Skip to main content

How to Use Alva with Workday

Learn how assessments are ordered from Workday, what Alva sends back when a candidate is done, and where to find the full report.

Written by Pernilla Ahl

How assessments are sent

Workday drives the assessment process. When a candidate is assessed in Workday, Workday places an assessment order with Alva, Alva invites the candidate by email, and the result is written back to the candidate in Workday once they have finished.

💡Note: Your Workday jobs and candidates are not mirrored into Alva. A job appears in Alva when the first assessment order for it arrives, and not before. A candidate you add directly in Alva has no Workday order attached, so that result cannot be sent back to Workday.

If the integration is not connected yet, start with Alva Labs and Workday Integration.


Inviting a candidate

Candidates are invited from Workday, not from Alva. Alva sends the invitation email as soon as the order arrives.

Kombo’s guide covers the Workday steps — both assessing a single candidate and setting a job requisition up so that everyone reaching the assessment stage is invited automatically.

💡Note: Send your own message to the candidate ahead of the Alva invitation. It matters for whether the candidate expects, accepts and completes the assessment. Our support team can help with the wording.

Which tests you can order, and how they are made available, is covered in Alva Labs and Workday Integration.


What comes back

When the candidate has finished, Alva sends Workday the status, a score out of 100 and a link to the full report.

Workday carries the headline result only. Following the link opens the report in Alva, where the profile comparison and the rest of the detail live — and where anything beyond the score has to be read.

Where the result appears in Workday depends on how your recruiting process is set up. Kombo’s guide shows the views.


Any Questions?

Use the chat in the bottom right corner to connect with a member of our support team.

Did this answer your question?