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Hey there fellow HRIS pros! 👋 Have you noticed how almost every job posting these days seems to require years of Workday experience? I mean, seriously, how does one even get that level of expertise if your current organization doesn’t use it? 🤔
I’ve been pondering this lately and wondering if Workday themselves might be pushing this requirement for their clients. But regardless of the reason, the question remains – how can we learn Workday to the point of landing an interview when our current job doesn’t provide the opportunity?
Here are a few thoughts and possible solutions to consider:
– Online Training Courses: Platforms like Udemy, Coursera, and LinkedIn Learning offer online courses specifically tailored to learning Workday.
– Free Resources: Don’t forget about the vast amount of free resources available online, such as YouTube tutorials, blogs, and forums.
– Networking: Reach out to professionals who have Workday experience and ask for advice or mentorship. Networking can open up doors you never knew existed.
– Volunteer Projects: If possible, see if you can volunteer for projects within your organization that involve the use of Workday. Hands-on experience is invaluable.
Remember, honesty is key. Don’t lie about your experience. Be transparent about your willingness to learn and showcase your ability to adapt quickly to new systems. Good luck, and keep pushing forward! 💪🌟
Imo it’s kinda silly to require specific HRIS experience instead of having it just as a “nice to have” experience. It’s all transferable experience!
If the role requires you to be an admin or implementation specialist then the experience they are asking seems relevant but if you are going to be a user to reference information.. then probably transferable experience from other systems would do.
Workday only offers training to customers or partners. You could try to get into a role at an implementation partner (like Accenture, PWC, Alight Solutions, etc).
And when I got my first degree, companies requires SHRM and the SHRM exam*** required experience (to apply and take the exam in the past), so how is a new person supposed to get into the industry?
Just say you have a couple of years of experience in Workday and you think it is absolute shit and they will believe you. You will have to learn their work flows any way so…If you have experience with Dayforce it should not be that hard to bluff your way out of it.
I think it’s BS, and shows how ignorant most companies are.
HRIS software is one big spreadsheet. It’s just a way to organize your data. You just have to fight how the system stores it.
If you’re familiar with how an HRIS program works, then you’re going to understand any of them.
That said, there’s no way to educate ignorance when there’s no incentive for the ignorant to learn. I get it, Workday is awesome, and everyone wants it and they want people who can jump right in and seamlessly pick everything up with no training. But until every HRIS professional has had experience with it, they’re going to be picking from a very limited pool of candidates.
I mean how many great people have 5 years of experience on other platforms, but are being passed over because a company wants a unicorn?
Seems like gatekeeping to me. Or clueless management. Probably Both. But after 3 months of job searching and seeing how many jobs want experienced Workday administrators, it’s definitely a pattern. I mean I have 5 years of experience on multiple HRIS platforms as an analyst. And they want one specific thing I don’t have and evidently wasted 5 years of my career for nothing.
Fam just lie 😂. If you arent an actual grandpa you can pickup software in less than 2 weeks with youtubes help.
I feel like it’s weird they require this amount of experience unless you applying as a system admin for their Workday instance.
I feel like people are just gonna start lying
I just put all my HR projects as whatever the role demands. If they are asking for workday, I’ll put workday, even if I did work with sap successfactors
I have gone thru training for workday and created scripts on certain phrases words project stuff for each module, just sufficient to get thru an interview, so once I get selected I can learn on the job.
Cloud foundations is who I used. And my LinkedIn is practically getting 6-8 recruiters contacting me for workday roles every second day.
I speak as if I know the stuff
In the past, I have downloaded demos of HR software, if they were available to me. I never lied and said I used it every day at work, but I would go through the demo, do dummy exercises, etc., and that allowed me to speak confidently about the system’s UI and main features.
To suggest a long shot, does anyone know if it’s possible to have a HR chapter create a dummy Workday integration project that could be used to practice various sample scenarios?
If we can’t use the tech itself, maybe we could have projects where people practice what would be needed for an implementation.