Many human resource departments can spend a great deal of time managing the recruitment process. OpenERP provides an application that can help organize the information and make it easier to keep track of the communication required while hiring new employees.
Install the Recruitment Process application as you have done for other OpenERP applications.
After the Recruitment Process application has been installed, OpenERP will add an additional section to the Human Resources section as well as new options under the configuration menus at the bottom.
The OpenERP Recruitment Process application organizes the recruiting process around stages. This is much in the same way that an opportunity in the CRM application is organized around stages. The goal, of course, is to find new employee leads and then convert them into company employees. To look at the stages OpenERP sets up by default, go down to the Configuration section under Human Resources...