SuccessFactors Recruiting H2 2024 , Release provides exciting innovations across SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting H2 2024 that can help you transform your HR operations, increase employee engagement, and deliver results.
Don’t miss out on all the great innovations and enhancements. Here are a few key updates you should consider for Sap SuccessFactors Recruiting H2 2024 .
H2 – 2024 Release Schedule
| Release | Preview | Production |
| H2 2024 | 18 – 20th October 2024 | 15 – 17th November 2024 |
1. AI-Assisted Skills Validation for Job Requisitions
Recruiters can use AI-assisted capabilities to extract skills from a job requisition to review and define the essential skills required for the job. They can then refine the list of required skills in the job description to identify candidates whose skills match the job requirements.
Recruiters can perform the following tasks to enhance the skills listed in the job requirements:
- Add, remove, and save skills in the job requisition to control the visibility of the skills listed in the job posting on the career site.
- Categorize primary and secondary skills to find candidates who best fit the job based on their skills matching the skills specified in the job requirements.
The enhancement lets recruiters categorize a job’s critical skills to identify candidates whose skills align with the job requirements.
Configuration Requirements
You’ve purchased the AI units license.
Enable either or both of the following settings in Admin Center:
- Assisted Applicant Screening in AI Services Administration Feature Settings Recruiting
- Assisted Job Skills for Career Site Builder in AI Services Administration Feature Settings Recruiting
Role-Based Permission Prerequisites
You have enabled the Administrator Manage AI Capabilities AI Services Administration permission.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
The Manage Skills button on the Job Profile page lets you extract skills from the job requisition and display them on the Manage Skills page. You can perform the following tasks on the Manage Skills page:
- Search Skills: Search for skills from the universal skills taxonomy and add them as skills required for a job.
- Suggest Skills: List the skills extracted from the job description using the Natural Language Processing technique or based on the relatedness of the skills added on the Manage Skills page as per the universal skills taxonomy.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | RCM-126181 |
| Product | Recruiting |
| Module | Job Requisition |
| Feature | Job Requisitions Generative AI |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Contact Customer Engagement Executive or Account Manager |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
2. Enhanced Document Download Capacity in the Applicant Management Tool
In the redesigned Applicant Management tool, you can now download documents—Resume and Cover Letter, of up to 50 selected applicants. if more than two documents are selected, they will be downloaded as a ZIP file.
The selected documents are zipped and downloaded in the background, allowing you to continue with other tasks while the download proceeds eventually. Once the files are zipped, the ZIP file containing all the documents will be downloaded to your local device.
Note
The maximum download capacity has been increased to 100 documents (Resume and Cover Letter).
We’ve enhanced download capacity and improved the user experience by adding contextual message strips for document downloads, even when users multitask in the redesigned Applicant Management tool.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
In this version, you can download up to 100 documents for a maximum of 50 selected applicants. When you choose Download, the selected documents are first zipped and then downloaded.
How It Looked Before
In the previous version, only 10 documents could be downloaded for a maximum of 20 applicants.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | RCM-125958 |
| Product | Recruiting |
| Module | Applicant Management |
| Feature | Applicant Management |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
3. Enhancements to AI-Assisted Skills Matching for Applicant Screening
We’ve enhanced the AI-assisted skills matching feature to let you view the total number of skills in an applicant’s resume that match the skills specified as primary and secondary in the job description.
The following are the details of the enhancements:
- The skills identified are now categorized as Primary skills, Secondary skills, Relevant skills, and Unmatched skills.
- Recruiters can choose any skill listed on the Skill Compatibility page to determine whether the skill was part of the job description, extracted from the applicant’s resume, or manually entered by the applicant during the application process.
This enhancement helps recruiters, and hiring managers utilize the skills compatibility insights to make informed decisions during applicant screening and hiring. SuccessFactors Recruiting H2 2024
Note
We’ve updated the Configuration Requirements section to add the business rule configuration.
Configuration Requirements
- The Assisted Applicant Screening option is enabled in Admin Center AI Services Administration Feature Settings Recruiting.
- Configure the Configure AI-Assisted Skills Matching Eligibility for Job Requisition rule scenario on the Business Rules Admin page in Admin Center Configure Business Rules.
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
Technical Details
| Reference Number | RCM-124343 |
| Product | Recruiting |
| Module | Applicant ManagementSAP Business AI |
| Feature | Applicant Management |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | Changed |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Not Applicable |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
4. Manage Access to the Legacy Candidate Workbench
As an administrator, you can now manage access to the legacy candidate workbench using the Hide Legacy Workbench setting from Manage Recruiting Settings >> Enable Latest Applicant Workbench .
Enabling the Hide Legacy Workbench setting will hide the New Applicant Management Experience switch within the redesigned Applicant Management tool.
We’ve implemented the new setting so that administrators can help their users fully adopt to the redesigned Applicant Management tool.
Configuration Requirements
Ensure you’ve enabled Enable Latest Applicant Workbench from Admin Center Manage Recruiting Settings
What’s Changed
How It Looks Now
The Hide Legacy Workbench setting is newly added under Manage Recruiter Settings Candidate Summary Enable Latest Application Workbench.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | RCM-130476 |
| Product | Recruiting |
| Module | Applicant Management |
| Feature | Applicant Management |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Customer configured |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Minor |
| Business Process Variant | Hire to Retire |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
5. Support for Job Location Generic Object in Job Posting Rule
Fetch location information from the Job Location generic objects defined in the job requisition template based on the job posting rules configured in the field completion rules.
The Job Location Generic object provides structured location data on the job requisition to facilitate faceted search using the Google Map component and posting a job to multiple locations for candidates to find on the job boards. It supports the Job Location Long Format attribute, an address representation per country/region format standards. SuccessFactors Recruiting H2 2024
The enhancement provides granularity in configuring the job locations to post on job boards.
Technical Details
| Reference Number | RP-19024 |
| Product | Recruiting |
| Module | Job Requisition |
| Feature | Job Postings |
| Action | Info only |
| Enablement | Automatically on |
| Lifecycle | General Availability |
| Type | New |
| Major or Minor | Major |
| Business Process Variant | Not Applicable |
| Software Version | 2H 2024 |
| Valid as Of | 2024-11-15 |
Thanks & Regards
Anipe Abraham,
Sr. #SAP #SuccessFactors Consultant | Employee Central | Employee Central Payroll | Recruitment Management l Onboarding | PMGM | Sap Hcm | Corporate Trainer.
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