We’ve been on the road for the past couple of weeks telling a lot of people about HARBOUR® – to which we’re pleased to report that the reception has been universally positive. But what with all that talking and pitching the system we became aware that alongside a bag full of differentiators and USPs, what sets HARBOUR® ATS apart in the first place is how it’s been built from the core to deliver unprecedented flexibility, configurability and speed to deployment.

So it got us thinking. If it’s really as good and as intuitive  and as fast to set up as we think it is, why not construct a  truly entry level version that can be live and the user trained in less than 24hours? And what about pricing it so a Recruiter could put it on a credit card? And so HARBOUR® instant ATS was born.

So what d’you get?

• Up to five live jobs at any one time, all branded with your logo
• Unlimited candidate processing for 3 months
• Jobs posted to twitter
• Branded sub-domain url for all jobs
• Each job has ‘send-to-a-friend’ facility
• Multiple recruiter accounts
• Activity summaries emailed to your designated email account
• Create unlimited online application forms/versions of
• Create auto-sift questions within application forms
• Auto-acknowledgment of applications
• Bespoke email templates for mass or individual candidate communication
• Automated interview scheduling
• Multiple media response tracking and reporting
• Set up within 12-24 hours (*Monday-Friday – 8am-6pm GMT)

And all this for a sub £500 price tag.

When’s it live?

The system is live and working right now (we’ve already got our first client proving it), but we intend to launch it proper off the back of a dedicated HARBOUR® ATS site which will go live in about two weeks (w/c 13th July). And whilst we “beta live prove” the system we’ll also be distributing some promotional codes for completely free set up to those who fancy being an ATS pioneer (you may even get a badge too .

So watch this space (or any other that has driven you here) and we’ll be sure to point you in the right direction when the HARBOUR cat is well and truly out of this particular ATS bag.

If you’ve never come across Sirona Consulting’s blog (Sirona Says) but like a regular good thought provoking post then I can’t recommend it strongly enough. A consistent mix of  insight, humour and debate generation – exactly what a blog should be about IMHO. My only trouble is I can’t seem to help myself from getting drawn to comment (at length) – and his recent post “Would you recruit someone with a visible tattoo?” got me good.

We’ve been spending a lot of time of late working on technical development – as you’ll know if you’ve kept an eye on this blog. But all dev and no creative would make 3D MarComms a duller business than we set out to enjoy, so when a friend said she was going to take her cake decorating passion to a more full time basis we thought it would be nice as one fledgling business to help out another.

And so from an initial postcard sized flyer we produced www.SculpturedSweetness.co.uk

Sculptured Sweetness - simple, elegant, effective & delicious decorated cakes

So if you’re in the North Essex or South Suffolk area (Chelmsford, Colchester, Braintree Ipswich etc) and are having a party then you wouldn’t go far wrong with a Sculptured Sweetness cake as your centre piece (and yes – I have partaken & as well as visually stunning they taste flippin gorgeous too!).

Anyway – the site was built on the HARBOUR® Content Management System (of course) and so there’s a lot of flexibility, particularly useful within the gallery element.  I quite like the “seeking inspiration” mash-up with google images we’ve worked too.

To be honest some of the photos don’t really do justice to the quality of craftwork in the cakes – but the beauty of it all being content managed is that as the orders roll in (as I’m sure they will – I know Claire’s been keeping pretty busy with word of mouth anyway) the camera work will only improve and the gallery will become even more impressive and inspirational in itself.

And thanks to Dawn Kelly on the design front too – very Kath Kidston