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MODULE TOPICBusiness decisions, SAP model, and operating evidence

H2R 202 · SELECT

Recruiting moves an approved vacancy from sourcing through selection and offer.

A requisition describes the role, approvals, hiring team, and candidate criteria. Applications, interviews, assessments, offers, and compliance records form the selection trail.

HR MANAGER LENS

What must the business decide?

This capability becomes useful only when policy, ownership, employee experience, controls, measures, and exceptions are explicit.

Demand authority

Decide whether recruiting begins from a position, workforce request, or approved requisition and which approvals prove authority.

Selection policy

Define candidate stages, interview evidence, assessment use, offer authority, and required human review.

Candidate experience

Set communication ownership, service expectations, accessibility, and data transparency across the candidate journey.

Data lifecycle

Decide which candidate, requisition, application, and offer data may transfer, who may see it, and how long it is retained.

ACCOUNTABILITY

Who owns what?

Hiring manager

Owns business need, selection input, and hiring decision within policy.

Recruiter

Owns requisition execution, candidate pipeline, communications, and process evidence.

HR / compliance

Owns policy, fairness controls, retention, permissions, and audit requirements.

ONE RECORD TRAIL

Follow one decision into its successor evidence

These records are connected, but they do not share one owner, date model, permission boundary, or completion status.

  1. 01
    DEMANDPosition or approved workforce request

    Hiring authority, manager, organisation, cost, dates and requisition template establish the search.

  2. 02
    SELECTJob Requisition, Candidate and Application

    Pipeline status, interviews, assessments, communication and disposition preserve selection evidence.

  3. 03
    COMMITOffer Detail and Offer Approval

    Approved terms, approvers, acceptance and ready-to-hire status establish the intended employment.

  4. 04
    HAND OFFPending hire and mapping result

    Mapped requisition, application and offer values become reviewed employment inputs.

CONSULTANT LENS

How SAP represents the capability

The process connects Position or workforce demand to Job Requisition, Candidate Profile, Job Application, interview or assessment evidence, Offer Detail and Offer Approval. Recruit-to-hire mapping can draw from requisition, application, and offer data before an approved candidate becomes ready to hire.

DIAGNOSTIC EVIDENCE

Diagnose using the owning record and hand-off

Separate an undesired business result from missing setup, failed execution, wrong effective date, insufficient permission, or broken integration.

DEMAND

Position or request, requisition template, operators, approvals, status, posting dates and target population.

CANDIDATE

Profile, application, consent, stage history, interview or assessment evidence, communications and disposition reason.

OFFER / HAND-OFF

Offer terms, approval chain, acceptance, ready-to-hire status, mapping result and Employee ID update.

OPERATING VIEW

Exceptions and measures that deserve ownership

Common exceptions

  • Approved position cannot create the intended requisition
  • Candidate is duplicated or matched to the wrong identity
  • Offer is accepted but not ready to hire
  • Recruiting-to-Onboarding or Employee Central mapping rejects a value

Useful measures

  • Requisition approval and time-to-fill
  • Candidate conversion and withdrawal by stage
  • Offer acceptance and aged offers
  • Ready-to-hire mapping and data-correction exceptions

WORKED SCENARIO

One decision carried into system evidence

A planner position creates a controlled requisition. The selected candidate passes the required stages, receives an approved offer, and becomes ready to hire. Only mapped and approved data moves forward; unsuccessful-candidate records follow the agreed retention policy.

  • What proves authority to recruit?
  • Which selection evidence is required and who may view it?
  • Which data transfers to Onboarding or Employee Central?
  • How are duplicate candidates, internal applicants, and retention obligations handled?
Official SAP referencesSAP Help — Recruiting integration with Employee Central
CONTINUE THE PATHContinue to H2R 303

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