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Administrator Guide
Last Updated: 2023-06-23
Concept: Talent Statements

Concept: Talent Statements

Talent statements are brief professional descriptions about a person on their Workday profile. You can write talent statements about yourself or others. You can edit or remove the statements you write or statements that users in your security segment write if that is the group secured to the type of talent statement. Example: As an HR partner, you can edit or delete talent statements other HR partners write for any worker that you have security to view.
Workers and academic affiliates can use talent statements. You can use talent statements to support performance reviews, development discussions, and career planning.
Examples:
  • Workers and academic affiliates can add statements about their career interests or research interests.
  • Managers and deans can add statements about the performance or talent of their workers or affiliates.
  • Career coaches can add statements about professional development areas of workers they coach.

Talent Statement Types

You can set up the types of talent statements for your tenant based on your business requirements. Create distinct types for statements about self and those statements written for others.
Examples:
  • Personal (Self).
  • Research (Self).
  • Career Coaching (Others).
  • Performance (Others).

Talent Statements for Workers

You can add, edit, and view talent statements written about a worker in the
Statements
card on the worker profile summary.
You can view talent statements others write about you on the
Talent Statements
report on the
Career
profile group of the worker profile.

Talent Statements for Academic Affiliates

You can add, edit, and view talent statements you write about yourself and others on the
Talent Statements
report on the
Overview
profile group of the affiliate profile.

Talent Statement Security

In addition to domain security policy, you must set up segmented security by talent statement type to control access to talent statements.