Standout Jobs Finds Deep Tech Gurus for Apption Software
Apption Software is a leader in modernizing enterprise and government infrastructures using Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate business processes and improve collaboration. Located in Ottawa, the company has received numerous industry awards, including most recently being named to the Profit Hot 50 as the 5th Fastest Growing Startup in Canada, winning the coveted 2008 Microsoft Code Award for Top Development Team in Canada, and the 2006 Branham300 National Top 25 Technology Up-and-Comers award.
CHALLENGE
Apption’s business is about solving some of the biggest technology problems with the deepest technological solutions, whether they’re currently available or not. The company often creates many of its clients’ programs from scratch using terms most of us would have only heard of in sci-fi films. At Apption, “neural networks,” “machine learning,” “fuzzy logic,” and “prediction algorithms” are all a real part of the daily grind. What hadn’t been commonplace for Apption until recently, however, was an easy way to source technologically-savvy employees capable of thriving in such a challenging technical atmosphere.
The lack of a formalized recruitment system caused the company other headaches, too. Frequently candidates’ resumes were lost in an overloaded and often overlooked general email inbox. Compounding the problem was the lack of any process for vetting candidates, resulting in the loss of time, billable hours and ultimately revenue.
SOLUTION
Apption was looking for a way to source new hires with very specific technological skills, who also shared the core values of Apption’s culture: innovation, quality and simplicity. And the company needed a process for attracting and managing resumes, and for moving them from receipt to executive review. Apption turned to Standout Jobs’ recruitment communication platform to power its online recruiting efforts and highlight its innovation, technical leadership and most importantly, its team, while simplifying the recruiting process.
“Apption is composed of a very diverse group of people, all of whom bring the critical skills necessary to solving our clients’ problems,” said Sam Zaid, COO, Apption Software. “While of course that’s important, it’s the people behind the skills who make Apption tick, without which we’d never be successful. Standout Jobs has given us a way to market ourselves better to prospective candidates and attract the best people for the job and our culture.”
RESULTS
After launching a Standout Jobs career site Apption immediately began attracting better prospects and recently made its first hire. “We still use the free listing sites [for job postings], but the quality of the candidates is going up because the job descriptions they find after clicking through to Standout Jobs are more attractive,” said Zaid. “And, people like the pictures.”
Zaid estimates he and his partners have shaved hours a week off of the time they spent vetting candidates using Standout Jobs.
In the old days, everything came into the mailbox and some of the candidates might go missing because they got mixed in with all the chaff. Now we collaborate on resumes and when we agree, we send a link to the admin who sets up an interview. It’s a very natural way of vetting applicants. Before Standout Jobs, we’d have to do that in person. Now we don’t, and it’s all tracked for us automatically.
In addition to providing Apption with better candidate collaboration the software helps Apption get its brand out while managing candidates’ resumes when they come in. Standout Jobs immediately and automatically populates job boards across the web with Apption’s openings, pulling that time-consuming function off of Apption’s executives’ plates to free up more time for running the business. “The job marketing automation is great because it draws more traffic and better quality candidates,” continued Zaid. “It actually raises our profile as an employer to those who don’t know us because they can actually see who’s behind the company. You don’t get that with static employment sites.”
Standout Jobs’ recruitment communication platform lets Apption’s executives get back to running their business. The software promotes Apption’s culture and people to easily attract and interact with specialized talent, organizes and manages the workflow around hiring those people and saves time and money in the process.
