HR solutions for a Microsoft world
Review types is where most of the heavy lifting gets done in terms of controlling how your review process works (obviously, if you’re doing performance without reviews, you can skip this bit). For each review type you create, you can select criteria that determine how reviews of this category work. There are five criteria: Enable … Read more
Just to be 100% clear – because it’s one of those terms that could mean several different things – a review in Talent is a formalised checkpoint between the manager and the employee, which gets recorded into the system. Several things are potentially recorded against a review – you might add in goals, to show … Read more
I’m about to kick off a project phase implementing performance management for a customer. It’s not something I do every day, so I’m taking a bit of time to refresh my memory. While I’m doing that, I thought I’d ping out a few posts about how it works (so that refreshing my memory is quicker … Read more
We all know them. They walk among us. People who don’t use the names their parents gave them. They’ve been causing HR people headaches for years. You can’t find them in alpha lists, the payroll department never know who you’re talking about and you risk public ridicule (not to mention GDPR complaints) if you accidentally … Read more
If you’ve read my ‘About’ page, you’ll know that I was raised in a SAP world when it comes to HRIS. And if you’ve ever touched SAP, you’ll know that it is OBSESSED with dates. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, and one of the features I found hardest to get my head around in … Read more
I’ve been working with a company lately who were at risk of falling foul of GDPR, because the partner they were previously working with hadn’t properly secured their workers’ address and contact info during the data migration phase. We fixed it for them, but it was fiddly, and cost a few quid in hours spent … Read more
A quick one this but one which lots of people have been asking. Attract (the recruitment bit of Talent) is still available within your average Talent plan. You know, the one that costs $200/month for 5 users. Or the one that comes bundled with Plan 2 / Unified Operations. It’s still there. But Microsoft have … Read more
Accruals are boring and surely nobody’s favourite subject, but they have to be done. You have to tell Talent to go away and run the code that calculates what leave people are entitled to. You do this from the Leave and absence workspace, under Links > Manage leave > Accrue leave and absence plans. You … Read more
Employees can obviously see their balances in self service. But as HR we can also go into their worker record, check which plans they’re enrolled on, and see what their balances are on each. To do that you can either go into the worker record and hit the ‘Leave and absence’ button, or in a … Read more
When your plans are all set you can start enrolling workers onto them. There are about 356 different places you can enrol workers onto leave plans: From the worker record (leave and absence) From the leave and absence workspace dashboard From the leave plan form My personal preference, even when enrolling new workers, is to … Read more