This weekend we launched another small Newton enhancement: when assigning candidates to jobs you can now copy attachments over to the new job. We also increased the maximum file size for attachments to 2.5MB.
We have another large feature release coming near the end of the month. We’ll be addressing the following:
Hiding system history messages
Adding “review request” email templates (the end of alerts as you know them)
Newton Software, a leading provider of on-demand applicant tracking and recruiting software solutions, and Minimax Consulting, a leading provider of expert statistical analysis of employment decisions and employment litigation risk management, are pleased to announce a joint marketing agreement that will provide significant benefits to customers.
Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D., Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division (EEA/LS) of Minimax Consulting stated, “Our agreement with Newton will position both organizations to enhance service offerings to new and existing customers. We’re looking forward to introducing our clients to Newton, and to providing expert insights and analysis of EEOC and OFCCP compliance for Newton’s customers.”
“The services offered by Minimax’s Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division are a perfect complement to Newton’s capabilities,” said Joel Passen, Newton Software’s Co-Founder and VP of Marketing. “We have a growing number of customers that are relying on our EEO and OFCCP Compliance feature to capture, track and report critical employment data. Dr. Thomas and the Minimax team will now offer our customers the ability to analyze this data to make better employment decisions and to manage employment litigation risks.
About Newton Software:
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. With deep domain knowledge in corporate recruiting, a best-in-class software-as-a-service platform and a fast-growing community of customers, Newton enables smarter recruiting practices that allow for companies to quickly become more competitive, compliant, and efficient.
Minimax Consulting is a full service consulting firm providing quantitative services across a wide variety of industries. The Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division of Minimax Consulting brings more than ten years of experience in expert statistical analysis of employment decisions and employment litigation risk management. Headed by Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D., the EEA/LS Division provides consulting services, dispute resolution support, and expert testimony to small businesses, Fortune 500 companies, major law firms, and local, state, and federal governments and agencies.The EEA/LS Division specializes in labor and employment issues in both advisory and litigation contexts.
Automated rejection letters aren’t a new thing. But, having used these features ourselves over the years, we felt it was time to reinvent them.
Introducing Newton Thank You Letters, they’ve been a long time coming. Now you can quickly and easily send automatic, stage specific thank you letters to any candidate that has ever applied to or interviewed for any job at your company without additional administrative work. And, best of all, the feature is smart so you’ll know if applicants are assigned to other jobs or have received previous thank you messages.
We designed this feature to be flexible, to save you time and to help you continually improve your recruiting program. So far, our beta users are really excited about Thank You Letters. And,the feedback from applicants has been overwhelmingly positive too. People love to know where they stand.
Our product team spent a lot of time working on the experience (both employer and applicant), the interface, the workflow, and the efficiency of this feature. Many variations and hundreds of little tweaks later, we’re pretty sure we nailed it. We hope you’ll agree.
Here are some Thank You Letter “highlights”.
Newton comes standard with pre-built, customizable, thank you letter templates for every stage of the recruiting process. There is a set of corporate templates and a set for each user to personalize.
Choose the email aliases from which to send Thank You Letters, corporate or personal email addresses.
Decide which members of your team are permitted to send thank you letters.
Preview and customize individual thank you letters easily before sending. Choose your desired email alias too.
Newton will alert you if an applicant is a duplicate, interviewing for another role at your company and if they’ve received previous thank you messages.
Pending Thank You Letters are stored so you can send them later and even send them in bulk. This gives HR / recruiting departments better control of the messaging.
Help us win a Crunchie! What the heck is a Crunchie? The Crunchies are to technology what the Oscars are to Hollywood. The awards celebrate the best technology and design accomplishments of 2009. Sponsored by GigaOm, VentureBeat and TechCrunch, the awards will be presented to a packed house on Friday January 8, 2010 at the Herbst Theater in San Francisco.
Starting today, you can nominate our popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software, Newton, for “Best Design”. The Crunchies Committee will choose five finalists per award category based on the submitted nominations and the company accomplishments made during 2009. Popular voting will open on Monday, December 21 and run through midnight PT, Wednesday January 6, 2010.
Here’s an example of our design work:
Newton Software has already been nominated for “Best Design” and now we need your support.
1. First, we need your help getting noticed by the judges so NOMINATE us yourself! or click on the badge below.
2. When we make it, we’ll need your vote sometime between December 21st and January 6th 2010. We’ll let you know when we are in the running. You can vote here
The Top Reasons to Nominate Newton Software for a “Best Design” Crunchie
You are a friend, an associate, or a contact that respects us and wants to see us win an award.
You feel bad for us for starting a recruiting software company amidst the worst recession in decades, possibly centuries.
We are underdogs and it’s cool to vote for underdogs.
We have only one and a half designers at Newton Software. They are both self-taught.
We are bootstrapped. We use our own minds, our own ideas, and our own money to design great recruiting software.
For us, great design is core to our philosophy. In fact, if you’ve ever read our blog posts about design, you may think we’re a little obsessed it.
We are indeed obsessed with designing easy-to-use software.
If you’ve used Newton, our kick-ass applicant tracking software, then you’ll know that we design software to make people’s jobs easier.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an applicant tracking system that would store resumes in one place and that you could search easily any time? How great would it be have applicants apply to one place? You could finally get rid of all of those email folders. And, how helpful would it be to be able to automatically track where all of your applicants are coming from?
Newton is recruiting software that makes it easy.
Make it easy for applicants to apply for jobs right on your company’s website. Sign up for Newton and you’ll get a fully branded careers page that looks exactly like the rest of your corporate website. We’ll even set it up for you. You’ll be able to add and remove jobs on your simply, on your own without any special training to support from IT.
With one click post your jobs to the world’s largest job networks Indeed and Simply Hired for free. And, if you choose, create links for all of your other internet job postings that direct applicants right to your company’s careers site- no more annoying email submissions!
Now that all of your applicants are applying through Newton, you’ll be able to automatically track your best sources of applicants from Newton’s real-time analytics dashboard. Not only will you see what sources give you the most applicants, you will be able to see where your best applicants are coming from too!
Last week, Recruiter, a UK-based recruiting website, ran a story focusing on Newton’s analytics capabilities. The article discusses our real-time recruiting metrics, our upcoming release of an RPO product and makes mention of some of our customers using Newton internationally.
This is not the first time Newton Software has attracted attention on the other side of the pond. Earlier this year, Sue Weekes, a columnist for the UK’s Recruiter magazine featured Newton in a story highlighting Newton’s ease-of-use. The story discusses Newton’s emphasis on designing recruiting software that even managers will want to use.
Recruiter features Newton's Applicant Tracking Software
Newton Software, a leading provider of on-demand applicant tracking and recruiting software solutions, and Minimax Consulting, a leading provider of expert statistical analysis of employment decisions and employment litigation risk management, are pleased to announce a joint marketing agreement that will provide significant benefits to customers.
