Workday Recruiting
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.
Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.
API Evangelist profiles Workday Recruiting the way a machine reads it — 158 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Workday Recruiting scores 74.0/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 55/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Workday Recruiting
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Workday Recruiting. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 13
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
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.
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Postman Collections 1
A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
Workday Recruiting REST API
POSTMANOpen Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Workday Recruiting REST API
OPEN COLLECTIONArazzo Workflows 8
Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.
Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.
Workday Recruiting Agency Candidate Submission
Resolve a recruiting agency, submit one of its candidates to a requisition, and confirm the application.
ARAZZOWorkday Recruiting Bulk Applicant Import
Confirm a target requisition, submit a bulk applicant import, and verify the loaded applicants.
ARAZZOWorkday Recruiting Close a Requisition and Unpost Its Jobs
Confirm a requisition, unpost its active posting, then close the requisition.
ARAZZOWorkday Recruiting Employee Referral
Find an open requisition, create the referred candidate, and submit the referral.
ARAZZOWorkday Recruiting Interview to Offer
Schedule an interview, capture feedback, and initiate an offer on a positive result.
ARAZZOWorkday Recruiting Onboard a Candidate with Resume and Assessment
Create a candidate, attach a resume, record an assessment, and read the profile back.
ARAZZOWorkday Recruiting Create and Source a Job Requisition
Create a job requisition, confirm it, then post its job to career sites.
ARAZZOWorkday Recruiting Screen and Advance a Job Application
Find an application in review for a requisition, inspect it, and move it forward.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Workday Recruiting Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 13
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Job Requisition Management
Create, edit, close, freeze, and reopen job requisitions for open positions, with full lifecycle and approval workflow support.
Evergreen Requisitions
Manage ongoing requisitions used for continuous hiring needs without a specific number of openings or close date.
Candidate Management
Create, retrieve, and update candidate profiles including personal information, attachments, photos, and assessment data.
Job Application Lifecycle
Manage applications from submission through disposition, including stage movement, advancement, and offer initiation.
Job Posting Distribution
Post, update, and unpost jobs to internal and external career sites and manage job posting site brands and configurations.
Interview Scheduling
Schedule interviews, submit interview feedback, configure interview settings, and manage self-schedule calendars.
Background Check Integration
Submit and retrieve background check results and manage background check packages for candidate screening.
Recruiting Agency Workflows
Manage agency relationships, agency users, and agency candidate submissions tied to job requisitions.
High-Volume Applicant Import
Bulk applicant import operations to support high-volume hiring and third-party sourcing pipelines.
Position Management
Create and manage positions and position restrictions within the position management staffing model.
Recruiting Configuration
Manage recruiting configuration including questionnaires, assessment categories, veteran statuses, site brands, and regions.
OAuth 2.0 Authentication
Standards-based OAuth 2.0 authentication for secure programmatic access to recruiting data.
SOAP Web Services
Comprehensive SOAP web services with over 120 recruiting operations for deep enterprise integration.
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Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Workday Recruiting API Rules
SPECTRALWorkday Recruiting API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 28
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ApplicantImport
JSON SCHEMAApplicant
JSON SCHEMAAttachment
JSON SCHEMABackgroundCheckCreate
JSON SCHEMABackgroundCheckPackage
JSON SCHEMABackgroundCheck
JSON SCHEMACandidateAssessment
JSON SCHEMACandidateCreate
JSON SCHEMACandidate
JSON SCHEMAEvergreenRequisitionCreate
JSON SCHEMAEvergreenRequisition
JSON SCHEMAInterviewCreate
JSON SCHEMAInterviewFeedbackCreate
JSON SCHEMAInterviewFeedback
JSON SCHEMAInterview
JSON SCHEMAJobApplication
JSON SCHEMAJobPosting
JSON SCHEMAJobPostingSite
JSON SCHEMAJobRequisitionCreate
JSON SCHEMAJobRequisition
JSON SCHEMAOfferCreate
JSON SCHEMAOffer
JSON SCHEMAPositionCreate
JSON SCHEMAPosition
JSON SCHEMAQuestionnaire
JSON SCHEMARecruitingAgency
JSON SCHEMAReference
JSON SCHEMAVeteranStatus
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JSON Structure 28
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Recruiting Rest Api Applicant Import Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Applicant Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Attachment Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Background Check Create Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Background Check Package Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Background Check Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Candidate Assessment Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Candidate Create Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Candidate Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Evergreen Requisition Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Interview Create Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Interview Feedback Create Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Interview Feedback Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Interview Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Job Application Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Job Posting Site Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Job Posting Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Job Requisition Create Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Job Requisition Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Offer Create Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Offer Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Position Create Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Position Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Questionnaire Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Recruiting Agency Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Reference Structure
JSON STRUCTURERecruiting Rest Api Veteran Status Structure
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Examples 28
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 12
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
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.
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Integrations 11
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
Workday HCM
Native integration with Workday Human Capital Management for seamless transition from candidate to employee.
LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Connect with LinkedIn Recruiter and LinkedIn Job Postings for sourcing and posting workflows.
Indeed
Distribute Workday job postings to Indeed and ingest applications back into Workday.
HireRight
Background check integration for criminal, employment, and education verification.
Sterling
Background screening, drug testing, and identity verification integration.
HackerRank
Technical assessment integration for engineering and developer hiring pipelines.
Calendly
Self-schedule interview integration for candidate-driven scheduling.
Microsoft Outlook and Teams
Calendar and meeting integration for interview scheduling and coordination.
Google Workspace
Calendar and meeting integration for interview scheduling.
DocuSign
E-signature integration for offer letter and onboarding document workflows.
Workday Marketplace Partners
Pre-built integrations with talent acquisition vendors listed in the Workday Marketplace.
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Solutions 4
Packaged solutions the provider offers on top of the raw API surface.
Packaged solutions this provider offers.
Workday Talent Acquisition
End-to-end recruiting solution from sourcing through hire, unifying recruiting with the broader Workday HCM platform.
HiredScore AI for Recruiting
AI-driven candidate matching, screening, and recruiter productivity embedded in Workday Recruiting.
Workday Onboarding
Native onboarding handoff that converts hires into engaged employees inside the Workday HCM system of record.
Workday Skills Cloud
Skills-driven hiring leveraging the Workday skills ontology across requisitions and candidate profiles.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Workday Recruiting — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 10
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 5
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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