Oracle Talent Management Cloud - 23A Key Features
Dan Smith, Maitrayee Sharma, Muskan Dhingra, Shivangi Helaiya and Sudeep Mahindrakar
Oracle has recently released a Talent Management Cloud 23A application update. As always, it is full of new enhancements, features and a few hidden gems.
Our Oracle Talent Management Cloud team at Version 1 has been busy analysing the 23A application update, its impact and how it can be utilised to optimise and enhance various business processes that can benefit our customers the most. Here are a few key features in the Talent area that we think can be leveraged to get the most from this release.
Recruiting
Candidate Experience — Minimal Template
Oracle continue to focus on Candidate Experience, with further enhancements to the Career Portal functionality.
When raising a requisition, a role can be advertised as On-site, Remote or Hybrid. Potential candidates can filter by this information, with ease.
Further enhancements are included with Autocorrect Keyword Search and Automatic Search — meaning search results are automatically triggered.
Security enhancements are also included in the Career Site Session update. Following a period of inactivity candidates are now prompted to either extend their session or sign off.
Looking ahead, all clients using the Modern template for their Career portal must migrate to the Minimal template with urgency. The Modern template will no longer be supported by Oracle from 23B onwards. If you haven’t done so already, this is a great opportunity to take advantage of numerous product enhancements!
Talent Pools
So far, within Talent Cloud only named owners could access Talent Pools meaning the administrator had to manually add owners to the Talent pool. However, from 23A, you can now grant access to Talent Pools via security profiles thus making Talent Pools accessible to authorised HR administrators.
The Private option still remains, if the owner marks the Talent Pool as Private it cannot be accessed by others or the administrators.
Profile Management
Time-Based Reminders can be enabled for workers who have not updated their Talent Profiles. This feature would enable you to reach out to employees who have not updated their profiles for a number of days thus helping you in keeping the Talent profiles data up-to-date.
Goal Management
You can now enable an enhanced sorting option on Goals which can help end users view a long list of goals conveniently and easily.
In addition to this, you can now Enforce the Maximum Goals limit to restrict Managers & HR specialists to assign additional goals when the maximum number of goal plan limit is reached.
Performance Management
If you are using Job model profiles with target competency ratings, then this can now be viewed within All-in-One Evaluations helping managers to compare and rate the competencies accordingly during performance evaluations.
Learn
Activity sequencing: You can now define the order in which a learner progresses through a series of activities in Offerings or Specializations. You can also define whether completion is required or optional for each activity. Sections can also be defined as group-related activities, improving learner experience when offerings have many activities.
Observation checklists: This is a new checklist introduced in the 23A release. You can add this checklist as an activity of your Offering. This checklists let Learners to rate themselves before Observers rate them. After that Observers fill in a checklist to either rate the Learner’s performance or to sign off on each learning area. The Observer is the final approver of whether the Learner passes or fails that activity. Observer can be a named individual or manager hierarchy or AOR
Employee Experience: Oracle has now launched the Redwood theme across Learn Module thus enhancing the Learning experience further.
Analytics
Recruiting users can now view various metrics regarding the job applications, source tracing and candidates for a requisition. A new section called Metrics can be made available in the Requisition’s Overview tab. The Metrics section displays an OTBI report containing various details about the requisition.
As the default report can be modified as per customer’s need, it gives an added advantage to users to view analytics without leaving Recruiting page. The report displayed in the Metrics section contains 3 tabs:
Job Applications: Displays Gender, Ethnicity, and Disability information for the job applications received for the Requisition.
Source Tracking: Displays the Source medium and Source name used by candidates during a Job application.
Candidate Type: Displays the distribution of Job Applications by Candidate Type such as All External Candidates, All Internal Candidates, Employees, Contingent workers, Ex-Contingent workers and Ex-Employees.
Contributors
Thank you Dan Smith, Maitrayee Sharma, Muskan Dhingra, Shivangi Helaiya and Sudeep Mahindrakar for your valuable contribution to this blog.
About the author
Ranju Gawande is a SaaS Function Head of Oracle Talent Cloud @Version 1 with over 20 years of business process-driven experience in Human Capital Management Suite of Oracle Fusion Cloud & PeopleSoft.
If you have any questions or would like more information on how Version 1 can help you get more out of your Oracle HCM Cloud implementation, please contact her at ranju.gawande@version1.com
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