Computer Support Blog

From payroll to the administration of employee benefits to workforce performance management, a company’s Human Resources department perform some of its most important functions.  Many companies have created tools to help companies increase their productivity (and, thus, their profit), and one of these is a startup called Namely that has developed an app specifically for HR.  Its developers refer to it as “the HR platform for companies serious about growth.”  Rather than being dependent on multiple systems to manage many HR tasks, Namely offers an integrated platform so employees and managers only have to remember one login and take care of all their HR needs.  With the app, businesses can avoid the confusion, unnecessary expenses, and general inefficiency that came with being so spread out and potentially disorganized. Read more »

When most people talk about how difficult the hiring process is, they’re talking about the jobseeker’s half of the equation.  While it’s certainly true that job hunting is no easy task, many people don’t consider the difficulties that companies have when looking for the best candidates.  Combing through different sources to find strong applicants is difficult enough for many HR departments.  The process gets even harder when optimizing the applicant selection and interview process to identify the absolute best candidates.  Greenhouse is a cool product that offers a technological solution to the hiring process.  Greenhouse provides a connected set of tools that streamline the applicant screening and selection process. The product aims to help HR departments struggle less with their hiring decisions.  Businesses that use Greenhouse can keep application sourcing, interview strategies, and candidate review all in one centralized location.  Greenhouse aims to improve the hiring process by reducing wasted time and energy.  To accomplish this task, it keeps every step of the application process together in one piece of software while looking to focus and optimize each task for HR teams.  Companies that have robust business IT support will have a much easier time integrating Greenhouse into their current systems. Read more »

Hiring managers often find their e-mail accounts buried in resumes.  Sorting through these documents to find suitable candidates for new positions can be a messy, disorganized process.  This is especially true when trying to juggle other responsibilities.  Cool person in technology Ben Curtis created Catch the Best specifically to solve this exact dilemma.  Catch the Best is a web-based tool that HR professionals can use to keep track of job applications and help hiring managers gather feedback from co-workers on how well specific resumes fit open positions.  Curtis built Catch the Best as a web application so that he could make it easily accessible to a large HR team all at once.  By using a cloud-based system on the web rather than developing a piece of local software for hiring manager’s computers, Curtis was able to streamline the process of sharing resumes with others in a company easy and automatic.  Those who are unfamiliar with cloud-based technologies or who have issues with Internet-based applications should find a cloud computer support service to help them.  Read more »