Microsoft rebranded Dynamics 365 Talent as Dynamics 365 Human Resources.( Dynamics 365 Talent is no longer sold -see our February 2020 post. The Attract and Onboard service will be available until 1 February 2022, or until your contract ends, whichever occurs first. LinkedIn is taking the lead on Talent Acquisition, Learning and People Success applications. Linked Talent Hub is a new applicant tracking system (ATS) that became available on 26 September 2019. LinkedIn Learning and Glint complete the portfolio of Talent Management solutions. Microsoft will offer a migration path to LinkedIn Talent Hub. The initial release of LinkedIn Talent Hub supports customers with less than 1000 employees. Data export tools will be available from within Attract to help customers transition to the Talent Acquisition solution of their choosing. Eligible customers using the Talent Onboard app may continue to use it through 1 February 2022 or until the end of their most recent Dynamics 365 contract or renewal, whichever occurs first. Migration tools will be provided within the Onboard app to help customers export onboarding guides.

Core HR – is now Dynamics 365 Human Resources

The key features include:

A central database for staff, with automatic updates.
The ability to set up and run benefit policies.
Automated absence monitoring and time management tracking.
Full CPD management, including performance reviews, matching competencies to job roles and target tracking.
Creation and delivery of training courses, including analysis of outcomes.
A questionnaire feature for gathering feedback and insight from employees. These are conducted digitally, with responses automatically linking to staff records and triggering suggestions for updating policies and strategies.

When you set up a Dynamics 365 Human Resources account, the first stage is to create an HR strategy on the platform. This will provide the overarching structure for how human capital is managed in your organisation, and includes things like specifying whether processes will be managed by department, by jobs or by positions.

Set up plans to guide day-to-day management of your HR operation through Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources. These might be compensation and incentive plans for rewarding strong performance, or they might be training plans which link development to key strategic goals for the business overall.

An advantage of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources is how all of the data that is linked to plans is centrally stored and automatically updated. When you create a scheme for staff benefits such as a company laptop, phone or a car, then logging of data about upgrades and replacements is automated. The same applies to company incentive schemes like health insurance or pensions, which saves huge amounts of time in administration data maintenance work.

Dynamics 365 Human Resources supports compliance with employment laws in different jurisdictions. It will, for example, suggest complying with equality and disability laws, making recommendations based on personnel data.

Dynamics 365 Human Resources Employee Self Service allows employees to view and manage their core data via employee self-service. This ranges from the ability to view and manage personal details, bank information and competencies to compensation, leave & absence and benefits taking the load off from HR personnel making sure they can stay focused working on higher priority tasks.

Managers are also empowered to view and handle processes directly from Manager self-service and do not have to reach out to HR to manage tasks such as team’s to manage their team’s leave & absence, performance, to approve relevant requests or to view their team members’ position or compensation related information.

Leave & Absence in D365 HR was recently enhanced and allows HR to configure and manage as many leave & absence plans as needed and specify multiple details for each plan such as accruals, carry over amounts, how and when the balances are calculated and pro-rata rules to name a few. In addition, time off can be requested from employee self-service or manager self-service and the requests can be viewed in a calendar view format making it easy for manager or HR to assess the situation for any given period of time.

The HR team can effectively manage core processes related to hiring, transferring and terminating employees optionally supported by workflows to ensure that any required approvals are obtained before the processes can be finalised. These processes can be also enriched by utilising Task management in the form of checklists to make sure, that any related activities needed to be completed are distributed to relevant parties to action.

Dynamics 365 Human Resources makes it simple to configure compensation programs your organisation needs to support any plans and guidelines to ensure salaries are recorded properly. Any variable compensation such as bonuses or shares can be also easily recorded and managed within D365 HR to store the information in one place for comprehensive reporting and data management.

Performance management in D365 HR offers the ability to configure and manage reviews and goals accompanied by the option to record activities actioned or to be actioned during the review period. In addition, reviews and goals templates can be constructed to support your business and provide managers and employees with a starting point and a guiding framework to follow during the review process. Support each review by a different workflow to ensure the manager’s and employee’s approvals are in place before the review process is finished.

Dynamics 365 Human Resources allows HR users to schedule courses for which employees can be allowed to be signed up to via employee self-service. Skills and competencies recorded against the course and the course can be transferred to the employee’s record upon completion. HR and Managers can utilise skill assessment and skill to job analysis to see what competencies are needed and potentially missing when compared to required job-related competencies.

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