This section supports the full employment lifecycle in Workday. Guides cover everything from recruiting, hiring, and onboarding to managing job changes, performance reviews, benefits enrollment, and employee terminations.
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| Add / Update Dependents | Guide  |
How to add or update your dependents in Workday. You can add or update to ensure they are available for benefit enrollment, coverage changes, or beneficiary designations
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| Change Benefits (for Life Event) | Guide |
How to change your benefit coverage for an eligible life event |
| Change My Personal Information | Guide |
How to update your personal information |
Contact Information
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Guide |
How to update home contact information, including address, phone, email, and emergency contacts |
| Edit Your Legal Name | Guide |
How to change your legal name in Workday |
| Edit Preferred Name | Guide |
How to change your preferred name in Workday |
| Evaluation for Staff Annual Performance Review | Guide |
How managers complete a performance review for Staff in Workday |
| Graduate Assistant Hiring Dates 2026 - 2027 | Download |
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| High Deductible Savings (HSA) Changes | Guide |
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| Hire, Add Period Activity Pay: Graduate Assistants | Guide |
Provides a concise, task-based overview of common graduate assistant (GA) lifecycle actions in Workday. It is designed to support student supervisors, admin assistants, and HR partners in selecting and initiating the correct process while aligning with organizational policy and approval of workflows
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| Hire, End Job Tasks: Student Employees | Guide |
Provides a concise, task-based overview of common student employee lifecycle actions in Workday. It is designed to support student supervisors, admin assistants, and HR partners in selecting and initiating the correct process while aligning with organizational policy and approval of workflows |
Hire, Job Changes and End Job Tasks
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Guide |
Provides a concise, task-based overview of common worker lifecycle actions in Workday. It is designed to support managers and HR partners in selecting and initiating the correct process while aligning with organizational policy and approval of workflows
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| Holiday Schedule 2026 | Download |
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| Holiday Schedule 2027 | Download |
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| Manage Beneficiaries | Guide |
How to add, edit, and delete beneficiaries in Workday to ensure your benefit designations are accurate and up-to-date
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| Manage Education | Guide |
How to update and manage your education information in Workday as part of your employee profile and career attributes |
| Manage Period Activity Pay Assignments | Guide |
How to create a Period Activity Pay assignment in Workday to provide additional compensation to an employee for a specific activity during a defined time period
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| New Employee Orientation & Hiring Dates 2026 - 2027 | Download |
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| New Hire Benefits Enrollment | Guide |
How to complete your new hire benefits enrollment in Workday. New hire benefit enrollment is typically completed through a task in 'My Tasks' during onboarding, where employees are prompted to review and select their benefit options |
| Performance Review for Leaders of People | Guide |
Explains the steps of a performance review for Leaders of People. A set of tasks must be completed by the leader of people and their manager |
Recruiting through Hire Process
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Guide |
The full lifecycle of recruiting and hiring an employee in Workday — from creating a job requisition to completing the hire. The process is organized into stages that move a candidate through the recruiting pipeline and into employment |
| Recruiting, Ready to Hire Process: Student Employees and Graduate Assistants | Guide |
The full lifecycle of recruiting and hiring a student employee in Workday — from creating a job requisition to ready for hire. The process is organized into stages that move a candidate through the recruiting pipeline and into employment |
| Request Leave of Absence | Guide |
How to enter/request Leave of Absence/FMLA |
| Request One-Time Payment | Guide |
How to request a One-Time Payment in Workday to provide additional compensation for a single event or payment, as opposed to recurring or period-based activity pay. Use a One-Time Payment when providing a single, non-recurring payment (for example, a bonus or onetime stipend) |
| Student Employment Work Week Guide 2026 - 2027 | Download |
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| View and Edit Benefit Elections | Guide |
How to view your current benefit elections and make updates in Workday, when available |
| Workday: Employee Self Service and Go-Live Checklist | Watch  |
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| Workday: Hire: Student Employment | Watch |
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| Workday: Introduction to Recruiting and Hiring | Watch |
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| Workday: Job Change Actions | Watch |
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| Workday: Job Requisition: Overview | Watch |
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| Workday: Job Requisition: Student Employment | Watch |
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| Workday: Manager Self Service | Watch |
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| Workday: Personal and Contact Information | Watch |
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| Workday: Recruit to Ready for Hire: Faculty | Watch |
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| Workday: Recruit to Ready for Hire: Staff | Watch |
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| Workday: Talent and Performance | Watch |
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