SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3599766 - Behaviour of Application Date when candidate is forwarded to default status

Symptom

A non applicant candidate forwarded to Job Requisition as a Late Stage candidate has their application date already updated, even though they have not applied.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management 

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Forward a candidate to a requisition to default status.

Cause

This is deemed an expected behaviour.

Resolution

At the point the candidate is moved to the default status for the first time, regardless if forwarded to the requisition, the system will set the date of this status change as the application date.

Keywords

applicationDate, forward, invite, apply, non, applicant, draft, save, refer, inconsistent , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-APP , Applicants and Job Applications , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting all versions