Workday Rising 2025 recap: smarter filters, skills fluidity, and trusted AI
The conversations at Workday Rising 2025 painted a clear picture of where hiring is headed, and the challenges that are top of mind for talent leaders. From overflowing candidate pipelines to the evolving definition of “skills,” one theme was constant: hiring tools need to be as dynamic as the jobs they support.
Here are three major takeaways from around the conference floor.
The need for smarter filtering
Many organizations are hiring less but receiving more applications than ever. The imbalance is creating an urgent need for better ways to identify job fit early in the process.
Teams are turning to solutions like Hirevue’s Assessments and Interview Insights to better optimize their video interview platform to filter large candidate pools with precision. These tools help recruiters move beyond resumes to uncover the skills and potential that align with today and tomorrow’s role requirements and save time during the process
In an era where every hire counts, efficiency and fairness are no longer nice-to-haves. They’re essential.
Adapting to evolving job requirements
A noticeable shift is underway: organizations are moving from a skills-first mindset to a skills-fluid one.
Why? Because roles are changing faster than ever. A static list of “required skills” can’t keep up with the pace of business transformation. Instead, hiring teams need the ability to:
- Quickly identify emerging skills as roles evolve
- Build assessments to measure those new skills
- Integrate this agility into their hiring process
Hirevue offers assessments for every job role at any level to give teams that adaptability, allowing them to tailor evaluations in real time, ensuring every candidate is measured against what the job requires today, not what it required a year ago.
AI agents are hot but understanding them is key
AI was, unsurprisingly, the buzzword of the week. However, while everyone’s talking about agents, not everyone knows what they mean.
In practice, many equate “agents” with AI-driven process automation, not full decision-making autonomy. That distinction matters. While organizations are becoming more comfortable with AI handling repetitive tasks, there’s still caution around AI making hiring decisions outright.
For Hirevue, this reinforces a message we’ve championed from the start: AI should support human decision-making, not replace it.
It’s why we emphasize transparency, explainability, and fairness in every AI-driven process. Your vendors should be able to explain how their science works, in a way that makes sense, with the ROI to back it up.
Workday Rising confirmed what we’re already seeing across our customer base:
- Candidate volume is up.
- Job definitions are changing.
- AI is everywhere, but trust is everything.
To stay ahead, hiring teams need flexible, transparent tools that evolve with their business. At Hirevue, we’re building exactly that to empower organizations to hire confidently in an always changing landscape. Request a demo here and see what our solutions can do for your specific challenges today and tomorrow.
