How to apply for a job on Workday, step by step

Start on the employer's own site.

A job board listing usually sends you to the employer's Workday career site. The web address often looks like the company name followed by myworkdayjobs.com. That company name matters: it tells you whose site you are on.

Each employer runs its own site with its own accounts, so expect to create an account for each new company. The guide on Workday accounts explains why and how to make it less painful.

Choose how to start the application.

After you sign in, many Workday sites ask how you want to begin. Common choices are to fill in the application from your resume, to apply manually, or to reuse your last application on that same company's site.

Starting from your resume saves typing, but treat what it fills in as a first draft. The import often misreads dates and splits or merges roles.

Check every page before moving on.

Most Workday applications follow a similar order. Each page saves when you continue, so fix mistakes as you go.

• My information: legal name, contact details and how you heard about the role.
• My experience: each job title, employer and set of dates must belong to the same role. Check education and links too.
• Application questions: the employer's own questions, including eligibility and sponsorship. Answer these for your situation today.
• Voluntary disclosures and self-identification: optional questions, often with a choice not to answer.
• Review: read the whole application and open the attached resume before you press Submit.

If the resume import gets your history wrong.

Fix the fields on the page rather than rewriting your real history to suit the importer. If several roles come out scrambled, the problem is often the layout of the file. The guide to resumes that do not parse correctly walks through the fix.

Editing, withdrawing or applying again.

Once submitted, an application usually cannot be edited. If something important is wrong, contact the employer's recruiting team.

Workday lets employers offer a Withdraw button beside your application in Candidate Home. Its documentation says the button does not display at a stage where the employer has not set up candidate withdrawal. Do not submit a second application to the same posting to fix a mistake, since that can create a duplicate.

Apply faster on the next Workday site.

Litos fills Workday applications page by page from your saved profile and a resume tailored to the job, so a new employer does not mean retyping your history. When a page asks something Litos has no answer for, it asks you instead of guessing. Sign-ins and verification codes stay with you.

With Hold for my final press on, Litos fills everything and waits for you to press Submit on the last page. Try the sample application first. It sends nothing.