Symptom
When you manually creates a candidate profile via Add Candidate, it shows "Error encountered while creating candidate".
Environment
SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management
Reproducing the Issue
- Go to Recruiting > Candidates
- Click 'Add Candidate' to create a candidate profile
- Click 'Create Profile' and it shows "Error encountered while creating candidate".
Cause
This error is caused by misconfigurations in Candidate Profile template.
A possible cause is that the type-id of a background element is more than 4 digits.
e.g. <background-element id="information" type-id="10000" sensitive="false">
Resolution
Please review the configurations in Candidate Profile template.
The type-id of a background element must be an integer up to 4 digits numbers (1-9999).
See Also
2343467 - Candidate Profile - Implementation Tips & Tricks from Support - Recruiting Management
Keywords
NUMERIC OVERFLOW, THE TARGET PRECISION IS: 4, add a single candidate, background element, career site, external candidate, create candidate , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-CAP , Candidate Profiles , Problem