In this step, you set up integration between Recruitment and other components.
Integration between Recruitment and Personnel Administration
Integration between Recruitment and Personnel Administration enables you to transfer data between the applicant and employee databases.
The integration of Recruitment into Personnel Administration affects the following areas:
You must make the necessary settings in this step (feature PRELR).
Transfer of applicant data to the employee database can either be carried out from Recruitment or from Personnel Administration.
You must make the necessary settings both in the step in the implementation guide for Personnel Administration (feature PAPLI ) and in this step (feature PRELI).
Integration with Personnel Administration is set up using the following features:
Feature PRELI (Integration for internal applicants)
Feature PRELI is used to specify whether data on internal applicants can be read from the employee database and whether applicant data can be transferred from Recruitment to the employee database.
Feature PRELR (Integration of employees/applicants)
Feature PRELR is used to specify whether employee master data on reference employees, contract employees, and line managers can be read from the employee database.
Feature PAPLI (Integration between Personnel Administration and Recruitment)
Feature PAPLI is used to control whether applicant data is available within the Personnel Administration.
If you run Recruitment and Personnel Administration in separate systems, you must import the employee master data online managers into Recruitment at the start of customizing to ensure access to this data.
This integration enables you to administer your vacancies using Organizational Management.
Note that integration to Recruitment is switched on when the following entries exist in the T775S0 (V_T77S0) view of Organizational Management.
| Group | sem. abbr. | Value. abbr. |
| PLOGI | PLOGI | 01 |
| PLOGI | PRELI | 99999999 |
| PPVAC | PPVAC | 1 |
This integration enables you to administer qualifications using Personnel Development. It also enables you to compare applicants' qualifications with freely definable requirement profiles for a position. You set up Personnel Development and its integration into Recruitment in the Implementation Guide (IMG) of Personnel Development. Note that the integration to Personnel Administration is switched on when the following entry exists in the T775S0 (V_T775S0) view of Personnel Development:
| Group | sem. abbr | value abbr. |
| PLOGI | QUALI | 1 A032 Q |
Activities
Recruitment
In this step, you create the number range(s) for the applicant number assignment with a corresponding number interval.
Applicant number assignment can be carried out internally or externally:
Internal number assignment
This means that the system assigns applicant numbers automatically.
External number assignment
Here the numbers are assigned by the user.
Recruitment
In this step, you determine the number range(s) used to assign applicant numbers.
Number ranges are set using the feature NUMAP (applicant number ranges). The decision tree of this feature enables you to select one or more of the number ranges for assigning applicant numbers set up in the previous step.
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Recruitment
Create Positions
In this step, you set up the positions available within your company.
A company's workforce requirements are represented in the Recruitment system by means of vacancies created and maintained by the user. A user can only create a vacancy if the positions available within the company have already been set up.
The procedure for creating positions differs in the following two cases:
If this is the case, please create your positions by following the instructions in the implementation guide for “Organizational Management”.
Please note that positions created using Personnel Planning and Development are marked with a "P" in the PD column.
In this case, please create the required positions by following the instructions in this step or the step Create Positions in the implementation guide for Personnel Administration.
Whether you use Recruitment as a stand-alone system or in conjunction with Personnel Planning and Development, you must always choose object type "S" (position) when creating a position.
Recruitment
Workforce Requirements and Advertising
Create Media
In this step, you create the media used by your company.
The medium serves two purposes in Recruitment:
It is used to classify all recruitment instruments.
For example, the recruitment instruments "Washington Post" and "New York Times" are classified under the medium "Press".
It is also used to indicate the medium through which an unsolicited applicant came into contact with the company.
The applicant class is an attribute of the medium and indicates whether a medium is used to attract internal or external applicants.
Examples
Possible media include the following:
Press
Employment agency
Personnel consultancies
Recruitment
Workforce Requirements and Advertising
Create Recruitment Instruments
In this step, you create the recruitment instruments the company uses. Every job advertisement is published in a recruitment instrument. Recruitment instruments are classified according to the media used.
You can store a contact name and address key for each recruitment instrument. The address key can be used to store the address (of contact) for a recruitment instrument in step “Create addresses for Recruitment Instruments”
Example
Possible recruitment instruments include the following:
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Recruitment
Workforce Requirements and Advertising
Create addresses for Recruitment Instruments
In this step, you can create the addresses (of the contacts) for the recruitment instruments used in your company.
In addition to the postal address, you can also store a telephone and fax number and a department.
You must make a separate entry for each individual piece of address data (such as name, street). This entry must contain the address key of the recruitment instrument in the Address field and the key for the individual pieces of data in the Text ID field. The following keys may be entered for individual pieces of data in the Text ID field:
Requirements
You must already have created an address key for the recruitment instrument by carrying out the instructions in the step “Create Recruitment Instruments”.
Recruitment
Create a Personnel Officer
In this step, you create your company's personnel officers.
Personnel officers process the applications assigned to them according to their authorization from the Personnel Department.
Personnel officers for Recruitment must be created as part of the administrator group APPL.
Recruitment
Applicant Administration
Applicant Structure
Create Applicant Groups
In this step, you create the applicant groups you require.
An applicant group is used, among other things, to carry out authorization checks.
An important attribute of the applicant group is the applicant class.
Examples
Possible examples of applicant groups include the following:
Applicant class
Recruitment
Indicates whether an applicant group contains internal or external applicants.
The following two applicant classes are used:
"P" for internal applicants
"AP" for external applicants
Recruitment
Applicant Administration
Applicant Structure
Create Applicant Ranges
In this step, you set up the required applicant ranges. The applicant range can be defined as you wish and is generally used to classify applicants either according to hierarchical or functional criteria. Uses of the applicant range include carrying out authorization checks. Unlike the employee subgroup and employee group, applicant ranges are not assigned to applicant groups.
Example Possible applicant ranges include the following:
Functional criteria:
Recruitment
Applicant Administration
Applicant Structure
Create Unsolicited Application Groups
In this step, you create the required unsolicited application groups.
A candidate might either apply in response to an advertisement or file an unsolicited application without reference to an advertisement. Candidates who file unsolicited applications are assigned to an unsolicited application group during the initial entry of basic data.
Unsolicited application groups classify unsolicited applicants and can be defined according to whichever criteria you choose to simplify your search for suitable candidates from among unsolicited applications.
You might, for example, choose to classify unsolicited applicants according to the activity within the company for which they are applying.
Each unsolicited application group must be assigned a personnel officer who is responsible for it. This assignment means that the system can automatically assign a personnel officer to each unsolicited applicant on initial data entry.
One personnel officer can be responsible for more than one unsolicited application group.
Examples
Examples of possible unsolicited application groups include the following:
Recruitment
Applicant Administration
Applicant Selection
Application Status
Two types of selection procedures take place in the Recruitment system:
Every applicant entered into the system takes part in the global selection procedure for a company. This selection procedure determines whether or not an applicant is of interest to the company. If this proves to be the case, i.e. the applicant is not rejected; he/she can then be included in one or more selection procedures for a vacancy. For this purpose, the applicant must be assigned to the vacancies in question.
You can make a decision at any point during either of these selection procedures as to whether the applicant continues to be of interest. Your decision is reflected in the applicant status, of which there are two types to correspond to the two types of the selection procedure:
Overall status
Indicates an applicant's current status (e.g. processing, on hold, to be interviewed) in the global selection procedure for the company.
Vacancy assignment status
Indicates an applicant's current status (e.g. processing, on hold, to be interviewed) in the selection procedure for a particular vacancy.The overall status is assigned during initial entry of applicant data (applicant action Initial entry of basic data ) and must be present for each applicant at all times. The overall status indicates whether an applicant is currently included in one or more selection procedures (e.g. overall status processing, on hold, to be interviewed), or whether all the selection procedures in which he/she was included have been completed (overall status rejected or hired).An applicant receives a vacancy assignment status when he/she is assigned to a vacancy. If an applicant has more than one vacancy assignment, each of these has a vacancy assignment status.A selection procedure is completed when all applicants involved have been assigned the status rejected or hired.
Recruitment
Applicant Selection
Application Status
Change Status Texts
In this step, you can overwrite the status texts for the overall status and vacancy assignment status with synonymous descriptions. Standard Settings The standard SAP system contains status keys 1 to 7 with accompanying status texts for overall statuses and vacancy assignment statuses. Recommendation When an applicant is assigned a certain status the system usually processes him/her in a certain way according to this status. For this reason, please note the following:
Recruitment
Applicant Selection
Application Status
Create Status Reasons
In this step, you create the required status reasons.
Activities
Create the required status reasons, taking into account any different standard texts to be used for an applicant activity if this applies.
Recruitment
Applicant Selection
Application Status
Set permissible status reasons for each applicant's status
In this step, you set the permissible status reasons for the individual applicant statuses.
If it is not necessary to provide further information on a certain applicant status by specifying a status reason, you do not need to make any entries for this status.
Example
The applicant status "on hold" might be assigned status reasons such as "overqualified" and "no requirement", while the status "rejected" might be assigned "insufficient qualifications" and "no requirement".
Requirements
You must already have created the necessary status reasons in the step create status reasons
Recruitment
Applicant Selection
Application Status
Set permissible vacancies and assign statuses reasons for each overall status
In this step, you determine which vacancy assignment statuses may be used in combination with each overall status.
The vacancy assignment statuses which may be combined with each overall status can be determined by means of feature STATU (consistency of overall status with vacancy assignment status).
Example
You have assigned an applicant to several vacancies. During one of the selection procedures, the applicant was offered a contract so that his/her overall status is now Contract offered. It should not now be possible to invite the applicant for an interview during the selection procedure for one of the other vacancies.
Recruitment
Applicant Selection
Application Status
Create priorities for vacancy assignment
In this step, you can create the priorities for the vacancy assignment.
If an applicant is not rejected for the entire company, he/she can take part in selection procedures for one or more vacancies. An applicant must be assigned to any vacancies in whose selection procedures he/she is being included and if there is more than one of these assignments, each one must be given a different priority. If an applicant is only assigned to one vacancy, the assignment is automatically given a priority of one.
An applicant's vacancy assignments are stored in info type 4002, Vacancy Assignment. The priorities are defined as subtypes of the info type.
Standard Settings
The standard SAP system contains nine different vacancy assignment priorities, numbered in ascending order.
Activities
Recruitment
Applicant Selection
Application Actions
In this step, you make the necessary system settings for the Applicant Actions transaction.
The term "applicant action" is used in two senses in Recruitment. These are:
The Applicant Actions transaction enables you to perform system-controlled operations (applicant action types) which change the applicant's overall status (e.g. hire applicant). Each operation can be assigned a sequence of info types that are processed one after the other in the course of the action.
When the Applicant Actions transaction is carried out, a new record for the applicant is usually added to info type 4000, Applicant Actions. The key of the activities carried out, as well as the status reason, if necessary, are recorded in the info type. The applicant's overall status (e.g. processing, invite, to be hired) is also recorded here.
Recruitment
Applicant Selection
Application Actions
Change Info groups
To control the Applicant action transaction, you must first create the info group.
Standard Settings
The standard info group settings cover most of the process flows required in Recruitment.
You can only add info types to the info groups which are intended for Recruitment. In addition to the info types specifically for Recruitment, the system also includes the following:
Recommendation
The info group for the hiring action in employee master data may contain only the following info types:
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The Applicant Actions info type (4000) serves as a record of all applicant actions carried out for an applicant. These applicant actions can be:
The time constraint for this info type is 1.
Applications (Infotype 4001)
The Applications info type (4001) is used to store information on whether an application was made in response to an advertisement or is an unsolicited application.
A new data record of the Application info type (4001) is created for every application received from an applicant. Each record is linked to a specific point in time, that is, the start and end date of the record contain the date on which the application was received.
The time constraint for this info type is 3.
Vacancy Assignment (Infotype 4002)
You record the vacancies to which the applicant has been assigned in the Vacancy Assignment info type (4002).
Assign the applicant to a vacancy. The applicant will then be included in the selection procedure for this vacancy. The applicant’s vacancy assignment status shows where the applicant is in the selection procedure.
You can assign one applicant to the selection procedures for several vacancies. If you do this, you have to assign different priorities to the vacancy assignments. There must also be a vacancy assignment status for each assignment for the applicant.
The time constraint for this info type is 2.
Applicant Activities (Infotype 4003)
You use the Applicant Activities info type (4003) to enter the activities that have been created for an applicant.
Activities carried out for an applicant within a selection procedure are entered, logged and planned in the Recruitment system by means of applicant activities. In other words, applicant activities are administrative stages through which an applicant passes during the course of the application procedure. Correspondence with applicants is also handled by means of applicant activities.
You can only display applicant activities in applicant master data (you cannot edit them here). To create or change applicant activities, choose Applicant Activity ® Maintain.
The time constraint for this info type is 3.
Status of Applicant Activity (Infotype 4004)
The Status of Applicant Activity (4004) info type is a technical info type that stores the status of the activities you have performed for the applicant.
One Status of Applicant Activity (4004) info type record exists in the system for each applicant. This is created and updated automatically by the system.
You should not edit the Status of Applicant Activity (4004) info type. The info type displays the status of performed activities and supports you ineffective searches for applicant data.
Education (Infotype 0022)
You can store an employee or applicant’s educational details in Infotype Education (0022).
If you want to depict an employee or applicant’s complete educational history, create the info type record with the relevant educational period.
Contract Elements (0016) Infotype
You can store all of an employee's employment contract-related data in the Contract Elements (0016) info type.
Employee’s Applicant Number (Infotype 0139)
Store employees' applicant numbers in the Employee’s Applicant Number info type (0139).
Use the Employee's Applicant Number (0139) info type in Personnel Administration in the following cases:
Applicant’s Personnel Number (Infotype 4005)
You use the Applicant’s Personnel Number info type (4005) to enter an internal applicant’s personnel number.
The system enters this number automatically in the corresponding Applicant’s Personnel Number info type (4005) for all internal applicants. This means that it contains a data record for each internal applicant.
One Example of Total Procedure in the Recruitment Module:
Internal Number Range:
The applicant is being hired in the following screens with an internal number range.
In the screen seen above, you can see that the system has given a message stating that number 23 has been given to the applicant and it has come back to the same screen i.e., Initial entry of basic data. So with this, the applicant has been hired. And he has been given a number from the internal range.
Create a Personal Data
In the above screen, it has come back to the initial entry of the basic data screen as it has hired the applicant with the external number range.
Here I have assigned a position to the applicant with priority and status is by default “In Process” as per my tree STATU. And I gave one status reason.
After executing it comes back to the first screen like in other actions.
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After entering data then choose the button “” in the above screen.
After giving full details it returns to the first screen as seen earlier.
The applicant is hired as well given additional data.
Once saved, the applicant will be put on hold.
Then after entering the application number then click on the “Execute” button.
Click on “Create Completed Activity”
.
Here in the drop-down menu select the activity “Transfer File”.
Enter the date and proceed.
This screen appears and now saves your entries.
Go to maintain-Applicant Activities and execute.
Position the cursor on the Completed Activity-Transfer File and choose “Follow up activities”.
Then the dialogue box appears as shown above.
Select the activity “File Return” in the Planned Column. Then the following screen appears.
Then make the necessary entries and save.
The next screen appears as given below:
The “File Returned” activity appears in the planned activities.
Give necessary entries here.
Once saved the applicant is invited for an interview.
To offer an applicant a contract you must set the applicant’s overall status and vacancy assignment status to “Contract Offered”. To do so follow the below-given steps:
Give the vacancy and then execute it.
The following screen appears:
Place the cursor on the applicant whom you want to hire and then click “Change Overall Status”.
So now enter the valid status and then proceed. Save and the following screen appears.
Save
And the following screen appears wherein now the status of the person would be changed to “to be hired”.
Now the status is changed and we can hire this applicant.
Preparing to hire an applicant:
Save your entries giving the date on which you want to hire this applicant.
This can be done in two ways:
Transfer data directly from Recruitment:
Then in the following screen select the action “Transfer Applicant Data” in the field “Action for Hiring”. Then execute.
Then it takes you to the following screen
Give the necessary details here and then proceed further.
Here automatically the first name and last name have been taken by the system from the Recruitment module. Save after giving the necessary details.
So with this, the applicant has now become an Employee.
So now it has been OK.
This applicant has now become an employee and has been assigned a number.
Transfer data directly via Personnel Administration.
Go here and select the action “Hire Applicant” and execute it.
A direct data transfer screen appears.
Choose “Transfer” and then Create Actions screen appears as shown in the above scenario and carry out the action. And so the applicant would be hired as an employee in the PA module.
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