AD: Human Resource Shareware - Applicants, Employees, Training, Drug Testing, Appraisals
Rick Collens
http://www.hemmingway.com/pplustraining.htm
The Personnel Plus Training Millenium Edition, is an extremely handy tool
for both small business and large corporations alike.
The easy to use menu system and array of data entry forms, makes this
product very intuitive and easy to learn and train others.
User defined terminology means that you don't have to put up with using Zip
Code to define your Postal Code fields, or Social Insurance Number to define
your Social Security fields.
User preferences allow you to add your own company logo, add or remove
criteria that you don't use on a regular basis, add a custom monogram to the
bottom or your reports, select how you want to see employee information when
you enter the employees and appicants form, and this system allows you to
choose whether you want to use small or large menus to conform with your
current screen resolution.
The following, is a list of features that this program contains, for your
benefit and flexibility;
Data Entry Forms
Multi-Company Compatibility - The Personnel Plus series of programs, allows
you to enter information for multi-company use. If you are a conglomerate of
companies wishing to track information for all of your divisions, this is a
handy tool. You can view information for an individual company, or all
companies at one time.
Direct Email / Web Site links - When you define your companies, work sites,
previous employers (in the case of applicants) and even your employees,
there is space available for you to enter email and web site information. If
you are constantly visiting the web site or emailing these companies, sites
or employers, you can do this directly from the program, for the company,
work site or employer you have selected.
Miscellaneous User Defined Information - If there is information that you
wish to track, that the program has currently not been set up to do, you can
use the "Miscellaneous Items" form to define specific information you wan to
track. In the Employees / Applicants form, you can specify the Miscellaneous
item you want to track, item details, a date, and notes for each item.
What information does Personnel Plus Training Track? - The core of this
system is to track Applicants, Employees and Previous Employees, along with
their relevant information. Information will remain with each employee
record, so if a person begins in your system as an applicant, you can enter
Training Information, Education, Work History, Interview Information,
Applicant Status, Positions Applied For and even a scanned image of the
person. This information will always be available, even when the person
becomes an employee.
When the person does become an employee, you can schedule training for the
employee, his appraisals, drug screen information, and any other information
you would like about this employee, even information you define yourself.
When this employee becomes a previous employee, you can change his status to
"Previous Employee", and if your preference is not to view previous
employees, this employee will disappear from your employee form, but remain
in the system, with all his current information, in case you need to rehire.
Also, you can track termination information, and rehire information as well,
allowing you to grade the hirability of your previous employees.
Even though you may have selected to only view "Employees" or "Employees and
Applicants" in the prefereces of the system, you can access all of the
personnel records in the Employees form by clicking the "Show All" button
which appears at the bottom of the form. This will make available, all of
the information in the system regardless of their personnel status.
Reporting
Existing and Custom Reports - There are over 100 reports available in this
system, and there are always more on the way. If you require a report that
is'nt available in the system, you can contact Hemmingway Technologies Inc.
to request custom modifications, which we can provide for our current hourly
rate. If you feel that the report is a "nice to have" and that others might
benefit from such a report, tell us about it. If we feel that your idea
would be beneficial to others, you may see this report in the next upgrade
that is available to you.
Criteria Options - The Personnel Plus Training package has made an abundance
of fields available to you for criteria, when running a report. Sometimes,
you may not want to see much of the criteria available if you never use it,
so we have allowed you, the user, "Criteria Options", allowing you to
specify which criteria you don't need to see at all, which criteria you
don't want to see for specific reports, and we've even allowed you to change
the description of the criteria you want to use, to better suit your
understanding of the information your using for criteria.
If there is criteria you use frequently, the Personnel Plus Training system
allows you to save and load frequently used criteria sets. This helps
especially if you have a very specific and intricate set of criteria that
you always want to use. This method allows you to run reports with this type
of intricate criteria with just a click of a button. Also, choose whether or
not you want to start a new page at the beginning of each heading.
Other Features
Employee Information Importing - No time to enter employee information
yourself? The Personnel Plus Training system can import information in a
fixed format. If your current payroll or human resources system can generate
a fixed length text file in the pre-determined format, the Personnel Plus
Training system can import it and populate the Employee file, whether it's
on a one time basis or on-going.
System Problem Reports and Contacting Hemmingway - Hemmingway Technologies
Inc. is devoted to offering reliable products that are easy to use. The
system is configured to log any error that occurs. If you are experiencing
difficulties in your program, we have offered tips on trouble shooting in
our on-line help system, as well as the "getting started" documentation. If
this documentation does not allow you to determine the problem you are
experiencing, we want to know what the problem is. Because of this, we have
devised an on-line system problem report that you can email directly to
Hemmingway. This report also includes the latest entries in the error log,
to help us better understand how the program is being used, and any problems
you are experiencing on the technical level.
User Preferences - By using preferences, you can tell the system information
about how you want to see employees when you enter the employees form. You
can set the screen size so that the program better fits your screen
resolution, or, set it to small windows if you are using a larger screen
resolution, to use the program in a "window" format.
Add a report monogram to all of your reports. This monogram can be your
company name, which can be useful in a multi-company environment, or just a
brief "slogan of the day" to pass along to whoever you may be sending the
reports.
Add your own company logo. You can personalize this system for each company
or even each user!
On-Line Ordering - Need to upgrade to a network license or want to order a
copy for a friend? There is an online ordering system at the click of a
button.
Contacting Hemmingway - Want to leave a comment or make a suggestion? There
is a form for you to email Hemmingway directly with your query or comment.