Technical Name of Business Function |
HCM_ERC_CI_3 |
Type of Business Function |
Enterprise Business Function |
Available As Of |
SAP enhancement package 4 (SP04) for SAP ERP 6.0 |
Technical Usage |
Erecruiting on ECC server |
Application Component |
SAP E-Recruiting (PA-ER) |
Other Business Functions You Need to Activate |
HCM, SAP E-Recruiting 2 (HCM_ERC_CI_2) |
You can use this business function to make the process of recruiting and hiring suitable applicants more efficient and to make it easier to work with SAP E-Recruiting.
The business function has the following advantages:
Functional enhancements of Applicant Tracking that support recruiters in their daily work
Functional enhancements of Talent Relationship Management (TRM), in particular through improved access to talent groups and simplified creation of TRM activities for one or more candidates
New worklists (queries in the dashboard) that recruiters can use as additional entry points in their daily work
New Restricted Recruiter authorization role
Workflow for approving the release of requisitions
Improvements in the search performance through changes to the indexing of data and functional enhancements of the search
Performance improvements of the candidate assignment list (as of release 604 SP06)
Lead Recruiter indicator in support groups that are relevant for Manager Involvement in SAP E-Recruiting. In this way, requisitions created from managers' requisition requests can be initially processed by a recruiter from the support team.
You have installed the following components as of the version mentioned:
Type of Component |
Component |
Is Needed Only for the Following Functions |
Software Component |
ERECRUIT 604 SP04 |
|
Software Component |
ERECRUIT 604 SP05 |
Public search queries, dashboard queries: Manually Entered Applications, My Manually Entered Applications |
Software Component |
ERECRUIT 604 SP06 |
Performance improvements to candidate assignment list |
SAP NetWeaver |
SAP NetWeaver 7.01 |
|
Search and Classification (TREX) |
TREX 7.10.18.1 or higher |
New indexing procedure and ranking algorithm within the framework of the search |
Business Function |
HCM_MSS_ERC_CI_1 |
Determine lead recruiter automatically within the framework of the Create Requisition Request Manager Self-Service (MSS) scenario |
Portal Content |
Business Package for Recruiting Administrator 1.41 |
|
Portal Content |
Business Package for Recruiter 1.41 |
Confirmations
Recruiters can collect confirmations from managers, decision makers, and candidates. To do this, they send a corresponding activity via Activity Management to the persons reporting the confirmations. Recruiters can also complete confirmations on behalf of these persons. This function allows recruiters to call candidates to arrange an appointment and then to store the verbal confirmation received from the candidate on the telephone in the system.
Automatic rankings of candidates
Recruiters can have the system rank candidates in assignment lists by matching information in the candidate profile with requisition criteria or based on the criteria in the reference search query, and thus prescreen the candidates automatically.
Recruiters can rank candidates based on individually selected questionnaires.
Public search queries (as of release 604 SP05)
When saving search queries, recruiters can identify them as Public and so make these search queries available to other recruiters. This function is available to recruiters when searching for candidates within Talent Relationship Management and when searching for candidates within Requisition Management. Recruiters can also identify search queries as Public for the search for requisitions, so that these search queries are also available to other recruiters as generic search queries for searches for suitable requisitions for candidates. For more information, see Working with Search Applications.
Performance improvement of the candidate assignment list (as of release 604 SP06)
You can now supply candidate assignment lists (assignment lists of candidates to requisitions) with data using buffered lists. Since candidate assignment lists are often very extensive, the large quantities of data influenced the performance of these lists as the displayed data had to be read from the database tables. Now, the buffered lists immediately provide the relevant data that is required to build the candidate assignment lists and thus significantly increase the performance of these lists.
New Restricted Recruiter authorization role
You assign this role to recruiters who are to create or change requisitions, but not release them. Restricted recruiters have to request the release from a recruiter with the appropriate authorization. In addition, restricted recruiters do not have the authorization to release publications or withdraw published job postings.
Workflow for Approving a Requisition
A workflow is available to send the requisition that was created by a restricted recruiter (requester) with the status Draft to the relevant recruiter (approver) for checking and releasing.
Publish job postings in two steps
The two-step process enables the recruiter to check the quality and content of his or her information before it is published and to make any last-minute changes before the actual publication.
Transfer qualifications from the position to the requisition
When a requisition is created, SAP E-Recruiting automatically transfers the qualifications stored for the position, transferring them from the assigned position to the requirements of the requisition. In this way, you can make sure that the recruiter takes into account all qualifications relevant for the position when searching for suitable candidates.
Specify lead recruiter in support groups for Manager Involvement
When creating a support group, the recruiting administrator has to identify one of the assigned recruiters as the lead recruiter. This identifier is relevant for support groups that a manager assigns to the requisition request during the Create Requisition Request Manager Self-Service (MSS) scenario. Once the request has been approved, the new requisition appears in the dashboard of the lead recruiter in the My Draft Requisitions query. Therefore, the lead recruiter initially receives all requisitions of the assigned support team.
New queries in the dashboard
The following queries are available to recruiters as worklists, supporting them in their daily tasks. The queries contain configurable results lists from which recruiters can navigate directly to the relevant objects and processes:
My New Applications
New Team Applications
Manually Entered Applications (as of release 604 SP05)
My Manually Entered Applications (as of release 604 SP05)
My Planned Activities
My Planned Correspondence Activities
Talent Groups
My Planned TRM Activities
New Registered Candidates
Enhancements to Talent Relationship Management
The new Talent Groups query in the dashboard enables recruiters to use talent groups more efficiently in their work. Recruiters thus have direct access to all of their talent groups and to the relevant lists of assigned candidates. Several functions are available to recruiters for these lists.
Work Overview for calling work items
In the work center, recruiters have a universal worklist available to them. This universal worklist contains the work items relevant for the recruiter, such as work items for approving requisitions.
Structured and unstructured data no longer separated
The system now indexes unstructured data (from attachments) together with structured data. This means that the attachments of an object are now part of the object's search profile. The Knowledge Provider (KPro) index that was previously used for unstructured data is therefore obsolete. SAP E-Recruiting uses only the Search Engine Service (SES) for indexing and searching. With these combined indexes, a comprehensive search of both unstructured and structured data is now possible. This also improves the performance of the search applications.
Note
These changes are relevant only if you have activated the business function HCM_ERC_CI_3 and also use Search and Classification (TREX) with version 7.10.18.1 or higher.
Ranking algorithm for automatic rankings
SAP E-Recruiting now uses the standard TREX ranking algorithm to rank and sort hits in searches automatically.
Note
These changes are relevant only if you have activated the business function HCM_ERC_CI_3 and also use Search and Classification (TREX) with version 7.10.18.1 or higher.
Show or hide search criteria
Recruiters can show or hide the search criteria in all search applications available to them.
Requisition criteria as search query
When searching for candidates in the context of a requisition, recruiters can use the automatically generated Requisition Criteria search query to use the criteria stored in the requisition as search criteria for the search for suitable candidates. They can also use the requisition criteria for the ranking of candidates in the assignment list for the requisition.