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Brief Summary

Standout Jobs, Inc. is a startup based in Montreal, QC Canada that makes Reception, a suite of web-based tools to power companies online recruiting efforts. Standout Jobs was founded by Benjamin Yoskovitz (CEO), Fred Ngo (CTO) and Austin Hill (Chairman & Angel Investor) in February 2007.

Reception allows companies to create interactive, content-rich Career Sites that build employer brand and active talent networks. Companies can promote themselves more effectively, market jobs, gain metrics on job board spending, track candidates through the hiring process and build on-going relationships with prospects.

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Press Releases

• 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 res...

• Mobile Social Network Socialight “Finds” Great Talent with Standout Jobs
May 29th, 2008

Socialight is a New York-based startup in the mobile technology space. A location-based social networking platform, Socialight lets people access and share rich media content about real-world physical locations via their mobile phones and web browsers. Using Socialight’s urban recommendation serv...

• Standout Jobs Adds Applicant Tracking to Online Career Sites - CEO to Speak at ERE Expo in San Diego, March 31 to April 2
April 2nd, 2008

I’m a bit late with this news, having spent the day at ERE Expo in San Diego, but we did put out a press release about some new functionality in our Candidate Relationship Management Tool. This is an area of the product where we’re adding some good functionality to improve the...

• Standout Jobs and CUhire Provide Free Job and Career Sites for Credit Unions
March 26th, 2008

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 expert...

• Standout Jobs Announces Funding from Montreal Start Up
March 10th, 2008

Today, Fred and I attended the press conference announcing the launch of Montreal Start Up, a new fund dedicated to early stage investments in Montreal. It’s a great initiative run by John Stokes and Daniel Drouet. And we’re pleased to announce that Montreal Start Up (or MSU ...

Press Coverage

• Standout Jobs Featured in the Financial Post
June 3rd, 2008

Yesterday, Standout Jobs was featured in the Financial Post: Playing in the major leagues - Online tool helps smaller firms compete for talent. It’s a good overview of our product, why we built it and how it helps. I was particularly pleased to see one of our clients - Apption - quot...

• ERE: What’s Hot in Recruiting for 2008?
February 21st, 2008

From Kevin Wheeler | ERE: We are finally seeing some really cool tools that allow any size organization to put up a great recruiting website. One of the best of the tools is provided by Standout Jobs. By using a flexible modular approach, a recruiting team can put together websites with video, pi...

• Jobacle: Stop Losing Out on Great Talent
February 13th, 2008

From Jobacle: From a jobseeker’s perspective, Standout Jobs does help make the featured companies a little less intimidating and more likely to grab one’s attention. The Reception service, which starts at $149 a month (90-day free trial), appears to be a no-brainer for stodgy companies ...

• JOBMATCHBOX: Next Generation Recruiting Tools That Empower Recruiters
January 30th, 2008

From Jobmatchbox: I can’t believe that it was that easy! Now I can keep track of candidates that I found with Linkedin and also keep track of communication with them before it ever goes into my ATS. I would have killed for something like this when I was an agency recruiter. Kudos to the team at...

• VentureBeat: DEMO - A Roundup of Companies Presenting
January 28th, 2008

From VentureBeat: STANDOUT JOBS, of Montreal, Canada, is launching Reception, a new job recruiting Web site where companies can use social networking tools to create an “employer brand.” Features include a career site that can be customized with polls, Q&As and comments; video capabiliti...