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Newton’s Head of Marketing Tapped for Expert Talent Acquisition Panel

July 17, 2012 By News Leave a Comment

Recruiting Top Talent in the Wake of a Tsunami

Wednesday July 18, 2012

EA (Electronic Arts)

209 Redwood Shores Pkwy.

Redwood City, CA 94065

The selection of distinguished panelists come from large to medium sized tech companies, gaming, consumer electronics, life sciences and industry leaders in executive search and recruitment advertising. They have backgrounds that total over 105 years of experience in global business, talent acquisition and recruiting tactics & strategy. Their diverse points of view about the current trends and the future of Talent Acquisition in Silicon Valley and around the globe are sure to be a lively debate. We will have a moderator with some pre-selected topics, as well as time for Q&A from the audience.

Meet the panelists:

Brad Cook, VP, Global Talent Acq. – Informatica

Jon-Paul Ales-Barnicoat, Dir. Talent Acq – TiVo

Nellie Peshkov, VP, Global Talent Acq. – EA

Brian Pototo, Dir. Global Talent Acq. – Brocade

Andy Majoch, Dir. US Comm. and Corp Groups Staffing – Genentech

Joel Passen, Co-Founder, Head of Marketing – Newton Software (applicant tracking software)

How to attend:

BAHREC meetings are only $45 for members, $60 for guests

Payable in advance through PayPal.

Go to http://bahrec.shrm.org click on “Meetings and Events” to register

The deadline for advance registration is Friday, July 13th at 12 noon. RSVP by clicking on the PayPal link on our Meetings webpage (also see registration and payment information).

Registrations after the advance registration deadline are subject to space availability. Cancellations after the advance registration deadline may be eligible for a credit towards the next program. No-shows are not eligible for refund or credit. Please be sure your guests are aware of this policy. Walk-ins (only when space is available) without a reservation must pay by check or cash at the door. An additional $5 fee applies to walk-ins.
Any questions, and members who have prepaid for the year, please email us at meetingrsvp@bahrec.org.
RSVP today! http://bahrec.shrm.org/events

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Newton Release Scheduled for June 10th

June 4, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

hounds_release_them Release the hounds! Ok, that may be a little dramatic. We have one of our biggest releases ever scheduled for June 10th. There are 6 major new features being added to Newton such as:

Newton Email assistant
Online Employment Applications
New Newton Online Knowledge / Support Center

In addition to the new features, there are over 20 enhancements in this release. Many of the enhancements (over 60%) are requests we’ve received from our customers. Finally, we’re not done here. We’re going to turn around and do another special release by the end of June before we ship Newton 4.0 in July. It’s going to be a busy summer.

Stay Tuned.

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Applicant Tracking Software Demo – Never Ending Video Production

May 21, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

When we started Newton Software back in Jan. 2009, we wanted to build a website that actually provided people with information about our product. Novel huh? We wanted the site to be interactive. We wanted lots of videos and images of our product. We wanted bling. After all, Steve and the design team go to great lengths to create a “rich” user experience (software lingo for – they make it look sweet and cool to use).

What you forget when you are launching a content rich site is how much effort it takes to continually keep the videos and images fresh. To complicate matters (for me), we’re constantly making enhancements and adding to our product. So every 5-6 weeks or so I have to make a new video.

The other day, our web team called me the Scorsese of applicant tracking software product demos. I’m not sure if I was flattered or if they were just having fun with me. Regardless, I had to update our product demo this week and will do so again in about 2 weeks. This might not be The Departed but, I think it represents our product pretty well. If you want to watch a video with a table of contents you can visit our demo page.

Spoiler Alert! This video contains a feature that will be released June 4th.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Blog, Uncategorized

NED Podcast – Indeed Exposed: What You Need to Know About the World’s Largest Job Search Engine

April 27, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

NED is pleased to welcome Indeed’s, Sam Fitzroy, for an informative discussion about the world’s largest job search engine. Tune in to learn how to leverage Indeed’s unique, highly targeted, pay for performance job advertising services, a valuable alternative to traditional job advertising services.

Sam will field questions about the problems Indeed is solving, their explosive growth, their effectiveness and how all of their metrics are highly measurable making job advertising less of a gamble for recruiters and employers. We’ll also do a traffic comparison between Indeed and conventional job advertisers and talk about what jobs you should consider adding to Indeed.com now.

When: Friday, April 30th at 11:30am EDT

Where: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

Dial in to listen live: (646) 727-1372

Listen anytime: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

About Sam Fitzroy: Sam Fitzroy is currently the Director of Alliances at Indeed where he has also served as a Client Services Manager.

About Indeed: Indeed.com is a global search engine for jobs, allowing job seekers to find jobs posted on thousands of company career sites and job boards.

About NED: NED is a series of interactive, web-based discussions sponsored by Newton Software, makers of Newton, popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software. NED showcases recruiting industry influencers and innovators who share their tips, tools, techniques and knowledge with our diverse audience. Whether you’re a recruiter, HR professional, business leader or someone generally interested in talent acquisition, we provide valuable information relevant to the business of recruiting. Tune in live or catch up when it’s convenient.

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NED Podcast: “Recruitment Process Optimization – How to Make Recruiting Work Better”

April 5, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

NED, a podcast series that showcases recruiting industry influencers and innovators, is kicking off an exciting month starting with an interview with Carol Schultz, the CEO of Vertical Elevation.

Carol and her team are pioneering a new trend in the recruiting industry, a fundamental shift from the one-size-fits-all mentality that permeates current, traditional recruitment practices. During this podcast we’ll learn more about Carol’s brainchild, RPOptimization, and how it works. Undoubtedly, Carol will also provide us with some tips and techniques on how to better implement recruiting best practices.

When: Friday, April 9th at 11:30am EDT

Where: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

Dial in to listen live: (646) 727-1372

Listen anytime: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/newton-software

About Carol Schultz: Carol Schultz is a pioneer in the Recruitment Process Optimization and Career Strategy Industry. She has built a client base of countless individuals and myriad companies from early stage pre-IPOs to publicly traded companies. Over the past 25 years, she’s honed her industry expertise and formed an intrinsic understanding of successful recruiting processes. Carol’s company,Vertical Elevation, combines best-in-class process auditing, executable strategy, and expertise to provide integrated and customized talent-acquisition solutions.

About NED: NED is a series of interactive, web-based discussions sponsored by Newton Software, makers of Newton, popular, easy-to-use applicant tracking software. NED showcases recruiting industry influencers and innovators who share their tips, tools, techniques and knowledge with our diverse audience. Whether you’re a recruiter, HR professional, business leader or someone generally interested in talent acquisition, we provide valuable information relevant to the business of recruiting. Tune in live or catch up when it’s convenient.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, News, Recruiting Industry, RPO, Uncategorized

New in Newton: Review Request Emails

March 29, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

review-request-email

This is a big week of us here at Newton. We released Newton v.3.8.4 of our popular applicant tracking software and we are moving. More on the move later. New in Newton today are Review Request Emails. These will replace “Review Request Alerts”. Yep, when you click the green “Review Request” on Monday, Newton will cue up an email that you’ll send to hiring managers or anyone that you want to review a resume. You can even send attachments. The feature is practically set up for you but, we recommend taking a look at the short guide that we sent you on Friday.

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An Anti-Creativity Checklist

March 22, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

My Anti-Creativity Checklist from Youngme Moon on Vimeo.

When we started building applicant tracking software, our idea was to escape competitive cloning, to deviate instead of emulate and to innovate rather than chase. We can’t wait to dive into DIFFERENT, a new book by Youngme Moon that explains how to succeed in a world where conformity reigns… but exceptions rule.

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New in Newton: When assigning candidates, copy attachments over to the new job

March 9, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

copy-attachments

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)
Locking candidate records

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Podcast: 10 pt. Inspection to Determine if Your Employees are Fairly Compensated

February 5, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

fair

Listen to the podcast here

In this installment of The Proactive Employer, Stephanie R. Thomas, Ph.D., Director of the Equal Employment Advisory and Litigation Support Division (EEA/LS) of Minimax Consulting, outlines ten tips for examining the question of whether your employees are ‘fairly’ compensated. While these tips cannot replace a comprehensive self-audit of compensation, they provide a launching point for collecting the information required for the audit, and open the dialogue of compensation equity.

About Minimax Consulting:

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.

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Newton Software and Minimax Consulting Enter a Joint Marketing Initiative

February 3, 2010 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

joint_logos 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.

www.newtonsoftware.com

About Minimax Consulting:

www.minimaxconsulting.com

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New in Newton: Easy-to-use, stage-stage specific “Thank You Letters”

December 7, 2009 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

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.

Here’s a short video to show you how it works.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, Blog, Uncategorized

Newton Software Releases “Thank You Letters”, Rejection Letters Reinvented

December 7, 2009 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

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.

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.

Here’s a short video to show you how it works.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, News, Uncategorized

TEDxSF

December 2, 2009 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

tedxsf

I managed to secure an invitation to TEDxSF, an independent version of TED, at the Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park. I’ve never been to the Big TED conference but I’ve been a fan of the videos on the website for years. Calling TEDxSF a conference is not doing it justice. The event was more like a series mini-performances featuring musicians, entrepreneurs, scientists and change-makers.

All in all, independent TED events, TEDx, are less exclusive than Big TED. You apply for an invitation and you’re asked to write about how you’ve changed the world or at least how you’ve been an innovator. I wrote about being a recruiter for 10 years and realizing the need for better recruiting software, throwing caution to the wind and starting a technology company amidst the worst recession in recent memory. Maybe the TEDx committee felt sorry for me.

While the format of the performances was paradoxically similar, a thought provoking monologue aided by some slides and self-deprecating humor, the topics varied dramatically. I enjoyed every presentation and I loved the music and comedy too. Even the crowd was interesting, not the room full of geeks I’d anticipated, more chic, less geek.

Here are some highlights.

- Zoë Keating, a talented, avant cellist, informed the audience that computers crash but cellos don’t after her laptop crashed mid-performance. For the record, it was a Mac.

-Gavin Newsome, San Francisco’s Mayor, was given 3 minutes to address the crowd. Ever the opportunist, he delivered an inspirational, self-promoting rant ending with, “San Francisco has always been a city of dreamers and doers”. At least he got that right.

-Taking advantage of the venue, Ryan Watt, the Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization at the Academy of Sciences, reminded us that we may not be alone.

-The best story of the afternoon was told by Jill Vallet, the founder of Playworks, a non-profit that brings physical activities to low-income urban schools.

-Proclaiming that Silicon Valley has been as influential as the industrial revolution, photographer, Doug Menuez, shared images of the Valley’s most brilliant innovators, some in their weakest moments.

You can learn more about TEDxSF at: http://www.tedxsf.org/

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Linked In? To What?

November 30, 2009 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

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Help Newton Win a Crunchie for “Best Design”

November 17, 2009 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

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 21^st and January 6^th 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.

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, applicant tracking software, News, Uncategorized

Newton Directs All Applicants to Your Careers Page and Automatically Tracks Source Information

November 2, 2009 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

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!

Filed Under: Applicant Tracking, News, Uncategorized

Newton Attracts International Attention on Popular UK Recruiting Website

October 21, 2009 By Joel Passen Leave a Comment

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.