Feature Watch: Brandable jobs page and Reminders
I have released a couple of new features this week: the ability to have a public job listing hosted by Catch the Best and to set reminders related to a candidate.
For a while now you’ve been able to use a Javascript snippet to display your open positions from Catch the Best on a web page on your own site. Now I have added another option for displaying your jobs list… now you can simply link to yourdomain.catchthebest.com/jobs from your existing web site for visitors to see what jobs you have available. Even better, you can completely customize that list and the web submission form, so now the layout of the public Catch the Best pages can exactly match your existing site. The end result is you can have a dynamic careers page for your web site based on your data from Catch the Best that is consistent with your current web site’s look and feel.
By popular demand, you can now add a reminder for yourself when looking at a candidate’s profile page. This is handy for recruiters who want to periodically check on passive candidates, or for anyone who just needs a little help with checking back on a promising applicant. It’s simple to do, too: just click “Add reminder” on the candidate profile page, enter a brief message to yourself and a time to be reminded, like “next month”, and choose whether you’d like to receive the reminder via email. Once you set it, you’ll never have to worry about dropping the ball on a good prospect again. 
February 14th, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comments
Feature Watch: Attaching emails to candidate notes
A lot of interaction between applicants and the hiring manager will happen via email, and now Catch the Best has a way to capture those emails so everyone on the team can easily see those exchanges.
An email address is displayed on the candidate detail page that you can use to add emails to the notes associated with a candidate’s profile. So, when you email the candidate and include this auto-generated email address as a BCC, your email to the candidate will appear in the candidate’s notes for your team to see.
January 3rd, 2008 - Posted in Uncategorized | 0 Comments
Catch the Best in the Montreal Gazette
MARK STACHIEW, of The Gazette talks about Catch the Best and other hiring tools.
“You’re hired
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.”
Read the rest of the story here: Catch the Best in the Montreal Gazette
January 1st, 2008 - Posted in Job ads, Job boards, Jobs, Recruiting, Resume Management, Resumes | 0 Comments