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Preparing to Hire an Applicant 
Prerequisites
If an applicant is to be hired for a vacancy, you must set his/her overall status and vacancy assignment status for this vacancy to To be hired.
You must set any other vacancy assignments for the applicant to Rejected.
Procedure
The Applicant Actions screen appears.
The Copy Applicant Actions screen appears.
The Maintain Vacancy Assignments screen appears.
When you save, a warning appears informing you that a data record is to be deleted or delimited. You can ignore this warning, and save again.
The Change Vacancy Assignment Status dialog box appears.
- If not, proceed to step 9.
- If so, select all the vacancies for which the applicant is not to be hired and choose
status (vac.).
The Change Vacancy Assignment Status dialog box appears again.
The Maintain Vacancy Assignments screen appears displaying a list of all the applicants who are assigned to the same vacancy as the applicant to be hired.

If you do not want to change the vacancy assignment status of this person, the Hire applicant process is complete.
If you do want to change the vacancy assignment status for these persons, process with step 11.
The Change Vacancy Assignment Status dialog box appears.
The Change Vacancy View: Detail screen appears.
The system displays a window entitled Create Planned Activity. The system displays the key for the activity type Hiring date as a default in the Activity type field.
Result
The applicant's overall status and vacancy assignment status are set to To be hired. All remaining vacancy assignment statuses for the applicant are set to Rejected.
You have also changed the status of all other applicants assigned to the same vacancy as the applicant.
If the appropriate settings have been made, the system has automatically created the activities Transfer applicant data and Hiring date. The percentage approved, percentage reserved and staffing percentage (and thus also staffing status) of the vacancy for which the applicant is to be hired have been changed.
