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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 Named One of 10 Web 2.0 Companies to Watch
July 24th, 2008

The IDC just came out with their report on the 10 Web 2.0 Companies to Watch in Canada. We’re very pleased that Standout Jobs was named one of those companies! Here’s our official press release on it… Montreal, July 24, 2008 – Standout Jobs, a leading provider of...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

Press Coverage

• Standout Jobs Picked as Top 20 Web 2.0 Sites by KPMG and Backbone Magazine
July 18th, 2008

Standout Jobs was recently awarded a Top 20 Web 2.0 award by KPMG and Backbone Magazine. They ranked the top 20 and gave us the #9 spot. Thank you! Kate Trgovac, one of the judges, called the site a “fantastic product” and added, “It has a great target market, excellent business potential...

• 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 -...

• 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,...

• 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...