The aim of recruitment is to select and hire a suitable applicant for every current and future position in your company. The Selection of Applicants component helps you manage the complex selection procedure. The following functions are available in this component:

• Applicant selection
• Depiction of all administrative steps in system
• management of selection procedure
• Administration of applicant correspondence

Applicant selection is divided into two different processes in Recruitment:

• global selection procedure
• selection procedure for an individual vacancy

The global selection procedure allows you to generally exclude applicants from a further selection process or to include them in the selection process for a particular vacancy. You can make profile comparisons between the requirements for a position and an applicant’s qualification to determine whether you should assign an applicant to a particular vacancy.

The selection process for a vacancy can be divided into the following subprocesses:

During the screening process, you assign applicants to vacancies for which you consider they may be suitable. Only applicants who have been assigned to a vacancy can be included in the vacancy selection procedure. In the selection process, you take the applicant’s qualifications and his or her interview into account. The system supports you in the decision-making process at this point. For instance, you can take a look at the applicant short profile, which provides a snapshot of the applicant. If you have implemented SAP ArchiveLink, you can also take a look at the other application documents submitted by the applicant in question. Once you have decided which applicant should be offered a position, the system supports you in all the necessary administrative and other steps involved in the actual hiring process.

You must have implemented the Personnel Development component in order to be able to make profile comparisons between an applicant’s qualifications and a position’s requirements.

In addition, if you have implemented SAP ArchiveLink, you can archive original application documents and access them at a later stage.