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Employee File Builder and Manual Maker
Can Save Managers Time and Trouble
A manager in a small company may ask, "What did I actually say during Steve's performance review? How many days off did he take in 1996? Where is that memo he sent me? I need all this, because he is challenging us in court."
Imagine scrambling to put together information for a lawsuit using just paper files. Then consider how that task and many employee record-keeping chores could be simplified and expedited by two new products-Employee FileBuilder and Employee ManualMaker from Jian Tools for Sales Inc. of Mountain View, Calif.
WHAT THE PRODUCTS DO
Employee File Builder (EFB) allows you to track and manage personal information on employees, benefits options and training completed, with the option of adding informal notes. The product and its Jian companion, Employee Manual Maker (EMM), probably are best suited to companies with five to 100 employees, though some larger companies do use them.
The program operates with just three on-screen file folders. Once people understand that, learning the rest of the program is a snap, says Neal Novotny, Jian's marketing manager. The tab for the visible folder is highlighted in yellow. To get to any other folder, you click on its tab.
To open an existing database in this Windows 95-based product, click on the name of the database in...