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Alison Doyle writes a quick blog post about Standout Jobs and the value provided by having much more detailed and information-rich career sites vs. forcing candidates to rely almost exclusively on job postings. She also points out that we do aggregate our customers’ jobs at http://www.standoutjobs.com/jobs to provide job seekers with the easiest access possible.

Click here to read the full post at About.com

Yoonew and b5media are both small businesses that are growing rapidly. They face similar recruiting challenges - finding, attracting and engaging top talent - while doing everything else they have to do to keep their businesses moving forward. It’s never easy to balance everything when running a business, and recruiting is often left to the sidelines. That’s hugely damaging to the potential success of a company; if you can’t hire the right people, you can’t grow, and if you can’t grow, you die.

Both Yoonew and b5media have been using Standout Jobs Recruitment Communication Platform for some time. They’ve both hired successfully through it, and we’ve just released case studies for both of them.

Yoonew Reduces Risk

Gerry Wilson, CEO at Yoonew made a great comment when talking about the advantage of using Standout Jobs.

“Since we’re light on HR resources the easiest thing for us to do was to put all the job postings into Standout Jobs and wait for everything to come in,” said Wilson. “The unique thing people get to see is the wider variety at the company—blogs, jobs, personality—they can make a better impression as a candidate to Yoonew. Prospects read our blogs and really try to tailor themselves to the company. That’s made a huge difference in the quality of candidate coming through the system.”

He goes on to speak about the reduction in risk he’s now seeing by virtue of reaching and connecting with higher quality candidates. Higher quality candidates result in higher quality hires, and that reduces his overall risk. For example, high turnover rates are extremely expensive, especially for small businesses with limited budgets; they have to go out, attract new candidates, hire someone and re-train them. The loss in time, money and productivity is huge. Reducing hiring risk brings significant dollars to any company’s bottomline.

Click here to read the full Yoonew case study

b5media Finds Cultural Fits

For b5media it’s all about finding the right cultural fits and helping job seekers self-select themselves into or out of the recruitment process. The more information that b5media puts on their career site, the more they represent who they are and what they’re all about, and the more candidates get to see. The right candidates make the leap to apply, and are encouraged to do so; the wrong candidates know they’re not the right fit and don’t bother applying as frequently.

Jeremy Wright, CEO at b5media said:

Our process was all over the board, but once we got on the Standout Jobs platform everything fell into place. We especially like the video features on the employment page. We purposely post videos that show an edgier side of our office culture. It’s our way of conveying to potential applicants how we approach each day and our business. We’re high-intensity workers, high-intensity players and if that’s not something that is 100 percent attractive and a good match for your lifestyle, then b5 is not the right organization for you.

Culture matters. Presenting the right message to the right audience will result in the right hires. And both Yoonew and b5media have seen those results.

Click here to read the full b5media case study

I’m at the ERE Expo along with our VP Business Development, Steve McNair, for the next couple of days to connect with partners, customers, colleagues and friends. The last ERE show in San Diego was a blast; and I was able to present Standout Jobs at the Startup Forum. I look forward to watching the forum this time around, especially Jeff Stewart from Urgent Career. Jeff’s new startup is in the HR space - focusing on improved matching technology targeting the hiring of sales and business development people. He’s also an investor in Standout Jobs.

At ERE, we’re sponsoring breakfast on the first day. We look forward to connecting with as many people as possible.

As well, we’ve launched a special webinar series for ERE attendees.

To view the details of the webinar and the schedule click here.

We have 3 webinars scheduled over the next 2 weeks or so. Each will be around 1-hour long where we’ll introduce you to our Recruitment Communication Platform. This won’t be a PowerPoint presentation. Steve will be giving live demos of the platform to show you how easy it is to get a career site or recruitment micro-site up and running. This will be a nuts & bolts presentation, which I think most people will appreciate.

Of course, even if you’re not attending ERE, we’d welcome your attendance at our webinars. Just click here, scroll to the bottom and pick a time slot. It’s as easy as that!

If you are at ERE - we look forward to meeting you.

Leading Provider of Interactive Career Sites Launches Latest Version of their Platform, Proven by More than 200 Beta Customers

Montreal, October 27, 2008 – Standout Jobs, a leading provider of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, today announced the general availability of version two of its web-based Recruitment Communication Platform. Previously dubbed “Reception” while in beta, Standout Jobs’ Recruitment Communication Platform boasts many new features and updated functionality proven successful with more than 200 beta customers since the company’s launch at DEMO in January 2008.

Standout Jobs’ Recruitment Communication Platform is a do-it-yourself interactive career site that uses video, blogging, chat and widgets to showcase and brand a company’s culture and team to potential recruits. These social media tools and principles attract and engage high value job candidates based on their talents and cultural fit with the company. The solution includes candidate relationship management features for HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates. Delivered as an on-demand solution, the Standout Jobs’ Recruitment Communication Platform integrates with existing sites or operates as a stand-alone web site.

Enhancements and new features to the Recruitment Communication Platform include:

• Full customization – Employers can fully customize the design and user interface of their career site to tightly match the look and feel of their overall brand.
• Chat – Employers can now chat immediately with job seekers when they arrive at a career site, increasing interactivity and engagement.
• Improved SEO – Improved search engine optimization (SEO) to make sure employers continue to gain traffic from Google and other major search engines.
• Streamlined application process – Standout Jobs’ applicant process workflow has been praised by users as delivering only the best, most qualified candidates for open positions. Now the application process has been streamlined to make it easier than ever for only the most qualified candidates to apply.
• Modular architecture – Although seamless to the user, the Recruitment Communication Platform enjoys an updated, modular architecture to support integration with other top HR products, including applicant tracking systems and job distribution software, thereby protecting an enterprise’s previous HR software investments while allowing them to upgrade to the latest Web 2.0 technologies.
• Community Correspondence – Email distribution of job postings to an organization’s entire contact list, to make the most of “who you know” for recruiting.

Standout Jobs’ Recruitment Communication Platform also provides:

• A strong candidate relationship management system. Standout Jobs allows hiring managers to collaborate with others within the hiring company about prospective employees, saving the organization time and money.
• The ability to market jobs instantly across multiple job boards. Post a job once and Standout Jobs populates multiple job boards, both paid and unpaid, from one central, easy to manage dashboard.

“We looked at other offerings, but we really wanted something interactive,” said Jay Marshall, Polk USA’s Manager of Talent Acquisition. “The tools we assessed were fine but would still have left the company with a static site, and we knew early on that static sites turn away potential talent. Standout Jobs lets us brand ourselves to highly desirable Generation X and Y candidates and reach them where they live online. Other solutions aren’t as uniquely designed as Standout Jobs’ for this purpose and the people we’re looking to source have grown up with these technologies. The Recruitment Communication Platform was also the easiest to use and came with the best service and tech support.”

In addition to the release of the new Recruitment Communication Platform, Standout Jobs has launched a channel partner program for other HR vendors looking to bring new, web 2.0 technologies to their solutions. The channel program allows resellers to deliver new strategies and greater interactivity to their HR software products and service offerings. Standout Jobs has signed six resellers to-date, including five major recruitment advertising agencies and a top HR media company. Standout Jobs continues to add new resellers as well.

Standout Jobs’ Recruitment Communication Platform is available immediately. Interested companies and resellers can sign up for a 45-day free trial of the product. Pricing for the full license starts at $249.00 per month with no limits on the number of jobs, candidates or users a company can have.

“Our new Recruitment Communication Platform and the partner program launch represent a huge transformation for Standout Jobs in the short year since we first got off the ground,” said Ben Yoskovitz, co-founder and CEO, Standout Jobs. “Our software has always delivered value to our customers, whether through money saved on recruiters’ fees, time and energy reclaimed by executives tasked with sourcing candidates, or HR professionals looking for specific skill sets in niche communities on the web. We’ve incorporated all the great feedback we’ve received from the HR community, and feel our Recruitment Communication Platform is the best the industry has to offer to meet their needs.”

About Standout Jobs

Founded in February 2007 by Benjamin Yoskovitz, Fred Ngo and Austin Hill, Standout Jobs provides a Web-based hosted employer branding and job marketing platform to power companies’ online recruitment efforts. At the heart of Standout Jobs 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. Standout Jobs also includes candidate relationship management tools enabling HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates effectively.

Contacts:
Benjamin Yoskovitz
Standout Jobs
press@standoutjobs.com
(514) 510 3585
www.standoutjobs.com

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