In the employee recruitment applications, we will be using the key objects shown in the following figure to capture the required information:
The blocks perform the following tasks:
As we are going to use Microsoft CRM 2011 as a platform to build our application, let's map these key blocks with Microsoft CRM 2011 entities:
- Company: The term "account" in Microsoft CRM represents an organization, so we can map the company object with an account entity and can store company information in the account entity.
- Candidate: The Candidate object will store information about suitable candidates for our company. We will use the candidate entity to store all interview related feedback, other position details, and address information. We are going to map the candidate entity with a lead entity, because it has most of the fields OOB that we need for our candidate entity.
- Employee: In Microsoft CRM 2011 sales process, when lead is qualified, it is converted to an account, a contact, and an opportunity, so we utilize this process for our application. When a candidate is selected, we will convert the candidate to an employee using the OOB process, which will map all the candidate information to the Candidate entity automatically.
Let's talk about the process flow that we are going to use in our employee recruitment application. Recruiters will start the process of hiring a candidate by importing candidate resumes in Microsoft CRM under the Candidate entity; we will customize our OOB entities to include the required information. Once data is imported in Microsoft CRM, the recruiter will start the screening of candidates one by one. He will schedule Technical, Project Manager, and finally HR rounds. Once the candidate is selected the recruiter will create an offer letter for that candidate, send it to the respective candidate, and convert the Candidate entity to Employee. The following flowchart shows our employee recruitment application process flow:
