FAQ: Talent Marketplace

Does location affect how Workday matches candidates to flex teams?: No, location doesn't affect matching.

Does availability affect how Workday matches candidates to flex teams?: No, availability, or expected availability, doesn’t affect matching. However, flex team hosts can filter candidates based on the availability they specify they can commit to flex teams.

Who receives flex team promotions and can I control who receives them?: You can send flex team promotions to specific, recommended candidates, subsets of candidates or all recommended candidates, up to 200, unless they set their availability to Not Available. You can only promote your flex team to the same candidates once. When you edit the skills required for a flex team, Workday refreshes the candidate recommendations, and you can promote the flex team again.
A worker is a recommended candidate when:
They're a Fair, Good, or Strong Match for the flex team.
They have access to the Flex Teams
domain.
They're an active worker.
Workers who haven't completed onboarding can receive flex team promotions.

Can I opt out of the Flex Team Roles feature? Is there a way to prevent users from creating advanced flex teams?: Currently, there is no way to opt out of the flex team roles feature. However, if you want to restrict your employees from creating advanced flex teams, you can create a condition rule on the Manage Flex Team
business process. This will trigger a critical warning that will force users to select the Simple Flex Team team type, instead of Advanced Flex Team, during the create flex team process.
On the Manage Flex Team
business process, select the related action on the initiation step.
Select
Business Process
, then
Create Condition Rule
.
Create a description for the rule.
Select
Team Type
for the
Source External Field or Condition Rule
field.
Select
in the selection list
for the
Relational Operator
field.
Leave the
Value specified in this filter
option as defaulted in the
Comparison Type
field.
Select
Advanced Flex Team
in the
Comparison Value
field.
Select OK to create the rule.
Return to the Manage Flex Team
business process. Select the related action on the initiation step.
Select
Business Process
, then
Maintain Step Conditions
.
Select the Effective Date, then OK.
Add a row to the
Validation Conditions
, and enter the rule you created above. To force users to select the Simple Flex Team team type only, select
Critical
for the
Severity
.
Return to the Manage Flex Team
business process and confirm that your rule appears in the
Validation
column. Users who select the Advanced Flex Team team type when creating a flex team will see a critical warning, forcing them to change the
Team Type
selection from Advanced Flex Team to Simple Flex Team.

If a flex team host moves to another position or is terminated, how do I reassign the flex team host role?: Currently, if a flex team host moves to another position, or is terminated, the flex team they were hosting requires manual reassignment. An administrator completes this process by reassigning the flex team host role. Two possible approaches are:
From the related action on a worker, select Security Profile, then Assign Roles, then Change Assignments. Locate the flex team that requires reassignment by scrolling down the Role Enabled For column. Add or remove assignees as needed.
From the related action on a worker, select Security Profile, then View Role Assignments for Worker Position. Update the flex team host for any flex team using the related action for the applicable flex team and select Roles, then Assign Roles.

How do flex teams search filters work?: Workers can use the
Flex Teams Your Company Needs Help With
filter to find flex teams that align with the skills on their profile. The
Flex Teams to Help You Develop
filter helps workers find flex teams based on the skill interests on their profile. Using either filter and
Flex Team Host
,
Flex Team Type
,
Location
or other search facet filters enables workers to refine the list of available flex teams.

Why does Talent Marketplace require Workday Skills Cloud and how are opportunity matches made?: Skills Cloud uses machine learning to provide more relevant and appropriate opportunity recommendations for workers. Skills Cloud matches explicitly defined skills on the worker profile and skills on the opportunity. Skills Cloud also infers related skills that a worker has based on data points from their profile to match them to opportunities.