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Free HR software. Easy team management.

Our free recruitment and HR software equips you with everything you need to hire effortlessly. Draw in top talent, perfect your processes, and keep your hires engaged.
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Customers rate us 4.5
Based on 197 Service Ratings
over the past year

Reduce your HR admin with job board integration

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Candidate tracking and communication

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Easily manage your candidates

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Seamless onboarding

Why use Employment Hero’s recruitment and HR software?

Employment made easy 🚀

Whether you’re a small Aussie business with just a handful of employees, or a large organisation with hundreds of team members, our free software can help you manage your team, and onboard with ease.

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Say goodbye to admin đź‘‹

Get back the hours previously spent on admin. Our powerful platform is built by HR experts who know exactly how to streamline standard tasks, so you get more time back in your day.

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Manage your teams with ease.

Onboarding and employee management

Paperless onboarding

Give your new employees a great experience before they start. Employment Hero makes onboarding simple with digital offer letters and e-Contracts that can be signed from any device. New hires can enter personal details, super, and tax info through their Employment Hero account, eliminating first-day paperwork.

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Employment contracts

HR compliance is key, and we provide a range of compliant employment contracts reviewed by our HR specialists and employment lawyers. Choose the right contract, modify as needed, add your logo, and send it for an electronic signature. Each e-signature has an audit trail to ensure it’s legally binding.

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Electronic employee files

Our employee files give an overview of details such as leave requests, performance reviews, and tax information. Employees can update their personal details themselves, like address changes, without bothering you.

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Unlimited online support

Employment Hero offers several forms of support if you need help navigating the platform. HaRi, our HR bot, guides you through the basics, Hero Academy offers training webinars, our Help Library has numerous articles, and our Support Team is available via email.

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Employee app

The Employment Hero mobile app lets employees manage leave and timesheets, view policies and contracts, and access a staff directory. Eligible employees can use InstaPay to access earned wages before payday. The app is available on iOS and Android. *Australia only.

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Recruitment features.

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Interview scheduling through Calendly

Hiring Essentials allows you to connect our software to your Calendly account and schedule candidate interviews directly from Employment Hero. Simplifying the way you schedule candidate interviews, and saving you time while improving the candidates' user journey.

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Seamless candidate onboarding.

Our Recruitment Management feature allows you to post job openings and manage all applicants that applied to a job posting. It also allows you to add collaborators to a specific hiring stage; choose a hiring manager who can manage the entire hiring process, and comment on an applicant's progress - keeping your hiring notes in one place.

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Candidate pools and tags

The Candidate Pool feature lets you view all candidates who have applied for your open roles, with the ability to filter the list by status or name. You can also use this feature to see candidate profiles, including their phone number and resume, and easily transfer a candidate to a different role.

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Recruitment workflows

Whether your business is rapidly expanding or your industry experiences high turnover, save hours of admin work with custom hiring workflows tailored to specific roles, teams, or locations. These workflows automatically generate the necessary steps, hiring team, and more each time you create a new listing.

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Job board integration

Reach a large audience by posting job ads to multiple job boards simultaneously. Instead of posting individual listings on each site, broadcast your job ad to your choice of 24 popular sites (including Indeed, LinkedIn, Jora, and SEEK) and manage everything from Employment Hero. Don’t see your favourite site? Just request the integration, and we’ll take care of it. Note: Hiring Essentials has limi

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Your own careers page

Employment Hero gathers all your listings on your personalised careers page, accessible through the platform or embedded on your website. Each careers page also includes a unique QR code, allowing potential hires to view your open roles from anywhere using their smartphone.

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Hiring team collaboration

When it comes to hiring top talent, every minute counts. That's why having everything in one accessible place is so important. Manage your hiring process by designating platform users as recruiters, hiring managers, and collaborators. These customisable teams can then access and share CVs, applications, interview notes, and feedback all within Employment Hero.

Employee recruitment software FAQs

Human resources software, also commonly known as a Human Resources Information System (HRIS), is a tool that helps businesses streamline and supercharge their human resources operations. It can automate and support a range of HR processes, such as recruitment, employee onboarding, people management and leave management, while also offering powerful reporting tools and helpful people analytics.

There is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question – choosing the best HR software for your business will depend on your specific needs. You’ve got a long list of HR requirements to fill, such as:

  • HR software that makes the basics simple and adds the right value
  • Automation and access to an employee self-service portal for you and your team
  • A solution which is easy to implement and doesn’t interrupt BAU
  • A system that prioritises security, visibility and streamlined HR processes
  • Great service and support, right from the very start

If you would like to learn more about how Employment Hero can help your business needs, book a demo with us.

HR systems can seem overwhelming at the start. However, when choosing HR software, it’s important to consider your specific needs as a business. If you’re looking for a comprehensive people management platform that covers all aspects of HR, then Employment Hero is the perfect choice.

Employment Hero can offer a comprehensive and fully integrated payroll solution suitable for your business.

If you would like to keep an existing payroll software, our platform can also integrate with a range of popular software providers.

No, you don’t need an HR team to use our software. With Employment Hero, you can manage all aspects of HR yourself, without any existing HR team.

We take protecting your data very seriously at Employment Hero. We use the latest security technologies to protect your data, and our team is constantly monitoring our systems to ensure that your data is always safe.

We’ve achieved ISO 27001 compliance and use the same level of encryption standards that banks use to manage the security of your HR data.

Absolutely! Our platform is designed specifically for businesses of all sizes. We believe that every employer should have access to cost-effective HR and payroll tools, regardless of business size. It’s not just big businesses that should reap rewards of great HR, people management, and payroll!

We understand that calculating and proving ROI can sometimes be tricky and that’s why we’ve put together this guide on how to build a business case for your new human resource management solution.
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