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Adding Mentee Approval Functionality to Mentoring?

former_member111287
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Hi all,

Our HR team is requesting that we add mentee approval to the Mentoring module. Currently, the system seems to only offer manager approval for mentors. Our HR wants to add mentee approval so that mentees have to get approved by a manager before they are able to be seen by mentors to be matched with. (Or this could be at another step in the process. The main ask really is just having mentees getting approval by managers in the system at some point in the system.)

I wanted to see if anyone else has figured out how to do this or something like this in the system? If so, how did you configure it? I know we could potentially custom create our own Mentoring program using MDFs but is there any way to add this functionality to the current Mentoring module?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Bella

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nmavroidis
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Dear Bella,

Currently mentoring only supports mentor approval. Mentee approvals is currently not available.

However, depending on your mentoring program strategy, you could in the meantime:

1. Manage access to the Mentoring module: a flag "Mentoring Access (Yes/No)" could be define to manage employee eligibility. Should this flag be editable by the Manager a/o HR and used in Role Based Permission to manage mentee's access to mentoring.

2. Collect Manager's approval on Mentoring Programs according to your Development Process via development plan or custom background, report and manage access via Supervised mentoring type programs.

If having this feature is important for your company, you could log an enhancement request on Customer Influence page where you may have this put on the road map for a future release. Link : https://influence.sap.com/successfactors

We welcome inputs from customers to improve the functionality of our products. All enhancement requests are reviewed by our Product Management team and, if successful, are developed and implemented in a future product release. Peer voting is a key part of this review process, so we encourage you to provide a clear explanation so that other customers are able to understand the functionality requested.

Thank you

Nicolas