However, not everybody likes this feature. So, by popular demand, you can now turn this feature off for your team. After choosing the Settings link from the top navigation, choose the Vote Hiding link to turn it off.

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!

“We are striving to offer a complete, light weight, hiring solution for those who do not require a gigantic, enterprise talent management system. The Indeed.com automatic posting option completes the circle of creating a position, managing responses, and collaborating with other hiring decision makers about applicants by allowing the position to be automatically submitted to Indeed.com if one chooses” said Vice President of Marketing & Business Development, Mike Wagner.

About Indeed

Indeed is a search engine for jobs - with a radically different approach to job search. In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages - and we continue to add new sites every day.

About Catch the Best
Founded in 2007, and located in Seattle, Washington, Catch the Best provides a superior, easy to use, applicant tracking and resume management system for both recruiting and non-recruiting professionals involved in the hiring process. From the startup to the Fortune 500 enterprise, Catch the Best delivers easy, and efficient web based solutions to streamline the management and collaboration efforts of the placement process.

“We are always striving to enhance the hiring process for our current and future customers by incorporating requested functionality that aligns with our vision of a simple, effective applicant tracking and resume management solution,” said Vice President of Marketing & Business Development, Mike Wagner.

The questionnaire functionality allows users to add related questions with free-form, single choice, or multiple choice response options to specific positions. Once the position has questions associated with it, those questions will be displayed on the web submission form for applicants. The candidate’s answers will then be stored and visible in the applicant detail page.

About Catch the Best
Founded in 2007, and located in Seattle, Washington, Catch the Best provides a superior, easy to use, applicant tracking and resume management system for both recruiting and non-recruiting professionals involved in the hiring process. From the startup to the Fortune 500 enterprise, Catch the Best delivers easy, and efficient web based solutions to streamline the management and collaboration efforts of the placement process.

Kirkland, WA, May 24, 2008 –(PR.com)– On demand applicant tracking solution company Catch the Best hires Mike Wagner as Vice President of Marketing.

Catch the Best, on demand applicant tracking software company, announced the hiring of Mike Wagner as Vice President of Marketing. He will be responsible for all corporate marketing and partner operations and strategy.

“We are very pleased to have someone of Mike’s expertise come on board. Mike is a perfect addition in this time of continued growth and product expansion.” said CEO and Founder Ben Curtis.

Mike has worked with numerous young and established companies to create and grow solutions and that change people’s lives for the better by guiding strategic marketing and sales strategies. Mike’s previous experience includes time at Fortune 500 enterprise NAVTEQ and Web 2.0 startup JackBe among other young web and software companies. Mike earned his M.B.A. from American University and B.A. at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire.

About Catch the Best
Founded in 2007, and located in Seattle, Washington, Catch the Best provides superior, easy to use, applicant tracking solutions for both recruiting and non-recruiting professionals involved in the hiring process. From the startup to the Fortune 500 enterprise, Catch the Best delivers easy, and efficient web based solutions to streamline the management and collaboration efforts of the placement process.

For information: http://catchthebest.com or
Contact: mike@catchthebest.com
Phone: 301.758.6079

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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!

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.

If you aren’t convinced, though, just try it. With the accurate source tracking provided by Catch the Best, you can create two different job ads with different content to post at the same place and at the same time and see which one is more effective in attracting the best candidates.

If you run that test and find out we’re wrong, you should definitely let me know.

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.