Often SAP products are prejudged as being too complex and hard to use even before users get a chance to really try them out. Sure, there is room for improvement, but there is with any product. SAP has come a long way in improving the user experience of it’s products. It’s like I often joke when talking about how users feel when told they have to change from one software product for another – “change is bad”.

Some end users assume that changing to SAP products is a bad thing.  But you could argue that changing to any new software can be difficult, especially if you’ve used a product for years. Take myself, for example, after years and years of using PCs, I’ve recently switched over to a Mac. I know so many people swear by Macs and applaud how useable they are and how they are just the bees’ knees. I’m still not totally sold. Even after months of using a Mac, I still get frustrated by the Mac navigation and long for my old PC. User experience is so subjective.

One way SAP has made SAP E-Recruiting more usable is to make it easy it is to create custom worklists. This means recruiters are able to define worklists with the information they want to see in case it’s not already pushed to them in one of the many standard delivered dashboards.  Below is a video tutorial I recorded on how you can easily take the My New Applications dashboard worklist and set up a filter to only show new employee referrals. But remember, this is just an example and you can create custom queries or worklists based on any of the worklists in SAP E-Recruiting. Try it out and have fun!

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Cheers, Kim

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