2441671 - Previous Employment ID in Employment Information

What does Previous Employment ID (prevEmployeeID) in Employment Information section does?

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• Employee Central - Rehire / Hire
• Employee Central - Job Information
• Employee Central - Employment Information

Previous Employment ID is available under employment information section while doing Rehire / Hire

it is then shown in employment details section where hire details are maintained

This field shows the previous employee ID if the employee has been at the company before.

•  The new ID differs from the old ID, because the employee is considered as a new hire, even if the employee has worked for the same company before

Also

• We verified with our Core Engineering team and were informed that previous employment ID is just a plain text field. It doesn’t have any logic or associations
• So when doing re-hiring with new employment ID, you have to manually maintain this field (you need to first know, what is old employment ID and then enter this in new employment details)
• This field is just a reference, if you want to search the previous employment of this employee, you can just refer to this field and search inactive employee with same ID and see the details
• This will NOT link two profiles in any way, it is just another field where you can put/maintain an old ID as reference, if needed in future

Via UI

• Go to BCUI
• Go to Manage Business Configuration
• Click employmentInfo
• Enable field: prevEmployeeId

Via SDM Data Model

<hris-element id="employmentInfo">

<hris-field max-length="256" id="prevEmployeeId" visibility="none">

      <label>Previous Employment ID</label>

       <label xml:lang="de-DE">Frühere Mitarbeiterkennung</label>

      <label xml:lang="en-GB">Previous Employment ID</label>

       <label xml:lang="fr-FR">Identifiant d’emploi précédent</label>

          </hris-field>

FAQ - Additional Information

Q) Where can I get information on this from the Guide?

A)

• Guide:  Data Model Field Information for Employee Central  - Chapter:Previous Employment ID
• Guide: Using Global Assignments and Concurrent Employment in SAP SuccessFactors
• Guide - Chapter:Possible ID Outputs for Rehire with New Employment

• 2835790 - How To Use The Same Username For Rehire With New Employment? 
• 2677136 - Enable Login with Old User Name - Explained
• 3169765 - [Onboarding] FAQ on Rehire with old employement - Onboarding 2205 release update
• 3236800 -Rehire with New Employment UserID and PersonID - Onboarding
• 2495643 - SuccessFactors User IDs - Clarifying the Different IDs
• 2493579 - Employee Central: Person/User IDs Used Within Employee Central - SuccessFactors Employee Profile

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