# Workday Recruiting

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/workday-recruiting/  
**Website:** https://community.workday.com  
**APIs profiled:** 13

APIs for Workday's cloud-based recruiting and talent acquisition solution, providing programmatic access to job requisitions, candidate management, applications, interviews, job postings, and hiring workflows.

## Kin Score — 41.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.5 from 41.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 30.7 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 42.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (13)

- **Workday Recruiting SOAP Web Services API** — SOAP-based web service providing comprehensive access to Workday Recruiting business services data for integration with talent management and applicant tracking systems. Include...
- **Workday Recruiting agentDefinition API** — To view and maintain Agent Definitions with the Agent System of Record.
- **Workday Recruiting Applicants API** — Retrieve and manage pre-hire and applicant records, including high-volume applicant import operations.
- **Workday Recruiting Background Checks API** — Submit and retrieve background check results and manage background check packages for candidate screening.
- **Workday Recruiting Candidates API** — Create, retrieve, and update candidate profiles including personal information, attachments, photos, and assessment data.
- **Workday Recruiting Configuration API** — Manage recruiting configuration settings including questionnaires, assessment categories, veteran statuses, site brands, and regions.
- **Workday Recruiting Evergreen Requisitions API** — Manage evergreen requisitions used for ongoing hiring needs without a specific number of openings or close date.
- **Workday Recruiting Interviews API** — Schedule interviews, submit interview feedback, manage interview settings, and configure self-schedule calendars.
- **Workday Recruiting Job Applications API** — Manage the lifecycle of job applications from submission through disposition, including stage movement and offer initiation.
- **Workday Recruiting Job Postings API** — Post, update, and unpost jobs to internal and external career sites, and manage job posting site configurations.
- **Workday Recruiting Job Requisitions API** — Create, retrieve, edit, close, freeze, and manage job requisitions for open positions within Workday recruiting workflows.
- **Workday Recruiting Positions API** — Create and manage positions and position restrictions within the position management staffing model.
- **Workday Recruiting Recruiting Agencies API** — Manage recruiting agency relationships, agency users, and agency candidate submissions.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Workday Recruiting Agentic Access** — 47 operations · 23 acting

## Security (3)

- **Workday Recruiting Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Workday Recruiting Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC
- **Workday Recruiting Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Workday Recruiting Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (12)

- **Applicant Tracking System Integration** — Sync requisitions, candidates, and applications between Workday and third-party ATS or CRM platforms.
- **Talent Sourcing Automation** — Push candidates from sourcing tools and job boards into Workday requisition pipelines.
- **Job Board Distribution** — Automatically distribute Workday job postings to external job boards and career site networks.
- **Background Screening Workflow** — Trigger and ingest background check results from screening vendors tied to candidate stages.
- **Interview Coordination** — Integrate with calendar and scheduling tools to coordinate interviewer availability and candidate self-scheduling.
- **Assessment and Skills Testing** — Connect Workday Recruiting to assessment platforms for skills, behavioral, and technical evaluations.
- **Hiring Analytics and Reporting** — Extract recruiting data for reporting in BI tools, data warehouses, and people analytics platforms.
- **Onboarding Handoff** — Trigger onboarding workflows in HRIS or onboarding platforms upon requisition fill or hire stage.
- **Recruiting Agency Submissions** — Enable third-party staffing agencies to submit candidates directly into Workday requisitions.
- **Compliance and EEO Reporting** — Capture self-identification data and applicant flow logs to satisfy EEO, OFCCP, and regional reporting requirements.
- **Internal Mobility** — Connect internal career site workflows to surface roles to existing employees.
- **High-Volume Hiring** — Power retail, hospitality, and seasonal hiring with bulk applicant import and rapid-disposition workflows.

## Tags

HCM, Human Resources, Recruiting, Software-as-a-Service, Talent Acquisition

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/workday-recruiting/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.