Generally speaking, human resources are the highest fixed costs that a company has. Consequently, recruiting the best people possible has become a high priority. Companies invest a lot of time and money advertising employment opportunities, evaluating applicants, and managing the entire recruitment and hiring process.

The Employment Opportunities Web application is an Internet Application Component (IAC).

External applicants can use it to:

• Display job advertisements for vacancies in your enterprise
• Apply for vacant positions in your company
• Submit unsolicited applications to your company
• Create attachments (application documents with passport photograph

Job seekers can display a list of all job advertisements in your company. The system displays a short description of the vacant positions.

External applicants can submit applications in response to specific job advertisements or make unsolicited job applications. Applicants submit applications via the Internet by entering the information that is requested of them (personal details, experience, qualifications, skills, and training). Applicants are obligated to enter their personal details. In the other areas, however, applicants are free to decide how much information they want to provide. Applicants can also create an attachment containing their application documents and passport photograph in their online application via the Internet.

Information on positions is read from the records stored in the Recruitment application component.

Similarly, the information submitted by applicants is stored in the Recruitment component.

If your company has integrated the Recruitment and SAP ArchiveLink components, external applicants can create attachments for their online application in the Employment Opportunities IAC.

This Internet Application Component aims to give potential applicants access to information on the employment opportunities in your company.

Specific authorizations must be set up for the R/3 user IDs used by the Employment Opportunities IAC to log on to the R/3 System via the Internet Transaction Server (ITS). The profile generator (transaction PFCG) offers the following authorizations:

If you want to use the Employment Opportunities IAC, you have to work through all of the Customizing activities that would normally also be necessary for setting up the Recruitment component. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Recruitment.

You also have to make the following settings specific to the Internet: Recruitment ® Web Applications ® Employment Opportunities ® Set Up Employment Opportunities.

The R/3 System must be able to find vacant positions before it can create a list containing job advertisements. You need to make certain system settings so that the R/3 System can find and list vacancies (job descriptions), sort them by recruitment instrument, and display detailed information on each vacancy.

You also need to have defined advertisements for the vacant jobs.

This Internet Application Component contains a number of forms which applicants can use to enter data that is relevant to their job application (such as name, address, education, and so on). These forms correspond to the infotype records that are created when a job application is entered in the R/3 System.

You have to maintain certain tables and define valid values for the entries made in these forms. The settings you make will affect both the R/3 Recruitment component and this IAC.

For external applicants to be able to create attachments for their online applications, your enterprise must implement the archiving component SAP ArchiveLink. The Employment Opportunities IAC does not require any special customizing for the SAP ArchiveLink component.

You must also set permitted formats for documents and photographs in Customizing for Recruitment. The formats .doc and .jpg are set up in the standard system. If you want to use other or additional formats, specify them in the Set Up Formats for Applicant Documents activity (within the Set Up Employment Opportunities step). For information on how to do this, see the Implementation Guide for Recruitment by choosing Web Applications ® Employment Opportunities ® Set Up Employment Opportunities.

Recruitment data is output via the Internet Transaction Server. The data is written to the Internet Server from the R/3 system. There, it is formatted and presented in HTML standard format on a special output mask.

Graphics and forms for this IAC are provided with the standard R/3 System. You can, however, change the screen layout (background, or text colors, for example) and insert graphics of your own by changing the HTML templates.

You can specify what type of information can be entered by applicants by displaying or hiding certain fields. This task is carried out at the Internet-Server level. If you want applicants to enter further information (that is, you want to create additional fields), you have to make changes in the R/3 System.

The HTML templates for this IAC are as follows:

You access the Employment Opportunities IAC using transaction PBW3.

You can find all the relevant data under this transaction in the SAP@Web Studio.

A connection time is specified in the global file for all IACs delivered by SAP. However, it is recommended that you specify the connection times of individual applications.

You are recommended to set the timeout parameter higher for the Employment Opportunities IAC so that the application is not interrupted before the applicant has finished entering it. To change the timeout parameter, set the timeout parameter (~TIMEOUT) to the desired connection time in the service file for the Employment Opportunities IAC (transaction PBW3).

The following development objects play an important role in this application. Please do not change these objects!