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Last Updated: 2025-07-25
Reference: Change Job Initiation

Reference: Change Job Initiation

This topic is relevant to the legacy change job experience. We plan to retire this topic in a future release.
Workday enables you to decide how you want administrators to initiate the
Change Job
 business process for a worker. This discoverability enables you to make starting a job change more intuitive for users.
Option
Description
Global Search
Users can initiate the business process from these initiating actions through global search:
  • Change Contingent Worker Details
  • Change Job
  • Change Location
  • Request Transfer
  • Start Job Change
Users can search for change job templates and launch the
Start Job Change
 initiating action automatically from global search on desktop and mobile. Workday displays the change job template in global search when the user has access to the template.
Worker Profile
Enable users to launch change job templates from a worker profile by setting up the
Start Job Change
 report as a profile card.
Dashboards
Add the
Change Job
 task to the My Team Management dashboard to help managers track and manage job changes and time-sensitive tasks for their teams.
Enable users to launch change job templates from dashboards on desktop by setting up the
Start Job Change
 report as a worklet on these dashboards:
  • My Team Management
    . You can make it required on the
    Maintain Dashboards
     task.
  • Your custom dashboards. Go to the
    Enable Worklet for Dashboard
     task and select
    Start Job Change
     to enable it for the custom dashboards you choose. Then, you can add the
    Start Job Change
     worklet to the configured dashboards on the
    Maintain Dashboards
     task.
REST API
Use the
jobChanges
 REST API to start and submit job changes. You can update worker information, such as:
  • Location.
  • Business Title.
  • Job Profile.
  • Position.
  • Job Classification.