Staff is one of the most important assets in any company. To a large extent, business success is determined by personalities of employees, from top managers up to bottom line operators. That is why HR-managers and recruiting agencies face daily a challenging task of finding a proper person for every open vacancy they have.
In recruiting process there are a lot of important factors, such as professionalism and communication skills of HR-managers, their ability to analyze candidates' personalities, to interpret test results correctly, etc. Not the least of the factors is a system of candidates' information storage.
Being at the phase of active growth, and therefore dealing with a large number of candidates on variable vacancies here at Fortess we faced a few difficulties:
- time-consuming work on proceeding candidates' data
- low speed of search and inconsistency of existing information
- half-manual and time-consuming statistic reports
- difficulties with reuse of existing information from database
- informal approach to decision making between HR and heads of departments
- verbal notifications about progress on candidates' search to people involved
- absence of ready-to use program which would meet our needs
I guess many companies worldwide face periodically the same or similar difficulties. We were in more preferable conditions, if compared with others, being a software development company. Between external customer's projects we started working on the solution for our own needs. Soon, the developed software was put into practice. Besides work with candidates, we added functionality for collection and analysis of internal questionnaires and performance reviews' results.
The current version of the program was done for internal use, and not for sale. We want to share it with anybody who finds it useful. Soon more detailed description and demo-version will be published on Fortess web-site, and we will be happy to get any feedback.
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