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"HR-XML" is a term commonly used in referring to the XML Schema library developed by the HR-XML Consortium, Inc.

The HR-XML Consortium is an independent, non-profit consortium that develops freely available interoperability specifications for human resources management. The focus of its work is the development of specifications for electronic exchange between arms-length HR service providers.

The HR-XML Consortium was incorporated in California in 1999. It is classified under the U.S. tax code as a non-profit, 501(c)(6) business league.

Members

The HR-XML Consortium is a membership organization. Memberships are available for individuals and organizations. Most organizational members are HR services providers that have the need to interact with arms-length trading partners in conducting their business. HR-XML's current members include the world's largest software companies and leading companies in the HR services industry.

Scope of Work

Human resources spans a diverse number of business processes. The HR-XML Consortium has developed a broad range of specifications designed to enable e-business between arms-length HR service providers. Among the types of interactions supported by HR-XML Consortium specifications are: A full set of documentation and standalone and modular schemas can be downloaded at no cost by registering at the HR-XML website.

Use Examples

Below are a few examples of uses HR-XML specifications are design to fill:
  • Assessments: An Internet-based recruiting solution may want to provide its clients a way to order testing or assessments from a third-party test publisher or assessment firm. HR-XML provides a set of XML schemas defining messages such companies might use for order creation and fulfillment.
  • Staffing: An employer may use a staffing management or vendor management system (VMS) to place requisitions for temporary help with staffing suppliers. HR-XML's "Staffing Industry Data Exchange Standards" (SIDES) define a set of messages to manage the interactions between the VMS and the staffing supplier system throughout the requisition process.
  • Employee benefits: An employer may use a benefits services outsourcing company as its record keeper for employee benefit programs. That outsourcing company may use HR-XML's enrollment and indicative data specifications to keep related benefit plan partners (for example, insurance companies) up-to-date with current employee benefit elections and status changes (for example, name changes, termination of employment, adoption of a dependent, designation of beneficiaries, etc.).

Adoption of HR-XML Specifications

There is documented adoption of HR-XML by companies in many regions of the World. Localized content or adaptations have been provided within the HR-XML library for market requirements within France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, and the United States.

Certification

One measure of adoption has been the growing number of service providers who have been awarded HR-XML certification.

HR-XML capabilities or conformance also are claimed in the communications of many companies who have not been awarded certification.

Case Studies

Adoption also is evidenced by case studies published by the HR-XML Consortium.

See also

  • OpenSkills a global non-profit association of individuals that provides a freely searchable database of resumes based on the HR-XML schema.

External links

XML schema is a description of a type of XML document, typically expressed in terms of constraints on the structure and content of documents of that type, above and beyond the basic syntax constraints imposed by XML itself.
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A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for
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OpenSkills

Non-Profit Association
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