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Review Candidate Materials in Workday

If you are on a search committee, you may need to access candidate materials such as cover letters and CVs through Workday. Here's how. This guide is written specifically for screen reader users.

Getting Started

  1. Navigate to and activate the “Menu” button near the top of the page. This will open a “Global Navigation” dialog.
  2. Within the dialog, navigate to and activate the “Apps” tab. (It will likely be selected by default.)
  3. Navigate to and activate the “Recruiting” link.
  4. Navigate to “View” (heading level 2). After this heading, activate the “My Open Job Requisitions - Search Committee” link.
  5. Navigate to and activate the relevant job requisition.

Select a Candidate

  1. Once you have navigated to the page for a job requisition, the page’s heading level 1 should indicate the role for which you are hiring.
  2. Navigate forward to and activate the “Overview” tab. (It will likely be selected by default.)
  3. Navigate to and activate the “Review Candidates” button. This will load a “Review Candidates” page.
  4. The “Review Candidates” page is complicated but can be straightforward to navigate. There is a unique link for each candidate. Navigate forward by links or pull up a list of links. Navigate to and activate the link for the candidate you are interested in. This will open a “View Job Application” page for the candidate.

Locate Candidate Materials

  1. On the “View Job Application” page, navigate to the second heading level 1 on the page. (The heading will be the candidate’s name.)
  2. Navigate forward from the candidate’s name to reach a list of links (including Summary, Overview, Recruiting History, and more). Activate the link for the desired section. This will update the page with the chosen content and shift your focus to a heading level 2 matching the chosen link.
  3. Navigate forward from the heading level 2 to access the relevant content.
  4. To access a different section, navigate backward to the candidate’s name and then forward to the list of links.
  5. To access all files the candidate attached to their application, activate the link for the “Questionnaire Results” section.
  6. Files are listed within a table near the bottom of the page. Navigate forward by link until you reach the candidate’s cover letter, CV, and other materials.
  7. Activate the link for the desired file. This will open a “PDF Previewer” dialog.
  8. Within the “PDF Previewer” dialog, navigate to and activate the “Download” button if you would like to download the file. Otherwise, you can navigate past the “Print” button to preview the document from within the dialog.
  9. To close the “PDF Previewer” dialog, navigate back to and activate the “Close” button at the beginning of the dialog.

Advance to the Next Candidate

  1. On the “View Job Application” page, navigate to the first heading level 1 on the page. This will tell you which candidate number you are currently viewing (for example: 7 of 100).
  2. Immediately after this first heading level 1 are “Previous” and “Next” buttons. Activate the “Next” button to view the job application for the next candidate.
    • Note: These buttons will load the application for the next/previous candidate but will not trigger a full page reload. After you activate the button, your screen reader should announce “Workday page is loaded” to indicate the active candidate has changed. At this point, navigate forward to view the next candidate’s application as outlined above.