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Workday Talent Optimization

byWorkday
in Internal Talent Marketplaces
4.0

Overview

Product Information on Workday Talent Optimization

Updated 29th July 2025

What is Workday Talent Optimization?

Workday Talent Management empowers organizations to attract, engage, and grow top talent by uniting people, business, and skills data in a single, intelligent system. This delivers AI-powered insights, unlocks workforce potential, and builds a future-ready team. Organizations can empower people-first strategies with a unified view of talent, aligning workforce plans with organizational goals. The solution surfaces employee skills and potential through dashboards and the AI-powered Skills Cloud, supporting higher retention and personalized growth paths. Workday helps unlock workforce potential by empowering employees to own their careers and activating managers as coaches with AI-generated feedback. Features like the AI-driven Career Hub and Performance Enablement boost engagement and productivity. Finally, it drives talent fluidity & agility, creating an adaptable, reskilled workforce ready for future challenges by using AI to predict skill gaps and ensure sustainable success.

Workday Talent Optimization Pricing

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Talent Planning
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Overall experience with Workday Talent Optimization

DIRECTOR OF IT SERVICES
3B - 10B USD, Manufacturing
FAVORABLE

“Integration of Workday Talent Enhances Employee Insights With Learning Platform Connection”

4.0
Aug 11, 2025
As someone overseeing L&D functions and talent development, I have had to manage the strategy with which we collect data on our L&D program, manage much needed skill areas, and assess overall program development. Overall, Workday Talent is a handful of moving pieces and tools. It is a way to assess and gain data and information on employee growth and how they connect to those business wins and goals you are reaching for. I leverage Workday Talent often, having used its reporting features to assess programs I helped deliver to build skills in functional areas we deem necessary. It has helped me target employee needs, identify those employees who are truly aspiring to work ahead and gain much needed skill development, and measure how well the programs are delivering on our needs. All of the data and information I gather is then reported back to leadership.
DIRECTOR
3B - 10B USD, Manufacturing
CRITICAL

“Exploring Employee Experiences with Opportunity Graph and Career Builder”

3.0
Jun 11, 2024
Easy to enable TLOA with existing Workday HCM and Skills Cloud

About Company

Company Description

Updated 13th October 2025

Workday is the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and Finance on one platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by organizations around the world and across industries.

Company Details

Updated 13th October 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2005
Head office location
Pleasanton, United States
Number of employees
10001+
Website
http://www.workday.com

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Performance of Workday Talent Optimization Across Market Features

Workday Talent Optimization Likes & Dislikes

Like

The data and analytics are pretty robust and you get a snapshot of it all into one easy to digest system. You do not have to bounce from platform to platform. Since I spend an equal amount of time in our Workday Learning platform, I also greatly appreciate the seamless way they integrate and talk with each other. Employees can fill out their career goals and skills, background experience, etc and Workday will then make recommendations pulled from Workday learning on offerings that would apply to them.

Like

The ability for employees to view and utilize Opportunity Graph and Career Builder

Like

Ease of tracking progress, ease of submitting information, resume import worked well.

Dislike

It takes a good amount of time to get up to speed on Workday Talent and how it integrates with other Workday tools and what is eventually possible. I often have to see things from both my side as an admin and then as a user to be able to explain or share what I expect from employees when accessing stuff. I also wish there were more customization options. Pieces often seem blocked off or take workarounds on the back end to complete.

Dislike

As with all Workday there are few opportunities to configure / customize. Especially a feature to filter out wrong job profile changes for opportunity graph.

Dislike

There is nothing I came across while using this product that I disliked.

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Workday Talent Optimization Reviews and Ratings

4.0

(4 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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4.5

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4.0

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4.5

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  • DIRECTOR OF IT SERVICES
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Integration of Workday Talent Enhances Employee Insights With Learning Platform Connection

    4.0
    Aug 11, 2025
    As someone overseeing L&D functions and talent development, I have had to manage the strategy with which we collect data on our L&D program, manage much needed skill areas, and assess overall program development. Overall, Workday Talent is a handful of moving pieces and tools. It is a way to assess and gain data and information on employee growth and how they connect to those business wins and goals you are reaching for. I leverage Workday Talent often, having used its reporting features to assess programs I helped deliver to build skills in functional areas we deem necessary. It has helped me target employee needs, identify those employees who are truly aspiring to work ahead and gain much needed skill development, and measure how well the programs are delivering on our needs. All of the data and information I gather is then reported back to leadership.
  • System Administrator
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Simplifying Internal Promotion Procedures with Workday

    4.0
    Oct 16, 2024
    The entire process for getting an internal promotion was very easy and workday allowed me to track my application through all stages of the process and see in real time what was happening with my application for the new role. The resume upload was easy as well and Workday very accurately pulled the data from my resume to add to the application for the new role.
  • SR SYSTEM ANALYST
    10B+ USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    The Impact of WD's Skills Cloud on Talent Optimization

    5.0
    Sep 4, 2024
    In recent years, WD has expanded its talent capabilities by effectively utilizing the skills cloud. This approach has been crucial for optimizing talent in areas like project alignment, mentoring and career development. Unlike other SaaS platforms, it stands out by integrating cross - functional areas to improve UI.
  • DIRECTOR
    1B-10B USD
    Manufacturing
    Review Source

    Exploring Employee Experiences with Opportunity Graph and Career Builder

    3.0
    Jun 11, 2024
    Easy to enable TLOA with existing Workday HCM and Skills Cloud
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