Hiring Software for Small Business

How to choose HR software for 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.

10×

Faster first hire

90%

Less hiring admin

5 min

To your first job post

Why Otto

Everything a small business needs to hire, nothing it doesn't.

01

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.

02

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.

03

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.

Post

New job

Publish

Role

Frontend Engineer

Department · Location

Engineering · Istanbul · Hybrid

Description
Careers pageacme.ottohr.com/careers
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.

Screen

Incoming applications

Screening resumes…

Lena Vogel

Data Analyst

94

Maya Chen

Product Designer

88

Tom Weber

Backend Engineer

71

Nora Smit

Accountant

52
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.

Decide
Applied2

Maya Chen

Product Designer

74

Tom Weber

Backend Engineer

68
Interview3

Lena Vogel

Data Analyst

91

Arjun Mehta

HR Generalist

84

Sofia Ricci

Frontend Engineer

78
Offer2

James Cole

Sales Associate

95

Nora Smit

Accountant

88
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.

Onboard

Alex Morgan

Product Designer · day one

0/4

Sign employment contract

HR · e-signature

Upload ID & bank details

Employee

Set up laptop & accounts

IT

Intro meeting with the team

Manager

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.

Hire without the overhead

Hiring software small businesses actually enjoy.

Post a job, let AI handle the first pass, and onboard your new hire. Free to try with sample data.