SharePoint HR Management System
Streamline Work of Your HR Team
With 17 years in SharePoint and 12 years in HR software development, ScienceSoft helps recruiting agencies and HR departments of organizations effectively use SharePoint to streamline HR processes.
SharePoint HR Management System in Brief
SharePoint human resource management system (HRMS) helps businesses effectively search for high-quality candidates, streamline employee lifecycle management, increase employee engagement and retention, and reduce hiring and L&D costs. SharePoint HRMS solutions are best suited for mid-size and large orgs in healthcare, retail, manufacturing, professional services, banking and finance.
Key Features
Administrative HR
Employee information management
- An employee database: personal details (name, contacts, education, etc.), historical data on employee activity (e.g., promotions, transfers, and salary changes).
- Employee search and search filtering (e.g., by department, skills, experience, education).
- Automated notifications (e.g., job contract expiration).
- Reporting (e.g., employee performance, turnover).
Employee lifecycle management
- Document management for an HR team to support diverse employee transactions (e.g., onboarding, promotions, transfers, offboarding).
- Automated approval workflows set-up for employee-related transactions.
Payroll management
- Collecting and managing data required for payroll calculation, such as work hours, special pay items (e.g., overtimes), deductions and taxes.
- Tracking and approving salary changes (e.g., payroll review after a trial period).
Compensation management
- Determining employee pay grades based on employee performance metrics.
- Automation of compensation planning process, including real-time compensation reviews.
Benefits management
- Tracking employee eligibility to corporate benefits (e.g., holiday bonuses, fitness reimbursements, medical insurance).
- Managing enrollment of employees to benefits programs.
Examples of SharePoint HR Management Capabilities
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Talent management
- Applicant tracking through each stage of the recruitment cycle (e.g., sourcing, sorting applicants, scheduling interviews).
- Managing resumes, job and skill libraries, talent pools, and other recruitment data via a recruitment database.
- Automated approval of the employment requisition (candidate approval workflows).
- Advanced candidate search across integrated systems using search filters and search results ranking.
- Recruitment reporting and analytics (e.g., interview statistics).
- Creating a knowledge base for new hires (guides, an employee handbook, benefits, e-forms, training materials, etc.).
- Tracking the onboarding progress via real-time dashboards for new hires, HR teams, and managers.
- Automated welcome emails.
- Automated notifications and reminders, for example, to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Performance management
- Employee KPI tracking (e.g., open/completed tasks, overtimes).
- Automated scheduling individual employee performance reviews and advance notifications about them.
- Feedback on employee performance by their managers.
- Tracking performance review results via dashboards (e.g., completion of goals, performance rating) and creating visualized reports.
- Certification of employees and reminders for necessary certification renewals.
Learning and development
- Employee self-enrolling to training or enrollment as a result of automated approval workflow initiated by their manager.
- Automated notifications (e.g., course deadlines, knowledge assessment).
- Evaluation of newly acquired knowledge and skills after an employee finishes the training.
Competency management
- Creating a database of employees’ and their skills, experiences, certifications, achievements, and work history.
- Competency analysis of employees based on self-assessment questionnaires.
- Automated identification of competency gaps.
Career and succession management
- Succession planning for job roles and employees.
- Tracking employee career goals and setting up career paths.
- Evaluation of a succession candidate’s readiness based on their competencies and performance.
- Creating a talent pool.
- Comparing employees’ profiles in the talent pool.
Engagement management
- Polls and surveys to collect employee feedback on work, learning, etc. and measure their satisfaction.
- Personalized newsfeeds with relevant content.
- User-generated content (e.g., blogs).
- Communication tools for social interaction (e.g., instant messaging, video conferencing), discussions, likes, commenting, sharing ideas, and more.
- Employee recognition (e.g., announcing awards, promotions).
- Media galleries with videos and pictures from corporate events.
- Gamification (achievement points, leaderboards, badges, etc.).
Workforce management
Time and attendance management
- Monitoring employees’ working hours and absences, vacation and sick leave accruals, job contract terminations, and more.
Labor scheduling
- Scheduling shifts for employees via calendars.
- Automated detection of shift conflicts.
- Tracking of vacations, sick leaves, maternity leaves, etc.
- Manual approval of vacations by managers.
- Automated leave approval in case of compliance with preset rules.
- Automated notification of managers about non-compliance with rules (e.g., too many department employees take a vacation simultaneously).
Workforce planning
- Automated analysis of the current state of workforce, trends (e.g., how workforce resources will evolve over time through turnover).
- AI-powered predicting of future workforce needs based on historical data, trends, and business needs (e.g., calculating the number of employees needed for a certain project, scheduling work for a certain time of the year).
- Determining gaps between the current and projected workforce needs.
HR service management
Organizational chart
- Reflecting the organization hierarchy and relationships between employees; routing HRMS users to employee profiles.
Employee profiles
- Employee personal pages with diverse information (e.g., skills, learning history, certificates, contacts, bank details, hobbies) that can be accessed and edited by employees.
Knowledge base
- An organized and searchable knowledge base with documents, presentations, videos, links, etc. to help employees resolve common HR-related issues without submitting a ticket.
- FAQ section with quick, detailed answers to popular employee questions.
- Communities, blogs, forums with how-tos and tips.
- News and announcements (e.g., about new HR policies, employee benefits or changes in labor legislation).
- Employee handbook with information about the company’s mission, culture, values.
Digital HR document management
- Document templates (e.g., an NDA, an insurance application, a resignation letter).
- Centralized document repository.
- Advanced search (by titles, metadata, full text).
- Tracking changes in employee-related documents like an employment contract or a job description due to versioning.
Employee request management
- Submitting requests related to vacation approval, travel arrangements, fitness reimbursements, medical insurance, etc. and tracking their status by employees via a self-service portal.
- Handling employee requests by managers (e.g., request approval, rejection, escalation).
- Automated notifying employees about request approval/rejection.
Chatbots and virtual assistants
- AI-powered assistants that answer employees’ common HR-related questions, provide relevant documentation and guides, book vacations, and more.
Policy management
- Reusable templates for making typical policies or updating the existing ones.
- Centralized storage of internal policies and procedures, associating them with external regulations (GDPR, HIPAA, etc.).
- Dashboards showing a list of policies, their creation dates, status (new, approved or pending), an approver’s name, and more.
- Compliance acknowledgement by employees.
- Scheduled notifications about the need to review policies or reminders of a certification that is about to expire.
- Policy knowledge assessments via quizzes and surveys.
Security and compliance
Security management
- Protecting employees’ private information due to data encryption, multifactor authentication, permission-based access, audit trail, control over document downloading, printing out, etc.
Compliance management
- Tracking an organization’s compliance with state and federal labor laws for breaks, payment, time-off policies, IT security, occupational safety, and more (e.g., FLSA, FMLA, GDPR, OSHA).
- Tracking compliance with corporate policies (e.g., data protection, diversity and inclusion).
Key SharePoint HRMS Integrations
SharePoint HRMS integration with other software streamlines HR processes like employee lifecycle management, payroll management, and more, increases productivity of HR teams and improves employee experiences.
- HRMS + LMS. To enable automated enrollment of a learner in relevant training in the LMS based on the changes in the HRMS data (e.g., promotion, new job responsibilities); automated updating of learning records in HR software based on the learning history (e.g., passed assessments, completed courses). Also, LMS can enable AI-based recommendations of trainings to learners based on employees’ skills available in the HRMS.
- HRMS + DMS. To automate the lifecycle of employee-related documents (e.g., applications, employment contracts), including e-signing.
- HRMS + payroll software. To sync employee data stored in HRMS (e.g., performance, leaves, overtimes, benefits) with payroll data (e.g., salaries, bonuses, taxation) and enable payment calculation by payroll software, which is updated in real time based on the changes in HRMS data.
- HRMS + project management software. To provide information on human resources needed for a project, so that an HR team could use it to choose the resources from the talent pool in the HRMS based on employee availability, skills, and more or initiate hiring of such resources.
- HRMS + recruitment database software. To provide automated transfer of the info about new hires (e.g., education, competencies, contacts) from a recruitment database into HRMS and updating of job postings in the database after a candidate gets a job or a current employee gets promoted or leaves the company.
SharePoint HRMS Customization Capabilities
- Custom HR documentation templates.
- Employee and HR team performance assessment dashboards.
- Employee lifecycle management workflows.
- HRMS page layouts, unique branding, and more.
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With 17 years in SharePoint and 12 years in HR software development, ScienceSoft helps recruiting agencies and HR departments of organizations streamline HR processes with minimal costs. |
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HR Management Solutions Built by ScienceSoft
What Customers Say about ScienceSoft
We wanted to build a central hub robust enough to handle complex Human Resources change management, streamline our recruitment, employee onboarding and offboarding. With a 20-year track record in SharePoint and great online reviews, we chose ScienceSoft for the job. Ultimately, they took this project to heights I never expected it to reach by incorporating the Manager edit functionality into the front-end of the employee profile system, streamlining all sides of employee life-cycle change management.
For the past 6 years, ScienceSoft has been a reliable partner in supporting and maintaining our HR software product. They keep modernizing HR on our demand, introducing new features and tweaking existing functionality to let us better cater to our growing client base. Moreover, ScienceSoft has successfully migrated our product from on-premises Microsoft Access to cloud-based Microsoft SQL Server, ensuring uninterrupted, smooth operation and high availability of HR in the new infrastructure.
Kansanshi Mining PLC has had an outstanding cooperation experience with ScienceSoft in the course of the project development—a SharePoint-based HR and employee self-service portal. Really, we were truly impressed by the team's professionalism, diligence, and dedication in going the extra mile. The SharePoint team from ScienceSoft really proved their deep knowledge of the customization features of the platform to the dot; they were just the right kind of solution for us. They facilitated the decision-making by providing demos for every workflow envisaged, hence previewing the functionality on the portal in real-life scenarios.
SharePoint HRMS Use Cases
HR Service Management
Pre-Hire Talent Management
Post-Hire Talent Management
Pros and cons of using SharePoint as HRMS
Pros:
- One-stop-shop for HR-related content. SharePoint HRMS offers centralized storage for templates and finalized documents, forms, policies, and other HR-related content that employees, managers and an HR team can easily retrieve.
- Customizability and integration-friendliness. SharePoint allows for creating an HRMS solution tailored to a company’s HR needs, extending HRMS capabilities with other functionality (payroll, DMS, LMS, etc.) and ensuring data sharing between all enterprise systems.
- Compatibility with other Microsoft products. Out-of-the-box integration and single sign-on with other Microsoft products makes using SharePoint HRMS convenient.
- Cross-company search. Due to the enterprise search feature, SharePoint HRMS users can obtain search results on employee-related data from the company’s whole digital environment, including integrated tools like LMS and payroll software.
Cons:
- Complex configuration. SharePoint requires substantial configuration (metadata, access permissions, etc.), which can be done only by a qualified SharePoint specialist. So, a company will need to outsource SharePoint configuration or hire a SharePoint consultant.
- High overall costs. SharePoint HRMS can be costly due to license costs, customizations, and follow-up support and evolution.
- User adoption challenges. Such issues as navigation inheritance and hidden breadcrumbs can make SharePoint HRMS use not intuitive. So, admins and end users will need comprehensive training on the solution.
SharePoint HRMS Benefits
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Increased efficiency of HR teams via employee self-service |
Reduced administration and labor costs via digitizing recruiting, onboarding, training and other HR processes |
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Reduced security breach costs due to granular permissions and other strong security measures that help protect sensitive employee data |
Higher learner engagement and satisfaction due to rich social, employee recognition and gamification features and effective employee request management |
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