Workday Skills Cloud

Skills intelligence is a technology that uses AI and machine learning to surface, analyze, and track the skills across an organization's workforce, giving leaders the insights they need to align talent with business goals. Workday Skills Cloud embeds this technology directly into recruiting, learning, talent optimization, and analytics workflows.

Skills intelligence gives organizations a real-time, comprehensive view of their talent ecosystem so leaders can decide whether to grow, flex, or hire for critical capabilities. Learn more about connecting skills data to strategic planning in our workforce planning hub.

Workday Skills Cloud lets organizations identify high-impact skills, close skill gaps, personalize employee learning and career development, and automatically surface qualified candidates during recruiting. It integrates across Workday products so skills data is available from a new hire's first day onward.

By surfacing personalized job recommendations, networking opportunities, and a talent marketplace in the flow of work, skills intelligence helps employees take ownership of their career growth, which directly supports retention. Workday Skills Cloud powers these experiences by connecting an employee's existing skills to available internal opportunities.

Traditional HR talent tracking relies on manual data entry and static job titles, while AI-driven skills intelligence automatically infers relationships between skills and updates workforce data in real time. Workday Skills Cloud uses AI to contextualize skills across the entire talent ecosystem, enabling faster and more accurate talent decisions.

Organizations using Workday Skills Cloud report measurable outcomes including higher internal hire rates, stronger retention, and greater workforce agility. These results reflect the ability of skills intelligence to reduce hiring costs, improve retention, and adapt talent supply to business demand.