Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recruitment, employee database etc)

Posted by frosty on Thursday April 30, 2009 @03:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

We have grown to around 25 employees and till sometime back spreadsheets were working and we didnt really have many formal processes. Wanted to have a process. The main requirements i can think of are: i) employee records ii) basic payroll iii) vacation applying/tracking iv) expense submission v) performance reviews vi) recruitment

found couple of alternatives (both sas and software). Wanted to know what you guys are using?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by frosty on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:16PM (#587443)

There must be a bug, because I am also "frosty". I didn't post this article, but it has a red asterisk next to it.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by pg on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:18PM (#587447)

Could you please email me? pg@

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by frosty on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:25PM (#587456)

hey i registered with account frosty :). i had seen one comment posted in my profile which i am sure i had not posted.

mailing you pg

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by tjic on Thursday April 30, 2009 @06:16PM (#587664)

remember on Apple ]['s DOS, where you could include a control character in the name of a file (thus making it impossible for someone else to run a file unless they knew the "real" name) ?

I've got a dollar riding on one of the two "frosty"s having an extra character in their name...

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by haseman on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:46PM (#587492)

Our small dev house uses Harvest: http://www.getharvest.com/

It's simple, straightforward, and has a metric ton of ways to enter hours into the system. It doesn't have all the things you're looking for, but it does well for all our vacation/hour/billing/tracking needs.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by mrduncan on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:15PM (#587548)

Would you mind elaborating on what else you're looking for other than what Harvest offers?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by haseman on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @12:35PM (#594325)

There really isn't much I can think of offhand. It tracks hours. It might be nice if it were easier to enter notes in the 'week' entry screen. Other than that, it's a great product.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by fn on Thursday April 30, 2009 @04:58PM (#587510)

http://standoutjobs.com for recruitment (disclaimer: I'm a cofounder :-P )

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by coopr on Friday May 01, 2009 @04:03PM (#589040)

The only place you mention pricing (that I can find) is in your FAQ, and the answer is "Please contact us at 1.866.563.7748 for pricing details" - that makes me think it is WAY out of reach for the startups and smaller businesses that are on HN.

So, roughly, how much _does_ it cost?!

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by frosty on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:34PM (#587595)

by recruitment what i meant was basically whenever a resume is recieved by email, i) a separate entry is created for that person.

ii) Other people can change status like hired, called for interview, telephonic done, rejected etc

iii) Other employees can add candidate feedback and other things so that everything remains in one place

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by nolanbrown23 on Thursday April 30, 2009 @07:22PM (#587744)

Check out http://www.credentify.com/ "Eliminate a clogged inbox full of resumes! Bring organization, collaboration, and background screening to your hiring process with Credentify."

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by rms on Friday May 01, 2009 @12:59AM (#588117)

Another one like that a http://www.theresumator.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by frosty on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:37PM (#587601)

actually we were really facing issues after we recieved a flood of resumes. Finally ended up a quick solution myself over the weekend. Its working for now but could be better :)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by fn on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:51PM (#587625)

Yup, exactly!

http://standoutjobs.com/site/tour/candidate-dashboard/

;-)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you use for HR (vacation, expense, recrui... by fn on Thursday April 30, 2009 @05:52PM (#587629)

+ also:

http://standoutjobs.com/site/tour/view-candidate-profiles/

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