enhance candidate search. We’ve always support all Boolean operators and now we’ve added more filters so searching Newton is even easier.

We are aggressively working on the next release that will include enhanced screening questions and a huge position control feature that lot’s of our customers have been asking for recently.

Since its inception in 2009, Newton has been the innovator in recruiting analytics offering customers the most advanced real-time recruiting analytics feature available.   Now, we’re happy to announce the availability of Newton’s custom reporting engine. You’ll still be able to intuitively dive into anything you want from your real-time analytics dashboard. But, for those of you that want to build, save and share customized reports, we’ve designed the applicant tracking software industry’s most powerful, easy-to-use custom reporting engine.

Report on candidate pipelines, user activity, requisitions, job postings, candidate sources, hires and more.Have a custom report that your company likes to use? Build it with Newton’s drag and drop interface, save it and run it anytime!

Reporting has traditionally been one of the biggest resource hogs. Knowing this, we created a reports-specific database in the Cloud just to run reports so crunching large data sets won’t slow you (or anyone else) down. Share recruiting metrics with anyone on your team. with one-click and you can export production quality reports to Excel.

We’ve always been interested in providing our customers with killer reporting  features.  Today, Newton delivers the most advanced real-time recruiting analytics dashboard of any applicant tracking software available. Newton’s recruiting dashboards provide fast answers to the most common questions that come up in recruiting.  Our interactive user  interfaces tell a story and provide a level of visibility and accountability that help organizations avoid the recruiting for of war.

In a couple of weeks, we’re releasing our next generation reporting engine that will allow our customers to report on all information that Newton collects. Think of this as Newton Recruiting Metrics 2.0.  Our product team has designed an easy-to-use,drag and drop interface that allows users to create custom reports like:

Current Candidate Pipeline

User Activity Summaries

Active Job details

Job Posting Reports

Candidate Source Summaries and more

In a few short weeks, Newton users will create customer reports and export them to – get this – pre-formatted Excel documents or CSVs.  Yes, the reports will be formatted! We’re testing the Newton Analytics and Reporting release right now.  We’ll be releasing a feature video shortly and we’re demo’ing the release now!