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The New AppExchange is Live! Check out Jobscience in the Social Enterprise Showcase.

Looks like Jobscience isn’t the only one who’s making changes recently. Today the Salesforce AppExchange introduced a fresh new design and a UI that makes finding new apps even easier. What we particularly like is the new home page that’s focused on the Social Enterprise – a theme we’re near and dear to. In fact, we’re honored to have Jobscience Recruiting selected as part of the Social Enterprise Showcase. This is one of the new collection topics that users can choose from to help find the next generation of social, open and mobile apps.

If you’re a current user of Jobscience or Salesforce, we encourage you to take a few minutes to explore the new design and maybe you’ll discover new applications that you haven’t come across before or one that will solve that pain point that’s been festering you. What’s even better is you don’t have to use your computer to do this, you can view the AppExchange on any device. Now there’s no excuse to not take a peek at what the new AppExchange has to offer, and we hope you do so.

Great People + Great Technologies = Great Companies

Surprise! If you visit our website often you may have noticed a big change. For those visiting for the first time, we've launched a new website along with a new logo and new messaging to match.

With these changes Jobscience is emphasizing what is unique and compelling about our vision and our products.  From the beginning Jobscience was conceived as an agile, social and mobile solution. We are the first recruiting and talent management application for the social enterprise, and believe that “social” is more than a feature, that social and mobile computing technologies are the new way of doing business, including recruiting and managing talent.  It’s a new way of connecting with prospects, collaborating internally, and validating the best candidates.

We're just getting started and have much more in store, so stick around, we believe you’ll like what you'll see.

 

Jobscience Delivers First ‘Out-of-the-box’ Social Relationship Management Solution for HR

SAN FRANCISCO, July 24, 2012 – Jobscience Inc., the leader in Social Relationship Management for HR, today announced Jobscience Team Edition, a social recruiting and applicant tracking system (ATS) optimized for instant deployment and productivity. This innovative solution combines a simple, easy-to-use interface and fast resume loading with the power of social recruiting and relationship management. Recruiters, sourcing teams and hiring managers can instantly collaborate to effectively manage candidate relationships.

“Until now, small recruiting teams and staffing agencies have had to rely on disjointed spreadsheets and time-consuming searching through email messages to manage candidate relationships,” said Ted Elliott, CEO and founder of Jobscience. “We believe that every size team should have an affordable solution for efficient and effective collaboration, tracking and managing candidate relationships.”

Jobscience Team Edition helps sourcers, researchers and recruiters generate quality candidates that accelerate the hiring and placement processes. Key functionality includes:

• Job Management - Set up and track open positions and assignments with full job descriptions.
• Company Job Board - Easily set up and maintain your own job board using Jobscience’s job board engine.
• Social Toolbar - Source candidates from LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and more.
• Bulk Resume Loading – Quickly upload dozens or thousands of resumes at once on a Mac or PC.
• Applicant Tracking System (ATS) – Manage the entire hiring process from application to placement.
• Candidate Communication – Use pre-built email templates for individualized or bulk emails.
• Approval Process Management - Build simple approval processes between HR and hiring managers.
• Dashboards & Reports – Professionally present recruiting pipelines, time-to-fill, close rate and KPIs.

Pricing and Availability

Jobscience Team Edition is immediately available for recruiters at $720 per annual license and $360 per annual license for hiring managers.

Jobscience Survey: Facebook is a ‘New Essential’ for Social Recruiting

SAN FRANCISCO, June 25, 2012 – Jobscience Inc., the leader in Talent Management for the Social Enterprise, today announced the results from a survey conducted by Research Now, which found that 36% of U.S. corporations plan to use Facebook more for recruiting this year than last. Facebook was cited in the survey as the second most important social network for recruiting – following LinkedIn.

The research shows that social recruiting is here to stay, as almost 60% of respondents agree that the next ‘big thing’ in recruiting strategies is reaching a greater number of qualified candidates through social media networks such as LinkedIn and Facebook. More than half (57%) of the corporations surveyed expect to use LinkedIn more than any other tool for recruiting – more than job boards, email marketing and employee referral programs.

“Using social networks to find candidates for current job openings has become a common strategy for recruiters,” said Ted Elliott, CEO and founder of Jobscience. “But the real value of social recruiting is when companies continually engage with people through social networking - so when an appropriate job opens up - the person is familiar with the company and has a propensity to want to work there. It’s about social sourcing and building pipelines of talent - so your talent pool never runs dry.”

Social networks are not just important tools for recruiters; candidates are using them to research companies. This study revealed that 52% of U.S. corporations believe that social networks are an important venue for businesses to attract candidates.

“As Facebook becomes the most relevant place on the web – it is also putting a face on the ‘employment brand’ of companies,” added Elliott. “Information about a company is no longer solely controlled by recruiters. Candidates and employees are using social media to gather information about companies. If companies want to attract top talent, they need a strategy for their employment brand – which includes monitoring how their brand is perceived on social networks, facilitating a social dialog and giving compelling reasons for people to work at their company.”

Which Social Network is the most Important?

Within the Research Now survey, LinkedIn was cited as the social network that matters most with 86% of respondents giving it top bill, followed by Facebook at 51% and Google+ at 27%. Respondents found Twitter to be the least important social network for recruiting – at only 16%.  But the gap between Facebook and LinkedIn could shrink, as 36% of companies plan to use Facebook for recruiting more this year than last year.

About the Survey

The data from this study was drawn from a nationwide online survey of more than 150 HR and recruiting executives, directors and managers. The survey was conducted in March 2012 by Research Now on behalf of Jobscience. The goal was to uncover attitudes and opinions about the use of applicant tracking systems, recruiting solutions and social networks to search for qualified job candidates.

Jobscience Delivers Facebook Job Board App Integrated with Award-Winning Recruiting Solution

SAN FRANCISCO, June 11, 2012 – Jobscience Inc., the leader in Talent Management for the Social Enterprise, today announced a Facebook Job Board application for its Recruiting solution. This new social recruiting app enables corporations, staffing agencies, and executive search firms to post and manage job openings on their Facebook business page from within Jobscience’s Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Jobscience customers avoid the complexity and extra time needed to manage two separate job boards – one on their website and another on their Facebook page.

“Social networks have become essential tools for recruiting talent, but many firms still are struggling to figure out how to use them effectively for recruiting,” said Ted Elliott, CEO and founder of Jobscience. “Facebook is where millions of job seekers are – so companies need a simple and effective way to spread the word about employment opportunities within this popular network. Our new Facebook Job Board app simplifies the process so that companies can tap into the largest social network in the world - with very little extra effort.”

The next big thing in recruiting strategies is reaching a greater number of qualified candidates through social media networks, according to an April 2012 study conducted by Research Now. The research found that Facebook continues to gain importance as a recruiting tool as it is cited as the second most important social media network – after LinkedIn. The same study found that 36% of corporate recruiters expect to use Facebook more this year than they did in 2011.

“Team Member Referrals are our highest source for new hires. Facebook is a friendly place for team members to tap their personal connections,” said Concetta Lewis, People Team Lead, Daxko. “The Jobscience Facebook Job Board application provides an easy way for team members to let their Facebook connections know about employment opportunities at Daxko and direct them to not only our company Facebook page but also a page that contains information about our open positions where they can immediately apply.”

Online recruiting research lab Potentialpark found that HR professionals prefer interacting with students, graduates and early career professionals on Facebook. (Source: Potentialpark Online Talent Attraction & Communication Study, 2011). The report found that few students and graduates have accounts on business networks, such as LinkedIn, and they don’t update their profile and network as often as they do on their Facebook profile. The study surveyed more than 30,000 students and graduates worldwide and analyzed the online career presence of more than 500 companies in the US, Europe and Asia.

The Jobscience Facebook Job Board app is immediately available as part of the Jobscience Recruiting Spring ’12 Release. Current Jobscience Recruiting customers can use the app for no additional charge. Jobscience Recruiting is the 2011 winner of Brandon Hall’s Gold Award for Best Advancement in Talent Acquisition Technology.

 

 

Jobscience Announces Spring '12 Release & Corporate Edition

The latest innovations in social recruiting by Jobscience are here! Our product team has been working diligently the past 6 months to develop new features that help our customers expand their social brands, handle more resumes with greater efficiency, and manage processes with enterprise class metrics.

Some of the highlights include:

-Social recruiting features for the job board on your corporate website

-A cool NEW Facebook Job Board App to install on your Company's Facebook Page, integrated directly to Jobscience Recruiting. Expand your reach to great candidates when Friends and Fans share job postings.

-Improved Applicant Management System (AMS) with flexibility to customize stages and sub-stages in your process, and perform actions on multiple candidates at once, including email!

-Resume Power Companion Widget imports dozens or hundreds of electronic resumes from your computer desktop, the app does all the work- parses directly to Jobscience AND applies them directly to Jobs, designates a Source, or assigns to a Stage

-Our Advanced Dashboard & Analytics Package for Corporate Edition helps you shine by tracking and managing Human Captial KPI's from a strategic perspective.

-Our Mobile Onboarding for iPhone App allows new hires to capture I-9 Docs and Images for quick set up of Empoyee Records, saving time and integrating online forms.

General Availability of these features is planned for April 25th.

To request information on how your organization can benefit from Jobscience Corporate Edition our end to end talent management application for employers. Click here.

For current customers looking to take advantage of these new features, visit our help and training site or contact support for assistance.

Reviews worth sharing...on the Jobscience of Human Capital

Mark Smith, CEO & Chief Research Officer at Ventana Research recently posted a blog that included a review of Jobscience and some of the features from our Winter 12 Release of our Recruiting App. Mark recognizes the same benefits as Jobscience customers when it comes to treating talent acquisition like customer acquisition. Hiring is an inherently collaborative process and all employees need access to the best tools to create a sense of urgency in establishing relationships with candidates in order to bring the best talent into an organization.

Mark's comments on our success include: "Salesforce customers have voted for Jobscience as the best recruiting and HR application in Appexchange for more than three years. When you consider the number of organizations whose sales and customer service teams use Salesforce, it’s obvious the benefit of a connection to recruiting and hiring talent and providing employees with tools to improve their skills."

Read all of Mark Smith's blog on the Ventana Research Site now.

Jobscience Executive Team Gains Sought-After Talent Management Experts

CRM Sourcing Expert Sean Rehder and Workforce Management Veteran Jay Hargis Join Jobscience

 Jobscience is excited to announce the appointment of two new members to its executive management team this morning. Sean Rehder has been named Solution Strategist and Evangelist for the company, and Jay Hargis will serve as Vice President of Services. These two additions to the executive team will continue to fuel our company's efforts to evangelize and increase adoption of our Cloud-based Talent Relationship Management (TRM) solutions.

The recent M&A activity in the HR application market has caused many customers to rethink their TRM strategy and put Jobscience in a unique position to offer our customers a true Cloud-based solution with social recruiting DNA. Sean Rehder's expertise in CRM sourcing gives us additional expertise to educate our customer organizations about the tremendous value of 'relationship recruiting,' which is the future. Jay Hargis' experience working with Fortune 500 companies will prove invaluable as we transition large organizations to an integrated Cloud TRM platform.

Sean has evangelized and driven leading brands to take a talent-centric CRM approach to recruiting. In 2007 he won the Beagle Research Group CRM Whiz Kid Award as well as the Salesforce.com Best Native Application Award for Sourcing & Recruiting. Rehder has worked with corporate recruiting teams to build CRM applications to find, engage and pipeline the most desirable talent in their industry, including: CBS, Dolby, Electronic Arts, Genentech, MGM Mirage, Research In Motion (RIM BlackBerry) and SNC Lavalin. In addition, Rehder has provided HR compliance expertise to Adobe, Cisco, Oracle, Seagate, among others. Rehder's primary areas of expertise include: staffing, recruiting, talent acquisition, independent contractor compliance, business development and web development.

When asked why he joined Jobscience, Sean said, "strategic sourcing using a CRM system to build and cultivate relationships is how companies are going to continue to find top talent in their industry, Jobscience takes a relationship approach to recruiting, which enables companies to build pipelines of potential candidates -- even before they have an open position. This is the technology that I've been evangelizing for leadership in TRM."

Hargis has 15+ years experience in Workforce Management, which he leveraged as a contributing author to Elements of Successful Organizations, recently published by The Workforce Institute™ at Kronos Incorporated. Hargis' previous roles include: Director of Organizational Development at Tufts Medical Center, Director of Learning and Development at Digitas, and Director of Client Services and Training at BrassRing. Hargis was also a Senior Consultant at Talent Insight Group, where he partnered with Wyndham Vacation Ownership organization to create a front-line supervisor's coaching and leadership development program. This program earned Gold designation from Talent Management Magazine.

Since 2003, Jay has served as the Adjunct Professor of Organizational Development at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Jay believes large companies are starting to experience the effects of the 'Baby Boomer Skill Gap and despite the fact that unemployment continues to be high -- finding, training and retaining top talent in many industries is becoming much more difficult. Companies need to take both a broad and long-tail view of recruiting and employee referral programs. He joined the company because Jobscience has the only TRM system on the market that approaches talent acquisition like customer acquisition and has the flexibility to easily tap into public and private social networks.

We are thrilled to have you on board and the insight you both bring to the Jobscience Customer Community. Welcome!

Jobscience Wins AppExchange Best of 2011 Award for the 4th Consecutive Year

Jobscience was honored by salesforce.com customers with one of the salesforce.com’s AppExchange Best of ‘11 Awards. In receiving this customer choice award for Best of 2011 Human Resources & Recruiting, Jobscience joined all the winners in receiving recognition for their ability to take customer success to new levels in satisfaction and application excellence. Built using the Force.com platform, Jobscience Recruiting is immediately available for test drive and deployment on the AppExchange, the world’s most-popular marketplace for business apps.

In a social organization, people are the core asset. Jobscience helps organizations tap into the leading social networks and leverage their internal social network - to acquire the top people. Jobscience has combined the power of Force.com, social networking technology and best practice CRM business processes to change the role of HR within businesses. Central to this change is approaching talent acquisition similar to customer acquisition – a game-changer in Human Capital Management.

The Jobscience Recruiting app leverages Force.com workflows and best practices, which enable companies to gain, retain and grow employees through the full TRM lifecycle for talent optimization. Whether a company is sourcing talent for future growth plans, actively filling open positions, or managing rehires, the CRM approach of creating and managing a pipeline of talent in a searchable and active database is the key to a closed loop talent strategy that creates a 360 degree view of the employee lifecycle.

 

Here is what Jobscience customer MDSearch has to say about the news:

Jobscience has been an invaluable technology provider for us and deserves this prestigious recognition. We’ve used Jobscience Recruiting for more than four years and the Jobscience team continues to show us innovative ways that a CRM approach to talent acquisition saves time and money - while sourcing top candidates. Through Jobscience we’re also able to use Chatter, which has been a fantastic real-time internal communications tool that keeps the broader organization in tune with new developments.-Brett Slade, partner at MDSearch.

Here is what our partners at salesforce.com have say about the news:

Jobscience Recruiting can help our customers realize success by putting their HR app within an integrated cloud infrastructure that truly enables the social enterprise. We congratulate Jobscience for its customer success and achievement as the Best of 2011 Human Resources & Recruiting on AppExchange.-Mike Rosenbaum, senior vice president of AppExchange at salesforce.com

The Best of 2011 Human Resources & Recruiting category, one of 12 separate categories, recognizes  The “Best of” customer choice awards recognize AppExchange partners who have had excellent user reviews in a specific calendar year. They are awarded based on user-contributed reviews.

Jobscience Takes Gold in Talent Acquisition for 2011 Brandon Hall Excellence Awards

 

It's award season, and not just for Hollywood. Jobscience is taking home the gold. This morning we announced we won the coveted Brandon Hall Gold Award for Excellence in the Talent Acquisition Technology category.

Social networking is a game-changer for recruiting and will continue to impact the way entire organizations are built. Companies that leverage the social connections of their employees will be the market leaders of the future because of their ability to attract skilled talent while they are passively searching for jobs and engage them before the competition. At Jobscience we approach talent acquisition like customer acquisition and turn recruiting into a marketing exercises. We're helping our customers create ‘employment brands’ and tap into the leading social networks as well as their internal connections – to create talent pools. These talent pools empower you to quickly access and acquire the top talent in the market.

The Jobscience Recruiting application, built on Force.com, leverages customer relationship management (CRM) concepts, workflows, and best practices, which enable companies to gain, retain and grow employees through the full TRM lifecycle for talent optimization. Whether a company is sourcing talent for future growth plans, actively filling open positions, or managing rehires, the CRM approach of creating and managing a pipeline of talent in a searchable and active database is the key to a closed-loop talent strategy that creates a 360 degree view of the employee lifecycle.

"2011 provided us with a unique viewpoint of how organizations are driving business results and performance improvement through technology,” said Mike Cooke, CEO of Brandon Hall Group. “This was the year in which technology providers and their clients have been able to transform the power of mobile, social, talent, learning, sales and marketing technologies, with proven, validated results. Most impressive to our judges was an underlying theme around collaborative relationships, a deep understanding of client needs and how technology can be leveraged to create opportunities and operating efficiencies for organizations of all sizes. I am proud to announce these first-rate solution providers as award winners in the most competitive year yet."

A panel of veteran, independent senior judges evaluated the entries along with Brandon Hall Group’s industry expert analysts and leadership. We are honored to receive this award.

Great work Jobscientists!