Human Resource Executive Online, a publication focused on strategic issues in HR, has announced their top ten HR and three training products for 2008.
The site said that the 2008 contest differed than years before because of “a much wider array of solutions that seem to be mastering software integration and the use of Web 2.0 technology, such as social networking, wikis, blogs, video-sharing and other forms of collaboration.”
Here are the winners:
TalentManager Succession Planning provided by Salary.com. TalentManager Succession Planning is a module designed to let users search for candidates based on a combination of requirements including competencies, performance, readiness, potential and promotability.
Success Profiles: Navigator by Development Dimensions International. Navigator is designed to automate job analysis and competency management using a mix of customization, automation and integration with other talent-management providers.
Prophesy3 by eQuest. Prophesy3 is an end-to-end tracking system that includes analytics, from posting of a job through the hiring process.
Recruiting CRM by Avature USA. Recruiting CRM is a candidate sourcing system designed specifically to help firms recruit globally.
The Lab by HighRoads. The Lab is a Web-based portal designed to let users compare their health-benefit plans with those of their competitors in real-time, without waiting for the results of vendors’ or consultants’ self-reported paper surveys.
JWT Inside Track. INSIDE Track is an applicant-tracking and measurement product for use by JWT INSIDE clients that’s designed to assess the cost-effectiveness of media-communication channels based on a URL-tagging system rather than self-reporting methods.
Kenexa SimSJT: Customer Service by Kenexa. Kenexa’s SimSJT Customer Service is a Web-based off-the-shelf assessment “simulation” product that uses virtual 3-D environments intended to help employers decide if job candidates are cut out for customer-service work before they’re hired.
OrgPlus Enterprise Blueprint by HumanConcepts. OrgPlus Enterprise Blueprint is a SaaS-delivered product designed to take advantage of interactive and collaborative technologies to create organizational charts.
LinkedIn Recruiter by LinkedIn. LinkedIn Recruiter is designed to let staffing teams search for and connect with active and passive job candidates within the 26 million — and growing — group of professionals in 133 countries who’ve set up LinkedIn profiles.
HireRight Enterprise by HireRight. This enterprise-wide screening-management solution allows users to request and oversee criminal-records searches, employment and education-history verifications, I-9s and credit reports, motor-vehicle records searches, drug tests and more.
Top Training Products
Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits for Highly Effective People, Interactive Division. Based on Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits for Highly Effective People, Interactive Edition is designed to help users develop their individual and organizational effectiveness.
OnBoard Connection by TalentKeepers. While other orientation programs focus on company goals and procedures or employee performance, OnBoard Connection aims its sights on the relationship between new and existing employees and their leaders.
Wage and Hour by ELT Inc. Wage & Hour is designed to educate both managers and employees in the specifics of wage-and-hour laws, with the intent of helping organizations avoid wage and hour-related lawsuits.
Click here for the results and why HRE chose these particular winners.
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:23 am
If you would like to implement some of Stephen Covey’s best ideas, you can use this web aplication:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage and prioritize your Goals (in each of your life’s categories), projects and tasks, in an intuitive interface. It has a Checklists section, for the repetitive activities you have to do, important but not urgent (Quadrant II, for example your routines/habits). Also, it features a Schedules section and a Calendar, for scheduling you time, activities and for the weekly review.
Some features from GTD are also present, like Contexts and Next Actions.
And it’s available on the mobile phone too, so you can access it wherever you are.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I can’t believe there are no attendance management products in this top 10, I feel like this is one of the most important functions of Human Resources.
Our company uses SoftTime for our attendance tracking. With a great graphical interface, easy-to-use tools, and tons of video tutorials, how can you go wrong? They also have free demos, which is where we started.
I just thought I would throw a plug in there, they are a great company.
http://www.softwaretech.com is the link.
Steve
April 29th, 2009 at 11:34 am
I’m surprised ELI’s Civil Treatment Series wasn’t up there. ELI specializes in providing interactive classroom and online learning solutions and related services to help organizations build a legal, ethical workplace culture that fosters teamwork and minimizes risk. ELI’s award-winning curriculum focuses on changing behaviors and building skills to produce measurable outcomes. Isn’t that what it’s all about?
Another ELI product (Strengthening Employee Relations) covers union avoidance. The course addresses the managerial responsibilities involved in the establishment and maintenance of positive employee relations. Managers need to recognize that promoting positive employee relations is a vital professional competency they are expected to demonstrate as leaders at the organization. Because the organization speaks through its leaders, managers must effectively articulate the company’s point of view and recognize how union issues impact the company.