Gem joins Workday's Innovation Partner Program

Today, we're excited to announce that Gem is now an official Workday Innovation Partner. This certification validates what our customers already experience daily — a seamless integration that extends Workday Recruiting’s capabilities with AI-powered recruiting tools that help recruiters hire great candidates faster.

This means enterprise teams can use Gem to extend what’s possible in Workday Recruiting — featuring AI agents, 650M+ profiles to source from, CRM, scheduling, and analytics. Powered by a robust bi-directional integration, Gem helps recruiters on Workday boost productivity by 5x while saving companies 30-50% on technology costs.

"Gem becoming a certified Workday Innovation Partner validates what we already knew — they've created the benchmark for how vendor partnerships should work. With this certification, we can be even more agile in how we leverage AI across our Workday ecosystem."

Shahbaz Ali

Senior Director, Talent Acquisition Enablement, Experience, and Brand

In this post, we'll cover:

• What makes Gem's Workday integration different

• How Gem and Workday work better together

• How to learn more and book a custom demo

What makes Gem's Workday integration different

1. Complete AI-first platform, not another point solution

While other Workday partners offer single capabilities, Gem delivers everything in one robust platform, with AI recruiting agents for sourcing, application review, and rediscovery, plus CRM, scheduling, analytics, and career sites. This means:

• 30-50% cost savings through consolidation

• One integration instead of managing multiple vendors

• Unified data across all recruiting workflows

2. Robust, bi-directional integration

Our Innovation Partner certification isn't just a badge — it's built on a robust integration that's intentionally designed to help enterprises unlock true productivity between Gem and Workday Recruiting:

• Reliable, real-time syncs that keep data current

• Go-live in 5 weeks with just 3 simple steps and no custom code

• Direct support channels through our partnership and future-proof compatibility as Workday evolves

“The seamless integration with Workday streamlined our workflow, and the pre-built dashboards provide valuable insights into key recruiting metrics, which we can readily share with our executive team for data-driven decision-making. Gem has become an indispensable tool in our daily operations."

Simone Bolton

Talent Acquisition Manager

3. AI recruiting agents powered by complete Workday context

Gem AI doesn't operate in a silo – it offers contextual recommendations. Our AI agents — whether sourcing, screening, or rediscovering candidates — surface your entire relationship history with past interactions from Gem CRM and Workday Recruiting so you can take the right next step and avoid mis-timed messages. Examples of the relationship history you see in Gem:. 

• Past interactions across email, InMail, and SMS

• Previous applications, scorecards, and notes

• Other informative touch points, like recent rejections, previous event attendance, and campaign engagement

4. Enterprise-ready with recruiter-first design

With a 4.8/5 G2 rating and 92% of users saying they find Gem easy to use, we're the certified partner that recruiters actually want to use:

• Self-serve analytics without IT dependencies

• Intuitive workflows designed by recruiters, for recruiters

• 99.9% uptime with SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliance

• Successful AI bias audit with BABL for responsible AI use

“This is the best vendor partnership I have been a part of throughout my career- it feels like we are all part of the same team.”

Danielle Kensinger

Vice President, Global Talent Acquisition

5. Built right from the ground up

Unlike other vendors who rely on third-party connectors, our in-house engineering team built this integration specifically for how recruiters work. We have access to more Workday fields and objects than other vendors — including job, application, and candidate custom fields — giving you deeper analytics and more powerful automation. When issues arise, we fix them directly without waiting for third-party tickets.

Learn more about our approach to Workday integrations.

How Gem and Workday work better together

Here’s how leading Workday customers like Zillow, CarMax, Cushman & Wakefield, and Snap use Gem to transform their recruiting operations.

Review applications 5x faster with AI agents

With hundreds of applications per role, finding the best candidates in Workday can feel overwhelming. Gem's AI agents give every candidate a match score based on your specific criteria, providing detailed explanations for each recommendation. Teams review applications 5x faster while ensuring no great candidate gets overlooked — and everything syncs automatically back to Workday.

Rediscover silver medalists instantly

Your Workday ATS contains a goldmine of past candidates. Gem's AI agents surface qualified candidates from your entire talent network, complete with their full history — past applications, interview feedback, and all previous interactions. Stop starting from scratch when the perfect candidate might already be in your database.

Source smarter with 30-40% higher response rates

Gem searches 650M+ profiles while automatically flagging candidates already in your Workday system to prevent duplicate outreach. Our AI crafts personalized messages using complete candidate context, which is why teams see 30-40% higher response rates compared to generic outreach.

Eliminate scheduling headaches

Stop playing calendar tetris. Gem's intelligent scheduling automatically finds optimal interview times across multiple calendars and time zones, reducing time-to-first-interview by 52%. Candidates self-schedule through branded portals while all updates sync directly to Workday.

Visualize pipelines and manage candidates easily

Get a clear view of your Workday pipelines and collaborate effectively with hiring managers to move candidates through your process.

Get true end-to-end analytics

Finally see your complete recruiting funnel without complex BI tools. Gem combines top-of-funnel sourcing data with Workday hiring outcomes, letting you build executive dashboards in minutes, track ROI on every sourcing channel, and identify bottlenecks that slow down hiring.

Build compelling career sites, run stellar events, and nurture talent communities

Transform how you attract and engage talent with world-class career sites powered by Happydance, plus Gem's native event management and nurture campaigns.

Learn more about how Gem supercharges your Workday ATS and our approach to responsible AI.

Ready to see the certified difference?

Join leading Workday customers who are already achieving 5x productivity gains while saving 30-50% on recruiting technology costs.

Book a custom demo today and see how Gem extends what's possible in Workday Recruiting.

Watch our Demo Day webinar for an in-depth look at Gem + Workday in action.

Download our complete playbook for getting the most out of Gem + Workday.

Gem is listed in the Workday Innovation Partners directory where you can learn more about our certified integration.