Concept: Talent Pools

A talent pool enables you to create and act on a group of employees, without regard to organizational boundaries. You can establish the criteria that determine the membership of a talent pool. Examples are:

Potential for inclusion in a special project.
Potential to contribute individually at a higher level than peers.
Particularly strong management potential.
Need to be placed on a development plan.
Education, certification, or experience that could be applied to a new business venture.
Specific training, work history, or skills that could make the workers valuable outside of their current supervisory organization.

Unlike supervisory organizations, which define hierarchical structure, talent pools define a loose association of members that cut across organizational lines. You can create as many as you need, for any purpose you want, and members can belong to multiple pools.

You can create static or dynamic talent pools. You add members manually to static talent pools. Dynamic talent pools are based on the results of saved searches on the

Find Workers

or similar custom reports.

When you take related actions on talent pools, the same action starts for all members in the pool at the same time. Workday initiates and completes a set of individual business processes in parallel for each member of the talent pool. Based on how the business process is configured, it may follow a different approval or management chain for each member in the pool.

The only exception occurs when you give a non-monetary award to a static talent pool. In this case, the business process runs as a single process on the entire pool and completes automatically. You can tailor this business process. Example: Add an approval step. Perform a mass cancel on this process.