SAP Knowledge Base Article - Public

3698948 - Candidate search issue in the agency portal - Recruiting Management

Symptom

After 2H 2025 release, Candidate Search on Agency Portal is not fully working. Some of the issues are:

•    When searching for both First and Last Names there are no results;
•    When using special characters, the search doesn't work;
•    The search is not working with specific languages, eg. Polish.

Environment

SAP SuccessFactors Recruiting Management

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Login to agency portal.
  2. Try to search for a candidate by full name / special characters, candidate will not return in search results.
  3. Try to search by either first name or last name without special polish characters, it works.

Resolution

This is a known issue and currently being investigated by engineering team.

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UPDATE: The issue will be fixed as part of the following patch deployment: 2511p17

You can refer to the below Community Page for the Patch Deployment Dates - SAP SuccessFactors Patches Knowledge Base

For more details on the Patch Process and deployment time for your specific Data Center, you can refer to the following page - SAP SuccessFactors Patch Process Overview

 

Keywords

Agency, candidate search, Agency portal. , KBA , LOD-SF-RCM-POR , Career and Agency Portals , Problem

Product

SAP SuccessFactors HCM Core 2505