3 HR Software Myths

Alexander Barabash
GoRecruit
Published in
2 min readDec 26, 2019

Even though the popularity of HR software is rising, yet companies that use digital tools for solving HR tasks, at the moment appear to be in the minority. One of the reasons why enterprises are reluctant to integrate software for HR is that they believe in myths about such services. For that reason, today we would like to dispel three misbeliefs about HR software and convince organizations that there is much to lose by ignoring these solutions.

Myth number one — HR services are hard to use, they require special knowledge. This is a misstatement, the creation of user-friendly interface is an important task for developers of quality HR software. This is also true for GoRecruit, in the system it is right away clear where to look at, what would happen if a particular button was pressed and where one can get the necessary information.

According to another misconception, software solutions for HR make sense only for big organizations. Although «software for HR» may sound like something too complex and unwieldy, in reality in the market there are a lot of easy services that would be useful for small companies as well. For example, GoRecruit helps both large and small enterprises — in big organizations the system can predict the success of a candidate for a chosen vacancy, taking into account the peculiarities of the enterprise. This is possible thanks to the personnel data collected in the organization. The solution for small companies is to use expert system model, which relies on a balanced expert opinion.

The assertion that HR software breaks human interaction between an HR specialist and current, potential employees is also a myth. It is a misperception because programs for HR do not replace recruiters, but make specialists’ work easier, help dealing with repeating and routine tasks to free up time for strategic responsibilities. In other words, by using services for HR, recruiters on the contrary get more opportunities to work with employees and pay more attention to their wellbeing. For instance, provide better onboarding for new workers and organize exciting corporate training.

Today HR software renders companies serious and substantive help, but despite this, some organizations are not keen to integrate such technologies into their HR departments — partly due to a number of myths about the software. We have proved that these are just groundless misconceptions because of which one should certainly not miss out on the advantages of HR software!

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