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Tip of the Week: 11/9/09

We are excited to announce a new user resource called the "AppliTrack Tip of the Week"! Each week, we will post a short video which will demonstrate some clever and interested ways to use AppliTrack.

This week, learn how to create powerful and attractive reports using AppliTrack data.

Click title below to view the video:

Generating Powerful and Attractive Reports using AppliTrack

AppliTrack Version Now!

What in the world is AppliTrack Version Now!?

AppliTrack Version Now! is both our philosophy and General ASP’s commitment to providing you with a piece of software that is enhanced and improved with new features and updates on an ongoing basis.

AppliTrack Version Now! means that you are always using the latest and greatest technologies, when you need them. More importantly, each upgrade and feature fits seamlessly with AppliTrack (even when you customize it) so you never need to learn a new “version” with each update.

In the world of web-based software, “versions” don’t exist. Think about Google, for example. Nobody knows what version of Google they use…it just works and gets better each day. AppliTrack is the same way!

Remember, versions don’t exist in web-based software!

All New Features and Functionalities

1-Click Advertising
Broadcast your vacancies to the world through K12JobSpot.com and other leading national and regional job boards throughout the country.

eForm Manager
Distribute, collect, and review your electronic forms and reference surveys from the Applicant Dashboard.

Interview Scheduler (coming November 2009)
Automated interview scheduling, tracking, and management.

AppliTrack TotalSupport Team
Our team approach to support means that help is just a phone call or e-mail away for all of your users. Our response time averages less than 1 minute!

Applicant Watch List
Flag existing, past, or future applicant names with special codes to easily identify them in your applicant pools.

Audit Trails
Review all of the e-mails that your district has sent to your applicants through AppliTrack. Also, access each application version submitted by your applicants.

Applicant Dashboard
View a summary of an applicant’s materials and utilize the NotePad and other tools from one, easy-to-read, screen.

uDesign Tool
Create custom application pages, pre- and post-hire forms, and reference surveys with ease!

7/1/2009: AAEE Partnership Announced

General ASP Partners with the American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE) to Reinvent the Teacher Placement Process.

New partnership to streamline the way college and career placement centers connect their graduates with education jobs that exist within AppliTrack school districts throughout the country.

Columbus, OH (PRWEB) July 1, 2009 --General ASP, the company behind AppliTrack, the leading web- based applicant tracking and recruiting solution in the education market, today announced a new partnership with the American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE), the premier job resource center for education in North America. AAEE provides information and research to connect teachers with jobs and school districts with qualified teachers.

This partnership exists to provide school districts across the country with immediate access to recent or soon-to-be college and university graduates who are looking for employment in education. Additionally, this partnership will provide college or university members of AAEE the opportunity to electronically send their education graduates' credentials to any of nearly 1,000 school districts who use AppliTrack to manage their online employment application process.

AppliTrack school districts will benefit from this partnership as their ability to have immediate access to recent college and university graduates will spare them the expense of recruiting educators to their school districts through more traditional means. School district administrators will be able to easily sort, filter, and identify those graduates who most meet the qualifications that they require for employment in their school systems.

Colleges and universities will benefit from this partnership also as their graduates will be able to view vacancies, apply for them and have their application materials sent to school districts instantly through an online Career Placement Center Education Job Board that will be provided to each AAEE college or university member, free of charge, by General ASP.

"We are living in a world of immediacy where information is obtained and communicated instantly and easily. We have the technological capacity and the professional opportunity to align traditional teacher recruitment and placement processes with today's lifestyle in a way that will benefit everyone in the educational community," said Abe Reese, President and Founder of General ASP.

"Information travels at an unprecedented rate in today's technology era. With timely information and resources, school districts and educators can provide 'staffing excellence for the world of education.' This partnership will help meet that goal," said Neil Shnider, Executive Director, AAEE.

The Northern Illinois University Career Placement Office will be the first university to participate in this initiative beginning in August 2009, with other users set to begin in late fall 2009.

About General ASP:
General ASP is a technology company built by education and sustained through innovation. Founded in 1998 by Abe Reese, General ASP has been designing web-based software that is easy-to-use and completely affordable. Their flagship product, AppliTrack, is a web-based applicant tracking system. AppliTrack's companion website, the national education job board, K12JobSpot, provides AppliTrack users with the ability to advertise job postings at no additional expense to the district. Currently being used in over 975 school districts throughout 35 states in the United States, General ASP has proven to be a leader in the educational technology market.

About American Association for Employment in Education (AAEE):
AAEE is a resource information center to help education candidates find a job and school districts to fill positions in education K-12. Since 1934, AAEE, the American Association for Employment in Education, has provided members with direct access to research, publications and networking opportunities with colleagues - all focused upon the highest standards in educator preparation, recruitment, hiring and retention. For membership information, go to www.aaee.org.

How General ASP keeps AppliTrack so Affordable

Over the past few months, districts who have considered, and ultimately chosen, AppliTrack have asked us how we are able to provide such a robust applicant tracking system at prices significantly lower than our competitors.
Although we think a better question is, "why do other systems cost so much more than AppliTrack?” we've given this question some serious consideration.
So, how are we able to provide the leading web-based applicant tracking system on the market at such an affordable cost?

Software is free, people cost money.
AppliTrack is built with many “hooks” so that customization for each school district happens quickly and efficiently. As a company, we understand the power of systems and have put processes in place that allow us to complete support and customization requests faster and at a lower cost than any other vendor. Our savings are offered back to our users.

Training
AppliTrack was designed to allow administrators to quickly discover how to use its features, basic and advanced, with little to no training. However, we include two-hours of web-based training in all subscriptions. Of course, you may desire more training or onsite training. We are not going to require you to commit to any additional training as part of your service agreement with us. If you want additional training, we are confident that you will let us know but we will certainly not obligate you to a financial commitment to training beyond what is included in your price. Less than 2% of AppliTrack school districts purchased additional training from General ASP last year!

Implementation
Because we’ve implemented AppliTrack in so many school districts, there is literally nothing that we haven’t seen. We can anticipate district requirements and implement district specific customizations in a much speedier fashion than other applicant tracking systems.

Our Technology
Why is Google so great? Their developers, like our developers, write software that allows Google to run more efficiently and cost-effectively than any other search engine. AppliTrack is built the same way. Our programmers make extensive use of caching which results in your ability to access your applicants immediately upon request. Other applicant tracking systems throw hardware and money at a programming error, while we use our skills and experience.

Fairness
Look around. iPhone Apps, websites, games, etc...the list goes on. Software is becoming more and more “free” and the movement is to actually NOT charge for software. Our low prices are a reflection of the times. Do we want to make money, yes? However, we also want to reduce the financial burdens that school districts face. For example, if a school district requests a new feature that we know would benefit others; we will develop that feature and release it to everyone at no charge because we will use it as a competitive advantage over other applicant tracking systems. We don’t appreciate how other applicant tracking vendors charge such exorbitant fees for what we know to be such simple tasks.

AppliTrack is Stable
AppliTrack has been serving school districts for over 10 years and is a stable and mature product. It does not require a team of engineers to hover over errors and malfunctions that may be present with other applicant tracking systems. AppliTrack’s stability saves General ASP money and we pass the savings along to our users.

Marketing Advantage
General ASP is a for-profit company that is interested in building long-term relationships with our customers. Because AppliTrack presents a school district with a very low financial risk, we find our standard rates to be a competitive advantage. Most importantly, we know that a low price means very little if the product and the service are not impeccable. School districts may initially look at us because of our prices, but they stay with us because of our product and our service. We currently boast an over 99.9% customer renewal rate over 10 years!

AppliTrack Partners with Safe Schools Project

AppliTrack has partnered with the Safe Schools Project through which background checks can be ordered directly from the AppliTrack system installed at your school district.

The Safe Schools Project provides different levels of background checks including a Criminal Record and Sex Offender Data Center search of more than 200 criminal record and sex offender databases that contains sex offender data coming from all 50 states, as well as numerous other state and county criminal history record databases from across the U.S.

A unique aspect of the Safe Schools Project Program is that it has several options available to meet the budgetary requirements of any school district including fixed annual fee options. The program includes free consultation on HR policies related to criminal records and utilizes the internet for ordering and accessing the results of the criminal record checks.

For more information, contact us at support@generalasp.com or 866.667.1277 x3.

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