VanaHRM: A HRM Solution built over Zoho People

Posted on September 15, 2009 by Karthi Mariappan

Vana Consulting Group, a Toronto based Human Resources consultancy has recently announced VanaHRM, a customized Human Resources Management solution powered by Zoho People. It’s an on-demand, completely integrated, feature-rich, turn-key solution for small to mid size businesses for managing their entire workforce.

VanaHRM offers an extensive set of features that includes total workforce management, leave management,
compensation planning, employee surveys, company property tracking, pre-packaged reports (from Zoho Reports) etc. Pricing for VanaHRM
is the same as Zoho People. Plans start at $19 / month for upto 10 employees. Since it is the same as Zoho People’s
subscription, we recommend businesses to take advantage of Vana’s vast consulting expertise in the HRM space and get a custom-made solution from them.…

Zoho People : Integration with Resume Parsing Tool, ResumeGrabber

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Karthi Mariappan

One of the biggest pain points recruiters face is populating their resume database with resumes from different sources like mail attachments, desktop folders, job portals etc. And with the web 2.0 wave, these sources have extended to social sites like Facebook, LinkedIn etc too. Recruiters typically spend anywhere between 60-90% of their time manually updating the resume database. Where as this time can be spent more usefully to connect with prospective candidates or improving their placement ratio.

Enter resume parsing tools and they play an important role in increasing the productivity of recruiters. Zoho People is now integrated with eGrabber’s flagship product, resume parser tool -ResumeGrabber Pro. Entering resumes manually are a thing of the past now and Zoho People users can extract resumes directly from email attachments, folders, job portals, social sites, Google search results etc into their Zoho People account using this tool.

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Zoho People Update : Leave Reports, SSL Support, Zoho Chat/Sheet Integration

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Karthi Mariappan

After our “Dummy Employee” update, we have done few updates and here are the highlights.

Leave Report

You can enforce leave policy specifying the limit for different types of leave
You can configure the time period for leave calculation in either days or hours and can exclude holidays from leave calculation
You can manage accruals.
Employees can now view their consolidated leave report and Managers can view their team members leave report
You can enable approval process for leave requests wherein the manager can either allow or disallow team member’s leave request. Hence improve employee productivity with automated workflows.

Filter based on approval status

Filter your view of requests for approval based on approval status, e.g., view the Leave application requests based on their approval status

Enhanced search
Search employees based on different criterion like on Last Name, First Name, Department ID etc

Integration with Zoho Sheet
You can now export your data as spreadsheet to Zoho Sheet.

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A Better Way to Manage Temporary/Contract Employees’ data

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Karthi Mariappan

More often, a HR professional meets a situation where he/she wants to manage a temporary/contract employee’s data in their HR system. But with most of the HR software pricing plans being based on number of employees, this becomes a delicate issue. Issue where the HR professional feels, “Why should I increase my cost by paying for a temporary employee? But it’s necessary to maintain their data too, what should I do?”. And they turn to a spreadsheet for help again. With Zoho People, you can overcome this problem using the “Dummy User” profile.

Employees who need not login to the system (Zoho People pricing is based on Employees who require login) can be added as dummy employees in Zoho People. Click on Organization -> Employee -> Add dummy employee or Settings -> Dummy employee -> Add dummy employee.

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