Hiring Software for Small Business
How to choose HR softwarefor a small business.
How to choose HR software for a small team: pick a tool that prepares the work and leaves the stamp with HR. Otto HR gives a branded careers page, one candidate pipeline, AI resume screening, and onboarding, with human resources software and agentic HR on the same record.
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Short answer
How should a small business choose HR software?
The small-business answer to how to choose HR software is this: a flow that finishes from job post to onboarding, an approval gate you can trial with your own data, and twelve-month total cost. This page is the hiring face of that method. The vendor-neutral criteria guide is /ik-yazilimi-nasil-secilir.
When do you need it?
You need it when CVs vanish as you open a second role, when a signed offer is retyped into the next system, or when the founder is the only approval door. A separate recruiting team is not required.
How does Otto do this differently?
Otto reads every CV, ranks the shortlist, and moves the hired person into onboarding on the same record. The stamp stays with HR, which in most small companies is the founder. This is not a vendor scorecard. It is a flow that keeps prepare and confirm apart.
Why Otto
Everything a small business needs to hire, nothing it doesn't.
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No recruiter required
Otto is built for owners and managers who hire on the side. Post a role, review applicants, and make an offer without a dedicated recruiting team.
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Priced for small teams
Move to higher tiers only as you grow, with no enterprise contract and no surprise charges as your active employee count changes.
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Branded careers page included
Publish openings on a careers page that matches your brand. No developer and no extra tools. It ships with every plan.
How it works
Hire your next employee, start to finish.
Post
Publish a job in minutes
Create a role, write the description (or let Otto draft it), and publish to your careers page and shareable links. Applications land directly in Otto.
Screen
Let AI shortlist for you
Otto ranks incoming resumes against the role and flags the best fits, so you spend your limited time on the candidates worth talking to.
Decide
Track everyone in one pipeline
Move applicants through stages you control, leave notes for whoever's helping, and make the hire without losing anyone to a crowded inbox.
Onboard
Turn a hire into a teammate
Send the offer and roll the new hire straight into onboarding, documents, and time off, all inside the same Otto HR platform.
Frequently asked questions
The best fit is software that's affordable, needs no recruiter, and covers the whole flow from job post to onboarding. Otto HR does this with AI resume screening and onboarding built in.
No. Otto is designed for owners and managers who hire alongside their other work. There's nothing to configure beyond posting your first job, and no training required.
Plans are per employee, with affordable paid tiers as your team grows. See the pricing page for current plans and limits.
Yes. Otto reads each resume, scores it against the role, and surfaces the strongest candidates first, so a small team reviews applicants far faster.
Yes. When you hire, the new employee flows straight into onboarding, documents, time off, and payroll, because hiring and HR live in one platform.
Separate preparation from confirmation. Otto reads each resume and prepares leave and payroll. HR keeps the stamp. This page is not a vendor scorecard. The test is whether the process still waits on your approval.
One: an end-to-end trial with your own data. Two: a person confirms the step that changes a record. Three: twelve-month total cost and data return on exit. The how-to-choose HR software guide starts with those three. This page applies the hiring slice.
If it is, the hired person is retyped into the next system. Human resources software is the handoff layer. In Otto HR the candidate record is the start of the employee record. A second spreadsheet is not kept.
Hire without the overhead
Hiring softwaresmall businesses actually enjoy.
Post a job, let AI handle the first pass, and onboard your new hire.