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HR Software
A guide to software for hiring, scheduling, tracking time, developing skills and managing the workforce - for HR teams and staffing agencies choosing between systems.
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Harnham provides specialist data and AI recruitment and staffing services, along with bespoke training solutions, across multiple…
Haystack combines AI & expert vetting to deliver world-class tech candidates who are engaged, aligned, and ready to interview…
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Metaview is an AI company focused on recruiting. We build AI agents that help world-class companies hire with radically more…
Training that scales. Reporting that proves it. Teams use pete lms to deliver structured learning at scale, with the ease and…
Pushfar is a world-leading mentoring software and technology company, helping 100,000+ of individuals and hundreds of…
Sourcewhale is the AI recruitment platform built for recruitment agencies. From first search to final placement, sourcewhale…
Time analytics is a management tool for tracking time and costs for each project, client, or work task. Gain insights into time…
5mins is one AI-powered platform that delivers compliance, leadership, and role-based training through engaging, TikTok-style…
Octanise | energy visibility for real-world decarbonisation Most buildings don’t perform the way they were designed, and that gap…
The online coaching & mentoring platform built for professionals. We help you improve the results of your coaching and mentoring…
Gomo is an elearning authoring tool that is simple to use, yet still offers the advanced features loved by your learning…
Hirebee.AI is an AI-powered hiring platform that brings together applicant tracking, assessments, and HR workflows in one system…
Hey, we’re hive! Hive is an employee feedback platform and strategic HR partnership. We give our customers the tech, the insight…
Award-winning software that helps people leaders enhance their feedback culture -- so that employees become more engaged and more…
Colleagues come in all shapes and sizes and our wellbeing and recognition platforms are made-to-measure to motivate everyone…
The people development platform | employee learning, development and performance management 🚀 Learn amp is a learning technology…
Safecall is the UK's leading whistleblowing software provider, delivering comprehensive hotline and online reporting systems to…
Tribepad is the trusted tech to smart(er) recruiters everywhere, designed to help you fall back in love with recruiting. We…
We’re on a journey to help training providers get the results they want. We have a team of experts to guide you on every step of…
Appraisd is the dedicated performance management platform that helps organisations nurture and retain talent and drive growth…
Genius sports is a global leader in sports data technology, distribution and commercialisation services. We provide innovative…
Edume is an AI-first enablement platform built for the frontline. We help companies drive performance, consistency, and…
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These are the systems that run the mechanics of employing people: posting jobs and moving candidates through interview stages, matching temporary workers to shifts and billing clients for their hours, tracking who clocked in and when, building out career paths and performance reviews, delivering training content, and giving staff a confidential channel to report misconduct. When a company puts one of these in place, a recruiter stops chasing candidate updates over email, a shift manager can see who's actually rostered on today, a finance team gets timesheet data that flows straight into payroll instead of being re-typed from paper, and HR gets a record of who's been trained, reviewed and promoted rather than a folder of old spreadsheets.
People start looking for this when the manual version of the job has stopped working. Hiring managers lose track of which candidate is where in the pipeline and good applicants go cold. A staffing agency can't tell which of its contractors are available this week without phoning around. Overtime disputes and buddy-punching cost more than anyone budgeted for. A fast-growing company realises nobody can answer basic questions like who reports to whom, who's due a review, or who's actually qualified for a role they're about to open up internally. Sometimes it's a compliance trigger: an auditor asks how staff can report wrongdoing without going to their own manager, and the honest answer is that there's no process at all.
The providers here split roughly by which part of that problem they own. Some are narrow and deep - an applicant tracking system, a time clock, a whistleblowing hotline - built to do one job well and plug into whatever HRIS or payroll system you already run. Others are broad suites that cover recruiting through to performance and learning in one place, trading some depth in each area for a single login and one set of reports. Staffing-specific tools add the billing, vendor management and compliance layers that a generic ATS doesn't bother with. Worth comparing on: how well it integrates with your existing payroll and HRIS rather than becoming another silo; whether it's built for desk-based staff or frontline shift workers, which changes the whole interface; how deep the compliance and jurisdictional coverage goes if you operate across regions; and whether you're paying for breadth you won't use or depth you actually need.