SmartSearch completes new installation for Natural Resources Defense Council

Leading talent acquisition and applicant tracking system selected by multi-national environmental organization

March 26, 2010 – Oceanside, CA – Advanced Personnel Systems, Inc. (APS) recently completed installation of SmartSearch, a web-based talent acquisition and recruiting solution, to serve the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the world‟s natural resources and ensuring a safe and healthy environment for all people. NRDC‟s staff includes attorneys, scientists, and other environmental specialists who use the tools of legal advocacy, scientific research, and citizen education to help protect the environment. Formed in 1970, NRDC has office in New York City, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the United States, and in Beijing, China.

After a conducting a thorough product evaluation process to identify suitable vendors to replace its existing applicant tracking system, NRDC selected SmartSearch to meet its requirements for group data segregation and desired “self service” functionality for hiring managers on the built-in, branded web-portal. Fast implementation time, flexibility and experience working with global non-profit organizations also made SmartSearch a smart choice to support NRDC‟s unique hiring process and applicant tracking workflow.

“We worked closely with NDRC to expedite data migration from its legacy system, and configure SmartSearch to streamline and automate tasks. Our system also makes it easy for NRDC to control and manipulate features and functionality as its needs continue to evolve,” said Doug Coull, CEO of APS. “We are particularly proud to add NRDC to our client roster since a number of our employees are committed to „going green‟ and have contributed to its mission to curb the effects of climate change, stem the tide of toxic chemicals, and create a clean energy future.”

About SmartSearch: Advanced Personnel Systems has developed and deployed quality talent management and recruiting solutions since 1986. Having pioneered the field of resume-scanning based recruiting solutions, APS is a recognized leader in on-demand technology and innovative approaches to recruitment data management. Its signature product, SmartSearch, currently in its thirteenth release, serves 165,000 users and 4.7 million job seekers worldwide.

Learn more about SmartSearch by visiting www.smartsearchonline.com

About the Natural Resource Defense Council: The Natural Resources Defense Council is a national, nonprofit organization of scientists, lawyers and environmental specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. Founded in 1970, NRDC has 1.3 million members and online activists, served from offices in New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Beijing. The NRDC Action Fund‟s mission is to achieve the passage of legislation that jump-starts the clean energy economy, reduces pollution, and sustains vibrant communities for all Americans. Now is the time for leadership and action from our elected officials – our current goal is a comprehensive clean energy policy that will repower our economy and fuel our future. To that end: ensure that candidates for office are informed about and discussing our priority issues; work to educate and mobilize voters through a range of tools including the social web; cultivate and nurture strategic political partnerships that endure. Learn more about NRDC by visiting www.nrdc.org

MrTed Expands U.S. Presence with Office in San Francisco

California Office Will Support MrTed’s Growing U.S. Business

LONDON – March 24, 2010 – MrTed Ltd., the global leader of Talent Acquisition Solutions (http://www.mrted.com/), is expanding its U.S. presence and commitment with a new office in San Francisco that will support the company’s continued U.S. growth and enhance its worldwide presence.

“The timing is perfect for us to establish our presence on the West Coast,” said Jerome Ternynck, CEO and co-founder of MrTed. “Our decision was spurred equally by our existing business in the United States and by our expectations for continued growth throughout North America both on our Entreprise and SMB markets.”

The announcement of a California based U.S. office aligns with MrTed’s plans to deepen its partner relationships with U.S. vendors, a key strategic business development move. It also intends to support the growth ofSmartrecruiters (http://smartrecruiters.com/), MrTed’s revolutionary Open SaaS initiative that is rapidly becoming the largest force in recruiting software for SMBs.

The new U.S. office for MrTed marks a turning point for the company. It comes amid recognition from industry analysts for MrTed’s keen strategic industry leadership. More specifically, it follows very strong customer and analyst approval of the newest version of MrTedTalentLink (http://recruiting.mrted.com/user-experience/), the company’s flagship product, the Cloud 9 Version.

The leading research and advisory consulting firm Bersin & Associates said MrTedTalentLink Cloud 9 “brings the next-generation Talent Acquisition Solution toward the market”  and that it will “fully embrace the cloud computing technology and enhance (MrTed’s) partnerships.”

The address for the MrTed U.S. office is 330 Townsend St., Suite 237, San Francisco, Calif. 94107. The local phone number is 415-508-3755.

About MrTed

MrTed is a leading provider of on-demand talent acquisition solutions designed to help companies of all sizes optimize the process of acquiring local talent on a global scale. Through innovation, passion and focus, MrTed provides the world’s most effective recruitment solutions, ranging from MrTedTalentLink, an enterprise-class global talent acquisition solution, to SmartRecruiters, a free and easy applicant tracking system. MrTed was founded in London in 1999 and helps over 2000 clients in more than 100 countries find and acquire the most coveted talent in the world.

To learn more about MrTed and SmartRecruiters, please visit
www.mrted.com | www.smartrecruiters.com

Newton Software Releases Newton RPO: Recruiting Software Designed for Recruitment Outsourcers

Newton Software has released Newton RPO, a cutting edge technology platform that enables recruitment outsourcers to strategically manage and analyze their client’s recruiting programs.

San Francisco (PRWEB) February 24, 2010 — Newton Software, an innovative recruiting software company, launched Newton RPO today, the first complete applicant tracking platform designed specifically for recruitment outsourcers (RPOs). Newton’s web-based technology is designed to complement the consulting services RPOs provide, not only giving them the capability to offer their clients a true end-to-end recruiting solution—but enabling them to manage their clients’ entire recruiting programs more efficiently and effectively.

To date, most recruitment outsourcers do not offer complete recruiting solutions. RPOs primarily provide consulting services, and most do not provide technology to their customers: they tend to rely on outdated and homegrown systems, legacy ATS solutions that weren’t designed to provide outsourced recruiting services– r various cobbled-together solutions using email and spreadsheets. The release of Newton RPO gives recruitment outsourcers the opportunity to leverage cutting-edge technology that was built specifically to optimize the business processes associated with outsourced recruiting.

Over the last few years, the recruitment outsourcing industry has experienced dramatic growth, which stems from an ever-expanding market demand for scalable, on-demand recruiting programs. Today, new clients not only expect RPOs to fill seats but to help them build better process along the way. Newton RPO is a technology platform specifically designed to address the latest challenges faced by recruiting services providers, enabling them to easily attract new customers, manage existing accounts better, as well as increase their overall customer retention rates.

Originally developed to run a recruitment services business, Newton RPO has been under development since 2004. The developers of Newton had the unique opportunity to use the product in a production environment for 4 years, offering it to clients, testing the product and optimizing its features. To date, Newton has been deployed to hundreds of companies, thousands of recruiters and hiring managers and has processed hundreds of thousands of applicants (from small start-ups to multi-billion dollar corporations).

“I’m really excited that we can now make Newton available to recruitment outsourcers with Newton RPO”, said Steve Hazelton, Newton Software’s Head of Products.

Hazelton continued by describing how Newton RPO can help recruitment outsourcers: “Having run an RPO, I know that they’re hard businesses to manage. You have to monitor the activity of dozens of recruiters, thousands of jobs, hundreds of hiring managers and hundreds of thousands of candidates. We’ve lived these challenges and we’ve built RPO Software that addresses the major issues that we faced as outsourcers years ago. This is software that I’d want to use if I were still managing recruiting programs.”

Availability:

Newton RPO is now available. For more information contact a Newton RPO specialist at newtonsoftware.com.

About Newton Software:

Newton Software is a leading provider of innovative applicant tracking and recruiting software solutions. Newton software delivers an easy to use, fast-to-deploy, affordable solution for creating, managing and improving corporate recruiting programs with no hardware to buy or software to license. Featuring the most modern, intuitive application on the market, Newton is not only pushing the boundaries on how recruiting software is designed, it’s also changing the way business software is delivered and purchased.

Contact:

Newton, Inc.

415-593-1192

http://www.newtonsoftware.com

MrTed Offers a Sneak Preview of Cloud 9, Reveals the Future of Talent Acquisition

The Most Recent Release of MrTedTalentLink Offers Recruiters Unprecedented Personalization

LONDON – March 4, 2010 – MrTed Ltd., the global leader of Talent Acquisition Solutions, is offering a series of webinars designed to provide a glimpse of the unprecedented power and flexibility of its latest release, MrTedTalentLink Version 9, also known a Cloud 9. To learn more about the revolutionary software and how it will change the future of global talent acquisition, make plans today to attend one of our complimentary webinars introducing Cloud 9 at a time convenient for you.

“Cloud computing is a phrase being thrown around a lot today, but not everyone realizes how this technology will completely change the game in talent acquisition software,” said Jerome Ternynck, Chief Executive Officer of MrTed. “MrTed is offering these webinars to clearly explain the magnitude of this change and how Cloud 9 will bring the power and flexibility of cloud computing to talent acquisition software.”

With Cloud 9, users are completely free to personalize their desktop to fit their needs, thanks to:

• Advanced cloud computing technology: This open architecture makes it fast and easy to connect with other talent management and HR applications, so users get the full benefit of cloud computing on their desktop. Think iGoogle.

• A world of apps: Our portable application modules allow clients to turn on, turn off, or completely configure to create a truly personalized experience that meets their individual needs and preferences.

• A dynamic user interface: Users are free to configure and rearrange apps in order to create a personalized workspace, rather than jumping from screen to screen or module to module.

“The on-demand user interface makes it easy for recruiters to personalize their own workspaces, and the open architecture makes it fast and easy to connect with other talent management and HR applications,” said Ternynck. “Users get the full benefit of cloud computing on their desktop. For talent acquisition software, Cloud 9 is the ultimate personalized recruitment platform.”

Make plans today to get your sneak preview at a time that works for you to witness first-hand the future of global talent acquisition.

About MrTed

MrTed is a leading provider of on-demand talent acquisition solutions designed to help companies of all sizes optimize the process of acquiring local talent on a global scale. Through innovation, passion and focus, MrTed provides the world’s most effective recruitment solutions, ranging from MrTedTalentLink, an enterprise-class global talent acquisition solution, to SmartRecruiters, a free and easy applicant tracking system. MrTed was founded in London in 1999 and supports over 2000 clients in more than 100 countries find and acquire the most coveted talent in the world.

To learn more about MrTed and SmartRecruiters, please visit
www.mrted.com | www.smartrecruiters.com

Newton Software Releases New EEO / OFCCP Compliance Feature

See a Video Here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsqr2a_jklA&feature=player_embedded

EEO Compliance. Make you nervous? Applicant flow logs, hired/offers logs, reasons for non-selection for every applicant, minimum requirements for every job. Tracking all of this is nearly impossible let alone actually reporting it – until now.

We’ve designed an elegant, powerful feature in our recruiting software to track and report all of your EEO data for you – automatically. No more going back in time to add missing data, no reason for spreadsheets and no extra work for your team. Newton’s EEO / OFCCP tracking feature is the most advanced on the market and we’ve designed it to be the easiest-to-use too.

Track reason for non-selection for every candidate, build appropriate minimum qualification questions  for every job, ensure that you’re being an equal opportunity employer and build the same reports that used to take you weeks or months in minutes. Sign up with Newton, it’s like insurance for your recruiting program.

www.newtonsoftware.com

myStaffingPro Partner, CARCO Group, Explains E-Verify Regulations in an Informative Webinar

(Lima, Ohio)  January 26, 2010 – On September 8th, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) E-Verify system became required for all government contractors and subcontractors.  According to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website, E-Verify “allows participating employers to electronically verify the employment eligibility of their newly hired employees. ”  To assist businesses in understanding E-Verify, myStaffingPro will be hosting an informational webinar with their new partner, CARCO Group, Inc.

The webinar will take place on February 4th at 1pm and will explain E-Verify and its implications for U.S. businesses.  During the webinar, CARCO’s Alan Gordon will present:
*       Explanation of E-Verify
*       Definition of who is impacted by E-Verify
*       Steps on how  to automate your process
*       Tips on how to avoid penalties and fines

Alan Gordon is the developer of CARCO’s E-Verify software program and will be moderating the Webinar on CARCO’s behalf.  CARCO has been involved with E-Verify since its inception in 1997, when it was known as the Basic Pilot Program.  Mr. Gordon, because of his involvement in the development process of CARCO’s customizable software solution, has emerged as one of CARCO’s foremost authorities on the subject.

During the webinar, myStaffingPro will debut their E-Verify integration with CARCO.  Through the integration, customers will benefit from a smooth, electronic E-Verify submittal process.  myStaffingPro’s partnership with CARCO allows customers to submit data to the federal E-Verify system without leaving myStaffingPro.  The synchronized integration provides customers with a straightforward method to review and maintain their E-Verify submissions.

To register for the complimentary webinar on February 4th at 1:00pm ET, visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/976449544

About myStaffingPro
myStaffingPro is a full-featured applicant tracking and recruiting system with advanced screening and configuration capabilities.  myStaffingPro’s applicant tracking system provides customers with the tools they need to recruit, qualify, track, and hire the best applicants.  The scalable myStaffingPro system can be configured to any hiring process or budget.  myStaffingPro currently delivers the hiring process for over 500 clients and has processed over 17 million applications.  To learn more about myStaffingPro applicant tracking system, please visit http://mystaffingpro.com.

About CARCO Group, Inc.
Founded in 1977, CARCO Group, Inc. (CARCO) is a nationally recognized information services company that provides pre-employment screening, and risk mitigation services, as well as a state-of-the-art Onboarding Solution, to large corporations and business entities.  CARCO continually develops leading-edge software programs and other customized employee screening offerings for its clients.  It is committed to building long-term relationships with customers by continually providing new and better ways to access the information needed to make the best decisions.  For more information about CARCO and its services, please visit www.carcogroup.com.

LinkUp Announces New Android Application

Minneapolis, MN – LinkUp, the fastest growing job search engine on the web today, announced the release of its free Android application for job seekers. Exactly like LinkUp’s iPhone app and website itself, LinkUp’s new Android app allows job seekers to search job listings that are found exclusively on company websites. LinkUp’s job search engine indexes over 22,000 company websites and updates those job listings every night. As a result, jobs on LinkUp.com and its mobile applications are always current, often unadvertised anywhere else, and contain no fake jobs or scam listings.

LinkUp’s Android and iPhone application, called “Job Search Engine,” allows job seekers to search for relevant job listings by keyword, location, company, or industry. Users can also save jobs to a Favorites list and access their Favorite jobs on their computer at a later time via a web browser or RSS feed reader. Job seekers can also save specific c search queries as job alerts and be notified via email of all new matching jobs.

Additional features include email alerts when Favorite jobs are closed by the employer, the ability to instantly email relevant jobs to any email address, and the ability to apply to job openings directly from any Android phone. Finally, the “Job Search Engine” app utilizes sophisticated compression technology and is capable of delivering extremely fast search results on Edge, 3G, or WiFi networks.

Job seekers can get the Android app by scanning the QR code with their Android Barcode scanner or by going to the Android Market and searching for “Job Search Engine.”

About LinkUp
LinkUp is owned and operated by JobDig, an employment-focused media, technology, and advertising company that has been serving employers and job seekers since 2001. With LinkUp, the company continues its history of innovation in the industry with completely unique paid search advertising solutions for employers and the highest quality job listings available on the web today for job seekers.

MAXIMUS Partners with myStaffingPro to Provide Extended Recruitment Reach

– Company’s Tax Credit and Employer Services Division Aligns with Leading Applicant Tracking Software Provider to Offer Community-based Compliance and Work Opportunity Tax Credit Eligibility Screening –

(Reston, VA and Lima, OH – December 15, 2009) – MAXIMUS Tax Credit and Employer Services, a division of MAXIMUS, Inc. (NYSE:MMS),and myStaffingPro^®, a leader in applicant tracking software, and have announced a partnership that enables customers using the myStaffingPro applicant tracking solution to expand their recruiting efforts into non-traditional markets and realize significant cost savings. This strategic alliance allows myStaffingPro to integrate their applicant tracking software with MAXOutreach™, MAXIMUS Tax Credit and Employer Services’ job recruitment and compliance solution, as well as the Company’s Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) screening services.

MAXOutreach™ links employers and community-based organizations in their mutual effort to assist individuals in need of employment. This proprietary outreach tool casts a wide net across 50,000+ community organizations to help employers uncover hard-to-reach, tax credit-eligible applicants – many of whom may not have Internet access at home and depend on community-based organizations for job-searching resources. Additionally, MAXOutreach helps employers exceed hiring requirements for Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) and Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) programs.

myStaffingPro customers will benefit from new WOTC-screening capabilities, which will help ensure they fully capture tax credits for which they are eligible, based on their current hiring practices. The WOTC credit is a federal hiring incentive for companies to employ targeted groups, including food stamp and Supplemental Social Security Income recipients, veterans, and ex-felons. Currently, millions of dollars in WOTC incentives go uncollected each year, even though employers are hiring from targeted groups designated by the program.

“We are very excited to be integrating our MAXOutreach and tax credit solutions with the myStaffingPro applicant tracking and recruiting software solution,” said MAXIMUS Tax Credit and Employer Services President, Mark S. Andrekovich. “We have identified the perfect partner in myStaffingPro and, together, we are putting the right pieces in place to provide employers with the most unique and cost-effective recruiting resources available.”

“The partnership between myStaffingPro and MAXIMUS was an obvious decision, one that provides our users with tools that truly cut their recruiting costs and maximize WOTC tax credits,” said Bob Schulte, CEO of myStaffingPro. “We are pleased to be joining forces with the leading WOTC provider, MAXIMUS, and we are excited to offer this integration to our clients.”

About MAXIMUS Tax Credit and Employer Services
MAXIMUS Tax Credit and Employer Services works with businesses to maximize their tax credit potential through incentives, such as Federal Work Opportunity Tax Credits, Location, Retraining, Empowerment Zone and Green Building Tax Credits. Some of these programs are designed to encourage employers to hire workers from targeted populations, including veterans, individuals with disabilities, and long-term welfare recipients. Additionally, MAXIMUS Tax Credit and Employer Services provides end-to-end electronic I-9 management services that are fully compliant with guidelines published by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and seamlessly integrated with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services E-Verify program. For businesses who would like to learn more about the MAXOutreach™ solution and our other services, visit http://www.maximus.com/services/business-tax-credit or contact Kitty Leggieri at 866-307-1476.

About myStaffingPro^{®
myStaffingPro® is an applicant tracking and recruiting system that provides professionals with the tools they need to recruit, qualify, track, and hire the best applicants. The scalable myStaffingPro system can be configured to any hiring process or budget. myStaffingPro currently delivers the hiring process for over 400 clients and has processed over 17 million applications. To learn more about myStaffingPro applicant tracking system, visit http://myStaffingPro.com.}

MrTed Proud Launch Partner of EuroCloud

Marks Europe’s First SaaS and Cloud Services Business Community

LONDON, December 15, 2009 – MrTed Ltd, the global leader of Talent Acquisition Solutions, today announced it is a founding launch partner of EuroCloud, Europe’s new cloud computing network of organizations created to further the SaaS revolution.

“With our strong belief in leveraging cloud computing to design enterprise-level talent acquisition solutions that are also consumer-friendly and easily personalized, we are excited to be involved in a partnership and community like EuroCloud to promote and encourage greater development and use of Software as a Service and Enterprise Cloud services and applications across Europe”, said Jerome Ternynck, CEO for MrTed.

EuroCloud was and is conceived by Pierre-José Billotte, President and Founder of the French ASP Forum, with a team of SaaS and cloud computing players from the UK, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Spain, to gather together leading SaaS vendors, enablers, integrators and industry experts to share best practices and expand business across the

“The cloud model stands for global reach, ecosystem partnerships and integration, and my goal in developing EuroCloud is to encourage SaaS and cloud services and applications across Europe, and to advance their use,” Billotte said.

The leading research and advisory consulting firm Bersin & Associates said in its September, 2009, assessment1 of the state of the talent acquisition market that MrTedTalentLink Cloud 9 “brings the next generation Talent Acquisition Solution towards the market, (as it) will fully embrace the cloud computing technology and enhance its partnerships.”

“The MrTedTalentLink Cloud9 release will see general availability on December 31, letting users kick off the New Year in style with the world’s most advanced talent acquisition software platform,” Ternynck said.

“Organisations throughout Europe are rapidly moving toward cloud computing solutions to expand business, eliminate overly expensive and unfriendly software that isn’t personalized, doesn’t respond quickly enough to changing business demands and is simply outmoded,” Ternynck said. “We are eager to see organizations like EuroCloud propel greater adoption of models of cloud computing that truly represent the next generation.”

EuroCloud’s launch was supported by major companies in Europe and the United States that, like MrTed, do business in multiple international markets, and were selected to join EuroCloud based on the European scope of their business. In addition to MrTed, European Launch Promoters (ELP) include Amazon Web Services, McAfee, Microsoft Corp., Salesforce.com and others. For more information visit: www.eurocloud.org.

For more information about MrTed, visit our website at www.mrted.com.

About MrTed

MrTed is a leading provider of on-demand talent acquisition solutions designed to help companies of all sizes optimize the process of acquiring local talent on a global scale. Through innovation, passion and focus, MrTed provides the world’s most effective recruitment solutions, ranging from MrTedTalentLink, an enterprise-class global talent acquisition solution, to SmartRecruiters, a free and easy applicant tracking system. MrTed was founded in London in 1999 and supports over 1,500 clients in more than 100 countries find and acquire the most coveted talent in the world.

To learn more about MrTed and SmartRecruiters, please visit

www.mrted.com | www.smartrecruiters.com

Newton Software Receives Positive Feedback at Popular Silicon Valley Technology Event.

Newton Software, a startup building innovative, easy-to-use, applicant tracking software, presented to a packed house last night at DLA Piper’s Silicon Valley headquarters. The event, a monthly showcase of new technology startups, drew a diverse crowd of Silicon Valley engineers, business people, vendors, lawyers and venture capitalists. Newton was among the 4 lucky startup companies selected to demo their application this month in the allotted 5 minutes and then field follow up questions from the audience.

As the co-founders of Newton led the audience through a short demo of their product, it became evident that design and usability are indeed the knockout features of their system. Newton is designed to help you organize and manage your corporate recruiting program so nothing slips through the cracks. When you sign up for one of their affordable pricing plans, you’ll receive a fully branded careers page, free job advertising, an easy-to-use collaboration platform, and amazingly powerful, real-time analytics dashboard all the same day. 

Newton’s VP of Marketing, Joel Passen, emphasized that Newton requires very little training to get started and that you can be up and running the same day you sign up for the service. During the demonstration, Joel took attendees through a 30 second mock training of Newton to emphasize Newton’s ease of use. “If you like the candidate, press the green button.  If you don’t wish to continue with an applicant, push the red button. Green means go. Red is no. It doesn’t get much simpler than that”, chimed Passen.

While the founders started the company in January of 2009, they’ve been developing and improving Newton since 2004. Originally conceived to run a recruiting services business, Newton has been deployed to thousands of users prior to the official launch of the company. The current version of Newton is designed for corporations, mainly small and medium sized businesses, to manage internal hiring programs. The founders say they are working on a version for recruitment outsourcers that may be ready for release as soon as Q1 2010.

So what can Newton customers expect to see before the end of the year? Steve Hazleton, Newton’s CEO and Head of Products, promises his design team has been anything but complacent lately. “We’ll be shipping a feature later this month that’ll significantly improve the applicant experience while also allowing recruiters to be more efficient. And, for companies that need to track EEO information, we’re releasing the industry’s most advanced EEO/OFCCP compliance and reporting feature before the end of the year.”, said Hazelton in a post-demo interview. Hazelton also hinted at an extensive roadmap that will feature additional thoughtful features designed to continuously improve recruiting and to constantly enhance the applicant experience.