Steps: Set Up Skills in People Analytics

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature based on your organization’s subscription service agreement. To determine your subscription service agreement:

Access your profile avatar on Community.

Select Profile.

On your profile page, select your organization’s name, which is beneath your name and next to your job profile.

View your Subscription Service Agreement
value.

If the value is:

MSA
, you must enable this feature through Innovation Services using the Enable Innovation Services Features and Machine Learning Data Contribution
step.

UMSA
, in the

Data Contribution for Workday AI

task, under

Data Contribution for ML Features

, the

Skills in People Analytics

option is enabled by default. This feature is mandatory and you can't check it to disable it.

Skills in People Analytics is a Machine Learning (ML) feature that requires data contributions. Such features will not function properly in your Sandbox tenants. To test Skills before deploying it to your Production tenant, use your Preview or Implementation tenants.

The Skills topic in People Analytics helps you better understand key insights about skills in different areas of the organization, gaps, and areas for improvement.

Enable Innovation Services Feature and Machine Learning Data Contributions for MSA Customers.

You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature depending on your organization’s subscription service agreement. For more information, see this Community article.

Select check boxes in the

HCM: HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA

category to contribute data for Machine Learning. To enable People Analytics to use Skills data from the HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA service, you must opt in to these categories on the ML for People Analytics tab:

Job Requisition Data

Talent Profile Data

Worker Profile Data

Organizational Data

To ensure that you’re opted into the newest version of the

HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA

service, you must select the

Opt in to Additional Data

check box for the chosen

ML for People Analytics

categories. This contributes the required additional data from your tenant to Workday. If you don’t see this check box on the tab, it means that you’re already using the newest version.

For all tenant types, after you select the required check boxes in the

HCM: HCM ML Features and Third Party Connectors GA

category, you must wait 24 hours (or until after 1AM Pacific Standard Time on the next business day) before you install Skills in People Analytics. For implementation tenants, you need to also run the

Run On-Demand Machine Learning Activation for Implementation Tenant

task after selecting the required check boxes, and before you install People Analytics.

Access the

Edit Tenant Setup - Machine Learning

task.

Select the region in which Workday hosts data used for improvement and personalization of machine learning and analytics functionality.

Security: Set Up: Tenant Setup - Machine Learning
in the System functional area.

Enable Skills Cloud.

You must include these options:

Populate Suggested Skills for Workers

Populate Suggested Skills for External Candidates

You can also include the option

Populate Suggested Skills for Job Profiles

to provide suggested skills for job profiles in the

Suggested Skills for Job Profile

report. The skill suggestions update hourly and provide up to 10 suggested skills for each reporting item. You add skills to job profiles in Step 5.

Maintain Skills.

You must select an existing or create a new