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Implementing SAP E-Recruiting

If you are new to SAP E-Recruiting, then you may need some advice to
get started. We will begin posting a series of blogs that will show you how
to begin the journey in implementing a companys SAP E-Recruiting
functionality. Lets start from the basics.
1. Define your Recruitment Business process. It is important that you
know every step of the recruitment process so that you can
define most of the SAP E-Recruiting screens based on your process.
This way it will be more manageable for your recruiters to use the
new software and be more familiar with the new process. Here is a
sample of a high level business process for recruitment. Your
company recruitment process may be similar or slightly different
than the one depicted below. You can use this as a reference when
documenting your recruitment business process.

2.

Define your Sub-processes. The definition of your recruitment

business process does not stop at high level. You need to go deeper.
The next step is to define what each sub-process does. Let us give
you an example:

In this step you need to define what these sub-processes are all about, that way you have a
better picture of your entire process.
3. Define your steps within the business process. Here is where you need to get one of
your sub-processes and break it down into steps, triggers and user roles. Take out your
process flow charting hat, turn on your computer and start charting away. Of course
the assumption here is that youve spoken with a few people like the SMEs (Subject
Matter Experts) in your company about the recruitment process unless you are the
SME. The reason why you need to do this so that you can start visualizing some of the

SAP E-Recruiting solutions that you have in mind for your company. On the process
flow diagram that you will be doing, it is expected that you refer to SAP E-Recruiting
screens and solutions to define this part of the process. Below is an example of a
process flow diagram.

4.

Identify steps in the sub-process that will be using SAP. This is a little tricky and you
may not get this during the first try. Identify which step will use an SAP E-Recruiting
transaction. By identifying the step and linking it with an SAP E-recruiting
screen/transaction you will be able to get a better idea how that step will be completed
by the system. From there you can go into more detail on screen design, configuration
items and most of the technical solutions that particular step needs.
With these steps you will be on your way to defining your Recruiting business
process. The next blog in this series will discuss the first steps to set up SAP ERecruiting. Keep checking our blog for more SAP Tip & Tricks and feel free to leave
questions/comments!

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Learning Sap
Feb 28, 2008 7:09 AM

Dear All

I have been recently assigned on a project to implement E-Recruitment and I have absolutely
no idea about this module.I have gathered a lot of materials from various sources including
SAP Help.But still I am not very sure about how to start.I am also not very sure about what
the role of BASIS Consultant and ABAPer will be in this implementation.Is this module any
way realted to Net Weaver?

So I ask all who have implemented e-recruitment to kindly assist me and giv me a step by
step knowledge about how to start and carry forward.

If possible please provide me with some real time cofiguration document aof this module.I
promise to keep everything confidential.

I really look forward for a positive reply.

Please do not send me links of HELP SAP about e-recruitment as I already have all those.

Thnx in advance
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Amit Khare Feb 28, 2008 8:27 AM (in response to Learning Sap)

Check this link http://www.purdue.edu/onepurdue/contribute_pdf/e-Recruitment1.pdf

Regards,
Amit
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Learning Sap Feb 28, 2008 12:10 PM (in response to Amit Khare)

Hey Amit

Thnx 4 d link.

But wht i needed is how do i strt actually.

Do i need to install anything before the imoplementation?What will be the role

of BASIS Consultant?

What I get from this link is how do I use the E-Recruitment module. But
before that I have to implement it.

Please do help me.

Thnx

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Roman Weise Feb 28, 2008 10:36 PM (in response to

Learning Sap)

Hi,

before installing anything first thing you do is getting clear about your
e-recruiting landscape. As this is not just another HR module due to the
link to the public internet. This is usually quite a bigger discussion as
you need guys from HR, data security, firewalls / network security to
agree on sth.

Based on the result of this discussion you decide for one of the
possible installation options: integrated/standalone, 1-server/2-server.
This decision tells you which systems you have to set up and what to
install on them.

Best Regards

Roman Weise

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Learning Sap Feb 29, 2008 6:08 AM (in response to

Roman Weise)

Thnx

So I get some idea now.

Now please tell me, what do I tell my BASIS cOnsultant to do

initially.

Moreover Can u briefly describe the landscape of ERecruitment?

What is to be installed by people in this project apart from me

so that I can start configuration?

What i should demand from the Client as the pre requisite for
this implementation?

Please Help

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Roman Weise Mar 1, 2008 11:52 PM (in

response to Learning Sap)

Hi,

for the landscape the first and most important decision

is about standalone or integrated installation. Do you
want to use an existing HR Core server (PA, OM,
PY, ...) and add E-recruiting there or do you want to use
a standalone implementation. This question is not easy
to answer. In my consulting area nearly all systems are
standalone installations due to the high data security
requirements. Integrated installations are very rare.
Of course both solutions have their pros and cons. From
my experience standalone systems are easier to
implement (only the server administration will hate you
as it takes more servers). There are a lot of things to
take in account from business to IT strategy, network
infrastructure issues, data security, data access / rights
mamagement, support / SLA questions and many more.
Usually it takes several workshops to get to a decision
here.

If you agreed to one of the 2 posibilities next question is

which application frontend you want to use. BSP is
older and lacks a bit support for new features but is
more stable as more productive installations exist.
WebDynpro is newer so new features will mostly be
done in this frontend but it is less stable. In addition
WebDynpro offers the posibility to use a 2 server
installation. In this you use a WebAs as proxy to the
server for data storage so you can implement another
layer of security as the server which really holds the
data can be put deeper / into better protected areas of
the companies network.

If you use a standalone installation you have to set up a

WebAs with E-recruiting and the necessary

requirements documented in the installation guides. If

you want to use 2 server installation you will have to set
up 2 servers of course. In case of an integrated solution
the packages might already be installed as e-recruiting
600 should be part of ERP2005. If it's not already there
you might have to add some packages.

Independent from this you have to install a TREX

server as search engine. Set it up and integrate to the erecruiting.

Best Regards

Roman Weise

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Pascale Thys Mar 26, 2008 10:40 AM (in

response to Roman Weise)

Hi Roman,

I am a little bit surprised to read about Web

Dynpro for e-recruitment. We have just followed
the course e-recruitment at SAP last week and
we have understood that anything was BSP. So
now I read that we have to choose between BSP
and WebDynpro ? Can you explain a little bit
more please ?

From wich version is e-recruiment also available

in WebDynpro ?

You also mentionned " If you use a standalone

installation you have to set up a WebAs with Erecruiting and the necessary requirements
documented in the installation guides"
I don't understand exactly. Do you mean that for
a standalone installation WebDynpro is the best
solution ?

Kind Regards
Pascale Thys
Dexia Bank Belgium

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Roman Weise Mar 31, 2008 11:14

PM (in response to Pascale Thys)

Hello Pascale,

currently e-recruiting brings 2 different

frontends for candidates. You can choose
between BSP frontend and WebDynpro
frontend. The WebDynpro frontend is
available since E-Recruiting 600 SP 07
or 08 but I would not recomment setting
it live with lower than SP11. The
recruiter views are currently BSP only,

This shall change with EhP4 as far as I

heard. I have no idea why the SAP
course is not up to date with that, but
according to SAP solution mgt. / SAP
sales the first going lives with
WebDynpro were Volkswagen AG and
Rasselstein both live around september
last year. Perhaps noone had time to
change the course material within the last
6 months.

The question if BSP or WebDynpro is

better is a difficult one. BSP is older,
more tested and more stable and as you
use the same technology for recruiter and
candidate things have less complexity.
On the other hand BSP is a dead end. All
new functions for the candidate frontend
which were released within the last
months were WebDynpro only. E.g. new
standard fields, double email entry to
check misspelling, data sec. declaration
for manually entered candidates etc. all
are WebDynpro only.

The decision standalone vs. integrated is

for me easy. STANDALONE! I have
done one of the few integrated rollouts in
the DACH area (to be honest I only
know 2 other installations beeing
integrated but these 2 are TM only) and
various standalone so far - all already in
production and believe me, integrated is
hell g. If you have structural
authorization in your HR core you will
learn that SAP completely forgot to think
about the consequences for e-recruiting
in integrated systems.

If you decide for standalone and

WebDynpro last question is 1 or 2 server
scenario. The 2 server scenario was
planned to improve security for
integrated systems but so far different
installations use this to cover the
standalone server. The first server is a
WebAs working as a "proxy" which is
connected to the server holding the data
via trusted RFC connection. This allows
more flexibility whgen placing the
servers in the different firewall layers. Of
course 2 servers are more expensive than
1.

The reference to the installation guides

just meant that they define the
dependencies of kernel, bc /aba SP and
e-recruiting SP. Your base administration
should be familiar with that.

Best Regards

Roman Weise

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Pascale Thys Apr 1, 2008

9:35 AM (in response to
Roman Weise)

Hi Roman,

In view of the fact that you know

a lot of e-recruitment and also
about the versions of SAP I have
another question.
In the course a week ago we have
had a document "Special Talent
Management Feature Pack" wich
consist of feature pack
I : New composite Talent Planner
Role
II : New PD object : Job Family
Sucession Planning
III : Recruiter support
IV : Technology / Integration ESA enablement
UI enchancements
V : Search enchancements

For al those feature packages in

the information is mentionned
"First Delivery planned for end of
Q2 2006"
Do you know of al those feature
packages are already available
and if yes , from wich version ?

Kind regards

Pascale

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Roman Weise Apr 4,

2008 11:46 PM (in
response to Pascale
Thys)

Hi Pascale,

i am not sure which

delivery this is. Probably I
heard of it under another
name. might be a part of
the functional additions
with e-recruiting support
package 5 or 7. The
information on these
enhancements can be
found in the download
section for documentation
on e-recruiting in the sap
service market place.

The up to date functional

description should be the
the documentation on EErecruiting 600 +
Enhancement Package 3
for E-Recruiting. As far as
i heard EhP3 should be
out of the ramp up now
and available to all
customers. I expect that

this documentation is also

available in the service
market place. (havn't
checked yet as i got it
directly from sap
development while
supporting a rampup
project, unfortunately it's
not in english)

Btw. there is no erecruiting EhP 1 or 2. ERecruiting did not take

part in these enhancement
cycles. The development
of EhP4 is currently
starting and shall be
released at the end of the
year. I think there are
already some
announcements what will
be part of the
developments at the last
hr partner meeting at sap.
But I am ot sure where to
find this info on the web.

Best Reagrds

Roman Weise

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Orlando
Covault Feb 4,
2009 2:40 PM
(in response to
Roman Weise)

Hi Roman,

Very good and

informative
thread, I need to
get started with
the SAP HR ERecruiting
implementation
but I need to
provide my basis
team the
information about
the donwload and
deploy of the BP.
Could you please
provide any
guideline?

Regards,

Orlando Covault

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Mohit Bouri Feb 16, 2010 7:40 AM (in response to Learning Sap)

Hi Roman,

I have to implement E-Recruitment for my client . I tried accessing the links provided
in the above posts but was not able to find anything out there. Request you to please
share some initial config documents with whom I can start off with the configuration.