Newton’s Product Team Announced the Release Date for Gravity, an Employee Referral Application

June 12, 2013 By 2 Comments
Gravity, an employee referral app for Newton

Gravity, an employee referral app for Newton

Today, Newton’s product team announced the release date for Gravity, an employee referral application for Newton. Starting July 8th, employers using Newton’s applicant tracking system will empower employees to share jobs, attract talent and discretely vouch for referrals from any mobile device. 

The Newton Gravity App is an employee referral application that’s social, mobile and engaging. Employers create referral programs to recognize and reward employees that take an active part in the hiring process. Gravity makes it easy for every employee to share jobs, vouch for the applicants they know and receive incentives for being a team player.

 

Main features..

  • Share jobs to social networks with one click.
  • Discretely and automatically capture “Can you vouch for this person?” responses.
  • Manage a monthly referral program leader board.
  • Communicate job referral rewards to employees.
  • Track and report program activity, applicants and hires.

Newton customers will receive more updates and an invitation to informational webinars over the next several days.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, applicant tracking software, applicant tracking system, Company News, employee referrals, New Releases, social recruiting

Newton Echo

April 1, 2013 By 4 Comments

Newton Echo

Our idea: Simple tasks should only take seconds. With Echo, people can change the status of candidates, capture interview feedback, and approve jobs and offers using email—no login required.

At Newton we’re always looking to make hiring simpler, smarter, and safer. Newton Echo is the simple and smart answer to busy hiring managers and executives that don’t have time to log in to their applicant tracking system. With Echo, your managers keep the recruiting system up-to-date just by responding to email.

How does Newton Echo work?

There are two parts to a Newton Echo response: the Comment and the Command. When someone replies to an Echo email it is saved as a comment on the job or candidate.  Recipients also may include “command tags” in their reply (optional).  These command tags (#approve, #deny, #phonescreen, #interview, #private) ask Newton to take action on the recipient’s behalf.

List of Commands

Commands can be placed anywhere in the response as long as they are above the line that says “please put your response above this line”.

  • #phonescreen  commands Newton to change the candidate to “Schedule a Phone Screen”
  • #interview commands Newton to change the candidate to “Schedule an Interview”
  • #approve  commands Newton to “Approve this Job/Offer”
  • #deny  commands Newton to “Deny this Job/Offer”
  • #private  commands Newton to store your response as a private comment.  This can be used in conjunction with any other status.

At this time there is not a “Pass” command. For OFCCP compliance someone needs to choose a Reason for Non-Selection when passing on candidates. Replying #pass would not keep our customers in compliance, so we have not implemented this command.

Commands in Action…

Example 1:  Mark Manager receives a Review Request email and wants to phone screen the candidate.

One of your recruiters sent Mark and Review Request email. Mark thinks the candidate looks good and wants his recruiter to schedule a phone screen, here’s how:

Mark Responds:

This candidate looks great. Please #phonescreen right away.

Example 2:  April Approver receives an Offer Approval Request and wants to Deny it

Let’s say April thinks the salary is too high for this candidate. Denying the offer is easy….

April Responds:

#deny (this salary is way over budget)

Example 3:  Frank Feedback is asked to provide feedback after a Phone Screen.

Frank Phone Screened one of your candidates at 4PM yesterday. Based on your settings, Newton asked Frank for feedback at 5PM the same day. Frank liked the person and wants you to schedule an interview.

Frank Response:

This candidate was really great. Let’s bring him in for a round of interviews with the team.

#interview

Special Considerations…

You can send an Echo email to anyone, even people that are not Newton users.

For example, if you request interview feedback from non-users their responses will still be saved to Newton.

Commands from non-users will be ignored.

Only Newton users can execute commands. So, if you send a non-user a Review Request and they respond with #phonescreen, Newton will ignore the command.

Redundant Commands will be ignored.

Newton will ignore commands that would have no effect.

Some examples of commands that would be ignored (this is not a complete list):

  • #interview when the candidate is in the “schedule interview” stage
  • #phonescreen when the candidate is already in the “schedule phone” screen stage.
  • #approve for a job that has already been approved.

Commands that move a candidate or job backwards in the process are ignored.

Newton is going to err on the side of safety and ignore commands that might have deleterious effects. As such, Newton will not move a candidate backwards in the process and will not close jobs that have already been activated.

Some examples of commands that would be ignored (this is not a complete list):

  • #phonescreen when the candidate is in the interview stage will be ignored
  • #interview or #phonescreen for a candidate in the offer stage will be ignored
  • #deny for a job or offer that has already been approved will be ignored

Approval and Denial of Jobs/Offers can be commanded only by Approvers.

Let’s say you cc:  a Newton User on a Job Approval Request but they are not one of the job’s approvers. If this person responds with #approve or #deny Newton will ignore that command (i.e. the response will be saved as a comment in the job’s history, but the action will be ignored).

 

 

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Newton Announces Release Date for Huge Applicant Tracking System Upgrade

March 7, 2013 By Leave a Comment

Newton Echo

Coming soon Newton Echo, a feature release so big we named it.

On April 8th, Newton delivers one of our biggest releases to our applicant tracking system ever, Echo. We named this release Echo for two reasons: first, many of the ideas in this release came from customer feedback (we heard you); second, much of the functionality of this release revolves around information being sent from and returned to Newton (like an echo).

Newton set the bar high with 9 major feature releases last year alone. Rest assured, we’re not going to let up in 2013. As always, these upgrades will be made available to Newton applicant tracking software customers at no additional cost. In fact, all of Newton’s popular, easy-to-use features are included in the Newton package. And, we’ll host a series of webinars to cover all the new functionality. Customers will receive an invitation soon.

There’s more. Next month we’ll announce another awesome new feature that will be out before people hit the beach on the East Coast. It’s top secret for now but we can tell you that it’s social, it’s mobile and it will help your employees generate more applicants. Stay tuned.

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Newton Software Announce 9th Major Enhancement of the Year for Leading Applicant Tracking System.

December 13, 2012 By 2 Comments

Another New Update to the Newton Applicant Tracking System

Offer Approval, Newton’s latest feature, will be available in the Newton applicant tracking system on December, 15th.

Are you ready to improve your organization’s offer approval process? Starting later this month, employers using Newton will be able to create user-friendly, automated offer approvals. Newton will provide the control that executives demand and the visibility that Hiring Managers and HR professionals require in order to manage the business-end of recruiting.

In 2012, our product team completed 9 major feature enhancements and made over 90 minor improvements to Newton, our popular applicant tracking system designed for small and medium-sized employers. These enhancements are made available to every Newton customer free of charge. And, many of the enhancements are in response to customer feedback.

2013 is going to be even bigger and better. With our beefed-up engineering and product teams we’re keeping the pedal to the medal. And, as always, we’re going to provide the best support and training in the business – for free.

Before the snow stops falling in the East and the bathing suits are broken out in the West, watch for:

• New email enhancements that will drive decision making

• A new interview feedback tool

• A simple, social way to manage employee referrals

 

Filed Under: applicant tracking software, Company News, New Releases, News

Newton Improves Facebook App for Employers

November 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The Now Hiring App is a Facebook application for employers. It creates a fully-branded careers page in a “Tab” on a Facebook page so employers can do the following and more.
  • Post jobs to Facebook to reach relevant candidates: the folks that follow your company.
  • Post jobs, share jobs, capture applicants and track referrals automatically with Newton.
  • People that view your jobs can apply for them, share them with friends and even “like” them.
  • Think of this App as creating a mirror-image of your company’s careers page on Facebook.

Check out the Newton Now Hiring Page on Facebook

Watch a Video to see how it works.

Already using Now Hiring? Here’s what’s new…
  • Choose a job to post to your timeline and modify the title, caption and description of the post.
  • There is now a “share” link on every job that you post so people can share your jobs and make them viral.
  • If a job is no longer available, an in-tab dialog alerts the user that they’ll be shown all of your posted jobs.
Wait there are a couple of other things…
  • We’re about to overhaul our website so you’ll notice a new look and feel soon. Don’t be alarmed.
  • You’ll be hearing from us again shortly with announcement of more new features, our 9th applicant tracking software release of the year!
Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, New Releases, Newton Now Hiring

Introducing Newton Touch, a free tablet app for users of Newton Applicant Tracking Software

September 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

At Newton Software, we continue to focus on what matters most and to our customers and their users and that’s ease of use for everyone involved in the recruiting process. We’re excited to announce Newton Touch, a tablet application free to users of Newton, our popular applicant tracking software for small and medium-sized employers. Newton touch makes it easy for people to access important recruiting data when they’re away from their primary computer and on the go.
  • With Newton Touch, users will access and monitor candidate pipelines for all of the important jobs they are assigned to right from a tablet version of Newton’s popular home page. Visibility on the go.
  • Review applicants, collaborate and add your feedback it’s easy and convenient.  And, users will also continue to take advantage of Newton’s document viewing capabilities on the go with a mobile document viewer built in.
  • Search your Newton database for a specific applicant by name or run a search by skill set when you’re on the go.
  • Most importantly, Newton Touch allows users to make the critical decisions that drive hiring. Green is go. Red is no. ® Now it’s simple to make decisions on the go.

 

For more information about Newton’s applicant tracking software and Newton touch, contact us newtonsoftware.com or send an email to sales at Newtonsoftware.com

 

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Feature Spotlight, Mobile Recruiting, New Releases, Newton Touch, Optimism, Trends, Videos

Coming August 10th: Newton Gets Social

July 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment


On August 10th, Newton will empower customers to create fully-branded careers pages on the world’s largest social network (800 million active users).

Fresh from Newton Labs, our enhanced social features are fully integrated  with Newton’s Applicant Tracking Software, empowering employers to:
  • Create a fully-branded careers page on the world’s largest social network
  • Advertise jobs to the most relevant applicants
  • Control and schedule advertising campaigns on social networks

This is just the first release of several and represents the first offering in Newton’s Social Suite.

For updates follow Newton on Facebook.

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Newton Touch Sighting – Applicant Tracking Software for Tablets Coming Soon

May 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

This is an actual screenshot I took yesterday while testing Newton’s new mobile platform, Newton Touch, on my iPad. That’s right, we’re creating an entirely new platform to address our community’s desire to work with Newton on the go. And, we’re not just creating a mobile version of our existing platform. This new development will serve as a springboard to launch an entirely new version of Newton that will continue to provide industry leading usability and user adoption with industry availability!

We’re counting down the weeks to launching the first applicant tracking software platform specifically designed for tablets and mobile corporate recruiting. Stay tuned.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Blog, Industry Trends, Mobile Recruiting, New Releases, Newton Touch

Newton Software Releases Next-Generation Job Requisition Approval Manager for Applicant Tracking Software

August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 08, 2011

Newton Software, the developers of smart, corporate applicant tracking software, just revealed another key feature aimed at helping human resources and corporate recruiting departments in the creation and improvement of their online requisition approval process. The new feature empowers organizations to better control recruiting resources with an automated, email-driven job requisition approval tool.

Read more about Newton’s job requisition approval functionality….

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Video: Newton’s Job Requisition Management Tool

August 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Job requisition management isn’t t just for large companies anymore.  Now small and medium sized businesses can leverage Newton to create user friendly, effective job requisition approval processes. Designed by recruiting industry experts (like the rest of our product), our latest feature enhancement is our answer to the rigid, nonintuitive requisition management tools prevalent in most applicant tracking systems.

Our products team has been working on this feature for over a year and they’ll be the first to tell you that Job Approval Management is a full product in itself. Those of us on the marketing side of the house are proud of our product team’s effort and congratulate them on shipping their 4th major release of the year – unheard of in the HR Technology industry.  And, they’re not done. Rumor has it (hint) they’ve started working on Newton Mobile and a host of other useful features that we know will be equally elegant and thoughtful.

Here is a preview of Newton’s Job Requisition Approval Manager.

Newton Software develops corporate applicant tracking software for small and medium sized businesses (SMBs). Unparalleled usability, industry leading user adoption rates and exceptional customer service set Newton apart.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Applicant Tracking Software Reviews, Blog, New Releases, Videos

New in Newton: Automated Job Approval

July 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Automated Job Approval features aren’t a new thing. We’ve decided it’s high time to make the job approval process better. We’re excited to announce the arrival Newton’s Automated Job Approval feature, the latest addition to our popular corporate applicant tracking software.

First, we have something to admit. This was the hardest feature for us to design to date. We’ve been redesigning and enhancing this feature for nearly a year. We could have shipped our original design months ago, most vendors would have so they could add Job Approval to their feature matrix ASAP.  Instead,  as with all of the enhancements we make to Newton, we wanted this feature to work great.

3 reasons to love Newton’s Automated Job Approval feature.

1.  Easy for Hiring Managers and Approvers

What we’ve learned is that when applicant tracking software achieves something valuable without being distracting or requiring hours of training, only then will it live up to its potential. The 80/20 rule applies here: we want to do well what 80 percent of your users do all the time and together we will create a great user experience that promotes adoption.  With Newton’s Job Approval feature, managers can simply login and request to get a job approved with a few simple steps.  And, job approvers will love the easy approval process: Green is go. Red is no.

2.  Ultimate Flexibility

Hiring is dynamic. Your tools need to be flexible. Newton’s email driven Job Approval Process is the most flexible on the market. Some companies don’t really want to reinvent the wheel. They have a ‘requisition form’ that works well and they just need a vehicle to expedite and track the actual process. We do that.  Some organizations want to start over and create an optimized automated requisition process.  We do that too.

3.  Ultimate Visibility

If you know anything about Newton Software, you know that we are the ones that bring transparency and visibility to corporate recruiting programs. If you don’t know us, we used to be corporate recruiters and we understand that having visibility into all aspects of the recruiting process is not only critical – it’s power.  True to form, we’ve provided our users with a dashboard that allows them to see where all their approvals are in real-time.  Anything less would be…..annoying.

If you’re a Newton user, please contact our support team to enable the Automated Job Approval Process starting on Monday, August 1st. Support@newtonsoftware.com

If you’re investigating Newton for your organization, please know that we may not have every feature that other ATS systems have.  BUT, the features we do have, the 80% that people use all the time, are easy-to-use, intuitive and work great. Please contact us for a demo today, we’ll prove it to you. Sales@newtonsoftware.com

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Blog, Design Philosophy, New Releases, User Adoption

On Moving Our Applicant Tracking Software to the Cloud

June 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment




This past weekend, our technical team made some final adjustments and now,  Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, joins services from industry leaders like Microsoft, IBM and Netflix in Amazon’s AWS cloud computing environment. Our decision to move to the cloud was as much driven by the growth and success of our business (quite profitable) as by the operational efficiencies that the Cloud offers.  Amazon Web Services provides us the scalability and agility for continued fast-paced growth and the reliability to continue to exceed our customers’ expectations.

This isn’t another one of those ‘all hat no cowboy’ marketing stunts. Newton’s product team has been testing and preparing for our Cloud  activation since Amazon announced its public availability in 2009.  We’ve anticipated moving to the cloud for since the beginning and our development team has meticulously architected our applicant tracking software to take full advantage of the cloud computing infrastructure.

Moving to the Cloud gives us a huge advantage over our peers.  We will continue to innovate and scale with better infrastructure, fewer resources and less operational overhead. Translation: we will continue to offer cutting-edge, easy-to-use applicant tracking software to more customers with less effort at more affordable prices.

Why should Newton customers care?

Scalability:

Amazon AWS enables us to increase capacity within minutes, not hours or days. We can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. This allows us to automatically scale Newton up and down depending on our customers’ needs. This scalability critical as Newton Software averages nearly 20 new customers a month and is by all accounts the fastest growing ATS in the marketplace.

Reliability:

Amazon AWS offers a highly reliable environment where database instances can be quickly and predictably commissioned. If a server fails (because they just do from time to time), Newton will just bounce to a server that is working without a noticeable service interruption. Amazon AWS service runs within Amazon’s proven, SAS 70 datacenters. That’s right, if you can buy a book on Amazon, you can status a candidate in Newton. The Amazon AWS SLA commitment is 99.95% availability in any Amazon AWS region. This means that Newton is ultra-reliable all over the world all the time.

Speed:

This is where our product  team gets really geeked up. By switching to the Cloud, Newton has become even faster. And, it allows our team to do some really innovative things too.  Most recruiting software bogs down when running complex reports. Not Newton! We  leveraging extra computing power and read-only database technology to enable users to run complex customized reports instantly.

Security:

Amazon AWS has some of the world’s most trusted brands on the platform and Amazon takes security very seriously. Amazon Web Services’ security controls are evaluated every six months by an independent auditor in accordance with Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS70) Type II audit procedures.

Newton Software has only begun.

We’ve worked hard to establish Newton Software as an innovator in a space that has for two decades purely focused on processing and storing resumes.  Today, we stand, for the most part alone, as the only modern, pure-play ATS on the market.  As our peers continue to drift (rather aimlessly) into talent management and human capital management, they now purely just maintain their applicant tracking modules, all but abandoning new development.  Not us. We just invested in the infrastructure necessary to help us more effectively solve the problems that still linger in corporate talent acquisition departments,  hiring managers’ cubes and executives minds. We’ve just begun.

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Newton Grows: Moves Applicant Tracking Software to the Cloud

November 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

We’re in the cloud! Newton, our popular applicant tracking software, joins leaders like Microsoft, IBM and Netflix in Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing environment. 2010 has been a banner year for Newton.  We’ve added over 100 new customers and our revenue has grown by over 1020%. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) will provide us the agility and scalability for continued fast-paced growth and the reliability to continue to exceed our customers’ expectations.

This isn’t just some egregious cloud marketing sizzle. There’s steak here. Newton’s product team has been interested in cloud computing since Amazon announced its public availability.  We’ve anticipated moving to the cloud for some time and our development team has meticulously designed our applicant tracking software to take full advantage of the cloud computing infrastructure. Moving to the Cloud gives us a huge advantage over our peers.  We will continue to innovate and scale with better infrastructure, fewer resources and less operational overhead. Translation: we will continue to offer bombproof, easy-to-use applicant tracking software to more customers with less effort at more affordable prices. Good plan huh?

Why should Newton customers care?

Moving to Amazon’s EC2 platform makes Newton even more agile and provides existing and future customers significant advantages.

Scalability:

Amazon EC2 enables us to increase capacity within minutes, not hours or days. We can commission one, hundreds or even thousands of server instances simultaneously. This allows us to automatically scale Newton up and down depending on our customers’ needs. This scalability proved critical in November as we added over 15 new businesses to the Newton platform and actually improved performance.

Reliability:

Amazon EC2 offers a highly reliable environment where replacement instances can be rapidly and predictably commissioned. If a server fails (because they just do from time to time), Newton will just bounce to a server that is working – instantly! The EC2 service runs within Amazon’s proven network infrastructure and datacenters. That’s right, if you can buy a book on Amazon, you can status a candidate in Newton. The Amazon EC2 SLA commitment is 99.95% availability in any Amazon EC2 region. This means that Newton is ultra-reliable all over the world all the time.

Performance:

This is where our development team gets really geeked up. By switching to the Cloud, Newton has become even faster. And, it allows our team to do some really innovative things.  For example, we’re adding a very slick, powerful custom reporting engine to Newton. Most applicant tracking software bogs down when running complex reports. Not Newton! We’re leveraging EC2’s extra computing power and read-only database technology to enable users to run complex customized reports instantly. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

Security:

We’re completely confident in Amazon’s ability to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our customers’ data. They’ve got some of the world’s most trusted brands on the EC2 platform and Amazon takes security very seriously. So do we. See for yourself. Amazon Web Services’ security controls are evaluated every six months by an independent auditor in accordance with Statement on Auditing Standards No. 70 (SAS70) Type II audit procedures.

Newton Software continues to innovate.

Once again, Newton Software is innovating. Others may try to follow though; they’ll have some huge challenges. Most applicant tracking software is 10 year old legacy enterprise software that relies on legacy networks (not the Cloud) for operating power. ‘Switching’ to the Cloud won’t be a viable option for most. Alternatively, Newton was born on the web and now we’re going to leverage the world’s most cutting edge web-based infrastructure to help completely ‘disrupt’ the applicant tracking world in 2011 (and years to come). Good for Newton customers and partners. Bad for lumbering, legacy applicant tracking systems.  Long live the cloud.

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The New Newton Tracking Utility, a First-of-its-Kind

September 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

What’s happening in your recruiting program right now?  This second?  If you’re anything like I was when I was a corporate recruiter, your answer is likely- “stuff”.  And, if you’re still using email and spreadsheets to track recruiting then it’s impossible to really know what’s happening right now.  Even if you’re using applicant tracking software, chances are that it can’t tell you what’s happening in real-time. It may pollute your inbox with a bunch of messages but, we all know that’s not a good solution.

Introducing Newton Tracking, a powerful, customizable, feed that will help you manage tasks better, respond to requests faster, and provide you with unparalleled visibility into your recruiting program.  The new Tracking utility in Newton is designed to allow corporate recruiters and HR professionals to be everywhere at once answering questions like:

Has a manager reviewed that applicant I sent her yet?

Do I need to schedule any interviews today?

Are we getting new applicants for the job we just opened?

Does the VP want me to make an offer to that candidate?

You decide what to track you’ll manage your preferences easily.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Blog, Introduction, New Releases, Videos

Email and Twitter: A Collision of Garbage Trucks, a Beautiful Disaster or a Glimpse of the Future?

August 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

I would guess that, like a lot of people, 98% of my snail mail goes straight into the recycle bin. I’ve tried GreenDimes and 41pounds.org but it seems that marketers continue to find a ways to kill trees and burn oil in order to send me information about stuff I don’t want.

As far as I can tell, I get two important pieces of snail mail: save the date notices and stuff from the IRS.  In the last 90 days, I’ve received one non-spam piece of snail mail. Snail mail is the de facto the vehicle by which people I don’t know and don’t trust attempt to communicate with me. Snail mail is a muddy communication mechanism.

Sadly, email isn’t much different anymore. Yet amazingly nearly every business application on the planet goes to great lengths to integrate with email (or tries). In fact, the single greatest technical ulcer-causer of any software web-based application is Outlook integration.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that email integration isn’t necessary. I’m just wondering if email’s dual-dominance of both the trusted and muddy communication channels is anachronistic. Why are messages from people and applications I know and trust being dumped into an unorganized file with untrusted messages? Why are critical alerts comingling with people trying to sell me email lists or consultants from overseas?

If you’re like me, your inbox is more like a “what do I do first?” box. I have documentation from my product team, invoices from vendors, people trying to sell me things, messages from dad, and most importantly, messages from my our applicant tracking software customers (which always get answered immediately I might add).

Many of these messages are coming from systems that are trying to boost my productivity: manage finances, complete projects, follow up with people and track progress. In essence, my productivity applications are taking their trusted communications (messages I definitely want to read) and dumping them into a message mud bog, then trying to clean them up after I deal with them.

Email needs a redo. How did I come to this conclusion?

Well, from a disclosure standpoint I have to admit that integrating with Outlook is really hard and pretty darn scary, and even though at Newton we’re probably going capitulate in some areas, we really don’t want to. Developers of software can control the reliability of their own environment, but once you start relying on someone else’s system you start touching all sorts of things you can’t control.  That’s why every time someone says “integrates with outlook” they never use the words “easily” or “never breaks” or “no plug-in required” in the same sentence. Here’s a simple guide to probably the most integrated outlook application on the planet:  http://tinyurl.com/cf6dae. This is the apparently shorter, “cheatsheet version”.

But, more important to me than the technical hurdles is this nagging belief that email might be the problem, not the solution.

Actually, I’m not even sure it’s the problem. I’m just starting to think that there’s a better path to productivity than dumping important messages into an uncontrolled, unorganized inbox and then forwarding them around like crazy, all the while trying to clean, reabsorb and reorganize them back into the system that created them.

Why doesn’t Twitter need email integration? Is it only because it’s a consumer application? Or is it because they are communicating with you by way of channels you already trust? I think it’s the latter.

It’s time to rethink how our business applications communicate with the people they serve. The mail paradigm is not just old, it is centuries old. I can think of some software companies already leveraging “clean” communication channels. Newton Software just became another.

In a few short weeks, we’re going to release a utility in Newton simply called “Tracking”.  We’ll release more details on “Tracking” as we get closer to the release date. In the meantime, think “Twitter feed” for your recruiting program. This isn’t just any “Twitter feed”. This is a personalized source of the information that you want to see and need to see.  It will be the only feature of its kind in the applicant tracking software world.

This is a glimpse of the future.

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Newton Software Releases Next-Gen Business Intelligence for Recruiting

September 28, 2009 By 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.

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New in Newton: Newton Analytics

August 10, 2009 By 1 Comment

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.”

We hope you like it.

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