RECEPTION(TM) is a suite of Web-based tools to power companies' online recruiting efforts and help them stand out from the crowd. RECEPTION brings the latest Web consumer experiences - easy, personal and dynamic - to the recruiting process. 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. The goal is to help companies develop and promote their employment brand, in order to find and hire the best talent. RECEPTION also includes candidate relationship management tools enabling HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates effectively.
RECEPTION includes the following features:
-- CUSTOMIZABLE CAREER SITE: A fully customizable career site allowing
companies to modify the colors, layout and look using drag and drop
widgets. These career sites include interactive content such as polls,
Q&A and comments, and employment marketing tools to measure and
administrate candidate visits and applications.
-- VIDEO: Companies can seamlessly integrate video into their job
postings and create behind-the-scenes tours, to showcase their culture
and present a more in-depth view of themselves to candidates.
-- DYNAMIC CONTENT: Blog postings, employee profiles, photos and more
allow HR managers and employment brand marketers to discuss, interact
and promote hiring content directly with candidate pools. HR managers
can customize and publish content directly to candidates to better
communicate with them.
-- BETTER JOB BOARD MARKETING & METRICS: Job posts are automatically
distributed to a multitude of free and paying job boards, saving
companies time. RECEPTION includes metrics on the efficacy of the job
boards, helping companies evaluate and adjust their job board
spending.
-- CENTRALLY TRACK AND COLLABORATE ON APPLICANTS: Web-based applications
from candidates can be shared with all the people involved in the
hiring process, allowing for a central tracking of resumes, interview
notes and candidate status. By moving applications out of email and
costly applicant tracking systems, RECEPTION allows companies to
manage their candidate application process more easily and
efficiently. RECEPTION has no seat limits, so entire teams can now be
involved in the hiring process.
-- BUILD CANDIDATE PROFILES: RECEPTION bookmarks candidates' information
into its candidate relationship management application from popular
sites including LinkedIn. Automated searches across the Web help build
detailed profiles on prospective candidates. This will save HR
managers time and effort in sourcing top talent.
-- DEVELOP CANDIDATE RELATIONSHIPS: Candidates can track companies'
career sites with newsfeeds, allowing them to receive instant updates
while remaining entirely private. Candidates can selectively disclose
details about themselves as they interact with companies, should they
not be ready to apply immediately. Establishing this relationship
between employer and candidate through RECEPTION ensures that
companies are providing candidates with a positive experience, and
improves companies' opportunities to market jobs in the future.
"Too many companies' online career sections are outdated, dull and uninformative. To win the war for talent, companies need to create a great employer brand and turn passive job seekers into active, long-term prospects," said Benjamin Yoskovitz, chief executive officer and founder of Standout Jobs. "While employers continue to spend billions in advertising on job sites, they are also looking to use the Web more effectively to reach the best candidates and provide high-quality information, interaction and communication."
Pricing and Availability: RECEPTION is a software-as-a-service solution that can be integrated into existing sites or operated as a stand-alone Web site to power companies' recruiting efforts. RECEPTION is offered with a 90- day free trial, allowing companies to begin interacting with candidates at no cost. Following the trial period, RECEPTION is available for monthly subscriptions starting at $149/month.
"Standout Jobs' approach to relationship- based recruiting and their Reception product is the most exciting offering for recruiting that I've seen in a really long time," said Jason Davis, a recruiting industry veteran who sold Recruiting.com to Jobster and now runs RecruitingBlogs.com. "Online recruiting is no longer limited to traditional job sites like Monster.com and CareerBuilder.com. The future of hiring is clearly going to where Reception is positioned."
"Standout jobs helped us reach an audience of developers with a video campaign that lets us stand out from the crowd and show future employees what we're all about. We're excited to be able to modify our career site on the fly with video and other tools and without a major investment of time and money," said Robert Dempsey, founder and project director at Atlantic Dominion Solutions. (For additional comment, contact rdempsey@techcfl.com.)
Standout Jobs is launching with more than 20 customers representing some of North America's most exciting companies, including b5media, Freshbooks, Jangl, Mobivox, Socialight, and Xobni.
Chris Shipley, executive producer of the DEMO conferences, said, "In the competitive marketplace for talent, companies are looking for new ways to attract great people. Standout Jobs has a powerful vision for improving the job market, and a product capable of delivering the goods. RECEPTION will have a significant impact on the marketplace in the coming year."
Standout Jobs also announced that it has secured funding from iNovia Capital and a group of private angel investors. The funds will be used for product development and marketing.
To view Standout Jobs' DEMO presentation live, go to http://www.demo.com at 9:44 AM (PST) on January 30.
About Standout Jobs, Inc.
Standout Jobs is a startup providing web-based tools to help companies recruit great candidates more effectively. Standout Jobs' RECEPTION product is a suite of web-based tools to power companies' online recruiting efforts and help them stand out from the crowd. The company was started by Benjamin Yoskovitz, Fred Ngo and Austin Hill in February 2007. Standout Jobs is based in Montreal, Canada.
Standout Jobs was founded when Ben Yoskovitz and Fred Ngo, two Montreal- based entrepreneurs frustrated with finding good startup employment opportunities, met Canadian entrepreneur and angel investor Austin Hill, who was frustrated with how difficult it was to market startup jobs to potential candidates. After meeting at the local Montreal technology community meetup BarCamp, they quickly decided to rectify the problem and began developing RECEPTION. With initial seed funding from Austin Hill and other private angel investors, the company was started in February 2007 and received additional funding from venture capital fund iNovia Capital. For more information, visit http://www.standoutjobs.com.
About the DEMO Conferences
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information on the DEMO conferences, visit http://www.demo.com/.
For more information, contact:
Dov Smith
Standout Jobs Media Relations
dov@standoutjobs.com
514.242.1776
