Standout Jobs has made another innovation to their Reception hosted career solution with some features to help employers track and research job candidates:
New applicant tracking features include:

Candidate Sourcing: Improved sourcing through the Talent Scout bookmarklet for finding candidates and researching them online.
Employee Reviews of Candidates: Invite employees to review candidates voting and leaving comments to improve collaboration throughout the hiring process.
Add Files to Candidates: Associate files to candidates including portfolios, assessment tests, and more.
Research Candidates: Quickly gather online information about candidates from Google and social networks, and associate it to their profiles in the Candidate Relationship Management Tool.
Improved Usability: The …read more

Ben posted something today that, as a member of a credit union, I think is pretty cool.  Through their Reception product, Standout Jobs and CUhire will give credit unions their own social media (and easy to maintain) careers site:
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. …read more

Contrary to what folks might think down south (i.e. the US), Canada is has a very hot tech scene.  There is great stuff going on across the country, which btw keeps me busy, but I have to say of the tech cities here in Canada Vancouver and Montreal are the hot spots as far as I’m concerned.
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 …read more

Less chatter, but still live …

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Wow, what a journey to get here.  Now, I didn’t have the roller coaster flight in that the folks from San Fran did (I’ve been hearing stories all night), but I had my own struggles.
Regardless the DEMO08 mixer was tonight and it was great re-connecting with my usual peeps here.
Tomorrow the real fun begins.  Okay I have my badge and bag, but tomorrow I start blogging in earnest.  In fact, I’ll be giving CoverItLive a real-world test.  Why? Because I heard from Keith today that after the post is “done”, it can be transferred to your blog!
Now that rocks.  Rafe …read more