Social recruiting software

May 26th, 2011

A lot of HR Locker clients are in the IT space, so we get to talk to a lot of HR managers in IT companies. Often the function is filled by a combination of CEO, finance, and office managers. One problem we keep getting told about is the difficulty in hiring good people.
Jobs boards generally [...]

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2011 Market Trends for the HR software sector

April 7th, 2011

Christopher Baum at SoftwareAdvice.com published a thought provoking article on where the HR software market is headed in the short to medium term.
The take home points I got are:

Cloud based systems are where the growth is
Consolidation will be intense in the performance and talent management sector
Management dashboards are now de rigueur
Employee self service is the [...]

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New Admin rights for office managers

April 6th, 2011

Some of our international clients have managers in remote offices who need to have full control over HR Locker – but only for their office. Making one of these managers an “Admin” would allow them to see and do everything. Ideally, they could act as an Admin but only for their office, or only for [...]

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Limiting employees visibility of other offices

March 31st, 2011

When we developed HR Locker we imaged that everybody would want all employees to be able to see all other employees in the Directory and Who’s Off section. Some of our larger clients said they didn’t want this. Typically this was to prevent employees in multinationals seeing employees in a different country. You asked. We [...]

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Is cloud computing safe for HR data?

March 22nd, 2011

I’m going to be posting a couple of different blog entries on cloud security. I was in a meeting yesterday and somebody said they felt there is a security issue with hosting HR data in the cloud. I asked them where their existing HR software sits. He showed me a server in the corner of [...]

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HR Locker featured in cloud computing report

February 18th, 2011

Goodbody Economic Consultants released a report on the potential of cloud computing for the Irish economy. It reckons that up to €9.5 billion could be generated by Irish companies selling cloud based services by 2014. This would provide jobs for approximately 8,600 people.
Good news for the small companies is that it forecasts growth of an [...]

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HR Software company wins Cork Chamber of Commerce award

February 10th, 2011

We’re delighted to announce that HR Locker has won the Cork Chamber of Commerce Emerging Company of the Year Award. It’s a huge boost for all of us at HR Locker.
Standpoint Media did a superb job in creating a video about HR Locker for the award. You can see it here.
The other two finalists were [...]

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Cork Chamber short lists HRLocker.com for award

January 22nd, 2011

We’re delighted to be short listed by the Cork Chamber of Commerce as one of three companies in the Emerging Company of the Year category. The other companies are Fastnet Line, operators of the Swansea to Cork car ferry; and Brook Catering, from my very own parish of Glanmire.
The Cork Chamber of Commerce were one [...]

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HRLocker featured by Microsoft

January 17th, 2011

I’m delighted to say that Microsoft Europe ran a full two page spread on HR Locker in the December issue of Futures, its European innovation magazine. Microsoft has been hugely supportive of HR Locker since we started working on the project. I’d really recommend any startup using Microsoft technology to connect with their BizSpark team.
You [...]

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Would Narcissus Love LinkedIn?

December 3rd, 2010

Narcissus famously fell in love with his own reflection in a pool. We’re all a little guilty of this in the online world. I thought this could be used to help create awareness of our product.
HR managers are our target market. Like most people, they don’t particularly like being cold called. In fact, they really [...]

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