September 2009 - Newton Software

New in Newton: Analytics update features multiple enhancements

September 29, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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

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New Outflow Graphing:

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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:

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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:

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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.

Filed Under: News, Release Notes Tagged With: applicant tracking, Newton Analytics, recruiting analytics

Newton Software Releases Next-Gen Business Intelligence for Recruiting

September 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Newton is fully featured applicant tracking software designed to be intuitive and powerful. A new release improves Newton’s real-time performance monitoring capabilities to give users access to answers in real-time.

Human resource and recruiting professionals are always looking for answers to fundamental questions that arise in corporate recruiting, questions like:

Are we getting applicants to interview for our open positions?

Are we acting on applicants?

What are our best sources of applicants?

How long does it take us to hire?

Are there places that we can make improvements?

Everyone wants to run a high-performance hiring program. Newton’s performance management dashboard is designed to give you information in real-time so you will get the most out of your resources. With easy-to-read interactive charts and graphs, you will zoom into areas that interest you to surface information and drive conversations. Use Newton’s online dashboard to provide status updates or to run interactive staffing meetings. Your business partners will love how easy it is to log in and get an update. And, best yet, giving access to your stakeholders is 100% free!

With Newton, real-time performance monitoring is now a reality allowing people to detect events or even patterns of events as interactions from all users are collected in the system. Newton gives you the power to develop insights and make evidence based decisions about your recruiting program. Now you can be proactive by pinpointing bottlenecks and identifying issues before they become larger issues. With Newton, you’ll always be prepared to answer the tough questions about your recruiting program.

See Newton’s performance management capabilities in action.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Blog, New Releases Tagged With: applicant tracking, business intelligence, recruiting statistics

New in Newton: Ask applicants to submit multiple documents during the job application process.

September 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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!

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, News, Release Notes Tagged With: applicant tracking, multiple uploads, recruiting software

Takeaways from HR Event in Silicon Valley

September 22, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Joel Passen, Newton Software’s VP of Marketing addressing the members of the Silicon Valley NCHRA

Last week we joined the Silicon Valley chapter of the NCHRA at Hakone Gardens in Saratoga, CA. The evening event billed as the Summer Social brought together members of the regional HR community including some interesting guest speakers and local vendors.

We want to quickly share some of our takeaways from the event.

Project Hired is a great organization and it’s time to get involved
For those of you not familiar with Project Hired, it’s time to learn more about them. Project Hired’s mission is to assist individuals with disabilities to gain and sustain employment, in partnership with businesses and the community. During the event a Project Hired alumni explained how the program not only helped him find the confidence to look for a new job after a debilitating accident but, also how Project Hired’s placement service helped him find a great job. For more information about volunteering opportunities visit Project Hired at: http://www.projecthired.org/volunteer_how.html

Recruitment outsourcing is alive and growing
Recruitment outsourcing seems to be gaining momentum. At the NCHRA event last week, I met representatives from 3 recruitment outsourcing companies. In years past, I knew of only 1 or 2 companies in the Bay Area providing RPO services. While the space still seems pretty fragmented (every RPO has a different focus), more and more of these firms are emerging to offer creative recruiting services to customers of all sizes. This is definitely a segment to watch as recruiting once again becomes a front-burner issue.

HR professionals are hungry for metrics
Throughout the evening, we presented a live demo of our latest release of Newton’s real-time performance management / analytics platform. It was amazing how many folks we had come up and ask questions about the product. Based on the response, it is evident that HR people are hungry for metrics that can help them make decisions and improve the service they offer their internal customers. We appreciated all the attention, feedback, and suggestions for future metrics to capture.

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: demo, human resources, NCHRA, recruiting analytics

Sneak Preview of New Newton Analytics Release

September 17, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

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.

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Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, News, Release Notes Tagged With: analytics, applicant tracking, Newton Analytics, recruiting software

New Newton Video: A Short Description and Demonstration of the Newton

September 11, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

We get a lot of requests from people that want us to send them more information about Newton, our applicant tracking software. We’re not complaining! This is a good sign. The word is getting out. While we realize that fact sheets and feature matrices are ok for comparison’s sake, we believe videos are better at conveying how technology really works. So, we started to put together a series of videos that we can forward to people.

Feel free to forward it on.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Blog, Videos Tagged With: applicant tracking software, Newton Software, Video Demo

Joel Passen of Newton Software Interviewed by Top Recruiting Industry Influencer Bill Vick

September 9, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Joel Passen, interviewed by Bill Vick, one of the recruiting industry’s top influencers, talks about Newton Software and emerging trends like social recruiting and mobile. Joel also discusses the trend towards enhanced usability and some of the issues that are catching his attention in the applicant tracking software space.