You enter previous employment information in the Previous Employment Information window.

The Previous Employment Information window is divided into three regions with each region recording separate information about an employees previous employment. The three regions in the Previous Employment Information window are:

• Previous Employer

• Previous Job

• Assignment - Previous Job Mappings

   To enter previous employment details:

1. Enter the previous employer name.

2. Enter an address.

3. Select a country.

4. Select the type of business.

5. Select a subtype for the business type selected at step 4.

6. Enter a description for the employer.

7. Enter start and end dates for the employee's period of employment. The dates entered automatically calculate the period of service in years, months and days.

8. You can override the period of service calculation by entering your own period of service in the Years, Months and Days fields.

9. Use the Further Information flexfield to enter any additional information defined by your localization team.

   For Hungarian users only If the employee joined your enterprise mid-year, specify the number of sickness days they have already taken with their previous employer. You can use this information in an accrual plan to calculate their sickness entitlement for the rest of the year.

10. Select the All Assignments check box to specify that the service period is taken into account for all assignments.

    Note: The All Assignments check box can only be selected if there are no further previous job usages defined in the Assignment region. Once the All Assignments check box is selected no further previous job usages can be defined.

11. Save your work.

12. Mexico only: Specify the employee's previous employment details in the Person EIT.

    See: Person Extra Information Types

   To enter previous job details:

1. Select an empty row in the Previous Job region or place you cursor within an existing row and choose the New button to add a new row.

2. Enter start and end dates for the previous job. The job entered must be associated with the employer and period of service entered at steps 1 to 11. The dates entered automatically calculate the period of service in years, months and days.

3. Enter a job title.

4. Select an employee category.

5. You can override the period of service calculation by entering your own period of service in the Years, Months and Days fields.

6. Enter a description for the previous job.

7. Select the All Assignments check box to specify that the previous job period is taken into account for all assignments.

   Note: The All Assignments check box can only be selected if there are no further previous job usages defined in the Assignment region. Once the All Assignments check box is selected no further previous job usages can be defined.

8. Use the Further Information flexfield to enter any additional information defined by your localization team.

   See: Entering Further Previous Job Information.

9. Choose the Extra Information button to open the Previous Job Extra Information window.

   See: Entering Extra Information

10. Save your work.

   To map previous jobs to an assignment:

1. Select an empty row in the Assignment region or place you cursor within an existing row and choose the New button to add a new row.

2. Select an assignment to map to a previous job specified at steps 12 to 19.

3. Select a job to map to the assignment selected at step 21. Selecting a job automatically displays the Start Date and End Date fields as specified for the job in the Previous Job region.

4. You can override the period of service calculation by entering your own period of service in the Years, Months and Days fields.

5. Use the Further Information flexfield to enter further previous job usage details.

6. Save your work.