Newton, Inc., an applicant tracking system and recruiting software application, has launched. The product is designed to organize and simplify the recruiting process through Web 2.0 tools and claims to engage everyone in the hiring process.
“We are addressing recruiting software from a completely different angle,” says Joel Passen, co-founder of Newton, Inc. “Hiring lives and dies in two key areas: one, getting hiring managers engaged in the recruiting process; and two, empowering recruiters to collaborate with those managers and increase their accuracy.” Newton does both.
Sound familiar? When I demoed the application, some of the major features seemed similar to Jobvite’s, another ATS that has often been considered a pioneer in the integration of social networking functions with their recruiting software.
Here’s the back story on Newton from the founders: while Newton is a new face in the recruiting software arena, the application itself has been in development for nearly 5 years. Newton previously powered an RPO business run by founders Steve Hazelton and Joel Passen. Newton managed thousands of concurrent jobs, hiring managers and candidates, but only recently has the applicant tracking system been for sale to a general audience.
According to Hazelton, Newton is built on the Flex platform with Ajax and a variety of open source tools.
“We chose Flex because it is makes Newton lightening fast, allowing us to build modules faster than our competition while retaining the simple user experience we are looking for,” Hazelton, Newton’s CEO, said. “The system resembles sites that you use in your everyday life as opposed to the clunky first-generation software that many companies force their employees to use.”
Passen said that Newton is best-suited for small to mid-sized businesses. An annual subscription generally falls under the $2000 per year range.
There are also a couple new features in the works: a supplier management module that will allow companies to work with agency recruiters, and an analytics module that utilizes the same interface design principals as the core product, making reporting more visual rather than forcing users to rely on spreadsheets and pivot tables.
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