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Microsoft Outlook Integration with CATS
by Andrew Kandels on October 29, 2009

By popular demand, we're happy to announce the immediate availability of our Microsoft Outlook plug-in, which allows CATS users to quickly log communications with candidates and contacts directly from this popular email client.While there is certainly no shortage of ideas for this tool, our primary focus in our first release is to automate the...

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Search and Import LinkedIn Profiles into CATS
by Andy Mornes on September 9, 2009

There's no shortage of requests for LinkedIn integration. We're proud to announce that as of today, via our Firefox toolbar, you can now import LinkedIn profiles, resumes and images directly into CATS.Capture Resumes:

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New Website Launches
by Andrew Kandels on August 9, 2009

As you most likely have already noticed, we launched some big changes to our website over the weekend. For a few years now we've managed to get by with a website that can best be described as brochure-ware. A mostly static collection of screenshots and information for those initial questions when considering CATS. While it served its purpose, there...

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LinkedIn Recommendations May be Trouble
by Rachel Levitt on July 10, 2009

Boy, talk about good intentions paving the road to Hell! Those glowing recommendations on your LinkedIn profile may seem like a good thing, but some are using those reviews to dispute unjust layoffs. Here's how it works: You get fired, (you figure) unjustly. Your employer claims it was due to performance problems. You sue your former employer.

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Bullying in the Workplace is a Real Problem
by Rachel Levitt on July 8, 2009

Bullying in class and on the playground is a problem, and one that has inspired several parents and concerned citizens to act against it. But how many of us realize that bullying doesn't stop with childhood?

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Follow CATS at ZendCon 2009
by Tony Sternberg on October 20, 2009

The ZendCon PHP Conference 2009 is the largest event of the PHP (the language CATS is written in) community in the world. This conference provides our two lead developers, Andy and Andrew, with the ability to meet with fellow developers, Web experts and IT managers from all industries. Throughout the week Andy and Andrew will be attending various...

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Hiring and Headshots: Friday's New Feature Updates
by Andrew Kandels on August 28, 2009

Friday is our favorite day to release new features and improvements to the CATS Applicant Tracking System. Today we've got quite a few to cover, including some we haven't talked about much yet (so I'll cover them in the case that you haven't found them yet).Quick Preview / Snapshot

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Resume Parsing Improvements
by Andrew Kandels on July 17, 2009

We're proud to announce the release of a major update to our resume parsing technology. In addition to being far more accurate and detecting more information, we also happily announce that it supports Canadian, most European, Indian, Dutch and many other countries' address and phone formats.When adding candidates to the system either from an email,...

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Coffee is Apparently the Elixer of Life
by Rachel Levitt on July 9, 2009

Good news for all us coffee addicts out there: In addition to being the #1 source of antioxidants in America and helping prevent liver disease, recent research has found that coffee consumption may treat or prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease.

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For Those Who Can't Make it to HR Conferences...
by Rachel Levitt on July 7, 2009

Be sure to check out Recruiting Conferences, brought to you by the same fine people who bring the world RecruitingBlogs.com (a site I use frequently when blogging for CATS Software, in case you hadn't noticed). Recruiting Conferences is very new but is already chock-full of recaps and interviews from this year's SHRM conference. It appears that the...

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