New name, new hashtag, new focus

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

Changing how leave balances display in ESS

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

Task guides – the tool I’d always wanted

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

Personnel actions – what and why

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

What’s new – Use organisation service accounts to send emails from Attract

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

What’s new – Candidate consent on application

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