Concept: Crowdsourced Skills and Experience Management
Administrators maintain libraries of recognized skills and experience that users can
search for and add to their profiles. You can find recognized skills and experience on
these reports:
- Maintain Certifications
- Maintain Job History Companies
- Maintain Schools
- Maintain Skills
If candidates and workers can't find certain skills and experience in your tenant, they
can create crowdsourced versions to add on their profile. Crowdsourced skills and
experience enable users to expand their profiles, but variations of the same
crowdsourced skills and experience can create redundancies. Example: A worker creates
Math as a crowdsourced skill, and a candidate creates Arithmetic.
Workday stores crowdsourced skills and experience on these reports:
- Find Certifications
- Find Job History Companies
- Find Schools
- Find Skill
You can prevent workers from creating crowdsourced skills by selecting the
Disable Create New Skill for Edit Skills
check box on the
Maintain Skills and Experience Setup
task. If you enable this option, candidates can still create crowdsourced skills, but Workday
won't migrate these crowdsourced skills to other person types. Example: When the
candidate is hired, Workday won't copy crowdsourced skills from the candidate's skill
profile to the worker's profile. The crowdsourced skills remain on the candidate's skill
profile.