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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Interests

Concept: Interests

Interests in Workday enable employee as self users to create and maintain information related to their career and job interests. Using Interests, your employees can plan their career growth or job transitions within your organization. Workday doesn't support career or job interests for contingent workers.

Key Features

When you enable Interests in Workday, your employees can:
  • Quickly create, revise, and post their interests through the
    Talent and Performance
     dashboard or the
    Career Profile
    .
  • Plan their career trajectory by comparing their current role with other employees in your organization using the
    Compare Worker to Jobs
     report.
  • Share career aspirations with managers to help plan the learning required to grow in their current roles or transition into other roles.
  • Access the
    Opportunity Graph
     report to plan possible next moves for their career internally.

Business Benefits

Enable Interests in Workday to:
  • Gauge employees career aspirations based on insights from interests data.
  • Create strategies to enhance the on-job learning of your employees.
  • Provide managers access to the Interest reports of their employees from the
    Development
     dashboard.
  • Provide employees the avenue to explore career growth internally.

Interests Views

Workday provides these views to set up your employees' interests:
  • Consolidated Interests - offers
    Career
     (consists of
    Job Profiles
    ,
    Skills Interests
    ,
    Career Preferences
    , and
    Career Interests
    ),
    Travel
    , and
    Relocation
     sections under the new consolidated
    Interests
     report on the
    Career for Worker Profile
     profile group.
    Enable the
    Manage Interests
     business process (secured to the
    Self Service: Interests
     and
    Worker Data: Interests
     domains) to set up the consolidated interests view in the worker profile.
  • Unconsolidated Interests - offers
    Career Interests
    ,
    Job Interests
     (Job Profiles),
    Travel
    , and
    Relocation
     sections as separate reports in the
    Career for Worker Profile
     profile group. Workday recommends replacing these reports with the consolidated
    Interests
     report that simplifies the user experience for your employees.