Catch The Best Launched
Catch the Best is finally released. I highly recommend everyone to check it out, and I’m not saying this because Ben is my friend.
According to his description,
Catch the Best is a collaborative applicant tracking system (ATS) built just for small businesses. Basically, that means it gives you a place to track your job postings and the applicants for your open positions, but without all the extra junk (and extra cost!) that you get from the guys trying to sell you an “enterprise-class” product.
Catch the Best really makes hiring process (always a painful process) tolerable. It brings the “social” aspect to the hiring/screening process where each team or department personnel can put their input on a candidate. As a final decision maker in hiring, I find it extremely useful since I don’t have to sit through a long meeting to discuss the candidates. The information is available for me right there.
Another aspect of this application is that we can set up an email address to filter and organize the job submission. We (the company I work for) currently do this via our email server, but the resumes ultimately hit an inbox. This subsequently leads to problems I rather not mention here. You also have to remember that you have to retain job applications and resume for a period of time. This is a great tool for all that.
I found the user interface to be straight forward without any useless clutters. It uses AJAX when appropriate and the layout is simple.
There are three levels of pricing starting from $9.50 to $49.50 per month, depending on the number of open positions and features.
The reason why I’m writing about this is because it’s written with Ruby on Rails. Nice job Ben!
