Hiring & onboarding, end to end
The cost of a bad hire is six figures.
Cardinal HR runs the whole journey — post the role, screen the candidate, sign the paperwork, finish the training — so a good hire is the default and a bad one gets caught early.
The pipeline
One candidate, four stages, no dropped handoffs.
Each stage is a strict workflow — reaching the end of one stage is what starts the next.
Recruiting
Post requisitions and move applicants through the pipeline.
Screening
Background checks with consent captured before anything runs.
MyHR
New-hire paperwork, e-signed and reviewed by HR.
Training
Assign courses, track lessons, score the assessment.
What’s inside
Four modules that already work — and one on the way.
Applicant tracking
Job requisitions and a hiring pipeline that won’t let anyone skip a step.
- Requisitions: open, on hold, filled, closed
- Enforced stages — no jumping straight to an offer
- Reject / withdraw with a reason, on the record
- Hiring a candidate fills the role and starts screening
Background checks
FCRA-aware screening with a pluggable data provider — Equifax wired in.
- No check runs before the candidate authorizes
- Eight check types, bundled into packages
- Adverse decisions wait out a dispute window
- Every result kept with a full audit trail
New-hire paperwork
The forms a new hire actually has to sign, tracked from assigned to approved.
- I-9, W-4, tax, direct deposit, acknowledgments
- Typed e-signature on the forms that need one
- HR approves, or returns with a note to fix
- Packet status derived from the forms themselves
Online training portal
A customizable course catalog — Sexual Harassment Prevention, safety, code of conduct.
- Courses are lessons plus an optional passing score
- Lesson-by-lesson progress per learner
- Assessment must pass to complete — retakes allowed
- Completion you can prove, per employee
Choosing benefits
A guided benefits election — plan options, coverage tiers, and dependents — so a new hire picks their benefits in the same flow that hired and onboarded them. In design.
Built for the parts that get you sued
Compliance isn’t a checkbox — it’s the workflow.
Consent before checking
Background checks are consumer reports under the FCRA. Cardinal HR won’t run one until the candidate’s authorization is on file.
A fair chance to dispute
An adverse decision issues a pre-adverse notice and holds for a waiting period before it is final.
Everything on the record
Every state change — signed, approved, returned, cleared — is appended to an immutable history.
Get started
Hire the right person. Onboard them the right way.
See the full journey — from a posted role to a trained, cleared, fully-papered new hire.
Book a walkthrough — coming soonCardinal HR helps run the hiring and onboarding process correctly; it is not legal, tax, or HR advice. Confirm your FCRA, state, and tax obligations with qualified counsel. Equifax is a trademark of its owner. “Cardinal HR” is a working product name; confirm trademark availability before any launch.