I’m very pleased to be announcing a partnership with CUhire to provide credit unions with our product, Reception. CUhire focuses exclusively on helping credit unions with their recruiting efforts, and there was a natural fit for us to work together – leveraging CUhire’s expertise in the space & their services, alongside our focus on employer branding & job marketing with our product. Source: Standout Jobs and CUhire Provide Free Job and Career Sites for Credit Unions | Standout Jobs

From the press release you can see that this is just an example how Reception has the potential to be a game-changing product for HR:

Standout Jobs has partnered with CUhire, a recruiting solutions provider to the credit union industry, to provide credit unions with free Job and Career Sites. With Standout Jobs’ RECEPTION product, CUhire customers can create employment branding and recruiting sites in minutes, with no I.T. support or resources, by visiting http://standoutjobs.com/cuhire.

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To showcase the ease and effectiveness of setting up a site, CUhire has created its own Career Site at http://creditunionjobs.standoutjobs.com. Other CUhire partners in providing recruiting solutions for credit unions include Back Track Screening, Dot Jobs, Jobster, NEI Global Relocation, Prime Advertising, and The David Group.

HR sites, the kind with resume, job, and prospect management, have traditionally been not only expensive, but rather hard to deal with.  Often the third party provider makes it pretty hard to get the site to look the way you want it (read polished and professional).  Reception, just looks awesome from the start, and from my demo I got at DEMO, it’s really easy to use.

Disclosure: I’ve worked with Ben in the past and b5media uses Standout Jobs for recruiting.

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CUhire gives Credit Unions free job sites through Standout Jobs

The Montreal Gazette ran an article called Silicon Island on Saturday talking about the growing tech and start up culture on the island of Montreal.  Heri of MTW, Joey at Global Nerdy, and Rob at Techvibes all picked up on it rather quickly and built on the whole Montreal buzz.

A few common threads keep coming up in the articles (oddly enough no one commented on Montreal’s weather, which in winter is pretty harsh).  I’ve talked about the need for more VC funding up here and the need for people to take more risks in trying new startups as well.  But I have this nagging feeling that we’re still missing something.  Some piece of the puzzle just isn’t there.

Maybe we just don’t have the concentration of tech people in one location to get ideas going.  Maybe we need some kind of start up incubator city or something.  Of course I wouldn’t move to Ottawa, Toronto, or Montreal even though they are all lovely cities to visit.

Regardless of these questions and musings, I’m glad Montreal is getting some attention for their booming tech scene.

Speaking of which, you might like my DEMO videos on Intruders.tv Canada, since most of the Canadian companies presenting were from Montreal.  Just because he’s a friend of mine, and a former blogger here at b5media, I have to post my interview with Ben Yoskovitz here.  Ben might cringe at this (he seemed a tad embarrassed on Twitter, but said his hair did look good), but hey I’m proud of the guy!

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No doubt, Montreal is a hopping place for technology

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Wish there was a self-playing version of these, because the series of comments and text (even without Sylvain’s commentary) are engrossing.  You just want them to flow.

Maybe I can get Sylvain’s powerpoint and make a movie for him of this.  Sylvain has the songs in his post about the presentation, along with a PDF version of the slides.

Okay I’ll leave you to click through now. Enjoy.

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Sylvain Carle–Watch these slides and learn. Start a startup fire.