You might have come across one of these gadgets on your last trip to Taco Bell or Pizza Hut. It’s a job application dispenser, and according to Job App Network CEO Blake Helppie, it’s the core element in Job App’s total recruitment solution targeted towards the hourly workforce.
Helppie said the dispensers were created after company research showed that about 65 percent of hourly workers do not have Internet access. The small ticket provided gives a job applicant a phone number and a Web site where they can apply for jobs, depending on what resources they have available.
“We are the only company to offer a parallel phone and web-based hiring system,” Helppie said. “If a minority applies for an hourly job, they are twice as more likely to use our phone applicant portal. From a diversity perspective, having another viable option for applicants other than the Web is absolutely critical, or else a company exposes themselves to discrimination claims.”
Helppie said the Job App Network was created to act as a simple, multi-functional ATS that helps employees with little HR expertise manage hundreds of workers.
“There were a lot of requirements placed on the software solution,” he said. “It needed to have an absolutely intuitive interface. And it needed to be dead simple, since 90 percent of our users are non-HR experts.”
Along with the dispensers and ATS capabilities, Helppie said they are the only ATS vendor to process and screen tax credits, which he said adds up to big savings for a company who might otherwise spend several thousands of dollars integrating with a separate tax credit system.
Companies can also choose to utilize the Job App Network for background checks.
“Unlike other ATS vendors, we already have a fully-integrated solution,” he said. “We’re much more than just an ATS. We’re a preemployment services company that layers in a lot of the services our customers want anyway.”
The Job App Network charges companies on a quarterly basis and tries to remain a low-cost provider. “We come in at a fraction of what Taleo costs,” he said. “But we’re much larger than Taleo and Kenexa and all of the gorillas in the market.”
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August 10th, 2008 at 3:21 am
My name is Randy Morrow and I am the actual inventor of the JobApp Dispenser (I also gave it that name!) and I can assure you that this company had NOTHING to do with its reseach and/or creation.
However, after multiple statements from JobApp Network’s past CEO regarding the “insignificant” and “negligible” value of this invention, it is nice to see that they have now promoted it to the “core element” of their solution.
Just setting the record straight.