DEFINITIONS IN SAP 

E-RECRUITING

Definition Description

Requisition Formal request by the manager to the recruiter to find potential candidates for one or more
vacant positions. The requisition is an internal document determining the positions for which
candidates are to be sought, the requirements which candidates must fulfill, and how the
candidate search will be performed.

Support Team The support team is the group of persons involved in processing a requisition, application.

Organizational Organizational object (object key O) used to form the basis of an organizational plan.
Unit Organizational units are functional units in an enterprise. According to how tasks are divided
up within an enterprise, these can be departments, groups or project teams, for example.

Dashboard Application of SAP E-Recruiting that provides the user with an up-to-date, customized
overview of the topics relevant to the user and at the same time provides the necessary
functions for processing.

Position Positions are the individual employee assignments or placements within a company. Positions
are defined as the designations held by the staff members occupying those positions.

Posting A vacancy is officially announced using a posting. The posting contains the information about
the position that internal and/orexternal applicants need.

Publication A publication defines a posting channel and all attributes that are assigned to this posting
channel.

Application An application group is a special type of (generic) requisition that collects applications for a
Groups specific purpose.

Management This process contains the receipt of applications from various channels and the steps that are
of Applications then to be taken for these applications.
 

Process A process template is a reusable collection of activity types that represent the flow of a
Template recruitment process. The process template is maintained individually in the system and can be
used for various requisitions.

Applicant This process is used to map the entire recruiting process for candidates, to store the individual
Tracking process steps and create activities for assignment of a candidate to a requisition or application
group.

Questionnaire A questionnaire is a set of questions that can be completed by a person (for example,
candidate, recruiter) during the applicant tracking process.

Applications An application is a person's declaration of interest in entering a work relationship or in a

change to an existing work relationship.

Assignment An assignment is the link between a candidate and a requisition.

Objects e-Recruiting supports object based applications. The standard objects used are candidacy,
posting, requisition and application.

Infotypes An infotype is a collection of logical and/or business-related characteristics of an object, for

e.g. work experience infotype groups together the candidate's previous employment data
including job type, industry, duration, work contract type etc. 

Candidate Person who has registered in the Talent Warehouse and stored his or her data there. A
candidate is usually interested in accepting a work relationship.

Candidacy Assignment between a Requisition and a Candidate.

Container Used to bundle together application pages that share the same content.
Sequence