1. Talent Suite
  2. Roles and access
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Who can do what in Talent Suite

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How permissions work

Employee scope

Employee works on own leave, time and goals and sees the records granted to that role.

Hiring scope

Recruiter advances candidate records; Hiring Manager contributes requisitions and interview scorecards.

People decisions

HR Business Partner (HRBP) maintains the employee lifecycle and performance records.

Specialist work

Payroll Admin owns pay records; L&D Admin owns learning records; CHRO / VP People has enterprise read access.

Who can do what

Permissions by role
RolePeople recordsRecruitingOnboardingTime and leavePayroll and benefitsPerformanceLearning and engagement
HR Business PartnerEditEditEdit—ViewEdit—
Hiring ManagerViewEdit—————
Payroll AdminView——ViewEdit——
EmployeeView——EditViewEditEdit
L&D AdminViewView———ViewEdit
RecruiterViewEdit—————
CHRO / VP PeopleViewViewView——ViewView

Each role in detail

HR Business Partner

Owns employee, position, lifecycle and performance records; reads statements and enrollments.

Can

  • Manage Employees, employment history, Goals, performance reviews, Positions
  • View benefit enrollments, pay statements

Starts on: Leave approval inbox

Hiring Manager

Edits own draft requisitions and own interview scorecards; reads candidate and offer context.

Can

  • Manage Interviews, job requisitions
  • View Applications, Candidates, Employees, Offers

Starts on: Open requisitions

Payroll Admin

Prepares payroll runs, statements, tax records and reads the upstream employee and time inputs.

Can

  • Manage pay statement lines, pay statements, payroll calendars, payroll runs, tax filings, tax jurisdictions
  • View benefit enrollments, Employees, leave requests, Timesheets

Starts on: Submitted timesheets

Employee

Self-service role for own time, leave and goals with own-scope read access to statements and records.

Can

  • Manage engagement responses, Goals, leave requests, time entries, Timesheets
  • View benefit enrollments, Departments, Employees, engagement surveys, leave balances, pay statements, performance reviews, training records

Starts on: Open surveys

L&D Admin

Manages the course catalog, enrollments and durable training records.

Can

  • Manage course enrollments, Courses, training records
  • View Employees, performance reviews, Positions

Starts on: Learning due

Recruiter

Runs requisitions through the applicant pipeline; directory-level employee and position read access.

Can

  • Manage Applications, Candidates, Interviews, job requisitions, Offers
  • View Employees, Positions

Starts on: Open requisitions

CHRO / VP People

Read-only enterprise visibility across people, performance and development records.

Can

  • View Departments, Employees, employment history, Goals, performance reviews, Positions, training records

Starts on: Open surveys

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