Catch the Best on Bits du Jour

Catch the Best is participating in the one-day-deal site Bits du Jour today, so if you’ve been on the fence about trying Catch the Best, today would be a good day to try it!

April 14th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Catch the Best integrates with iPaper

Scribd recently released an API for using their fantastic document conversion and rendering system, due to popular demand from people like me. I have integrated this API into Catch the Best to provide inline previews of resumes that are submitted by job candidates, either via a web application form or via email. This allows Catch the Best users to see the attached resumes, whether they be Word or PDF documents, without having to download them and load in them in Word or Acrobat Reader.

This is a feature I’ve wanted in Catch the Best almost since the beginning, so a big thanks to the Scribd guys for making this API available!

March 12th, 2008 - Posted in Resume Management, Resumes | 1 Comments

Getting everyone involved in hiring

Kevin Merritt, the founder of blist, made a good point in his recent blog post, Get Everyone Involved in Building the Team. I commented on his blog, but I thought it worth a mention here too: this was one of my primary motivators for creating Catch the Best.

There is definitely value in involving everyone on your team in the hiring process. I found time and again that getting feedback from others on my team about the candidates I was considering helped expose concerns and opportunities that I missed. Especially if you believe in the importance of the social fit of a new hire (and you should), then the only effective way to evaluate that fit is to give everyone on the team a chance to review the candidates.

Many companies find this level of participation frightening — instead they cling to the notion that the process should be tightly controlled by HR — but I think we’ll continue to see more companies realizing they have a lot of talent in their existing teams that they can tap to improve their hiring practices.

March 10th, 2008 - Posted in Hiring | 0 Comments