{"id":775,"date":"2007-09-05T01:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-05T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2007-09-05T01:00:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-05T09:00:45","slug":"an-interview-with-hr-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=775","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with HR Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, I had the opportunity to speak with HR Smart,<\/a> a talent management software vendor and service provider.\u00a0 As with many vendors, HR Smart has had applicant tracking since 1996 and they have been slowly building a suite of talent products around that ever since.\u00a0 The conversation intrigued me mostly because they have taken a bit of a different approach to their software development than many of the other vendors.<\/p>\n

At the core of the HR Smart\u2019s offering is philosophy.\u00a0 Rather than purchasing many of the talent components, they have elected to build each module on their own.\u00a0 This has good and bad that comes with it.\u00a0 The bad first:\u00a0 if you have to develop everything on your own, it\u2019s possible that you have slower development times than your competitors, and correlating to that, at any given moment, you might have a bit less functionality.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t actually seen the product to compare it with others I know, so take that one with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n

The good is that you have better control over product direction giving you much better integration.\u00a0 Instead of cobbling together disparate applications with different table structures and standards, you can build the thing to \u201cinteroperate\u201d from the very beginning.\u00a0 Other vendors have spent a lot of time and money integrating applications over the last few years, and one could argue that almost as much time was spent integrating as HR Smart spent developing.\u00a0 R&D should theoretically be easier as time goes on since each additional module has a core base of code to work off of.<\/p>\n

The really good, is that if you have built the entire suite from the ground up, instead of cobbling together processes and trying to make them connect at logical places, you can design end to end processes and workflow.\u00a0 What this should get the HR buyer and customer is perhaps a lower emphasis on feature functionality and a greater emphasis on great processes.\u00a0 I\u2019m definitely not going to say that other vendors\u2019 processes don\u2019t work, and I can\u2019t say that HR Smart\u2019s is any better, but from a theoretical and philosophical perspective, the story is pretty good so far.<\/p>\n

One of the things I loved was in their recruiting process.\u00a0 HR Smart described to me an algorithm they had built that would automatically track recruiter and source effectiveness after hire.\u00a0 This could be applied to a new requisition, performance reviews, etc.\u00a0 This is the holy grail of HR technology \u2013 not to just improve process, but to assist in the diagnosis and shaping of the future process.<\/p>\n

So far, HR Smart has some good partnerships out there and I\u2019m surprised that I didn\u2019t know more about them.\u00a0 For example, they run Monster.com\u2019s applicant tracking functionality.\u00a0 I like organizations with good product, but I like them even better when the philosophy around how they deliver product and service is right on.\u00a0 They should be another fun company to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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