e-Recruiting : Requisition status

[Former Member]

Dear experts ,

Please throw some light on the following thoughts :

I can see that if the object NB has status draft,released,on hold or closed, i can assign candidates to the Requisition.

Is this the standard system behaviour? or have i missed something here.

Can someone explain the need/provision to assign candidates to a requisition when it is in status Draft, On Hold or Closed?

Thanks in advance,

Sowmya

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear experts,

I still haven't found a satisfactory explanation reg my queries.

I always assumed that a requistion has to be released before succession planning activities could be performed on them. But the system doesn't think so i can do the succession planning even if the status is draft. I can perform activities even if the status is closed. This doesn't make much sence to me but there it is.

So, if anyone has any thgts abt this please do let me know.

@venki : I am aware that succession plan is very similar to requisition. Thanks for the inputs.

Regards,

Sowmya

[romanweise · Accepted solution]

Hello Sowmya,

I'll give you two answers please choose which you like.

The scientific process focused one

- it is necessary to assign applicants / candidates to requisition in status draft if you want to evaluate if a publication of the requisition is necessary or if you are confident to do the hiring based on your candidate pool only. In addition assignment must be able when you are redoing requisition and posting for better applicant address or changed requirements. This also requires status draft while the exisiting hiring process has to continue.

- it is necessary to add applicants to the requisition in status closed if you have already closed it as you thought you were finished but in the last moment the candidate does not show up. Espacially combined with mass hiring where a single requisition means many positions filled this can be a valid issue (often happens with apprentices). If you use the approval process it is often very handy to not set the status back to released as it would require new approval which makes no sense.

- adding candidates in status on hold is used to put spontaneous applicants to requisitions wich soon will be open (as far as the on hold is temporary) so you do not loose a suitable candidate int the depths of the candidate pool where it gets probably lost.

The unscientific but probably true one

- if you ever would have worked in hr you would have learned that no matter what is done for process design (which is often done by organization experts of hr the other hr guys do not like) recruiter will not give a s*** about the processes. They will do what they think it is right. Process designs do not care. But to be fair this is not only caused be the hr guys but by the field of work. You can define a process which requires 2 screenings and 4 tests for hiring and still the upper management shows up with a candidate and says "hire him!". So a real process flow control in a sense of the restriction of action posibilities will fail. So the reason for the status of requisition is not to say you can assign someone or not, it is more a guideline how far the process is and to filter them in the lists. You can assign a candidate whenever you want as not recruiter would accept a stronger restriction.

Best Regards and Happy E-Recruiting

Roman Weise

[Former Member]

Dear Roman,

Many thanks for your reply and i liked the second answer better

I can imagine such situations happening in an organization.

Thanks again!

Have a good day!

Best Regards,

Sowmya

[Former Member]

Dear Raj,

Thanks for your reply. What you say makes sense .

We are currently implementing succession planning in eRecruiting.so,here, we directly assign the candidates to the requisition & there is no postings or publications.

I am looking for some points about how is the status of a succession plan (requisition) is related to the assignments of candidates in succession planning.

I can perform activities for the candidacies even when the requistion status is draft, on hold or closed.

Regards,

Sowmya

[Former Member]

ERC and SP use the same object and IT. The process flows are a little different though. Requisitions in SP are called Succession Plans. There is a new roles of Talent Development Specialist, who creates these succession plans. If you notice, the bread crumbs in the wizard would have changed too. There will be no, job information or postings. A succession planner can assign a successor to a position

[vtgopalraj]

Hi Soumya,

The Status of the NB is relevant only to the Job posting and publication.

It does not in any way restrict the assignment of candidates to a requisition

Assigning the candidates does not mean you can go a head with creating the applicant activities. If you would have tried that, you would have got an error, cannot create activity since no application exists.

The recruiter would have to create an activity "Invite to apply" for the candidate to apply against the job posting.

And when the candidates have to apply, i.e for them to see the Job posting while performing a Job search and apply, the requisition / posting needs to be in released status.

Hope this clarifies.

Thanks

G Raj

[Former Member]

Raj,

what about posting instance! can you explain what exactly is reference code search. Is it of publication or requisition.

Regards,

Bharat

[Former Member]

Reference code is with the publication. You will notice this in the data overview sheet

[Former Member]

Thanks venki.

On the other hand this is a question to Raj.

Raj, how are u able to explain the inter dependencies. can you share the document on this or any links.

mail id is :ukinguvaATgmailDOTcom

Regards,

Bharat

[vtgopalraj]

Hi Bharat,

Sorry for the late reply. Unfortunately i do not have any documents on ERec to share other than what is available in SAP help.

Thanks

G Raj

[Former Member]

Raj,

That helps.

Regards,

Bharat