Standout Jobs Partners with Scribd to Offer iPaper Integration on Resumes

A couple weeks ago Trip Adler, co-founder at Scribd (and also a client of ours) came to us and suggested that we use their new technology, iPaper, to allow our customers to view resumes & applications directly in the browser. We took a look at the technology and their API and agreed with Trip — iPaper makes a lot of sense for Standout Jobs.

So today, we’re announcing a partnership with Scribd to integrate iPaper into the applicant tracking system part of our Reception product.

What is iPaper?

Here’s how Scribd describes it: “iPaper is a document format built for the Internet. Like a YouTube video, iPaper documents are Flash widgets which you embed in your existing web pages. PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and many other document formats can all be displayed on the web using iPaper.”

So what does iPaper integration look like in Reception? Here’s a screenshot:

ipaper resume

Three reasons why this is so great:

You can view resumes inside the browser. So you don’t have to download or open up the resumes to look at them.
You can print directly from iPaper. In the toolbar at the top of the document you click the iPaper link and you have the option to print right from there.
You can search through a resume. In the toolbar there’s a search link so you can very quickly search through resumes for relevant keywords, etc.

I think customers will find the iPaper integration saves them time and makes the applicant tracking system easier and more effective, because it makes it so much easier to view resumes. And, if you upload any other attachments, or if candidates send you attachments through the messaging system, iPaper works with those as well, as long as their PDFs, Word documents, PowerPoint and text files. All you need to do is click the “View” icon that appears next to a file and it will load the iPaper version of the resume in the browser.

Plus, it’s just plain cool.

To show people how this all works, we’ve produced a very short video tutorial on iPaper integration into Reception. Take a look: