Overview

This article describes the ‘STANDARD REPORT Applications by date period’ report available in SAP BusinessObjects. This article includes:


About this report

This report provides a detailed breakdown of application behavior over a defined period of time.  Information is provided in a charted format; as tables; and as a data set for detailed analysis.  Input Control functionality allows for dynamic data interrogation and comparison of similar data sets from within BusinessObjects.  Alternatively the entire report can exported to Excel where all the usual Excel analysis tools can be used.


This report can be scheduled as an Excel spreadsheet and emailed directly to recipients on a regular basis.


Use this report to answer questions such as:

  • How many applications have been submitted in the specified time period (e.g. this week, month, year etc)?
  • How many applications have been submitted for a specific job or business group?
  • How busy are different recruiters / the recruitment team?
  • From which media sources are applications coming from? This breakdown of applications by media code helps check the strength of organization advertising spend.
  • Which business and/or jobs get high numbers of employee referrals?
  • Which jobs are getting high numbers of applications; should the job posting strategy be revised to reduce the number of different sources? Or can the knock out questions be tightened? How far through the application process do different subsets of applicants get? For example, is the calibre of candidate higher for different jobs/locations/business groups? How many of the applications made in X time period have moved through to the Hired bucket?
  • Which business groups and/or jobs are struggling to receive applications?


Running this report

Full instructions on running a report can be found here.


Report structure

This report is made up of four tabs:

  1. Applications report - this tab provides a graphical representation of the key elements in the report.
  2. Applications source data - this tab provides a summary of the sourcing information relation to all of the applications which are included in the parameters of the report.
  3. Applications data - this tab includes all of the raw data that is included in the parameters of the report. This raw data can be easily interrogated using Input Controls or alternatively exported to Excel for further analysis using the suite of Excel tools.
  4. Parameters - this tab includes all the parameters and prompts that were used to create this report. If required, here you can check what information the report is based on


Input controls

The input controls used in this report are detailed below.  

Please note:  Always double check that the input controls which appear selected are in fact what is showing in your numbers.  It is extremely easy to believe an input control is selected when it isn’t – and vice versa. For information about using Input Controls to interrogate your data dynamically from within BusinessObjects please refer to this article Using Input Controls.

  • Recruiter
  • Is Hired
  • Business group L1
  • Business group L2
  • Business group
  • Detailed source for application
  • Month of Application
  • Job category
  • Candidate type when applying



Example report



An example of a STANDARD REPORT Applications by date period is also attached (in .xls format)