SUMMARY:
Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent empowers businesses to modernize their human resources architecture by utilizing the “Attract” application to seamlessly source, organize, and secure top candidates.
- The Attract application unifies candidate profiles by integrating with Office 365 and LinkedIn to intelligently highlight the most qualified applicants for open positions.
- Organizations assign specific roles to hiring teams within the platform to track candidate analytics and maintain compliance with equal employment opportunity guidelines.
- Hiring managers deploy configurable workflows and templates to accelerate engagement activities and streamline the electronic job offer and acceptance process.
Integrating these robust recruitment capabilities ultimately allows organizations to abandon traditional barriers and build a more intelligent, connected, and efficient hiring pipeline.
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Since 2002, Microsoft has been developing and improving various business products for enterprise resource planning (ERP), an operation that began when Microsoft acquired the accounting application suite Navision A/S and released Axapta 3.0. Over the years, Microsoft has continued to expand these applications with products such as Microsoft Dynamics AX 4.0 through AX 7 and the popular Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations (Business and Enterprise editions). As of July 2016, the Dynamics 365 product line has extended into Customer Relationship Management (CRM), offering a “Customer Engagement Plans” for CRM and a “Unified Operations Plan” for ERP and HR.
In the first part of this blog, we’ll look into what Microsoft Talent is and one of its major features for business users: Attract.
What is Talent?
As part of the Unified Operations Plan for Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations, users have access to several applications to support ERP, including one of the more beneficial applications, Dynamics 365 for Talent, for recruitment and staffing.
Talent allows your organization to move beyond traditional human resource management to transform the candidate and employee experience. Dynamics 365 for Talent uses the power of Office 365 and LinkedIn to attract, hire, onboard, and retain talented people. When you add Dynamics 365 for Talent into your HR architecture, you unleash the power of the Microsoft Cloud — creating a more secure, intelligent, and connected organization.
Free yourself from the barriers that prevent you from attracting and retaining top talent and enabling their success. Modernize recruiting, applicant tracking, and employee onboarding by connecting your HR to IT, people to insights, and allowing your business to grow. With the primary applications of the Talent suite in mind — including Attract, Onboard, Core HR, and the new features in place — here are ten ways that Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Talent can benefit your business.
Attract
1) Candidate Search
Connect recruiters, managers, and interviewers to better collaborate and attract top talent. Tailor the hiring experience with configurable stages and activities, create compelling job descriptions, and then post them to your company’s career site, popular job boards, or Talent’s dedicated employment page. The system allows you to unify candidate profiles, pools, and pipelines. Highlight and track candidates who will be valuable future hires with the talent pool track. Monitor the hiring process and get insights on candidate skills, competencies, and interview feedback. Candidate profiles are compared to job requirements to intelligently highlight top applicants. Interactive dashboards help you understand the health of your recruiting pipeline, improving your quality of hire.
2) Hiring Team Organization and Talent History
Once prospects have been identified, managers can assign roles to different users, creating a designated hiring team with individual duties to be carried out at specific points in the hiring process. Through this, the hiring team can track candidate analytics, facilitate equal employment opportunity (EEO) and support from the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), and conduct several assessments to address personality and company culture fit.
3) Engagement Activities
Once duties and roles have been assigned, managers can formulate mandatory activities and set up workflow necessities in Attract to streamline the hiring process. Activities can provide status updates on positions to be filled, and workflows can offer a roadmap for mandatory actions for both the employer and the potential client.
4) Offer Management
Increase the accuracy and speed of extending offers to selected candidates with streamlined offer management. Configurable workflows, templates, and approval processes help ensure that hiring managers, recruiters, and HR specialists efficiently collaborate to create compelling offers. After the entire candidate processing, interviewing, and hiring process has been completed, and the employer is ready to make an offer, Attract allows users to create offer package templates, disseminate the templates for approval, and then send the offer packages to lucky prospects. In response, the candidate can electronically accept or decline the offer all in the same place through Attract.
More to Come
It’s clear that Attract offers numerous advantages for searching for potential candidates and guiding them through the consideration process. Fortunately, that’s just a fraction of the features that come with Microsoft Talent. In Part 2 of this blog, we’ll take a look at OnBoard and Core HR, which tackle the other operations in the hiring process.