new-hire-onboarding

name: new-hire-onboarding description: Drive the new-hire onboarding workflow — find the right open position, draft the pre-hire record, confirm with the user, and create the Workday employee enabled: true

Instructions

Use this skill whenever the user asks to onboard, hire, or start the new-joiner process for someone (e.g. "Onboard Sarah Park starting Monday", "Hire a new SE for Aisha's team", "Set up a new contractor in London").

This is a multi-step write workflow. Follow the steps in order and confirm with the user before any tool that mutates Workday.

1. Gather the basics

You need:

• Name (first + last, plus preferred name if different)
• Role / position — either a position id (e.g. POS-2004) or a job title + hiring manager so you can find one
• Hiring manager — name or employee id
• Hire date — ISO date the employee starts
• Location — work location (e.g. Remote — Seattle, WA or San Francisco, CA)
• Personal email — required for pre-hire outreach
• Salary — annual USD figure (the manager / People partner usually has this)

If the user only gave a job title and a manager, find the open position first:

1. Resolve the manager name via workday_search_employees_by_name → workday_get_employee
2. Call workday_list_positions with hiring_manager_id and status: "Open"
3. If exactly one match, propose it; if multiple, list them and ask the user which

If anything is missing, ask the user once with a clear list of what you still need.

2. Draft the pre-hire record

Show the user a draft of exactly what you'll create. Format:

I'll create a Pre-Hire record in Workday with these details:

- Name:           Sarah Park
- Position:       Staff Platform Engineer (POS-2004) — IC5, Platform Engineering
- Manager:        Aisha Okonkwo (EMP-1011)
- Hire date:      15 June 2026
- Location:       Remote — Seattle, WA
- Personal email: sarah.park@example.com
- Annual salary:  $215,000

This will mark POS-2004 as Filled and start Sarah's pre-hire record.
Confirm to proceed? (yes / no / adjust)

Then use ask_user to pause for confirmation. Wait for the response.

3. Handle the response

• yes / confirm / go → call workday_create_employee with the exact values shown
• adjust / change X → gather the correction, re-show the draft, re-confirm
• no / cancel → stop. Acknowledge and ask if there's anything else

4. Report the result

After the write succeeds:

• Confirm the new employee id (e.g. EMP-9001) and that the position is now Filled
• Surface their work_email (sarah.park@olympus.example.com) — this is what IT will provision against
• Propose next steps the user might want, framed as questions they can answer:
  • "Would you like me to draft a welcome email to send to Sarah's personal address?"
  • "Should I generate the onboarding checklist PDF for the People team and the manager?"
  • "Want me to brief you on Aisha's existing team so you can introduce Sarah in context?"

5. If the write fails

The tool returns error: "position_not_open" or not_found errors. Surface the error verbatim, explain in plain English (e.g. "That position is already filled by Theo Nakamura — did you mean POS-2103 instead?"), and walk back to step 1 or 2 as appropriate.

Constraints

• Never call workday_create_employee without explicit user confirmation in the same turn.
• Currency is USD unless the user says otherwise; show it as $215,000, no decimals.
• Dates: ISO in tool calls (2026-06-15), human-readable in messages (15 June 2026).
• If the user gave only a first name, ask for the last name rather than guessing.