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Last Updated: 2025-09-19
Steps: Set Up Similar Existing Job Profiles

Steps: Set Up Similar Existing Job Profiles

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature based on your organization's subscription service agreement. Your organization is either on the Main Service Agreement (MSA) or the Universal Main Service Agreement (UMSA). To determine your organization's subscription service agreement:
  1. Select your profile avatar on Workday Community.
  2. Select
    Profile
    .
  3. On your profile page, select your organization's name, which is beneath your name and next to your job title.
  4. View your
    Subscription Service Agreement
     value.
If the value is:
  • UMSA
    , the feature is automatically available. You can skip the
    Enable Innovation Services Feature and AI Data Contributions for MSA Customers
     step. For more information on Machine Learning data contributions, see Concept: Workday AI for Universal Main Subscription Agreement Customers.
  • MSA
    , you must enable this feature through Innovation Services using the
    Enable Innovation Services Feature and AI Data Contributions for MSA Customers
    step.
Note: UMSA customers don't have Innovation Services tasks and reports in their tenants as these are for MSA customers only. UMSA customers can ignore all information regarding Innovation Services.
Security:
Job Profile: Find Similar Jobs
 domain in the Staffing functional area. Users must have access through an unconstrained security group.
The Similar Existing Job Profiles feature enables you to view similar job profiles using generative artificial intelligence when using the
Manage Job Profile
 business process. This helps you reduce duplicate job profiles.
Workday uses these data points to determine similar job profiles:
  • Job Profile Name
  • Job Profile Summary
  • Job Description
  1. Access the
    Innovation Services and Data Selection Opt-In
     task.
    You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature depending on your organization's subscription service agreement. For more information, see this Community article.
  2. On the
    Innovation Services Opt In
     tab, select
    HCM
     on the
    Available Services
     tab.
  3. On the
    Maintain Innovation Services Data Selection Opt In
     tab, select
    HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA
    .
  4. Select the
    Opt In
     check box to enable the
    Talent Profile Data
    category on the
    HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA
     tab.
  5. If you’re already opted in to Innovation Services and Data Selection Categories, you must select the
    Opt In to Additional Data
     check box, if available.
  6. (Optional) Customize the criteria for returning similar job profiles:
    Access the
    Maintain Find Similar Job Profiles
     task. Select which fields must have identical values in order to be considered similar. Example: When you select
    Job Level
    , Workday only displays job profiles with the same job level.
When you access the
Manage Job Profile
 business process, Workday displays a
Does This Job Profile Already Exist?
 panel with the
Similar Existing Job Profiles
 report.
You want to create a new job profile for a Machine Learning Engineer. You access the
Create Job Profile
 task which launches the
Manage Job Profile
 business process. You enter a
Job Profile Name
. The
Does This Job Profile Already Exist?
 panel displays a similar job profile that already exists. You cancel the creation of the new job profile, and edit the existing job profile to match your needs.
It may take up to a week to see results in your Production tenant after opting in.
The Find Similar Job Profiles machine learning features can only be used in your Preview and Production tenants. Implementation tenants are not supported.