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• Standout Jobs Launches Strategic Partnership with UK-based Recruitment Ad Agency Work Communications November 10th, 2008

  Standout Jobs expands channel partner strategy to international markets with Work Communications.
  Montreal, Canada, November 10, 2008 — Standout Jobs, a leading provider of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, today announced it has struck a strategic partnership with top recruitment advertising and branding firm, Work Communications (AIM: WORK), based in the UK. [...]

• Standout Jobs Announces General Availability of its Recruitment Communication Platform October 27th, 2008

  Leading Provider of Interactive Career Sites Launches Latest Version of their Platform, Proven by More than 200 Beta Customers
  Montreal, October 27, 2008 – Standout Jobs, a leading provider of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, today announced the general availability of version two of its web-based Recruitment Communication Platform. Previously dubbed “Reception” [...]

• Standout Jobs Named One of 10 Web 2.0 Companies to Watch July 23rd, 2008

  The IDC just came out with their report on the 10 Web 2.0 Companies to Watch in Canada. We’re very pleased that Standout Jobs was named one of those companies! Here’s our official press release on it…
  Montreal, July 24, 2008 – Standout Jobs, a leading provider of Web-based tools to power companies’ online recruiting efforts, [...]

• Standout Jobs Wins SEOMoz Web 2.0 Award in Employment and Jobs May 30th, 2008

  A few days ago we received some very cool news — we’ve won an award! Specifically, we’ve won SEOMoz’s Web 2.0 Award in the Employment and Jobs category.
  If you’re not familiar with SEOMoz, it’s an extremely popular and well-respected resource led by Rand Fishkin focusing on SEO, social media and social networking. If you’re looking [...]

• Standout Jobs Partners with Scribd to Offer iPaper Integration on Resumes April 29th, 2008

  A couple weeks ago Trip Adler, co-founder at Scribd (and also a client of ours) came to us and suggested that we use their new technology, iPaper, to allow our customers to view resumes & applications directly in the browser. We took a look at the technology and their API and agreed with Trip — [...]

Press Coverage

• Interview with Bill Vick on XtremeRecruiting.tv November 5th, 2008

  Bill Vick is a kick ass guy. An ex-recruiter with tons of years and success under his belt, he’s now at the cutting edge of social media, leveraging blogging, video, Twitter, etc. to evolve his reputation as a leader in the HR and recruitment space.
  One of his most recent projects is XtremeRecruiting.tv where he interviews [...]

• Interview with Joel Cheesman at Cheezhead November 3rd, 2008

  If you’re in the HR world you read Joel Cheesman’s blog Cheezhead. Regularly updated, opinionated and always interesting…
  I recently did an interview with Joel, over the phone, and he wrote a summary post, No More Free Lunch at Standout. I’ve since had to calm the employees down; they thought we were cutting out the occasional [...]

• About.com: Standout Jobs Interactive Career Sites October 31st, 2008

  Alison Doyle writes a quick blog post about Standout Jobs and the value provided by having much more detailed and information-rich career sites vs. forcing candidates to rely almost exclusively on job postings. She also points out that we do aggregate our customers’ jobs at http://www.standoutjobs.com/jobs to provide job seekers with the easiest access possible.
  Click [...]

• Standout Jobs Featured on The Talent Buzz July 28th, 2008

  The Talent Buzz is a great blog. Written by Jason Buss, a 10+ year veteran of the HR world, The Talent Buzz goes deep into a number of HR issues. Jason’s done an entire series on career sites and their failings, and ways they should be improved. That’s one of the things that attracted me [...]

• Standout Jobs Picked as Top 20 Web 2.0 Sites by KPMG and Backbone Magazine July 18th, 2008

  Standout Jobs was recently awarded a Top 20 Web 2.0 award by KPMG and Backbone Magazine. They ranked the top 20 and gave us the #9 spot. Thank you!
  Kate Trgovac, one of the judges, called the site a “fantastic product” and added, “It has a great target market, excellent business potential (talent wars are huge; [...]