From Jobmatchbox: I can’t believe that it was that easy! Now I can keep track of candidates that I found with Linkedin and also keep track of communication with them before it ever goes into my ATS. I would have killed for something like this when I was an agency recruiter. Kudos to the team at StandoutJobs for not taking the easy road and just building yet another job board. Read the full story.
From VentureBeat: STANDOUT JOBS, of Montreal, Canada, is launching Reception, a new job recruiting Web site where companies can use social networking tools to create an “employer brand.” Features include a career site that can be customized with polls, Q&As and comments; video capabilities; and metrics to evaluate the efficacy of job boards. After a free trial, Reception will cost users $149 per month. The site is launching with more than 20 employers including b5media, Freshbooks and Jangl.
From Mashable: While most job sites launching these days have a heavy focus on combining social networking with the larger job search process, Standout Jobs has a narrowed approach on helping companies improve the way in which they present themselves to the world (i.e. potential hires) and how they interact with each other in order to make the hiring process a collaborative effort. Read the full story.
From GigaOm: Standout Jobs, a recruiting portal aimed at facilitating relationship-building between mid-sized companies and star job candidates, launched at DEMO today. The site borrows heavily from social media portals like Ning, and backs it up with a modern Content Management System (CMS) and candidate tracking system. Standout’s real strength may be its ability to make recruiters not just more efficient, but more effective. Read the full story.
From TechCrunch: StandoutJobs wants to help companies recruit more effectively by providing them with Netvibes-like pages that contain information for prospective employees. Companies can customize their StandoutJobs sites to include components that inform visitors about company culture, job opportunities, current employees, and more. Read full story.
From CenterNetworks: Standout Jobs is a Canadian company presenting their service at DEMO this week. The service allows companies to create recruitment portals to help publicize their openings along with offering a better process for applicants. Having been through integrations with some of the largest HR systems, Standout Jobs is a breath of fresh air. Read the full review.
From Montreal Tech Watch: I find the dashboard great, as it gives companies a solid and efficient way to manage their recruiting pipeline. There is for instance a nifty tool that can “broadcast” a job to popular websites, such as SvN, guy kawasaki’s blog, techcrunch etc. The interface is also very clear, and obviously, they spent a lot of time designing this section. Read the full story.
PALM DESERT, CA, January 28, 2008 – Standout Jobs, a startup in the recruiting and online job market space, today launches RECEPTION™, a new employer branding and Web-based recruiting product. The launch takes place from DEMO 08, the conference where the newest and best products in digital technology debut.
RECEPTION 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:
“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, 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.
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 www.standoutjobs.com.
For more information, contact:
Dov Smith
Standout Jobs media relations
dov@standoutjobs.com
514.242.1776
Montreal, Canada, January 28, 2008 - iNovia Capital, a manager of seed and early stage venture capital funds, which invest in sectors such as software, semiconductors, medical devices, biopharmaceuticals, cleantech and advanced technologies, today announced that it has made a $2 million investment in Montreal-based company Standout Jobs, a startup in the recruiting and online job market space.
Standout Jobs was founded in February 2007 by Ben Yoskovitz, Fred Ngo and Austin Hill to power companies’ online recruiting efforts and help them stand out from the crowd. The company’s RECEPTION™ product 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.
“We believe in the team and Standout Jobs’ market potential because they are changing the way companies recruit great employees,” said John Elton, Partner with iNovia Capital. “The recruitment sector represents about one-fourth of all Internet advertising, yet many companies remain dissatisfied with the results of their career site and job board spending. Standout Jobs helps companies employ unique strategies and online tools to establish their employer brand and develop relationships with potential hires.”
Standout Jobs is launching RECEPTION today at DEMO 08, the conference where the newest and best products in digital technology debut. Initial customers include more than 20 firms representing some of North America’s most exciting companies, including b5media, Freshbooks, Jangl, Socialight, and Xobni. Standout Jobs’ DEMO presentation can be viewed live at 9:44 AM (PST) on January 30 at http://www.demo.com.
“We’re delighted that iNovia Capital shares our belief in the power of new technologies to bridge the gap between great companies and great job candidates,” said Benjamin Yoskovitz, CEO of Standout Jobs. “This investment will enable us to further develop and market our interactive career site technology to small and medium sized companies.”
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 on a monthly subscription basis.
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 with initial seed funding from Austin Hill, private angel investors and iNovia Capital. Standout Jobs is based in Montreal, Canada. For more information, visit www.standoutjobs.com.
iNovia Capital manages seed and early stage venture capital funds, with a focus on helping entrepreneurs and innovators build successful companies in the sectors of information technology, life sciences and cleantech. iNovia Capital’s value-added approach to early stage investing provides portfolio companies with capital, unique access to intellectual property from its partner academic institutions and an extensive network of industry partners, advisors and sector-specific co-investors. For more information see www.inoviacapital.com.
Editorial Contact:
Zara Myles, iNovia Capital
514-982-2251, zmyles@inoviacapital.com
Dov Smith, Standout Jobs media relations
514.242.1776, dov@standoutjobs.com
We’ve just lifted the veil on Standout Jobs. After grossly underestimating the amount of time it would take to get everything ready to go, we finally made it. And so … welcome!
I’ll skip the detailed explanations and encourage you to visit our site and check it out for yourself. We’re launching with a great bunch of customers (thank you!) and look forward to many more.
We have a ton of work left to do — this is just the beginning — but it’s great to see about a year’s worth of effort come to fruition. We’ve all learned an incredible amount over that time, and I hope to share those lessons in the near future. But in the meantime, I want to thank everyone that worked on Standout Jobs and supported us. We couldn’t have made it without you!
On that note, please check out our customers’ Career Sites. These are all great companies. They were dedicated to launching with us, and they’re all hiring for some great positions.
You can sign-up for Reception as well. We’re offer 90-day free trials, after which it’s $149/month. Go check it out and let us know what you think!
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