E-Recruitment : How to configure employee referral in ESS

Question

Hi,
Can you please share the elaborate process and config procedure whereby Employee Referral functionality is provided via ESS.For this particular implementation we also have SAP E-Recruitment being implemented.Issue is to provide Internal employees a provision to refer candidates.Here also there are two cases.One in which internal employee has candidates resume and other is when internal employee doesnt have the candidates resume.In first case internal employee is needed to fill all the candidates data while in other case a link "Tell a friend" needs to be clicked by internal employee thereby to intimate the candidate to complete the registration process.
Please share the process and configuration for the same in SAP ECC 6.0

Answer 1

Hi,
although I already met several people who say say something else - there is no employee referral function in ESS.
The Tell-A-Friend function is not active in the internal candidates screens. This can easily be checked in component HRRCF_C_SEARCH_UI views VW_EMP_HITLIST and VW_UNREGEMP_HITLIST. Both do not include a Tell-A-Friend button. Furthermore it would only be possible to refer postings which are published internal and external at the same time as the hitlists for internal candidate only include internal published postings but the referral would require an external publication. Theoretical an employee could use the Tell-A-Friend function on the external views but you would lose the link to the employee information so there would be no possibility for identifying the referral.
The application source solution covers the possibility that an external candidate enters the information of an employee as source. But there is only a free text field to enter the employee information so technical evaluation is not possible.
All other scenarios of employee referral need customer development.
Kind regards
Roman