TALENT OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE
Your people, elevated.
Bridge skills gaps, build critical capabilities, and unlock workforce potential. Get the tools you need to retain top talent and grow your business faster with Workday.
What you can do
Go all in on growing your talent.
Workday delivers the insights you need to make talent development more personal than ever for your people. And AI-generated recommendations from Workday Illuminate™ empower managers and employees alike to put career growth front and center.
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Performance enablement
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AI-powered career development
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AI-driven skills management
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Feedback, goals, and recognition
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Talent visibility and talent pipeline
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AI-assisted internal mobility
Talent Optimization Features
Build a future-ready workforce—powered by AI.
Career Hub
Empower your employees with our Career Hub—a one-stop shop for career development, with intelligent career pathing suggestions and personalized recommendations that guide upskilling, reskilling, and growth.
Manager Insights Hub
Transform managers into strategic leaders. Our Managers Insights Hub provides automated insights and timely suggestions about their team’s career growth and development.
Talent Marketplace
Connect your employees’ skills and interests with the right internal opportunities. Workday Talent Marketplace helps you fill key projects and execute on business goals while driving engagement.
Succession Planning
Supercharge succession planning with smart tools for identifying critical positions and talent gaps. Proactively plan for worker movement and develop high-potential individuals for a future-proof leadership pipeline.
VALUE OUTCOMES
Talent that grows. Results that show.
Workday helps organizations unleash the full potential of their people by accelerating talent mobility and growth—turning workforce strategy into measurable results.
24%
lower voluntary turnover.
81%
higher internal hire rates.
$1.7M
in annual savings.
Source: Based on product-level analysis across all customers where data was available July 2023-June 2025
Talent Optimization Benefits
Empower people. Accelerate performance.
Equip your workers with the skills, insights, and opportunities they need to drive results and achieve strategic goals.
Meet talent goals.
Accelerate skills development to meet—and exceed—evolving business needs.
Retain employees.
Engage employees to reduce turnover rates and retain your team’s high performers.
Improve decision-making.
Access the real-time data you need to make faster, better workforce decisions.
Boost productivity.
Increase workforce productivity by facilitating stronger manager-employee alignment.
“We reduce attrition because we give people self-service resources to manage their journey within the organization, which then lead to opportunities that are visible to them.”
Level up on skills.
Unlock the full potential of your organization’s skills. Powered by Workday IlluminateTM, our Workday Skills Cloud helps you understand and act on skills across your entire workforce fast—providing real-time clarity on skills supply, demand, and gaps.
See how we help you succeed.