What We Do
Standout Jobs powers and centralizes companies’ online recruiting efforts through its Recruitment Communication Platform. Using social media tools and principles, Standout Jobs brings the latest Web consumer experience – easy, personal and dynamic – to the recruiting process.
What We Believe
Standout Jobs is built on the idea that companies need to provide candidates with a better online recruiting presence. Companies are losing out on great people because they don’t offer:
- Detailed and interesting information about what makes them tick
- An interactive, friendly experience
- A way for on-going relationships to form
Hiring great people isn’t just about job requirements. It’s not enough to match a person’s job history to a job description. Hiring great people is about people – it’s about the relationship formed between company and candidate. It’s about the cultural and personal fit.
To hire successfully, companies need to:
- Develop their employer brand and showcase their company
- Give candidates the information they want
- Build up an active talent pool of prospects to market into and gain referrals from
- Get a handle on tracking and managing candidate relationships through the recruitment process
We believe Standout Jobs can help.
There’s a lot of confusion in the HR market. Companies know they have to leverage Web 2.0 and social media to reach a younger candidate pool, but there are so many tools, techniques and ideas floating around; it’s hard to pull it all together. That’s where Standout Jobs plays a role. We centralize and simplify everything into your core recruitment hub - making sure you can easily implement social media, blogging, search engine optimization (SEO) and more, in one straightforward platform.
How We Got Started
The company was founded in February 2007 by Benjamin Yoskovitz, Fred Ngo and Austin Hill. It originated out of the first-ever Montreal-based BarCamp in October 2006 where we met. The discussion quickly turned to the difficulties of finding good startup jobs. Fred and Ben had been looking for great opportunities, but couldn’t find any companies that stood out. Austin Hill, an entrepreneur and angel investor, was frustrated with how difficult it was to market startup jobs to potential candidates.
And so, Standout Jobs was born. Standout Jobs set out to help companies promote and market themselves more effectively to candidates. We first looked at video and how it could throw the doors wide open on companies, their cultures and teams. And we found companies eager to participate. The idea evolved, expanding beyond video into other tools and technologies that improve companies’ recruiting. Austin and other private angel investors provided the initial capital to get started, and the company received additional funding from iNovia Capital and others. Standout Jobs is based in Montreal, Canada.
What is the Standout Jobs Recruitment Communication Platform?
On January 28, 2008, Standout Jobs launched its first product, Reception. More recently, we launched a new version of the product and called it the Standout Jobs Recruitment Communication platform. At the heart of the platform is a do-it-yourself interactive career site that leverages social media tools and principles, including video, blogging and widgets, to showcase a company’s culture and team. The platform also includes candidate relationship management tools enabling HR managers to identify, interact with and track candidates effectively.
The Recruitment Communication platform is a software-as-a-service solution that can be integrated into existing sites or operated as a stand-alone website.
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