Bootcamp / Workshop 2025 Topics for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting - Candidate Experience (CX)
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting - Candidate Experience (CX) curriculum with 2 hours of theory and 2 hours of hands-on activity per day:
Day | Theory (2 hours) | Hands-on Activity (2 hours) |
1 | - Advertising jobs overview, Career portal basics, Microsite creation | - Create and customize career portal, Set up a microsite, Enable search filter fields for career site |
2 | - Agency functionality, Employee referral program | - Configure agency settings and permissions, Set up employee referral program, Create referral email notifications |
3 | - Job board management, Posting profiles and groups | - Create and manage posting profiles, Add job boards to lists, Map job requisition fields to job boards |
4 | - Career Site Builder capabilities, Candidate Relationship Management, Recruiting Advanced Analytics | - Access implementation documents, Explore Best Run use case, Set up file sharing with customer |
5 | - Career site design process, SEO and accessibility guidelines | - Prepare kickoff meeting presentation, Create recruiting marketing project plan, Design basic site structure and components |
6 | - Job requisition templates, Internal applicant considerations | - Configure objects for location information, Add fields to requisition templates, Create and post job requisitions |
7 | - Initial Recruiting system setup, Career Site Builder enablement | - Enable Career Site Builder and Mobile Apply, Configure data mapping and API credentials, Set up daily job sync |
8 | - Global site settings, Brand configuration | - Enable global and initial site settings, Set up brands and permissions, Create home page and content page templates |
9 | - Search experience configuration, Custom job layouts | - Configure search functionality, Set up custom job layouts, Create job alert email template |
10 | - Localization requirements, Multi-language site setup | - Enable approved locales, Duplicate pages for translations, Create localized headers and footers |
11 | - Production environment setup, Certificate management | - Generate certificate signing request, Configure CNAME and reminders, Use move to production checklist |
12 | - XML file management, Quality assurance | - Export and import XML files, Set up roles in Career Site Builder, Perform quality check of production site |
13 | - Candidate Relationship Management setup, Data capture forms | - Enable CRM and set permissions, Create data capture forms and custom fields, Set up landing pages |
14 | - Talent pools, Email campaigns | - Create talent pool status sets and pools, Set up email layouts and content templates, Create and send email campaigns |
15 | - Recruiting Advanced Analytics, Source reporting | - Generate common reports, Map applicant statuses, Set up daily sync job |
16 | - Status mapping, Permissions for analytics | - Create test candidates, Customize field labels for reports, Set permissions for analytics users |
Aspirational Curriculum for SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting - Candidate Experience (RX) :
Note : It gets updated in every release , as per Industry trends, Business Demand . Feedback is encouraged if any topic to be added to it.
Advertising Jobs
- Create the career portal
- Customize the career portal
- Create a microsite
- Enable search filter fields for the career site
- Enable agency functionality in Provisioning
- Configure agencies fields in the JRDM template
- Grant permissions to manage agency settings in Admin Center
- Set up agencies in SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting
- Configure email templates and recruiting email triggers
- Update application status settings
- Post to agencies
- Use the agency portal
- Configure the employee referral field in the job requisition
- Enable employee referral program settings
- Create employee referral email notifications and triggers
- Use the employee referral program
- Create and manage posting profiles and groups
- Associate a posting profile with a user
- Add a job board to a job board list
- Associate a job board to posting profiles
- Manage packs for job boards
- Manage job board availability settings for job boards
- Add school job boards
- Associate school job boards to posting profiles
- Map job requisition fields to job board fields
- Configure job board posting rules
- Post a job
- Manage posted jobs
- Check job board efficiency
Preparing for an SAP SuccessFactors Career Site Builder Implementation
- key capabilities of an effective career site
- Identify the benefits and functionality of Career Site Builder
- Identify the benefits and functionality of Candidate Relationship Management
- Identify the benefits and functionality of Recruiting Advanced Analytics
- Identify the benefits and functionality of other core components
- Access the implementation documents and support options
- Explore the use case: Best Run
- Evaluate the contract/statement of work
- Examine the customer's corporate website and current career site
- Set up a file sharing platform with the customer
- Send the job delivery intake documents, implementation overview, and readiness checklist to the customer
- Access Provisioning
- Access Recruiting Command Center
Designing the Career Site
- Explain the process flow to design the career site
- Prepare a kickoff meeting presentation
- Create a recruiting marketing project plan
- Discuss how the customer updates the SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Marketing Career Site Builder workbook with their requirements
- Discuss the basic site design, global elements, images, brands, languages, and components with the customer
- Request that the customer set up a subdomain for their career site
- With the customer, determine if the career site will be hosted or integrated
- Incorporate leading practices for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- Design the site by using accessibility guidelines
- Provide text and image recommendations for websites
- Organize content using appropriate page types and components
- Provide multiple ways for candidates to find jobs
- Enable components on the home page to join the talent community to minimize drop-off
- Demonstrate the use of pages and components on live sites
- Determine fields that support the candidate experience, job distribution, and reporting
- Configure objects to represent the customer's location information, if not yet completed
- Add fields to the existing requisition templates, if necessary
- Create and post job requisitions
- Conduct the job delivery intake meeting to discuss the customer's job marketing strategy
- Summarize the benefits of using the Career Site Builder site for internal applicants
Completing the Initial Setup of the Recruiting System
- Enable Career Site Builder
- Configure the Recruiting Marketing Data Center URLs
- Enable Mobile Apply
- Create a unique security key using a secure password generator
- Configure site integrations in Career Site Builder
- Configure data mapping from the job requisition to SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Marketing
- Configure API credentials in Career Site Builder
- Configure service provider settings in Provisioning
- Configure a daily job sync from Recruiting to Career Site Builder
- Enable the Unified Data Model
- Diagnose and correct system setup errors
Building the Career Site
- Enable global site settings
- Enable initial settings in the career site
- Enable the customer's brands
- Set permissions for brands
- Populate the Brand field on the job requisition template
- Configure microsites for branded sites, if used
- Create the home page template
- Create the content pages template
- Create the category pages template
- Create the headers
- Create the footers
- Configure the search experience
- Replace system text on the site, if required
- Configure custom job layouts
- Configure the cookie banner/policy
- Configure the job alert email template
- Enable a content security policy, if required
- View and delete legacy functions
- Enter the iteration 1 issue revisions in the career site
- Enter the iteration 2 issue revisions in the career site
- Enter the iteration 3 issue revisions in the career site
- Review localization requirements and responsibilities with the customer
- Enable the approved locales
- Duplicate each page on the career site and enter the translated text
- Create a header and footer for each localized page and enter the translated text
- Enable other locale-specific settings
Moving the Career Site to Production
- Generate a certificate signing request file with the customer's IT security team
- Direct the customer to procure the certificate from a certificate authority
- Provide the CNAME to the customer
- Configure reminders for certificate renewals
- Use the move to production checklist to move to another environment
- Export the Site Settings, Career Site Builder Settings, Category Pages, and Site Translations XML files
- Update the values in the SiteExport XML file and SiteBuilderExport XML file
- Import the XML files to the production environment
- Run the job sync scheduled job
- Confirm that the import was successful
- Set up roles in Career Site Builder
- Populate the sources where recruiters manually post jobs
- Recommend backlinks from the customer’s corporate site to the career site
- Create a standard XML feed
- Write filter rules for custom XML feeds
- Generate XML feeds to support customer-hosted career sites
- Generate sitemap links
- Perform a quality check of the production site
- Receive written authorization to go live from the customer
- Submit the Referral Engine Task support ticket
Engaging Potential Candidates
- Demonstrate how the customer updates the Candidate Relationship Management workbook with their requirements
- Enable Candidate Relationship Management
- Set user permissions
- Create a data capture form
- Create custom fields and add them to the data capture form
- Create a landing page
- Add a data capture form to a landing page
- Configure the use of the Country field for data capture forms
- Configure a Recruiting email template and trigger so the candidate can set a password
- Demonstrate how recruiters can enable candidates to complete blank fields on data capture forms
- Create a talent pool status set
- Create a talent pool
- Share a talent pool with other users
- Add and manage candidates in a talent pool
- Add attributes to a talent pool so that users can filter the list of talent pools
- Create an email layout for use with email campaigns and manually generated Recruiting emails
- Create a content template for use in email campaigns
- Create an email campaign
- Add recipients to an email campaign
- Create an initial consent opt-in email campaign
- Send email campaigns and view results
- Generate reports on Candidate Relationship Management elements
- Set user permissions to track candidate activity
- Follow a candidate and view their activities
Implementing Source Reporting
- Demonstrate how common reports are generated in Recruiting Advanced Analytics
- Demonstrate how the customer updates the Recruiting Advanced Analytics workbook with their requirements
- Determine with the customer how to map their applicant statuses to Recruiting Advanced Anaylytics
- Complete the initial settings to enable the daily sync job
- Create test candidates to populate each of the applicant statuses
- Map the statuses in Recruiting Advanced Analytics
- Customize field labels for reports
- Purge data if necessary to change status mappings or reload previous data
- Set permissions for Recruiting Advanced Analytics users
- Update the initial settings to ensure that the customer is notified when Applicant Workbench statuses are updated in the future
- Mock up new sources and campaigns