It has the potential to expand the size and enhance the usability of job and candidate databases, benefiting hiring managers and job-seekers alike. On this topic Newsletters IT Career Advisor. But facing no competition, HR-XML appears inevitable. The SEP, like other XML applications, is an industry-specific vocabulary and set of rules for exchanging data. It provides companies a way to agree on basic terms, such as job titles and skills.
Additional schemas are in the works for payroll and benefits enrollment.
The potential benefits of HR-XML SEP are compelling. It promises to eventually to reduce the cost of software and online recruitment data by obviating developers' need to write custom interfaces between their products and those of other vendors. Search engines will provide better hits, and HR people will have an easier time evaluating candidates' qualifications. That's the semiofficial word, but I encountered a disconcerting vagueness and evasiveness when pressing vendors and analysts to explain what corporations must do to make their current and future documents fit the standard. According to HR-XML proponents and industry analysts, it is mostly up to software and service vendors to add SEP support to their products.