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Last Updated: 2025-05-02
Steps: Set Up Talent Highlights

Steps: Set Up Talent Highlights

  • To use Talent Highlights, your Workday subscription must include the Talent Optimization product area, that is, the Talent Optimization SKU or Talent Optimization Add-On SKU.
  1. (Optional) Enable Innovation Services Feature and Machine Learning Data Contributions.
    On the
    Innovation Services Opt-In
     task, select the
    HCM Machine Learning GA Features
     on the
    Available Services
     tab in the
    HCM
     category.
    Opting in to the
    HCM Machine Learning GA Features
     service is required for MSA customers to enable Talent Highlights, but no additional data category contributions are required.
  2. Configure these domains in the Manager Insights Hub functional area:
    • Worker Data: Talent Highlights
      : Managers need View and Modify permissions to view, generate, edit, and delete talent highlights for their eligible employees, and to see their team’s eligibility.
    • Set Up: Talent Highlights
      : Administrators need View and Modify permissions to set up Talent Highlights and to see Talent Highlights content by supervisory organization.
  4. (Optional) Access the
    Edit Tenant Setup - HCM
     task.
    • Talent Highlights Help Text
      : Add help text to the
      Generate Talent Highlights for Employee
       and
      View Talent Highlight
       tasks.
    • Talent Highlights Location Exclusion
      : Select locations to exclude from Talent Highlights. Employees with an active primary or additional position in an excluded location are ineligible for Talent Highlights.
    • Talent Highlights Location Hierarchy Exclusion
      : Select location hierarchies to exclude from Talent Highlights. Employees with an active primary or additional position within an excluded location hierarchy are ineligible for Talent Highlights.
    Security:
    Set Up: Tenant Setup - HCM
     in the System functional area.
  • (Optional) Configure data purge for Talent Highlights content.
    Talent Highlights data is included in these purgeable data types when running a purge task or creating a purge plan on the Worker business object:
    • For active workers:
      Talent Highlights
      . Purging this data type does not purge the source data used to generate the Talent Highlights content.
    • For terminees:
      Talent - All Worker’s Performance, Goal and Skill Data
      .
    See Steps: Purge Person Privacy Data.
  • (Optional) Add Talent Highlights tasks and reports elsewhere in Workday.
    For example:
    • Add the
      Generate Talent Highlights
       task as a To Do item in business processes related to employee reviews. To exclude ineligible workers, you can configure a business process rule based on the
      Eligible for Talent Highlights
       report field.
    • Add the
      Generate Talent Highlights
       task as a step in a journey for managers.
    • Add the
      Most Recent Talent Highlights for Worker
       report as an embedded analytic in a business process based on the Worker business object. See Add Worklets to Business Processes.
  • (Optional) For MSA customers, consider opting in to the updated
    Worker Profile Data
     category to contribute the Talent Highlights for Active and Terminated Workers collection. Workday uses this data for ongoing feature evaluation, improvements, and for additional product support troubleshooting.