Workday Recruiting · Arazzo Workflow

Workday Recruiting Employee Referral

Version 1.0.0

Find an open requisition, create the referred candidate, and submit the referral.

1 workflow 1 source API 1 provider
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Provider

workday-recruiting

Workflows

employee-referral
Create a referred candidate and submit the referral against an open requisition.
Resolves an open requisition, creates the referred candidate, and submits a referral from an existing worker.
3 steps inputs: email, firstName, lastName, phone, referralComments, referrer, source, supervisoryOrganization outputs: candidateId, requisitionId
1
findOpenRequisition
listJobRequisitions
List open job requisitions to resolve the requisition the referral will be submitted against.
2
createCandidate
createCandidate
Create the referred candidate record with personal and contact information.
3
submitReferral
referCandidate
Submit the referral associating the candidate with the open requisition and recording the referring worker.

Source API Descriptions

Arazzo Workflow Specification

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arazzo: 1.0.1
info:
  title: Workday Recruiting Employee Referral
  summary: Find an open requisition, create the referred candidate, and submit the referral.
  description: >-
    Captures an employee referral against an open hiring need. The workflow lists
    open job requisitions to resolve the requisition the referral targets,
    branches on whether any open requisition exists, creates the referred
    candidate record, and then submits the referral linking the candidate, the
    requisition, and the referring worker. Every step spells out its request
    inline so the flow can be read and executed without opening the underlying
    OpenAPI description.
  version: 1.0.0
sourceDescriptions:
- name: workdayRecruitingApi
  url: ../openapi/workday-recruiting-rest-api-openapi.yml
  type: openapi
workflows:
- workflowId: employee-referral
  summary: Create a referred candidate and submit the referral against an open requisition.
  description: >-
    Resolves an open requisition, creates the referred candidate, and submits a
    referral from an existing worker.
  inputs:
    type: object
    required:
    - firstName
    - lastName
    - email
    - referrer
    properties:
      supervisoryOrganization:
        type: string
        description: Optional supervisory organization Workday ID to scope the requisition search.
      firstName:
        type: string
        description: Referred candidate first name.
      lastName:
        type: string
        description: Referred candidate last name.
      email:
        type: string
        description: Referred candidate email address.
      phone:
        type: string
        description: Referred candidate phone number.
      source:
        type: object
        description: Reference to the candidate source (id + descriptor).
      referrer:
        type: object
        description: Reference to the worker making the referral (id + descriptor).
      referralComments:
        type: string
        description: Comments from the referrer about the candidate.
  steps:
  - stepId: findOpenRequisition
    description: >-
      List open job requisitions to resolve the requisition the referral will be
      submitted against.
    operationId: listJobRequisitions
    parameters:
    - name: status
      in: query
      value: Open
    - name: supervisoryOrganization
      in: query
      value: $inputs.supervisoryOrganization
    - name: limit
      in: query
      value: 1
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 200
    outputs:
      requisitionId: $response.body#/data/0/id
      requisitionDescriptor: $response.body#/data/0/title
    onSuccess:
    - name: requisitionFound
      type: goto
      stepId: createCandidate
      criteria:
      - context: $response.body
        condition: $.data.length > 0
        type: jsonpath
    - name: noOpenRequisition
      type: end
      criteria:
      - context: $response.body
        condition: $.data.length == 0
        type: jsonpath
  - stepId: createCandidate
    description: >-
      Create the referred candidate record with personal and contact
      information.
    operationId: createCandidate
    requestBody:
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        firstName: $inputs.firstName
        lastName: $inputs.lastName
        email: $inputs.email
        phone: $inputs.phone
        source: $inputs.source
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 201
    outputs:
      candidateId: $response.body#/id
  - stepId: submitReferral
    description: >-
      Submit the referral associating the candidate with the open requisition
      and recording the referring worker.
    operationId: referCandidate
    parameters:
    - name: id
      in: path
      value: $steps.createCandidate.outputs.candidateId
    requestBody:
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        jobRequisition:
          id: $steps.findOpenRequisition.outputs.requisitionId
          descriptor: $steps.findOpenRequisition.outputs.requisitionDescriptor
        referrer: $inputs.referrer
        referralComments: $inputs.referralComments
    successCriteria:
    - condition: $statusCode == 201
  outputs:
    requisitionId: $steps.findOpenRequisition.outputs.requisitionId
    candidateId: $steps.createCandidate.outputs.candidateId

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