New “Overview” Video
A step-by-step webinar to get you started and functioning once you sign up for a CATS Applicant Tracking System account.
Website Branding: Make Your Career Portal Work For You
Branding your career website is a simple, yet effective tool in your overall recruiting goals. While at the end of the day, branding is basically decoration for your career portal – it offers a streamlined, professional look for potential clients and candidates.
Fordyce “Shred” Special
As part of our trip to the Fordyce Forum in Las Vegas, we are offering a “Shred Your Contract” Special: We don’t like contracts – and neither do you. So we’ll give you CATS – FREE – for the remainder of your contract with another ATS provider*. It’s that simple.
Getting It Right: Social Media
We’re spending a lot of time at CATS Software gearing up some new products designed to help recruiters with social media recruiting. While we — and most sites — have many of the basic tools (Facebook Share, Auto-Twitter posts, etc), there is always something new to add or develop. Part of the process includes research. [...]
Resfly: A Whole New Kind of Recruitment Marketing
You have a shiny new job order but you’re missing that perfect shiny new candidate to fill the position. What’s a good recruiter to do? You get on the phone, calling everyone in the “shiny new job” space. It’s like finding a needle in a haystack. But what if the candidates did the work for [...]
A Day in the Life of a Ping Pong Master
Here at CATS headquarters we recently made use of an extra office/conference room that we have by putting in a ping pong table. This has turned out to be a great 15 minute break from the computer screen once or twice a day to find out who in the office reigns supreme at the table. [...]
CATS will be at Fordyce in Vegas, June 9-11
The CATS Software team will be descending on Sin City next month as one of the premiere sponsors at the Fordyce Forum — and we want to extend you a special offer on attending. The conference will take place June 9th-11th at the M Resort in Las Vegas, NV. We’ll have an exhibit at the [...]
Internationalization Headaches – Part 1
Working on the project has taken me from developing primarily English software into a whole new realm of excitement — internationalization and localization (i8n / L10n). Suddenly I’ve got people from 120 countries (and not a handful, hundreds of paying customers!) wanting to see full support for their native tongues. I could probably talk for [...]
Customer Service: Where the Buck Stops
These last two weeks have been a real-life lesson in customer service for me. While you have people competing for your business every day (Starbucks or Caribou, Firefox or Chrome, iPhone or Droid) — the competition seems to get a little more ‘in your face’ when you purchase a new home. You need internet, cable/dish, [...]
Pwning on Foursquare
One of our newest team members, Sean Ryan recently got a new phone and has been talking up a storm about one of the latest internet fads called Foursquare. It’s basically an app that allows you to “check-in” at any business, restaurant, gym, etc. The person who checks in at a location the most times [...]
