Understanding Profile Architecture
Profiles are widely used by organizations to describe the attributes of jobs or individuals. Typically, profiles summarize the competencies, qualifications, and skills of a job or a person. The Manage Profiles business process in PeopleSoft Human Resources provides a framework for developing and managing profiles that meet your industry or organizational requirements.
During the recruitment process, PeopleSoft Talent Acquisition Manager uses profiles to capture job requirements and applicant qualifications.
These are some of the architectural elements for profiles that are relevant to Talent Acquisition Manager:
Term |
Definition |
|---|---|
Profile |
An organized collection of data that represents attributes of a person or of a business object such as a job code. |
Content Type |
A category of information in a profile. Delivered content types that support recruiting processes include competencies, languages, memberships, degrees, licenses & certificates, and so forth. |
Content Item |
A specific attribute that is associated with a particular content type. For example, for the content type Competencies, content items are specific competencies such as analytical thinking or the ability to prioritize tasks. |
Profile Type |
Profile types define the structure of your profiles. A profile type includes content types, but not content items. That is, a particular profile type might include content types such as competencies and memberships, but it does not reference particular competencies or particular memberships. The profile type also defines whether the profile is linked to person IDs to create person profiles, or linked to business entities, such as job code or positions, to create non-person profiles. Four profile types are delivered as system data. Use the CLUSTER, ROLE, and JOB profile types to create non-person profiles, and the PERSON profile type to create profiles that describe your employees. |