E-Recruiting - how to implement questionnaires in candidate profile?

Hello experts,
has anyone experience in how to implement questionnaires into the container sequences of the candidate profile (for internal as well as external candidates)?
I think, I know all the necessary tables (T77RCF_CS_ID, -_SEQ and -_ITEM), have also studied the IMG, but simply don´t get it.
Thanks in advance.
Greetings,
Florian

Hello,
as I said you can just solve it out of the front end within the registration workflow, or the candidate status change workflow.
So it is just possible to do this via a correspondence activity and not via the standard front end.
From the correspondence you can jump back to a front end application. But it is not possible to integrate it into a startpage.
If the candidate filled out a questionnaire (trm activity), then you can search on those questionnaires and its answers via the talent pool search. Prerequisite is, that the questionnaire is assigned to a trm activity (Assigned to NA).
There is no possibility handling pool candidates as applications. You will always have problems looking at each pool candidate. The talent pool is just meant to be a pool of candidates you can search on.

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- SAS® 9.1.3
- SAS® Metadata Server
- SAS® WorkSpace Server
- SAS® Stored Process Server
- Platform JobScheduler
2. Mid -Tier Server
- SAS® Web Report Studio
- SAS® Information Delivery Portal
- BEA Web Logic for future SAS® SPM Platform
- Xythos Web File System (WFS)
3. Client u2013Tier Server
- SAS® Enterprise Guide
- SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office
REPORTING
We have created a number of parameterized stored processes using SAS® Enterprise Guide, which our stakeholders will access as both static (HTML as well as PDF documents) and interactive reports (drill-down) through SAS® Web Report Studio and the SAS® Add-In for Microsoft Office. All canned reports along with SAS® Web Report Studio will be accessed through the SAS® Information Delivery Portal.
NEXT STEPS
Next steps of the project include development of a financial data mart along with appropriate data quality standards, monthly frozen snapshots and implementation of university-wide financial reporting standards. This will facilitate electronic access to integrated financial information necessary for the development and maintenance of an integrated, multi-year financial planning framework. Canned reports to include monthly web-based financial statements, with drill-down capability along with budget templates automatically populated with data values and saved in different workbooks for different subgroups (for example by Department). The later will be accomplished using Microsoft Direct Data Exchange (DDE).
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As well, we will begin the implementation of SAS® Strategic Performance Management Software to support the performance measurement and monitoring initiative that is a fundamental component of McMasteru2019s strategic plan. This tool will assist in critically assessing and identifying meaningful and statistically relevant measures and indicators. This software can perform causal analyses among various measures within and across areas providing useful information on inter-relationships between factors and measures. As well as demonstrating how decisions in one area affect other areas, these cause-and-effect analyses can reveal both good performance drivers and also possible detractors and enable u2018evidenced-basedu2019 decision-making. Finally, the tool provides a balanced scorecard reporting format, designed to identify statistically significant trends and results that can be tailored to the specific goals, objectives and measures of the various operational areas of the University.
LESSONS LEARNED
Lessons learned include the importance of taking a consultative approach not only in assessing information needs, but also in building data hierarchies, understanding subject matter, and in prioritizing tasks to best support decision making and inform senior management. We found that a combination of training and mentoring (knowledge transfer) helped us accelerate learning the new tools. It was very important to ensure that time and resources were committed to complete the necessary planning and data quality initiatives prior to initiating the first project. When developing a project plan, it is important to

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