E-Recruiting- Qualification catalogue

Question

Hi
If I maintain a Qualification catalogue in e-Rec system the number range of the catalogue will be different from the Payroll/hr system. When I transfer (hire) the external candidate data (along with qualifications) to the Payroll system will the payroll system show any errors due to inconsistency in number range.

Answer 1

Hello Pascale,
in general there is only 1 qualification catalogue within a sap system - perhaps I did not make this really clear (we exclude the fact that the PA module knows a new and an old form of qualification maintanence - other topic :o)).
As you found out by yourself the trouble are the different systems. In an integrated system there is an option that you integrate PA and e-recruiting qualifications. If you activate this option, the system moves the qualifications of the employee to his internal candidate and the qualification of a candidate can be moved to the employee record on hiring (at least the system should do this, I've never seen this running in production, only had to do with it in a rampup project for e-recruiting 600 but never in an live system). By using the "e-recriuiting view on qualification catalogue" you can restrict the qualifications which are available for e-recruiting and exclude the qualifications which are only internally used as they are not relevant for hiring. Furthermore you can handle the restriction that e-recruiting can only handle non stacked qualification groups.
When it comes to a standalone installation the world looks a bit different. You have still one "application" for qualification catalogue but you have 2 completely independent systems. So you have 2 independent catalogues as number assignment is internal as you already said.
There is no standard function or scenario to integrate the hr core and the e-recruiting system for qualifications. The described distribution scenarios for ALE only cover objects O, C, S and P and there is no function in the data transfer from e-recruiting to the hr core on hiring which would transfer the qualifications of a candidate to his employee record.
As the standard does not offer an integration, for the standard implementation you just take your hr core qualification catalogue and create the qualifications you need for hiring in e-recruiting. Adapt perhaps a bit to special hiring needs. When you hire a person you run the hiring action via t-code PA48 and when you come to qualification maintenance you just have a look into the e-recruiting system and create the according qualifications. As you do it manually it does not matter if the qualification has another ID.
If you really need an integration and automation for the qualification transfer you will have to develop a customer solution. You could surely start with implementiing an own distribution scenario for your qualification catalogue from hr core to e-recruiting. This can be done via ALE or as the catalogue is not changing every day it should be possible to transport / copy it.
When you have the qualifications in e-recruiting you can define the e-recruiting view to the catalog to restrict qualifications.
Last but not least you would have to enhance the data trasfere to hr core on hiring. Spontaneously I am not sure how to solve this but it is probably possible.
Best Regards
Roman Weise