Anand ‘Andy’ Athanur - Innovative SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting: A Guide to Creating Custom Integration and Automation

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Talent acquisition is a critical business process for any organization. Without key resources, organizations simply cannot function. The magnitude of this has been felt even more recently as the world continues to face the economic challenges associated with the global pandemic. As companies grapple with one another for skilled resources, they often look to their recruiting systems to help find a competitive edge. As many customers subscribe to cloud software such as SAP SuccessFactors, key differentiators become even harder to find. Cloud customers may ask, How can we stand out among the community if many of us are using the same software? Furthermore, in our experience, many vendors and customers approach SAP SuccessFactors and need resources to bridge the gap between product documentation and real-world examples.

In this book, we look at ways to innovate your SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting solution. We step through the end-to-end recruiting business process and highlight key areas where SAP SuccessFactors allows for automations and integrations. At each step, we walk you through some of the tools that can help enhance the process in your own innovative way. In Chapter , we wrap up with how to realize business value and draw conclusions. After completing the book, you should have a solid understanding of what tools are available to enhance your recruiting system at each step. In addition, you will have an understanding of practical examples from the authors real-world experiences.

Thank you to David Ludlow for starting Mark down the recruiting path.

Thank you to the SuccessFactors Recruiting product teams for their continued support over the years.

You are about to learn the basics of retrieving SAP SuccessFactors data using free-to-use tools. In this chapter, we will lay the foundation of the rest of the book by connecting to SAP SuccessFactors and retrieving some job requisitions. Well be using ODATA and the REST protocol. This chapter will begin by describing SOAP web services vs. ODATA and REST.