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Last Updated: 2025-10-03
Steps: Set Up Mass Populate Skills for Workers

Steps: Set Up Mass Populate Skills for Workers

The
Mass Populate Skills for Workers
 task allows you to efficiently build a comprehensive skills inventory and enhance worker profiles. By mass populating skills, you save time and effort while improving talent identification and strategic talent management.
If you are enabling Skills Cloud for the first time, we recommend waiting at least 2 weeks until the initial data processing is complete before running this task. See Setup Considerations: Skills Cloud.
  1. (Optional) Access the
    Maintain Skills and Experience Setup
     task and in the
    Skills
     section, consider:
    • Populate Suggested Skills for Job Profiles
    • Populate Suggested Skills for Workers
  2. (Optional) Create a custom notification message that workers receive when this task identifies skills to add to their profiles. You can set up your message in
    Custom Notification Message for Mass Populate Worker Profile Skills
     in the
    Maintain Skills and Experience Setup
     task. If you don't create a custom notification message, Workday delivers a default message.
  3. Edit Domain Security Policies.
    Configure access to the
    Set Up: Mass Populate Worker Profile Skills
     domain in the Worker Profile and Skills functional area.
  4. Access the
    Mass Populate Worker Profile Skills
     task. As you complete
    Define Worker Population
     section, consider:
    Option
    Description
    Location
    (Optional) Select the physical location of a business site.
    Supervisory Organization
    (Optional) Select the supervisory organization. You can include subordinate organizations once this option is selected.
    Workers with Fewer than Specified Number of Skills
    Enter the minimum number of skills on the worker profile.
  5. As you complete the
    Select Skills Source
    Job Profile
    section, consider:
    Option
    Description
    Skills from the Worker's Primary Job Profile
    (Optional) Add the skills from the worker's primary job profile to their worker profile. Workday includes all of the skills from the
    Job Profile
    source.
  6. As you complete the
    Select Skills Sources
    Suggested Skills
     section, consider:
    Option
    Description
    Suggested Skills for Job Profile
    (Optional) Add the suggested skills based on the worker’s primary job profile.
    Suggested Skills for Worker Profile
    (Optional) Add the suggested skills based on the worker user profile.
    Maximum Number of Suggested Skills to be Added
    Enter the number of suggested skills you want to add to the worker profile. By default, we set this value to 10. You can include up to 20 suggested skills from the
    Suggested Skills
     sources. Workday includes up to the specified number of suggested skills for job profiles and worker profiles based on the relevance of the suggestions.
  7. Select the
    Confirm You Understand This Action Can't Be Undone
     check box. Once you run this task, you can’t rescind it. Applies to all workers who meet the criteria specified in the
    Define Worker Population
     section.
Workday creates a notification for workers to review the skills populated for their worker profile. Workers retain full control of the skills on their worker profile, and can remove any skills added by the
Mass Populate Worker Profile Skills
 task.