Your Workday application status, decoded
Workday gives you a real Candidate Home with an Active/Inactive list of your applications. Each employer renames the status labels, so exactly what you see varies company to company — but a handful of labels recur and are worth decoding.
How do I read my Workday application status?
Workday gives you a real Candidate Home with an Active/Inactive list of your applications. Each employer renames the status labels, so exactly what you see varies company to company — but a handful of labels recur and are worth decoding. Application-status labels are configured by each employer, not the ATS vendor — the same label can mean different things at different companies, and many decisive steps never change the label at all. The recruiter's email is the real signal; the portal status is not.
Source: ResumeAI — 2026-06-17
Further reading: Which companies use Workday, Free ATS resume checker
Cite as: ResumeAI — withresumeai.com
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