Part I
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
1 Recruiting Overview
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting provides robust tools to support talent acquisition professionals in finding, attracting, and engaging the best talent for the organization. With nearly unlimited marketing capabilities to ensure your openings reach the widest audience and mobile-enabled applicant-tracking capabilities, all players in your talent acquisition process are equipped to complete their tasks in the most timely and efficient way.
Talent acquisition in today’s market is increasingly competitive with companies often competing for the same talent. If companies expect to hold their own, they must be armed with technology that enables their talent acquisition processes and increases the efficiency of evaluating those candidates who apply. Candidates search for jobs in new and different ways, continually making use of technology. You have seconds to grab their attention—the more time it takes candidates to find the jobs they want, the more likely they are to move on. Having an engaging and intuitive career site is critical to the goal of hiring the best talent into the organization.
The SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting module provides a very robust applicant-tracking functionality that supports recruiters in opening, approving, and posting positions to various channels. From flexible approval workflows to maintaining a library of job descriptions or profiles, requisitions can be quickly opened and prepared for posting. Once approved, jobs can be posted to a variety of channels through built-in job posting pages and various external channels such as agencies and job boards. After candidates have applied, recruiters can make use of robust features such as Interview Central, Interview Scheduling, and Offer Letters to quickly evaluate candidates and identify the most qualified candidate for the job. We’ll discuss these features and many more in Part I of this book.
A company’s career site is one of the most—if not the most—valuable resources a candidate uses when considering applying for a job. It’s often the candidate’s first impression of the company and should be attractive to candidates. The site should provide the following:
- Clear representation of the company’s brand and culture
- An intuitive and easy-to-navigate interface
- Tools to assist candidates in finding jobs of interest
Having an outdated, clumsy career site without compelling and informative content will put you at a disadvantage in hiring top talent. The career site is the centerpiece of the Recruiting Marketing component of SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting. The Recruiting Marketing platform is a comprehensive one that includes career site optimization, multichannel job posting, social network integration, and mobile-enabled career sites.
The Recruiting Marketing platform also includes robust analytics that can help you develop highly effective, customized sourcing strategies and make more informed investment decisions on how to best allocate often-limited recruiting budgets. Tools such as talent communities, featured jobs, saved job searches, and mobile apply capability help to attract and engage your candidates.
Recruiting offers robust capabilities to manage open jobs, market them through various channels, capture candidate interest, solicit applications, evaluate candidates against job requirements, and initiate offers. In this chapter, we’ll begin looking at the features within Recruiting that support initiating and advertising an opening, including the following:
- Approving a requisition and posting it through various channels
- Using the candidate search capability to source candidates to jobs and disposition applications through the evaluation process
- Optimizing the recruiting experience by collecting interview feedback and generating offer letters
We’ll also take a detailed look at the key features available within Recruiting and discuss how they can be implemented and used to enhance a company’s talent acquisition strategy.
1.1 Initiating and Advertising the Opening
The first step in any recruiting process begins with advertising an opening. Recruiting is a requisition-based system, and there are several ways that a requisition can begin. Figure 1.1 shows how users can open requisitions via the Recruiting tab in three ways:
If you run SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central with position management, you can also configure the Employee Central to Recruiting integration and create new requisitions from To Be Hired positions on the position org chart.
Regardless of how the requisition is initiated, requisition fields must be completed, and then the requisition is sent for ...
