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Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Talent Cards

Concept: Talent Cards

A talent card is a 1-page summary of a worker's key talent information. You can use talent cards as a tool for discussions on:
  • Succession plans.
  • Short-term and long-term business plans.
  • Retention of top talent.
Talent cards contain this information:
Personal and Job Data
Includes:
  • Primary business title.
  • Supervisory organization.
  • Manager.
  • Primary position.
  • Additional jobs.
  • International assignments.
  • Location.
  • Job tenure.
  • Length of service.
  • Nationality.
  • Citizenship.
Skills and Experiences
Includes:
  • Job profile history.
  • Internal projects.
  • Work experience.
  • Job history.
  • Education.
  • Certifications.
  • Languages.
  • Awards and Activities.
  • Training.
Talent Summary
Includes:
  • Assessments (potential, achievable level, retention risk, and loss impact).
  • Talent matrix placement.
  • Last performance rating.
  • Performance over time.
  • Employee and manager comments.
  • Succession plans.
Competencies and Career Interests
Includes:
  • Competency charts (active and archived).
  • Travel and relocation preferences.
  • Career interests.
  • Development items.
Competency charts are based on a 5-point scale. If you have more than 5 competency rating values for a proficiency scale, they map to this 5-point scale.
Talent card data is sorted by most recent completion date, with a few exceptions:
  • Fluent language always comes first.
  • Work experiences are sorted according to the
    Talent Card Sort Order
     in the
    Maintain Work Experiences
     report.
  • Degrees are listed according to the
    Order
     in the
    Maintain Degrees
     task.
The standard talent card layout has 3 areas:
  • The header area displays the worker’s name, photo, personal and job data, and talent summary.
  • The left side displays the worker’s skills and experiences.
  • The right side displays the worker’s competencies, mobility preferences, career interests, and development items.
In addition, your company logo, an optional company statement, and the print date display across the top. You can print talent cards, either individually or in groups. Two versions are available:
  • Talent cards that reflect all of a worker's talent information as of the current date.
  • Talent cards that reflect a worker's talent information from a specific talent review.
Talent cards based on the current date contain only completed talent information, not in-progress additions or changes. Only current talent cards are available to print from your iPad or iPhone.
Talent cards have an empty section if:
  • A worker has no data in that area.
  • The section wasn't part of the template from the
    Talent Review
     event (regardless of whether the relevant data exists in Workday).
Talent cards omit sections altogether if:
  • You don't enable the domains to which they belong.
  • The user printing the talent card can't access the data.
Example: The talent summary section displays different information for employees and managers, depending on security. Typically, employees only see performance ratings and talent summary comments, while managers also see the employee's:
  • Potential.
  • Achievable level.
  • Retention risk.
  • Talent matrix placement.
Optionally, you can replace the Workday-delivered print layout with a custom layout that you set at the tenant level.