HR solutions for a Microsoft world
How often, when you start a new job, have you been handed IT equipment with an asset tag on it? You know the sort of thing, a little sticker with a barcode and/or a number on it that tells you ‘we know you have this gear, try not to lose it/break it/drop it down the … Read more
I should have seen it coming really. I was warned. There was no excuse. ‘Naming your blog after a Microsoft product will send you bankrupt in domain names‘ (Joel Leichty, 2019). Well fool me once, Microsoft, shame on you. Fool me twice? No chance. Having – slightly to my surprise and despite having a rather … Read more
TL:DR – the loss of Attract is disappointing but justifiable. Onboard was a simple gem of a product and should have been rolled into Office 365 as an optional add on. Note to translators and syndicators – do me a favour and don’t use this post anywhere else. I’d rather it stayed just on this … Read more
Every so often working with Talent I’ll stumble on a parameter that either I haven’t noticed before, or that’s been recently added. I had that experience today with a drop down under Human resource parameters > Leave and absence. It was marked ‘Balance calculation’ and seemed to have defaulted to ‘Balance as of today’. The … Read more
Praise be to Elvis (and certain lovely people in the Talent product team who shall remain nameless), the feature we’ve all been asking for since July 2017 is here… You can now copy a Talent Core HR environment. There’s been some confusion around this for a while now. So let’s take a little bit of … Read more
This is another one of those features that falls into the category of ‘everyone knows that, right?’… …And then you have a conversation with someone who’s never worked with Dynamics before and is trying to implement Talent, and you realise that Task Guides is the feature you wished you had 15 years ago when you … Read more
I’ve been meaning to write this post for ages, but a combination of life in general and more exciting things to do keep getting in the way. What’s finally nudged me in to it is working with a customer this week who were already using Talent before we got involved. They had a number of … Read more
This is probably the single most requested feature in Attract – and now it’s live! How to set up your emails so that they come from a nominated organisation account instead of the default Microsoft ‘Dynamics 365 for Talent’ accounts. Disclaimer – I’ve been testing this this week and have found a couple of bugs … Read more
A few small but significant features have been released into Attract in the last few days. This one allows us to capture explicit consent for the collection and use of candidate personal data at the point of application. Massive for anyone working in a GDPR environment. Here’s two and a half minutes to show you … Read more
I had a conversation with a customer today about how they could take the end result of their pay review (in a spreadsheet) and use that data to create new compensation lines for workers. It’s really easy to do with the Excel Add-in, so I thought I’d make a quick video showing how it’s done … Read more