Human Resources

Product Overview

  • Developer Cal-SE
  • Type Human Resources (HRIS)
  • Platforms Web
  • Deployment Hosted (cloud-based)

California Software Engineering (Cal-SE) has a proven human resources and workforce management application that supports both centralized HR governance and decentralized decision-making of managers across the entire employee lifecycle.

With Cal-SE web-based HR platform and standardized self-service portals, your managers and HR teams perform a wide range of functions, including job requisition and talent acquisition, employee lifecycle and performance management, timesheet and leave tracking, payroll and benefits administration, compliance auditing, and workforce analytics.

The application facilitates the distributed, decentralized decision-making and workforce planning process by supporting the nomadic nature of executives, line managers, site supervisors, and employees during recruitment, multi-tier approvals, performance evaluations, or other human resources activities.

Cal-SE HR Solution can be distributed and installed at remote offices and public agencies quickly and easily. It can be fully deployed by any human resources organization with limited IT support. Featuring an integrated Interactive Quickstart Guided Tour, Cal-SE offers unparalleled ease of use and enables users to become immediately productive with minimum training.

Cal-SE HR Solution includes primary human resources modules:

  • Recruitment and Talent Acquisition - This module provides HR liaisons and hiring managers with the rich workflow automation, flexibility, and control they need to manage headcount requisitions, publish to a public careers portal, track applicants on a visual Kanban pipeline, conduct structured interview panel scoring, issue digital offers with electronic signatures, and complete pre-employment clearances.
  • Employee and Workforce Management - For any private or public sector organization, this comprehensive module provides a workflow-driven, zero-administration environment for managing the employee directory, position control, multi-tier performance review periods, weekly timesheets, balance-checked leave requests, shift scheduling with swap workflows, and learning & training compliance.
  • Payroll, Compensation and Benefits - Administrators can apply this module to capture centralized compensation plan cycles, W-4 tax withholding profiles, open-enrollment benefit elections, qualifying life event overrides, and automated gross-to-net payroll runs reading directly from locked timesheets and active benefit enrollments.
  • Governance, Forms and Document Vault - Encompasses a no-code versioned Form Engine, a configurable multi-level Approval Workflow Engine with sequential electronic signatures and self-approval safeguards, and an immutable Document Vault with SHA-256 checksums, automated virus scanning, sensitivity-based access grants, and retention schedules.
  • Data Reports, Analytics and Compliance - Provides sophisticated management controlling and workforce analysis capabilities, including role-scoped executive and team operations dashboards, recruitment funnel and time-to-fill forecasting, explainable departmental attrition-risk tracking, and standardized EEO-1, FMLA, training compliance, and pay-equity reports.
  • Cal-SE application - can be customized to address the statutory and operational needs of the public sector, enabling agencies to gather workforce information from different departments faster and therefore provide HR leaders more time to manipulate and analyze the data.

Key Benefits:

  • Intuitive user interface - seamlessly align recruitment, onboarding, timekeeping, performance, and payroll processes across your organization. It helps to increase the speed of HR tasks and staff leverage by automating manual spreadsheets, paper forms, and legacy IT processes with unified single-form modal workflows and universal CSV imports.
  • Flexible modeling and role-based design - with 6-tier role-based access control (RBAC) and built-in scope resolution logic, the system can accurately track and govern positions, departments, supervisory chains, and multi-tier electronic signature approvals across any selected review or pay period.
  • Robust reporting - comprehensive role-scoped analytics and ad-hoc compliance reporting with CSV and Document Vault archival support connect data across the organization so that workforce planning and payroll forecasting form a holistic view.
  • Organization alignment and Centralization - aims to align the organization to a central human resources system of record with headcount, recruitment pipeline, compensation, and compliance actuals in one place, providing a single version of the truth. Drill down across departments, positions, and payroll runs to see the impact on organizational workforce performance.