Odoo HR: digital empowering people

For several years, Odoo is establishing itself as a key player in the ERP landscape thanks to its capacity for innovation and its user-centric vision. With the latest developments in its HR (human resources) module, Odoo no longer just digitizes administrative tasks: it is becoming a true strategic lever for putting people at the heart of the company.

Discover how this solution helps HR teams attract, welcome, support and retain talent throughout their career path.

A unified, human-centric HR experience

In many organizations, HR departments still juggle multiple siloed tools to manage every step of the HR process. The result: scattered data, repetitive tasks, and wasted time that hinder HR action.

With Odoo, everything is centralized in a single, fluid environment that is interconnected with other business functions. Recruitment, onboarding, skills management, training plans, assessments, and career management: each building block is integrated to provide a comprehensive view of human capital.

This unification allows to

• streamline collaboration between HR, managers and employees,
• refocus HR teams on their primary mission: developing talent and providing a quality employee experience,
• make more informed HR decisions.

The challenges of HR teams: attracting, retaining, developing

Today, attracting and retaining talent has become a major challenge. HR must deal with:

• A shortage of key skills in certain professions,
• Employees who expect an engaging experience from the moment they arrive,
• The need to build progressive and motivating paths, promoting skills development and internal mobility.

Employee expectations have evolved: they want to be active participants in their own development, easily access their HR information, and benefit from training tailored to their needs. To achieve this, HR managers need agile, interconnected, and data-driven tools.

Odoo: a strategic partner to meet these challenges

Odoo HR was designed to concretely address these challenges. The modules offer a real employee experience and allow employees to be operational quickly.

Recruitment

Recruitment is one of the most strategic challenges for organizations. With Odoo, you can:

• Find all job offers in one place: Keep an eye on all job offers, candidates, and planned activities. The status of each offer is clearly displayed on the recruitment dashboard,
• Organize your applications: Click on a job offer to see all applications organized by stage,
• Benefit from automatic data import: automatically index and add candidate information when they apply online,
• Create a personalized recruitment pipeline: define stages with automated actions, send emails automatically and move candidates through the pipeline,
• Allow candidates to book appointments online : facilitate exchanges and interview planning,
• Automatically plan all your onboarding actions : organize all integration steps to ensure the successful arrival of new employees,
• Build talent pools (new in v19): Group your candidates by profile type, not just by offer. This makes it easy to redirect a candidate to another, more suitable opportunity and leverage your applications over time. When creating a new offer, Odoo automatically identifies profiles already in your pools that are likely to be a good match.

Annual interviews and skills management

Odoo's annual appraisal module makes it easier to conduct interviews and identify potential. By implementing periodic assessments, you strengthen your organization's asset: your employees.

Here are the features you get:

• Create your own surveys or use templates to collect important information and/or feedback from your employees.
• Create assessments on a specific schedule to automatically generate maintenance requests.
• Manage multiple types of reviews : bottom-up, top-down, self-assessment, and final manager review.
• View interview history.

These interviews become a real lever for monitoring the development of your teams' skills, identifying gaps, planning training and building motivating career plans.

Continuing education

Organizing training courses, developing their content, identifying which employees have completed them, and evaluating training performance are all features available in Odoo.

v19 goes even further with the new eLearning module ! You can now set up an internal online training platform, allowing employees to learn at their own pace and become active participants in their own skills development.

Data-driven management and informed decision-making

Odoo transforms the mass of HR data into strategic indicators thanks to dynamic dashboards: performance, satisfaction, mobility, loyalty, etc. HR managers have a clear vision to anticipate, advise management and align HR strategy with the company's objectives.

This approach takes on its full meaning with skills tracking, a real lever for HR strategy. Skills analysis then becomes a key tool for linking HR indicators to strategic decisions. The skills matrix in Odoo brings together all of employees' skills. It provides a precise map to identify internal strengths and future needs. This allows us to answer key questions: Do I have the necessary skills pool internally? Should I recruit for a specific position? How many experts do we have in this field?

Thanks to these indicators, strategic decisions become more informed:

• define training and plan skills development,
• guide recruitment based on the real needs of the company.

Managers maintain a clear view of career paths, monitor the evolution of skills over time and can evaluate the impact of training to continuously develop talent.

A UX designed for all users

One of Odoo's greatest strengths is its modern and intuitive user experience, designed not only for HR teams, but also for all employees. Thanks to a clear and user-friendly interface, everyone can:

• Easily access your personal information,
• Track your requests (leave, absences, training),
• Actively participate in internal evaluations and investigations,
• Project yourself into your development paths.
   

This ease of use encourages team adoption and engagement. Odoo HR becomes a collaborative space where each employee plays a role in their own development.

A scalable platform to support your transformation

Thanks to its modular architecture, Odoo adapts to your pace. Start simply with recruitment and onboarding, then gradually add components like skills tracking, training, or internal mobility management.

This flexibility is valuable in a context of hybrid work, increased mobility and changing generational expectations.

Smile, your partner for a successful HR project

Implementing an effective HR module isn't just about installing a tool. It's about understanding the challenges, adapting workflows to the organization's processes, training teams, and supporting them over time to get the most out of digital HR.

With Odoo, the HR function moves from a purely administrative logic to a strategic role: attracting talent, facilitating their integration, developing their skills and proactively managing careers.

A long-standing Odoo partner for 18 years, Smile offers its expertise to modernize your HR management and put people back at the heart of your organization. Odoo is much more than a tool: it's a transformation partner, and Smile is here to deploy it alongside you.

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