How teams actually use Kini with Workday.
From multi-client agencies to in-house recruiting teams: Kini fits the way you work with Workday. Five scenarios where the managed integration makes the biggest difference.
Your customer connects Workday themselves
You generate a Magic Link and send it to your end customer. They authorize their Workday tenant. You never touch access data, your team never touches applicant data.
Fields map themselves
Workday's fields are auto-detected and mapped in the background. No code, no engineer, no development ticket.
You never touch applicant data
Applications land directly in your customer's Workday tenant. Your team never has to download, forward or re-enter applicant data.
One Workday account, 1,500+ job boards
Once connected, you choose from 1,500+ job boards, including Stepstone and Indeed, to promote Workday jobs, and applications come back the same way. One connected account, no second integration project.
Every field. Every entity.Exactly where it belongs.
Kini syncs job requisitions, candidates and applications between Workday and your connected channels via the Workday Recruiting REST API. No intermediate storage, no manual exports, no data sitting in between.
Job Requisitions
Candidates
Workday Recruiting exposes the hiring lifecycle through a REST API, alongside SOAP web services. Candidates can be pushed into requisition pipelines, including bulk applicant import for high-volume hiring.
From authorization to production go-live.
Kini connects to Workday via Magic Link. Fields are mapped automatically, the connection is tested and your integration is live.
Step 1Connect
Your customer receives a Magic Link from Kini and authorizes their Workday tenant. No credentials are shared with you at any point.
Step 2Map
Kini auto-detects and pre-maps Workday's requisition and candidate fields between Workday and your connected channels. No manual configuration needed.
Step 3Test
A test requisition and a test candidate run automatically through the full flow. Kini checks field mapping and sync behaviour before anything goes live.
Step 4Go-live!
Applications flow through Kini directly into the customer's Workday tenant, which stays the system of record. Kini operates and monitors the connection.
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What makes Kini different for Workday customers.
Other tools connect. Kini manages. In practice that covers GDPR, field mapping, job board compatibility and everything that breaks when nobody is watching.
End-to-end GDPR consent
Every application that flows through Kini carries a consent flag, mirrored on the target system's side and traceable in audits.
Native-language custom fields
Locations, departments and sources are mapped correctly even when they use German naming conventions or regional variants, whether your customers sit in DACH or operate internationally.
Application flows for a wide range of job boards
Stepstone, Indeed, Jobrapido and regional boards each have their own required fields, screening patterns and encoding rules. Kini's mapping engine is trained for those: out of the box, not as a custom project.
Operated by the Kini team
Kini runs the connection for you, including monitoring and alerts. If a vendor changes an API or a mapping breaks, our team fixes it before it reaches your funnel. Operated from Germany.
Frequently asked questions about the Workday integration.
Everything about how Kini connects to Workday. From setup and authentication to data sync and GDPR compliance.
Kini syncs job requisitions, candidates and applications with Workday through the Workday Recruiting REST API. Requisitions are read from the tenant, and candidates are pushed into the matching requisition pipelines.
Workday's Recruiting REST API uses standards-based authorization. Your customer authorizes the connection on their side via the Magic Link, and no credentials are shared with you. Kini operates the authorized connection from there.
No. Workday stays your system of record. Kini is the connectivity layer around it: requisitions, candidates and applications are synced between Workday and your connected recruiting channels, so you extend what Workday already does without replacing it.
No. The Workday integration is pre-built, so there is no development project on your side. You send your customer a Magic Link, they authorize their own Workday tenant, and Kini handles mapping, operation and monitoring as a managed service.
It is built for GDPR-compliant use. Data that passes between Workday and your connected channels is processed by Kini in Frankfurt, Germany, under a data processing agreement (DPA). Kini deletes or anonymizes personal applicant data 180 days after an application is created.
Trusted by recruiting teamsacross europe.
From enterprise HR platforms to lean recruiting boutiques. Teams use Kini to connect their tools without involving engineering. Here's what they say.
"Kini syncs candidates from Perspective straight into our customers' ATS. That saves us manual transfers and around four hours a week."
"Kini gets enterprise customers on SAP SuccessFactors live much faster. Fewer technical hurdles in sales, around 20% more conversion."
"With Kini, we sync candidates straight into our customers' ATS through 65+ integrations. We don't need an extra full-time hire for it."
