HR solutions for a Microsoft world
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
Edit: 22 November 2019 – a few new fields have been added to leave plans, which have changed how others work. There’s no point leaving the old version of this post active (it’s not like anyone’s using the old version of Talent) so I’m going to add them to this post now and edit what … Read more
Leave types are one of the foundation bits of config for setting up leave and absence in Talent. At first they might just seem like broad categories, but in fact they’re a bit more significant. When a user books leave in self-service, the list of values they select from in order to indicate the sort … Read more
Leave and absence is one area where Microsoft are spending a lot of effort at the moment. Every time I go back to it to complete the setup for a client it looks a bit different than it did the time before. New fields get added, forms change slightly, and it can do more than … Read more
Once you’ve done all the setup, creating courses is the easy bit. Courses, if you didn’t already know, are legal entity specific. So you have to make sure that you’re working in the correct legal entity when you start creating them (if you don’t have more than one legal entity, you don’t need to worry). … Read more
Once you’ve finished the location setup, you can move on to defining how courses can be categorised. This took me a while to get my head around, because the three core concepts can seem a bit vague when you’re first trying to work out what to do with them. They are: Courses Course types Course … Read more
I’ve got high hopes for where MS are going to go with Course Management over the next few months, and hoping in particular that they’ll do something imaginative with the Lynda.com platform that came bundled with the LinkedIn acquisition, but that remains to be seen. For now I thought I’d refresh my memory on how course … Read more