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.

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.

We’ll say one thing for Salesforce.com, they really know how to throw a party.  This year Marc Benioff and crew hired 80′s rock megastars Metallica to headline Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual user conference.

We were fortunate to catch Metallica’s first ever corporate event  thanks to our partner, OneSource Virtual HR, the exclusive mid-market reseller of Workday.  OneSource participated at Dreamforce alongside  Workday, a leading HCM technology provider.

Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, integrates seamlessly with Workday’s core HRIS product providing SMB’s the most modern, user friendly, end-to-end talent management platform available.

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.

2010 was a breakout year for Newton Software and our popular applicant tracking software, Newton. We’re taking our momentum into the New Year and  planning a whole slew of new enhancements to Newton. In addition to releasing exciting new features, Newton Software will  join technology industry leaders like IBM, Microsoft and Netflix by moving our product to Amazon’s EC2 Cloud computing environment.  Moving to the Cloud will make Newton even faster and more agile and provide existing and future customers other significant advantages.

Here’s a quick review of 2010

Exciting Growth

• We grew corporate revenue by over 1000% this past year.
• We added nearly 100 new customers.
• We released more new features than any other applicant tracking vendor with 6 major releases (including 2 major performance releases) containing over 150 new product enhancements.

Changing the Conversation

• Simple is in. In a saturated market, we’ve proven that our easy-to-use, intuitive recruiting software and our frictionless business model are what human resources buyers want. More value, less hassle, great service and huge value – that’s what people want. We deliver.
• Ease of use is the new killer feature. Newton’s best in class user interface and intuitive built-in recruiting workflow yields the highest user adoption rates of any applicant management platform +90%.

Right Engine, Right Partners

We’re now seamlessly integrated with the leading mid-market HRIS/HCM solution Workday and their exclusive mid-market reseller and our dear partner, OneSource VHR.  Together, we’re changing the mid-market HR technology landscape by offering customers a modern, complete HR solution. Think seamless, automated, paperless!

Custom Reporting Engine

Last year we released the industry’s only real time recruiting analytics dashboard. In just a couple of weeks we’ll release the most powerful custom reporting engine in the business. A drag a drop report builder will help Newton users create customized recruiting reports, save them and even export them to a formatted (yes, something you can send to someone) Excel document.

What’s next?

Well, we don’t want to give away the farm here but we can tell you that our next features involve modernizing internal referral programs, position control, social recruiting and mobile – SEXY!

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.

Everyone will agree, one of the keys to running a successful corporate recruiting program is staying organized. In today’s world, where applicants can easily apply to hundreds of openings with a few mouse clicks and each job attracts hundreds of candidates, keeping track of everyone, especially those diamonds in the rough, is a real challenge.

That is, unless you’re using Newton.

Introducing Newton folders, the easiest way to keep track of candidates of interest.

With Newton folders

• Now you will easily keep track of someone for that job that will open up next month

• Create folders to store awesome applicants

• Have folders to track candidates that are in a specific stage of your recruiting process like people that are completing testing or pre-employment screening

• How about a folder to store candidates from your competitors?

Find an applicant you want to add to a folder and just drag and drop them in.. it’s that easy.

Share your folders with other Newton users or make them private. Newton’s Folders are flexible and designed to help you stay organized.

To learn more about Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, please explore the rest of our site.