Transform Your Talent Strategy with
Korn Ferry + Workday
At Korn Ferry, we believe in the power of people. That’s why our partnership with Workday goes beyond technology. We combine Workday’s innovative platform with Korn Ferry’s expertise in talent acquisition and management, creating solutions that connect strategy to results.
From recruiting to development, our collaboration ensures a connected approach to talent that considers the whole person—skills, traits, and motivators—so you can build teams that thrive and deliver business impact.
Korn Ferry is an Innovation, Advisory, and
Built-on-Workday Partner with Workday
Unleashing Potential with
Korn Ferry + Workday
Korn Ferry and Workday help you unlock potential at every stage of the talent lifecycle. By integrating Korn Ferry’s expertise and research—with over 7 billion data points at our fingertips—and Workday’s powerful platform, you’ll be able to dynamically align your business and talent strategies and make data-driven decisions across talent acquisition, management, and planning.
That’s your entire workforce working smarter to move the business forward.
Speak the Same Talent Language
- Make better talent decisions with a research-backed talent taxonomy at your fingertips
- Embed proven Success Profiles into Workday to define excellence in any role
- Gain a competitive talent edge by considering the whole person and the traits that help them excel
Address Talent Acquisition Challenges
- Maximize the ROI of your recruitment strategy with data and insights from experienced Workday users
- Streamline workflows for recruiters, managers, and candidates with efficient, self-service tools
- Leverage AI to identify top talent and improve recruiting outcomes
Optimize HR Strategies
- Conduct workshops on job architecture, skills strategies, and Workday readiness
- Streamline your Workday implementation with proven practices and governance
- Drive lasting impact with advisory expertise in talent strategy and transformation
Seamless Talent Management, Powered by
Korn Ferry + Workday
Discover how Korn Ferry's Talent Suite transforms talent strategies by integrating with Workday to create a unified approach to managing people. Learn how we bring decades of talent expertise, data-driven insights, and Success Profiles to elevate your Workday HCM platform, ensuring every talent decision is grounded in a whole-person perspective.
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Transcript for Korn Ferry + Workday Video
[Narrator] In a world where managing talent is more complex than ever, what if you had a built-in research-backed blueprint for hiring, developing, and retaining talent? One that makes hiring the right people, coaching them, and aligning their development to your business needs easier.
With Korn Ferry's Success Profiles integrated into Workday, that's exactly what you get.
To build a workforce that's ready for today and the future, you need more than just skills data. That's why Korn Ferry and Workday teamed up to create a smarter, more connected way to manage talent, helping you unlock potential and align people with business goals.
Our integration is anchored on Korn Ferry's Success Profiles, backed by decades of research that clarify what great looks like in any role. Seamlessly integrated into Workday, they provide a data-driven foundation for talent decisions. Each profile captures a whole-person view. Skills, the abilities needed to do the job, behavioral traits, how they work, personal attributes, what motivates them. Korn Ferry's Success Profiles populate job profiles in Workday, creating a blueprint to recruit, onboard, train, and measure performance.
This means faster, more accurate job requisitions, smarter performance conversations, and targeted development plans tailored to business needs.
Need to fill a key role? With Success Profiles and Workday, you instantly see the skills and competencies required aligned to your business, skills gaps, and goals. Plus, Korn Ferry assessment insights streamline hiring, performance reviews, and career development.
With data-backed Success Profiles at the foundation, everyone benefits.
For employees, Success Profiles shape role expectations, development pathways, and career mobility, helping them grow and thrive. For business leaders, that's your entire workforce aligned to move the business forward. Korn Ferry and Workday, better together for better results.
Delivering Talent and Insights at Scale
Transform talent acquisition and maximize your investment in Workday with Korn Ferry's proven insights and functional knowledge of Workday systems.
Learn More About Our Integration with Workday
How is the integration sold/licensed?
The integration is a yearly subscription model. This model provides you with flexible access to Korn Ferry’s live Success Profiles library – Profile Manager. As a SaaS (software-as-a-service) application, the integration to Profile Manager means you always have access to what you need – that's the newest benchmarked job definitions, role representations, skills, and competencies embedded in Workday and maintained for you.
For more information on pricing, please connect with us or visit Workday Marketplace.
How does the integration enhance my experience in Workday?
We help you unlock your workforce’s full potential by aligning everything you do in recruiting, performance, development, and beyond to a single, data-driven talent taxonomy.
That means:
- Faster, more accurate job profiles and requisitions
- Smarter performance conversations connected to proven on-the-job measures of success
- Effective development plans that target skills gaps and move the business forward
What does the integration involve—technically and logistically?
The integration uses APIs to connect Workday’s Orchestrate app exchange to Korn Ferry’s Profile Manager. Korn Ferry provides configurable data mapping, security domains and roles, business process frameworks, auditing capabilities, and standard reports using Workday Extend ecosystem tools. You can use what Korn Ferry provides for the implementation—or your own reporting. Data is transferred using JSON-based inbound and outbound communications.
For more information on integration setup and maintenance, please connect with a member of our team.
