About Standout Jobs

What We Do

Standout Jobs provides RECEPTION^TM, a suite of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts. Using social media tools and principles, Standout Jobs brings the latest Web consumer experience – easy, personal and dynamic – to the recruiting process.

What We Believe

Standout Jobs is built on the idea that companies need to provide candidates with a better online recruiting presence. Companies are losing out on great people because they don’t offer:

• Detailed and interesting information about what makes them tick
• An interactive, friendly experience
• A way for on-going relationships to form

Hiring great people isn’t just about job requirements. It’s not enough to match a person’s job history to a job description. Hiring great people is about people – it’s about the relationship formed between company and candidate. It’s about the cultural and personal fit.

To hire successfully, companies need to:

• Develop their employer brand and showcase their company
• Give candidates the information they want
• Build up an active talent pool of prospects to market into and gain referrals from
• Get a handle on tracking and managing candidate relationships through the hiring process

We believe Standout Jobs can help.

How We Got Started

The company was founded in February 2007 by Benjamin Yoskovitz, Fred Ngo and Austin Hill. It originated out of the first-ever Montreal-based BarCamp in October 2006 where they met. The discussion quickly turned to the difficulties of finding good startup jobs. Fred and Ben had been looking for great opportunities, but couldn’t find any companies that stood out. Austin Hill, an entrepreneur and angel investor, was frustrated with how difficult it was to market startup jobs to potential candidates.

And so, Standout Jobs was born. Standout Jobs set out to help companies promote and market themselves more effectively to candidates. They first looked at video and how it could throw the doors wide open on companies, their cultures and teams. And they found companies eager to participate. The idea evolved, expanding beyond video into other tools and technologies that improve companies’ recruiting. Austin and other private angel investors provided the initial capital to get started, and the company received additional funding from iNovia Capital. Standout Jobs is based in Montreal, Canada.

What Is Reception?

On January 28, 2008, Standout Jobs launched RECEPTION. At the heart of RECEPTION is a do-it-yourself interactive career site that leverages social media tools and principles, including video, blogging and widgets, to showcase a company’s culture and team. RECEPTION also includes candidate relationship management tools enabling HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates effectively.

RECEPTION is a software-as-a-service solution that can be integrated into existing sites or operated as a stand-alone website.

Reception is FREE!