Catch the Best Blog

Posting Jobs to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter

2011-05-25T12:57:53-07:00

If you hang out on social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, you can now quickly post your jobs to those services, and links back to Catch the Best with the right tracking codes will be generated for you automatically.

As shown in the screenshot below, when you look at the details for any of your open positions, in the top right corner you'll see links to post that job to the social services.

When you click on any of those buttons, you'll be prompted to connect your Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter account, if you haven't already. Once you've done that, you can enter a quick message and that will posted to your activity stream in one of those services. A new tracking source will be added to your position, and applicants that apply via that link in your activity stream will be associated with that source.

Now it's super-easy to let your network know about an open job.

Feature Watch: Feed your jobs

2009-01-14T07:51:14-08:00

This morning I released an update to the application that provides an ATOM feed for your job listings. This allows you to publish your jobs any place that will take a feed, like a widget for your blog, or your Facebook page. You need to have the public job listing option turned on for your account, then you'll be able to get the feed from yourdomain.catchthebest.com/jobs.atom (yourdomain.catchthebest.com/jobs is the normal view for your public job listing).

Vote Blinding

2008-09-19T13:36:43-07:00

One of the features I like about Catch the Best is the vote blinding. If you haven't yet voted on a candidate, you don't get to see how others have voted on that candidate. I like this feature because it helps prevent group-think -- once one or two people make their opinion of a candidate known, it can be hard to get dissenting opinions.

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.

nPost Event

2008-07-12T12:32:11-07:00

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 thereâ€™s still room on the registration page to sign up â€“ the event is free, and if the last one was any indication, it should be a blast!

Press Release: Applicant tracking and resume management system company Catch the Best integrates automatic position posting to Indeed.com

2008-06-26T10:49:58-07:00

ATS and resume management company Catch the Best announced the automatic posting feature to leading job search engine site Indeed.com.

"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.

Press Release: Applicant Tracking System Company Catch the Best Includes Applicant Questionnaire Functionality

2008-06-10T13:09:53-07:00

Seattle, WA, June 10, 2008 --(PR.com)-- On demand applicant tracking software company Catch the Best announced the addition of automatic applicant questionnaire functionality.

"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.

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2008-05-24T23:13:25-07:00

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.

Catch the Best on Bits du Jour

2008-04-14T05:24:44-07:00

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!

Catch the Best integrates with iPaper

2008-03-12T08:26:28-07:00

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!

Getting everyone involved in hiring

2008-03-10T11:21:00-07:00

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 â€” instead they cling to the notion that the process should be tightly controlled by HR â€” but I think weâ€™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.