HR-XML Europe to Stage Seminar in Paris on 18 May 2006

Continuing its serial of successful seminars, HR-XML Consortium Europe is organizing a further event in Paris on May 18th. Besides the latest developments from the workgroups SEP localisation, SIDES and European Competencies, this yearís spring event will focus on Lifelong Learning issues like ePortfolio and Europass.

The seminar will be held at the Htel Millennium Paris Opra and is limited to 80 places. It is open to both members of HR-XML Europe and to HR professionals and technology professionals working in the HR field. It will present theoretical background and use cases in HR-XML. Full details of the event and an online registration form are available at www.hr-xml.org/europe .

A former participant explains why he appreciates HR-XML seminars:

We find the topics to be very pertinent and the networking opportunity at these events to be incredibly valuable. Making contact and discussing projects with key industry players and decision makers in an informal manner is highly conducive for business, John Gingrich, WCC Smart Search & Match.

The European SIDES Workgroup
The Staffing Industry Data Exchange Standard, SIDES, was developed to streamline data interchange between software applications in order to automate the procurement of human capital by enterprise customers from staffing companies.
At the May seminar, the European SIDES workgroup will present a case study for TimeCard, an HR-XML schema that is often used by staffing companies.

The European SEP Workgroup
The Staffing Exchange Protocol (SEP) is a set of XML specifications that supports many types of recruiting and staffing transactions. These include the posting of jobs to job boards and company career sites, and the exchange of candidate details.

In February 2006 the new SEP 2.4 Standard has been released. Some of the comments by participants of the Frankfurt seminar in June 2005 and feedback form HR-XML Europe were successfully incorporated.

The European Competencies Workgroup
The European Competencies workgroup will present two European projects. ìProlixî for performance management started in December and aims at linking processes and people, using competences and learning, while monitoring both the learning and business process improvement. The partners of ìTENCompetenceî tend to establish a technical and organisational infrastructure for lifelong competence development.

With ìePortfolioî and ìKITEî we will present two topics from the life long learning sector.

The initiative ePortfolio aims at giving every citizen in the European Union the possibility to store his educational history, work documents and CV data in a standardized format.

KITE is a European project, supported by the European Union that aims at promoting the use of Europass and especially Europass CV. This should be achieved by developing an HR-XML compatible add-on allowing to fill in the Europass CV on blogs using Wordpress 2.0, ELGG and DotClear 2.0.

Business benefits through standardization of encoded values
After standardizing on data structure (syntax) encoding could be the next major goal for HR-XML to achieve. Therefore a new workgroup within HR-XML that has the goal to advise on a coding scheme that members may optionally adopt or reference (i.e. build a translation table between their coding scheme and the HR-XML advised coding scheme) is actually being built up. With this advised coding scheme exchange may take place without further ambiguity.

Seminar Details and Registration
The seminar fee is 150 EUR (including lunch) per participant and 50 EUR for Charter and General members of the HR-XML Consortium Europe. The seminar will mainly be held in English, with a shorter session in French. We will start at 9h00 and end at about 17h00 CET.

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