E-Recruitment: Add item to Additional Criteria Search in Candidate Search

[Shane_LaBonte]

Hi Experts,

How do I add an item to the "Additional Criteria" drop down menu in "Candidate Search"? Currently, all I see is:

Candidate's Basic Data

Candidate's Education

Candidate's Work Experience

Talent Group

Candidate's Qualifications

Questionnaires for Candidates

I am sure that I have configured more Search Templates than just these, but for some reason they are the only one's I can see.

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Shane

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I think Candidate Search uses Search Function cdcycandsearch and under node 'Assign Search Template Groups to Search Applications' this maybe be assigned group '10 - Search in Talent Warehouse'. Under node 'Assign Search Templates to Search Template Groups' is where you can assign the values which come in drop down menu for the search. In case of for example group '10 - Search in Talent Warehouse', this is where you can assign the additional search criteria which you have configured. Though Full Text Search does not come in the dropdown it must be the first one to be assigned as it is used in the simple and advanced search. The criteria you add must be assigned to the correct business object and they must be assigned in the ciorrect sequence. You can go to the node for 'Check Settings for Search' and it will quickly highlight for you any errors or mismatching assignments.

Regards,

[Shane_LaBonte · Accepted solution]

Hi tmusungwa ,

Thanks for the help. I was able to add search template 76 (Questionnaires for Assignment) to search template group 0010 (Search in Talent Warehouse). However, I had to remove search template 11 (Questionnaires for Candidates) from this search template group in order to have no errors (in 'Check Settings for Search' ).

The error I got referred to the fact that "Of search template type D (Questionnaires), more than one search template is assigned to search template group 0010"

Search template 11 and search template 76 are both of type D. By removing one, I get no errors. BUT, how do I search by both:

(1) Questionnaires for Assignment

(2) Questionnaires for Candidates

Thanks for the help

Shane

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Your answer in all search-related notes. For example Note 1301016 says that for relationship searches, you must not assign several search templates of the type "Questionnaire" or of the type "Qualification with Proficiencies" in the same search template. You can go through the related notes to understand more.

'Questionnaires for Candidates' is related to the candidate search from the pool and not requisition, so you can assign this to group 0010 - Search in Talent Warehouse (object ERC_CAND/NA). Here you are supposed to just see questionnaires which were filled out as part TRM activities and processes.

'Questionnaires for Assignments' is for searching candidates against their assignments (against requisitions). These includes questionaires filled as part of the application wizard (not registration), search template 0013 - Search/Compare Candidacies (Recruitment) i.e. search function cdcysrch (object ERC_CDCY/NE). This means you can use this to search from the requisition.

Regards,

[Shane_LaBonte · Accepted solution]

Hi tmusungwa,

Thanks for the reply. I am using Web Dynpro and the SAP Portal. When I click on "Candidate Search" from the Recruiter iView, I assume I am pulling up the "Search in Talent Warehouse" (search template 0010).

Where do I go to do the "search template 0013 - Search/Compare Candidacies (Recruitment)" that you referred to? How do I search from the requisition using Web Dynpro and the Portal?

Thanks

Shane

[Shane_LaBonte · Accepted solution]

Hi tmusungwa,

Thanks for the reply. I am using Web Dynpro and the SAP Portal. When I click on "Candidate Search" from the Recruiter iView, I assume I am pulling up the "Search in Talent Warehouse" (search template 0010).

Where do I go to do the "search template 0013 - Search/Compare Candidacies (Recruitment)" that you referred to? How do I search from the requisition using Web Dynpro and the Portal?

Thanks

Shane

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hello Shane,

I am not mistaken, 0013 is the one which is used for the comparison fields. This is the one with the fields which you can configure in "Enter Comparison Fields". This is the one which will enable the system to compare the requisition criteria to be compared automatically with that of candidate profile for searching and ranking. So when the candidate are ranked based on requisition criteria or when the system proposes candidates for you automatically where you Search/Proposed Candidates, the system is using 0013. You can try to add new fields in the config node which is not available in 0013, the system will give an error to update 0013.

Regards,

[romanweise · Accepted solution]

Hi Shane,

it might be a wise choice to not only look at the search templates / search masks. There is also an assignment of search masks to applications. The list of selectable search fields should depend on the search mask assinged to the different applications.

When I last dealed with this topic I found some design inconsistency when using the *CI_3 business function which brings the rank by search criteria functionality to the candidate selection. While the search is based on the candsearch application the dropdown for the ranking referes to the variants defined for the serach mask assigned to candcdcysearch which leads to the requirement to assign the same mask to both applications.

Seeing this situation you might have to play a bit with the search masks assigned to the applications to find the correct dependencies for your release / support level.

Best Regards

Roman

[Former Member]

Hi Shane,

Please try to add the required things in the following path:

SAP E-Recruiting>Recruitment>Talent Warehouse>Candidate>Candidate Search>Search Profile>Define Templates--> Define Search Templates.

Make sure that you are selecting the proper Search Profile Type.

[Shane_LaBonte]

Hi PoojaM,

This is the part I am getting stuck on. For instance, I followed your instructions, and I see the Search Template: "Candidate's Desired Employment". But I do not see this option in the search drop down menu when I do a Candidate Search. What else do I need to configure to get these options to display in the search.

Thanks

Shane