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Reference: Self-Service Agent Skills

Reference: Self-Service Agent Skills

Skill
Description
ESS - Help - Advanced Skill
Facilitates the action of submitting support requests, enabling employees to move beyond information gathering to active assistance.
ESS - Talent Management - Advanced
Enables employees to use Self-Service agent to take actions related to their workforce lifecycle by updating personal data and requesting reference letters.
ESS - Human Capital Management - Base
Enables the Self-Service agent to process requests from employees related to retrieving personal information for core HCM functions including worker profiles, compensation and benefits details, and team information.
ESS - Payroll - Base
Enables the Self-Service agent to process requests from employees related to compensation, payment, and tax forms.
ESS - Talent Management - Advanced
Enables employees to use Self-Service agent to take actions related to complex workforce tasks, such as submitting performance reviews, creating referrals, and creating goals.
ESS - Talent Management - Base
Provides the Self-Service agent with the ability to retrieve information related to employee professional development, including performance goals, feedback history, and internal job listings.
ESS - Workforce Management - Advanced
Enables employees to use Self-Service agent to take actions related to complex workforce tasks, such as submitting time-off requests, checking in/out of shifts, entering time blocks and submitting time.
ESS - Workforce Management - Base
Provides the Self-Service agent with the ability to retrieve their time tracking, scheduling, and absence information. This skill handles inquiries such as checking time-off balances or viewing work schedules.
Guide
Provides intelligent navigational direction, ensuring task completion by directing users to the specific Workday report or task required.
This skill is required for Self-Service Agent to function.
MSS - Human Capital Management - Base
Enables the Self-Service agent to process requests from managers related to retrieving essential team information, including team structures, work history, and direct report information.
MSS - Payroll - Advanced
Enables the Self-Service agent to process requests from managers related to initiating financial actions, such as requesting payroll inputs.
The skill
  • Calls the existing Request Payroll Inputs business process.
  • Uses your existing payroll and security configuration.
  • Respects the pay component security segment and domain security that you configure on the Self-Service agent.
The skill focuses on native payroll workers and enforces these key rules:
  • Creates payroll inputs only for workers on native payroll. When the worker’s primary position is in an external pay group, or the worker has no pay group, the skill blocks the request and returns a message that the worker isn’t available for payroll input requests.
  • For multi‑job workers, when a manager requests a position‑based input without specifying a position, the skill defaults the input to the worker’s primary position effective on the input start date.
MSS - Talent Management - Advanced
Enables the Self-Service agent to support managers in driving the performance cycle and take actions such as conducting reviews, changing talent data, and executing team development transactions.
MSS - Talent Management - Base
Enables the Self-Service agent to support managers in overseeing the development of their team by retrieving goal progress, viewing learning statuses and reviewing team feedback.
MSS - Workforce Management - Base
Enables the Self-Service agent to process requests from managers related to retrieving information on team operations, including direct reports' time-off balances and current schedules.
Policy Intelligence
Provides the Self-Service agent with capabilities related to resolving questions about company rules by searching authorized documentation. The skill retrieves specific details from policy documents and procedural guides to ensure responses are compliant and up-to-date.