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DEMO: Standout Jobs - Easy Recruitment Portals for Small Businesses
Written by Allen Stern - January 28, 2008
Standout Jobs is a Canadian company presenting their service at DEMO this week. The service allows companies to create recruitment portals to help publicize their openings along with offering a better process for applicants. Having been through integrations with some of the largest HR systems, Standout Jobs is a breath of fresh air.
Standout Jobs positions themselves for startups and companies small enough to not need a full back-end system. Most startups just use an emailbox for resumes and applicants which can cause many issues down the road. The Standout Jobs system named RECEPTION includes the following:
- full career site - the typical career site with job listings, company information, benefit information, etc. There are also social media tools and principles, including video, blogging and widgets
- candidate management - this could be the best piece of the service as it allows you to pass the applications internally and add comments, rating, etc. It will keep the records for you
- job marketing - allows you to publicize the jobs in the system on other boards, offer feeds, etc.
The service is free for the first 90 days then it's offered starting at $149/month. I'd suggest they look at a lower price point for small startups - if they get in the door while the startup is small, they can grow with the startup and move them up in price point along the way. They might also look at partnering with the job boards that blogs offer to display jobs - would be a good way to beat Monster and the other large job boards/recruitment management services.
There are a few companies already signed up to use the service including FreshBooks and Jangl.
I've spent a good bit of time speaking with co-founder Benjamin Yoskovitz over the past few weeks and he is committed to making Standout Jobs the best career recruitment service. The difficult part will be in selling the service over not just using an emailbox for candidate management, especially for the smaller companies.
Here is a sample portal using Freshbooks:
Screenshot of the admin dashboard:
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RECEPTION looks like a great product.
You should also check out Catch the Best, which has a lower price point for smaller business to get going with these types of tools. It also allows teams to rate candidates and host a list of their open jobs on their own site with only one line of Javascript.
Allen,
Thanks for the review. You have a good read on the industry.
Convincing people to get out of email isn't one of my biggest concerns, because I've experienced using email enough times to manage candidates and the hiring process to know how difficult it is. Basecamp's done a good job of getting people out of email for project management, hopefully we can do the same in that regard.
Your price point suggestion is an interesting one. We'll have to see where the target market really centers and adjust pricing from that point forward. I think there are opportunities in both directions from a price perspective.
$149/month is too much for a startup. There's is not a unique offering and there are other products that get the job done for far less. We've been using http://www.simplicant.com and so far are very satisfied with their offering of managing recruitment
This industry is very crowded and dominated by large companies for years. It will be a tough sell at best especially to recruiters or HR. Keep in mind, the HR department is the worst department to innovate. Think of how long it took paper resumes to move towards online or email resumes.