This document provides HR Partners (HRPs) directions on how to create a pre-hire in Workday.

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• It is best practice to search Workday for the name of the candidate to avoid creating a duplicate record prior to starting the Create Pre-Hire business process and/or confirm if they were previously employed by UChicago, or if they were students in the past. For detailed instructions, please refer to the Avoiding Duplicate Hires in Workday Knowledge Base Article.
• The UCAT Prefeed website can also be utilized to search for previously assigned Chicago IDs and CNET IDs.
• The information required to complete the process in Workday is:
  • Candidate’s legal name
    • When hiring someone with a diacritical mark in their name (such as tildes (ñ), umlauts (ü), or acute accents (á), etc.), do not use these marks when entering the worker’s name in Workday. Although Workday does accommodate the use of special characters, downstream systems on campus will not be able to process them, causing adverse impacts and preventing records from being processed in Payroll. A hyphen being included as part of a name is an acceptable character in Workday.
    • Do not enter the prefix of “Dr.” unless the candidate has a medical license.
  • Email address
    • The home address and phone number of the candidate are optional when creating a pre-hire.
  • Education and Job History
    • Information from the most recent position and highest degree earned is needed.
• For Academic hires:
  • Prior to initiating the Create Pre-Hire business process, Academic HR Coordinators and Academic HR Partners must search for the candidate first to ensure they do not already have a record in Workday. If there is already a record, the Change Job process should be initiated instead. Please refer to the Changing a Job in Workday Knowledge Base Article for more information.
  • The Case File should be submitted to the Division and to the Provost office concurrent to this process being initiated in Workday.

1. Log into Workday using your CNetID and password.
2. In the search box at the top of the screen, type “Create Pre-Hire,” and select the suggested task that appears below the search box.
3. The Create Pre-Hire screen will show up.
   1. Fill out the Source and Referred by fields, if applicable.
   2. Under the Legal Name Information tab, enter the First Name and Last Name. Fields identified with a red asterisk are required for submission.
      1. If another pre-hire already exists with the same name and is available for hire, an error will appear. Check the Allow Duplicate Name box to create this pre-hire with the duplicate name.
   3. Under the Contact Information tab, scroll to the Email section, select the Add button, enter the email address, and choose the Type (either Home or Work).
      1. The pre-hire will be given the opportunity to review and update their contact information later, during the Onboarding process.
      2. Depending on the browser’s zoom settings, the Contact Information tab may not be visible. In such cases, open the More dropdown menu located next to the Legal Name Information tab, and select Contact Information from the list.
   4. Select OK. A Pre-Hire ID will be generated. Take note of this unique identifier as it will be used to search for the pre-hire in the next step.
   5. Select Done.
4. To enter the pre-hire’s education and job history from their resume, type the Pre-Hire ID generated in the previous step in the search box at the top of the screen, and press Enter.
5. Hover over the pre-hire’s name and select the Related Actions icon (the icon made of a small rectangle with three dots in the middle) that appears to the right of the name. Then, hover over Talent and select Edit Skills and Experience.
   1. In the screen that appears, navigate to the Job History tab to update this information. To add the job details for the pre-hire’s most recent position, insert a row by selecting the Plus (+) icon and fill out the Job Title, Company (Predefined), Start Date and End Date (if applicable) fields.
      1. If the desired organization is not listed in the Company (Predefined) field, use the Company (Not Predefined) field instead.
      2. If the pre-hire’s resume only references month and year, use the first day of the month indicated when entering Start Date and End Date. If the pre-hire’s resume only references a year, please use January 1 as the month and date along with the listed year.
      3. If desired, and if the information is available in the pre-hire’s resume, fill out additional fields for the most recent position, or add more rows to record previous jobs.
   2. Once the pre-hire’s job history has been entered, go to the Education tab to enter information about the pre-hire’s highest degree received. Insert a row by selecting the Plus (+) icon and fill out the Country, School (Predefined), Degree, Degree Received, Year Degree Received, and Field of Study fields.
      1. If the school is not listed in the School (Predefined) field, use the School Name (Not Predefined) field instead.
      2. If desired, and if the information is available in the pre-hire’s resume, fill out additional fields for the highest degree received, or add more rows to record other degrees.
   3. If desired, add Skills by navigating to the tab with this header, type in key words in the prompt box and hit Enter to search results.
   4. To input additional information, go to the appropriate tab (Internal Projects, Work Experience, Languages, Competencies, Certifications, Training, Achievements, and/or Professional Affiliations), and use the Plus (+) icon to insert a new row for each record, and complete the applicable columns.
   5. Select the OK button to complete the process.
      1. If an error message presents itself after selecting OK, ensure that there are no rows of data with all fields empty within any of the tabs. To remove a row, select the Minus (-) icon at the start of the row.