CRITICAL HIVE Workday integration EARLY ACCESS

AI interviews that plug into Workday Recruiting.

Critical Hive reads your open requisitions, invites candidates when they reach the stage you choose, and writes the score, evidence summary and a report link back to the candidate in Workday. AI assists. A person makes every hiring decision.

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  • Sandbox available now
  • Live connector in beta
  • Signed webhooks
  • No video or transcript sent
Workday RecruitingREQ-1041 · Security Operations Analyst
Candidate reaches “Screen”
signed webhook
Critical HiveBranded email · AI interview · human review
Interview complete
score + report link
Candidate record in WorkdayScore 78 · Integrity clear · Report link
A person decides

ILLUSTRATIVE

01 How it works

From requisition to scored candidate, without re-keying.

  1. Import the requisition

    Critical Hive reads your open requisitions from a report your Workday admin publishes. Pick one and AI drafts a STAR-method interview and scoring rubric from its job description. A person edits it before anyone is invited.

  2. Candidate reaches your stage

    When a candidate moves to the stage you choose (for example “Screen”), your Workday integration notifies Critical Hive through a signed webhook. Each candidate is invited once per role.

  3. Branded email, AI interview

    The candidate gets an email with instructions and the option to request a human interview instead. They interview on any device, and AI vision proctors the session live without recording video.

  4. Result back in Workday

    The score, recommendation, integrity status, summary and a report link are sent to the candidate in Workday. Your recruiter reads the evidence and decides.

02 What moves between the systems

Explicit, minimal and reviewable.

Every sync appears in an activity log in Critical Hive, including exactly what was sent to Workday.

Workday → Critical Hive

Requisition ID, title, description and location. Candidate ID, name, email, requisition and stage. Nothing else is requested.

Critical Hive → Workday

Overall score, recommendation (advice only), integrity status, a short summary, a link to the full report and the completion time.

Never sent

The interview transcript, any video (none is recorded), the selfie, or the candidate's answers. Recruiters open the report in Critical Hive for the evidence.

03 Set-up

Four steps with your Workday administrator.

Critical Hive gives you the webhook address, signing secret and a sample payload. Your admin configures the Workday side and stays in control of access.

  • Create an Integration System User with read-only access to one requisitions report, and nothing broader
  • Publish that report as JSON (Report-as-a-Service) with requisition ID, title, description and location
  • Optionally define an inbound endpoint that receives interview results on the candidate record
  • Add the Critical Hive webhook to the integration that fires when candidates change stage

AVAILABILITY

Early access

Sandbox: available now in every workspace. The full flow on sample data, with nothing sent to Workday.

Live connector: beta. We validate it against your Workday tenant with your admin before you depend on it. Not yet a certified Workday Marketplace app.

Other ATS: JobAdder, Bullhorn and Greenhouse are on the roadmap.

04 Security & control

Built by a security firm. It shows.

An integration touches candidate data, so we hold it to the standard we'd expect of any vendor.

  • Credentials encrypted at rest, never shown again after saving
  • Only HTTPS addresses on Workday domains are accepted
  • Webhooks are signed, and anything older than five minutes is rejected
  • An invitation is created once per candidate per role, and plan limits still apply
  • The AI never moves or rejects a candidate in Workday. Sending your own decisions is off by default
  • Disconnect at any time; imported roles stay

EMAIL DELIVERY

From us, or from you.

Invitations come from Critical AI's domain (criticalai.com.au) by default. Admins can connect their own SMTP server instead, so candidates see your domain. Either way, recruiters are prompted to tell candidates to expect the email and check their spam folder.

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05 FAQ

Workday, answered.

Workday is a trademark of Workday, Inc. Critical Hive is not affiliated with or endorsed by Workday.

Does Critical Hive replace Workday Recruiting?

No. Workday stays your system of record. Critical Hive runs the first-round AI interview and sends the result back to the candidate in Workday, so your recruiters keep working where they already work.

Is the Workday connector available today?

Sandbox mode is available in every workspace now. It runs the complete flow on sample requisitions and candidates, so you can see exactly what would happen without touching your Workday tenant. The live connector is in beta: we set it up with your Workday admin and validate it against your tenant before you rely on it. Critical Hive is not yet a certified Workday Marketplace app. The connector uses standard Workday reporting and integration features that your administrator controls.

What does Critical Hive read from Workday?

Open requisitions (ID, title, description, location) from a custom report your Workday admin publishes, and candidate stage changes (candidate ID, name, email, requisition and stage) that your Workday integration sends to a signed webhook. Nothing else.

What is written back to Workday?

The overall score, the AI's recommendation (advice only), the integrity status, a short summary, a link to the full report and the completion time. We do not send the interview transcript, and we do not record or store video. Sending your own Advance, Hold or Decline decisions is a separate switch that is off by default.

Does the AI move or reject candidates in Workday?

No. Critical Hive writes advice back as data. It never changes a candidate's stage or disposition in Workday, and it never rejects anyone automatically. A recruiter or hiring manager reads the evidence and decides. See our AI interview disclaimer.

How do candidates receive the interview?

By branded email, sent from Critical AI's domain (criticalai.com.au) or from your own mail server if your admin connects one. Recruiters are reminded to tell candidates to expect the email and to check their spam or junk folder. Every invitation also explains the option to request a human interview instead.

How is access to Workday secured?

The connector uses a least-privilege Integration System User (or an OAuth client) that your admin creates and can revoke at any time. Credentials are encrypted at rest, only HTTPS addresses on Workday domains are accepted, webhooks are signed with a secret and reject anything older than five minutes, and every sync is written to an activity log.

We use a different ATS. What then?

JobAdder, Bullhorn and Greenhouse are on our roadmap. In the meantime the signed webhook and sandbox are not Workday-specific, and Critical Hive works fully on its own with bulk invitations and exports.

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