Our founder, Ben Curtis, is making an appearance at this weeks nPost event where Catch the Best will be presenting.
Tuesday, July 15th @ 6:30pm
Columbia City Theater
4916 Rainier Ave. S (Columbia City)
One of the best tech events of this past spring was hosted by Nathan Kaiser, CEO of nPost.com. Nathan has put together a follow-up event (more to come later this summer and fall), with a new batch of local startups that will be on hand to demo their products. The list includes Catch the Best, Eyejot, Timelope, HomeSavvi and ClayValet, plus one or two others. It looks like there’s still room on the registration page to sign up – the event is free, and if the last one was any indication, it should be a blast!
July 12th, 2008 - Posted in Job boards | 0 Comments
MARK STACHIEW, of The Gazette talks about Catch the Best and other hiring tools.
“You’re hired
www.catchthebest.com
If you’re on the other side of the job-seeking equation and are hiring new staff, then a useful tool to help manage your applicants is a website with the encouraging name Catch the Best.
When you list your positions online, Catch the Best gives you unique submission email and Web addresses for each one.
If you are posting the ad on multiple job boards, your own company website or Craigslist, then these unique addresses let you easily track where your applicants are coming from. This will help you eliminate sites that don’t send you qualified leads so that you can streamline future hiring.
People in your company who have access to the site can rate applicants with a thumbs-up or -down as they review the resumés. This lets you easily see which applicants are most suited for the job. You can click on each applicant’s name to see the information they submitted when they filled in your online application.
To help you post job ads on your own site or any forum, social network or job board where you can drop in some HTML, Catch the Best gives you a javascript widget that you can paste into these pages. This gives you the ability to cast your net far and wide.”
January 1st, 2008 - Posted in Job ads, Job boards, Jobs, Recruiting, Resume Management, Resumes | 0 Comments
Do you know where your best candidates come from? Do you know whether it’s worth it to spend the money on a job posting at Monster.com, or can you get away with a cheap (or even free) job posting at Craigslist and get just as good quality? If Craigslist was actually a better source of top talent than Monster.com, wouldn’t you want to know that so you could stop wasting your money?
If you really want to know where your best candidates are coming from, you need to use Catch the Best. Why? Because that’s the easiest way for you to find out which sources are the most effective for you. Let me give you an example.
Recently I needed to find a Ruby on Rails contractor, so I wrote up a job description, created a new position in my Catch the Best account, and created source tracking email and web addresses for two sources: Craigslist and jobs.rubynow.com. Then I posted the job at those two job boards, each with a source-specific email address provided by Catch the Best as the email address to use for submissions. Then I sat back and waited to see what would happen.
Over the next two weeks I got exactly 20 job applications (I just went to my Catch the Best dashboard to verify that number). Of that 20, 95% of the submissions came from the Craigslist posting. My wife helped me review the submissions that came in, and three were good enough to warrant some follow up. All three came from Craigslist. So, was it worth it to me to spend that $25 for the Craiglist post? Yup. Would I have known that for sure if I didn’t have that accurate source tracking? Nope.
To be fair, the way I wrote the job post made it a better fit for the audience at Craigslist than the audience at jobs.rubynow.com — though that was only a hunch on my part before I posted the job at both places. I didn’t know that for sure until the actual results came in. Of course, that actually helps my point of the usefulness of accurate source tracking… not only do you have objective and accurate data about which sources are bringing you the best candidates, you also get objective feedback about the quality/fit of your job post copy with regards to the forum in which you place it. You could conceivably work on a number of iterations of copy until you find the wording that best resonates with the audience of a particular job board, helping you get the best targeting possible for your job ad.
Either way you look at it, if you want to know which job boards give you the most bang for your buck, you need to use Catch the Best. With accurate source tracking so easy to get, you’ll never want to run a job ad without it. Sign up for a free trial to see for yourself just how useful Catch the Best can be in improving your recruiting efforts.
November 9th, 2007 - Posted in Job boards | Comments Off