You recently created a supervisory organization that uses the Position Management staffing model. Before you can hire into the organization, what business process must you execute first?

In Workday's Position Management staffing model, positions are distinct objects that must be created, approved, and available before a worker can be hired into them. This model is used for strict headcount control. The Create Position business process is the mandatory prerequisite for establishing a new, unfilled role within a supervisory organization. Once the position is created and has passed any required approvals, it becomes available to be filled through the Hire business process. Without an existing, open position, the Hire process cannot be initiated for that organization.

A. Change Job: This business process is used to move an existing employee to a different job or position; it is not used to enable a new hire.
C. Edit Position: This business process is used to modify the attributes of an existing position. It cannot be the first step, as a position must be created before it can be edited.
D. Hiring Restrictions: These are rules or configurations applied to a position or job profile to control eligibility for hiring, not the business process that creates the position itself.

1. Workday

Inc. (2023). Staffing Models Core Concepts Guide.

Section: "Position Management"

Content: This guide explicitly states

"In position management

you must create positions before you hire workers. You then hire workers into those open positions. This enables you to have tighter control over hiring." This directly supports that Create Position is the required preliminary step.

2. Workday

Inc. (2024). Business Process Administrator Guide.

Section: "Core Staffing Business Processes"

Content: The documentation details the sequence of events for staffing. It outlines that for organizations using Position Management

the Create Position business process must be successfully completed to open a position. The Hire business process is then used to fill that specific

open position.

3. Carnegie Mellon University. (n.d.). Workday HCM for Managers Training.

Module: "Creating and Managing Positions"

Content: University training materials for managers using Workday consistently instruct that the first action to fill a new vacancy in a department using Position Management is to initiate the 'Create Position' task. This must be done before a candidate can be hired into the system for that role.