The foundation skills journey will support you in achieving these common customer business objectives:

• Establish a solid groundwork for Job Architecture

• Establish a cohesive skills framework across the organization

• Improve employee engagement to increase retention

Summary: As you begin your skills journey with Workday, it’s essential to adopt a unified skills model and ontology across your organization. This may involve integrating external vendor skill sources and cleaning up existing skills data. Additionally, rolling out skills for workers to add to their profiles will help establish a clear understanding of the skills available within your organization, potentially segmented by population. Lastly, reviewing and updating Job Profile information will be critical to gaining a comprehensive understanding of the roles needed in your organization and this may include adding skills to a subset of your job profiles. Job Architecture is the connective tissue, it’s one of the most crucial elements to define as you begin your journey in Workday. To minimize rework, it is advisable to ensure job profiles are stable before adding skills.

Exploring Job Architecture in Workday: In this Next Level series, we will explore Workday’s job architecture. You'll learn why it’s often referred to as the backbone of your Workday tenant and why maintaining it's so critical. We'll also review a variety of tools that you can use to help you efficiently maintain its structure.

Steps to Set Up Job Profile Business Process:  Workday improves the Manage Job Profile business process by including relevant skill suggestions generated by machine learning insights within the context of the business process user interface.

Steps to Set Up Job Description Generation on Job Profiles: Job Description Generation on Job Profile enables you to create job descriptions using generative artificial intelligence and reduce manual effort.

Suggested Skills for Job Profiles: Suggested Skills for Job Profiles improves the process of managing skills tied to a job profile and enables you to more efficiently identify relevant skills.

Edit Skills on Job Profile Workbook: The Edit Skills on Job Profile Workbook allows you to optimize your skills experience by enabling you to quickly and accurately get skills on your job profiles in bulk.

Set Up Considerations: Skills Cloud: You can use this topic to help make decisions when planning your configuration and use of Workday Skills Cloud.

Steps: Set Up Skills Cloud:  You can set up your tenant to access Skills Cloud, a library of customer-contributed worker skills that Workday shares across all Skills Cloud-enabled customer tenants.

Enable Skills Cloud: When you enable Skills Cloud, Workday automatically begins evaluating skills in your tenant for potential matches, either exact or synonymous with Skills Cloud skills.

Steps to Maintain Skills: You can use the Maintain Skills report to manage and track skills that are important to your organization. This report lists all the maintained skills in your tenant.

Concept — Automated Skills Management: Workday Skills Cloud performs regular automated background processes to clean up and maintain skills in your tenant. These background processes perform:

• Duplicate Skill Management
• Synonym Skill Management
• Deprecated Skill Management

Workday Skills Cloud Ontology Insights and Cadence: With each ontology update, we move references and replace outdated skills to reflect all changes to Skills Cloud skills since our last ontology update.

Suggested Skills for Workers: Suggested Skills for Workers is designed to help workers keep their profile skills up to date and help customers understand the skills possessed by their workforce.

Mass Populate Worker Profiles with Skills: This enables you to mass populate worker profiles with skills. This task enables you to choose the skills you want to populate based on these possible sources:

• Explicit skills for workers' primary job profiles
• Suggestions skills based on workers' primary job profile
• Suggested skills based on worker user profile

Journeys: Workday Journeys enable you to build tailored experiences, with personalized journey paths and modular cards that guide through activities. Journeys provides a personalized page with links that enable users to:

• View information
• Complete tasks
• Navigate to multiple sites that include Workday and non-Workday content

When administrators distribute a journey, a Journeys announcement displays on the Home page that users see when Workday first opens. Enable Journeys to courage skills adoption.

• Journeys Template - Career Profile / Skills Cloud Launch - Prompting for Skills
• Workday Journeys FAQ

Skills Reporting and Dashboards: This content describes how to migrate the Skills dashboard. It is intended to provide basic insight around skills adoption, team snapshot of skills, and how engaged employees are in upskilling (as measured by participation in Talent Marketplace, Flex Teams, Learning, and Mentorships). This solution available through your Customer Central tenant's Configuration Catalog.

Leveraging Skills Interoperability: Learn more about how Workday technology can help you normalize external skills with the Workday Skills Cloud, simplifying the path to making Workday the source of truth for all your skills data.

• Leveraging Skills Interoperability FAQ
• Skills Interoperability and Software Alliances Partners

Manager Insights Hub: Manager Insights Hub provides managers with automated insights and actionable steps that they can take to support team career growth and development.

The intermediate skills journey will support you in achieving these common customer business objectives:

• Further develop and expand Job Architecture

• Enable Equitable Hiring and Identify & source top candidates for critical business needs

• Create & foster a culture of internal mobility

Summary: As you progress in your skills journey, continue using AI to enrich and expand job profiles and begin updating requisitions with relevant skills. Gaining insights is essential—start analyzing the skills present within your organization and identifying any gaps. Plan for scenarios that balance skills supply (workers) with demand (job profiles), and strategize how to recruit and develop the skills needed. Incorporate skills into the recruiting process, support employee development through suggested learning, and measure skill proficiencies and capabilities to drive growth.

Steps to Set Up Job Profile Business Process: Workday improves the Manage Job Profile business process by including relevant skill suggestions generated by machine learning insights within the context of the business process user interface.

Steps to Set Up Job Description Generation on Job Profiles: Job Description Generation on Job Profile enables you to create job descriptions using generative artificial intelligence and reduce manual effort.

Suggested Skills for Job Profiles:  Suggested Skills for Job Profiles improves the process of managing skills tied to a job profile and enables you to more efficiently identify relevant skills.

Edit Skills on Job Profile Workbook: The Edit Skills on Job Profile Workbook allows you to optimize your skills experience by enabling you to quickly and accurately get skills on your job profiles in bulk.

Suggested Skills on Job Requisitions: Suggested Skills for Job Requisitions augments the process of managing skills tied to a job requisition.

Suggested Skills for External Candidates: Suggested Skills for External Candidates and Prospects improve candidate and prospect experience and engagement.

Suggested Job for External Candidates: Suggested Jobs for External Candidates improves candidate experience and engagement by presenting external candidates with suggestions of additional jobs they can apply to.

HiredScore Overview: HiredScore’s AI-powered talent orchestration drives transformative shifts and measurable outcomes in recruiting and talent mobility by boosting productivity, reducing time-to-hire, elevating decision-making, and fostering employee growth.

Learning Recommendations: Learning Recommendations improves the learner experience and promotes engagement by presenting users with suggestions of learning content they might want to enroll in.

Learning Skills Tagging: Learning Skills Tagging improves the experience for learning administrators by providing skill suggestions for learning content.

Cloud Connect for Learning: When you set up Cloud Connect for Learning, you can import content from these third-party providers into your tenant, enabling you to deliver rich and engaging playback experiences.

Skill Assessments: Workday now supports structured skill assessments by enabling assessors to rate worker profile skills, job profile skills, and other skills for workers.

Talent Marketplace: With Talent Marketplace, workers can access 2 applications:

• Opportunity Marketplace for workers looking for career growth opportunities such as jobs, Flex Teams (previously Gigs), and learning content suggestions. We only make recommendations for purchased products

• Flex Teams (simple flex teams and roles) for workers who are looking to assemble and reassemble teams in an agile way

Set Up Skill Endorsements and Ratings: You can configure feedback templates that enable feedback providers to either endorse or rate skills for workers.

Skills Reporting and Dashboards: This content describes how to migrate the Skills dashboard. It is intended to provide basic insight around skills adoption, team snapshot of skills, and how engaged employees are in upskilling (as measured by participation in Talent Marketplace, Flex Teams, Learning, and Mentorships). This solution is available through your Customer Central tenant's Configuration Catalog.

The advanced skills journey will support you in achieving these common customer business objectives:

• Continue to further develop and expand Job Architecture

• Accelerate Talent growth & development

• Reward and pay for skills and supporting equitable compensation

Summary: As you advance toward a more mature skills journey, continue to refine your Job Architecture. Focus on identifying, scheduling, and allocating resources based on skill requirements. Promote development through skills-based career and succession planning. Develop compensation strategies tied to skill capabilities and growth, and identify emerging skill needs, incorporating them into your workforce planning efforts.

Steps to Set Up Job Profile Business Process: Workday improves the Manage Job Profile business process by including relevant skill suggestions generated by machine learning insights within the context of the business process user interface.

Steps: Set Up Job Description Generation on Job Profiles: Job Description Generation on Job Profile enables you to create job descriptions using generative artificial intelligence and reduce manual effort.

Suggested Skills for Job Profiles: Suggested Skills for Job Profiles improves the process of managing skills tied to a job profile and enables you to more efficiently identify relevant skills.

Edit Skills on Job Profile Workbook: The Edit Skills on Job Profile Workbook allows you to optimize your skills experience by enabling you to quickly and accurately get skills on your job profiles in bulk.

Career Hub: Career Hub provides workers an application that empowers them to manage and plan their career development. Upon entry of the Career Hub, worker skills and skills interests surface suggestions for them to explore and add to their career journey, such as Flex Teams, Mentors, Connections, Career Pathing, Open Jobs and Learning.

Skills in Compensation Reviews: Adds employee skill information from worker profiles to compensation reviews.

Total Value Compensation Matrix: Workday makes it easier to implement a skills-based reward structure. You can configure a Total Value Compensation Matrix based on a custom calculation that incorporates skills from the job profile, performance, or other worker attributes.

Compensation Survey Job Match: Compensation Survey Jobs Recommendations provides you with recommended benchmark jobs to match with job profiles.

Skills In People Analytics: Workday People Analytics uses explanatory stories to help you understand and act on the most critical trends and gaps in your workforce.

Skills Reporting and Dashboards: This content describes how to migrate the Skills dashboard. It is intended to provide basic insight around skills adoption, team snapshot of skills, and how engaged employees are in upskilling (as measured by participation in Talent Marketplace, Flex Teams, Learning, and Mentorships). This solution is available through your Customer Central tenant's Configuration Catalog.