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.
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.
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.
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.
FlashCamp is a free developer event focused on Flex 2, Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder. The event will be hosted at the Adobe San Francisco Office on Friday night, May 29th. Building off the experience from ApolloCamp, this even will focus on the next generation of Flex and other flash technologies.
Newton’s recruiting software is one of the first enterprise Rich Internet Applications to utilize the Flex platform. The FlashCamp event is an opportunity to cover everything you need to know about getting started with building Rich Internet Applications with Adobe technology. Learn why Flex is the tool of choice for web-based applications.
Hosted by Adobe, the event will include food and drinks for all participants. Adobe’s Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, will be making the keynote speech about the future of Rich Internet Applications. Adobe engineers will also be available to chat with at the event.
To register for FlashCamp San Francisco: Click Here
