Just as Workday has accustomed us to in the past, the new 2024R1 brings new and improved features for Recruiting, allowing the users to leverage their processes and strategies.
The features presented are focused on improving the recruitment process up to the point of hire, making it more efficient (e.g.: Regenerate Employment Agreement, Improve communication with SMS messages), optimizing the work of recruiters in managing their candidates and job requisitions (e.g.: Notification on Disposition, Disposition Categories, Candidate Rating) and facilitating the candidate’s access to information and applying to the most accurate opportunities (e.g.: Paradox Olivia chatbot, Skills cloud with resume and search).
While we eagerly anticipate the array of all the new features and enhancements that will directly impact the recruiting management of all customers, we’ve selected five different features that caught our eye and will impact these three areas mentioned – process, recruiters/admins work, and candidates.
1. Candidate Rating
What is it: Provides the ability to calculate and display qualitative ratings for candidates based on specific chosen criteria (e.g.: years of service, educational path).
Benefits:
• Informed decisions during the hiring process.
• Flexibility to determine the evaluation criteria.
• Usage of templates with repeatable criteria to rate individuals on job applications.
• Can be used alongside other features such as Ranking and ML Candidate Skills Match to evaluate candidates.
2. Regenerate Employment Agreement
What is it: A new task and business process that enables the regeneration of the Employment Agreement document with corrected data after completing a hire, allowing to change details of the letter, and making it easier to review the updated document for candidates and pre-hires.
Benefits:
• Improves hiring efficiency by reducing manual effort, and compliance risks.
• Increases consistency by aligning with existing capabilities for regenerating Offers.
3. Skills Could for Candidate Pools and Prospect Introduce Yourself
What is it: Enhances candidate pools by enabling the recruiter to select Skill Cloud skills for dynamic candidate pool membership. Additionally, prospects can add their skills in the Introduce Yourself form on external career sites while submitting their resume and receiving suggested skills.
Benefits:
• Useful information about candidates.
• Allows to identify prospects and candidates matching the hiring needs.
• Allows a better understanding of the target candidates.
4. Paradox AI (Olivia) Chatbot for External Career Site
What is it: Allows external candidates to have a conversation with the Paradox AI chatbot to receive job suggestions and assistance when completing applications. Is important to know that to use this feature, the customer must have a Paradox license.
Benefits:
• Improves engagement on external career sites.
• Easier for candidates to find and apply for job opportunities according to their background/needs.
• Less administrative work for Recruiters and talent teams.
5. Configure Job Requisitions Fields
What is it: Enables to hide or display certain fields on job requisition tasks, preventing the creation of a new position as part of a Job Requisition/Start Job Requisition or the creation of a Job Requisition for an existing position.
Benefits:
• Improves control and flexibility.
• Allow rethinking the access management to these tasks.
• Prevents the need for workarounds previously used such as validations on job requisition business process.
These are only five of many other new features and improvements to existing functionalities that Workday Recruiting presented as part of 2024R1, we could mention many others (e.g.: as the Event Management for candidate engagement or Disposition Categories). We invite you to check it out at Workday Community and get to know more about all the new updates that can help you to improve your company’s results.
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