HRMS migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Workforce Analytics and Recruit CRM & ATS. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Recruit CRM & ATS.
Workforce Analytics
Source
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Compatibility
5 of 10
objects map 1:1 between Workforce Analytics and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
3-5 weeks
Overview
Moving from Workforce Analytics to Recruit CRM is a domain-shift migration, not a like-for-like platform swap. Workforce Analytics is an HRMS built to track performance trends, retention risk, compensation distribution, and organizational health across employee populations. Recruit CRM is an ATS-plus-CRM built for recruitment agencies and executive search firms to manage candidates, clients, job orders, and pipeline activity. There is no direct object equivalence: Workforce Analytics Employees map to Recruit CRM Candidates, Departments map to organizational Tags or custom fields, and performance metrics become candidate notes or custom fields depending on use case. We resolve the data model gap during scoping, flag which Workforce Analytics records have no Recruit CRM analog (org charts, flight-risk scores, headcount benchmarks), and deliver those as written exports for manual review. We do not migrate Workforce Analytics automations, HR reports, or compliance logs as code.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Workforce Analytics object lands in Recruit CRM & ATS, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Workforce Analytics
Employee
Recruit CRM & ATS
Candidate
1:1Workforce Analytics Employee records map to Recruit CRM Candidates. The employee's full name, email, phone, location, and employment status become candidate profile fields. The most recent job title and department from the Employee record populate the candidate's Current Title and Current Company fields. We flag records where the Employee has no email address on file; these require manual enrichment or a notes-only import to avoid Recruit CRM validation failures on the required email field.
Workforce Analytics
Department
Recruit CRM & ATS
Tag or Custom Field
lossyWorkforce Analytics Department records (or the department affiliation on an Employee record) have no direct Recruit CRM equivalent. We map department names to Recruit CRM Tags applied to the candidate profile, or we create a custom picklist field (e.g., Previous_Department__c) depending on the customer's reporting needs. The choice is made during scoping based on how the customer intends to filter candidates by source department.
Workforce Analytics
Reporting Relationship
Recruit CRM & ATS
Custom Field or Note
lossyWorkforce Analytics preserves the hierarchy between employees, their roles, and their reporting relationships for org chart reconstruction. Recruit CRM has no native org chart object. We export the reporting relationship data as a structured CSV and as candidate notes documenting manager name and reporting chain. For organizations that require this data in a queryable form, we create custom lookup fields (Reports_To__c pointing to another Candidate record) and populate them during migration where the manager also exists as a candidate.
Workforce Analytics
Employment History (effective-dated records)
Recruit CRM & ATS
Candidate Work History
1:manyWorkforce Analytics handles effective-dated employment changes as time-slice records rather than point-in-time snapshots. Each unique job assignment (title, department, manager, effective date range) becomes a separate Work History entry on the Recruit CRM candidate profile. We flatten the time-slice records into a linear employment timeline ordered by start date, preserving job title, company name, and date range. Compensation fields from Workforce Analytics do not map to standard Recruit CRM fields; these transfer to custom fields if the customer specifies a business need.
Workforce Analytics
Performance Rating
Recruit CRM & ATS
Custom Field or Note
lossyWorkforce Analytics performance ratings, scorecards, or review data map to custom numeric or text fields on the Recruit CRM candidate profile (e.g., Last_Performance_Rating__c). If the customer does not have a custom field configured, we attach the most recent performance rating as a note on the candidate record. Performance trend data (multi-period ratings) is exported as a written CSV for manual review since Recruit CRM does not support time-series custom fields on candidate profiles natively.
Workforce Analytics
Tenure Distribution / Flight Risk Score
Recruit CRM & ATS
Note
1:1Workforce Analytics flight-risk scores and tenure distribution benchmarks have no direct Recruit CRM equivalent. These aggregate analytics outputs do not map to individual candidate records. We export the flight-risk data as a separate written inventory (CSV or PDF) for the customer's recruiting team to review independently. In Recruit CRM, the candidate record retains the original hire date and employment status, from which the recruiting team can infer tenure independently.
Workforce Analytics
Hiring Velocity / Headcount Plan
Recruit CRM & ATS
Job Order
1:1Workforce Analytics hiring velocity metrics (open reqs, time-to-fill, departmental headcount plans) translate to Recruit CRM Job Orders. Each active headcount request in Workforce Analytics becomes a Job Order in Recruit CRM with the department as a tag, the job title from the req, and the hiring manager name in the recruiter assignment field. Historical time-to-fill data does not migrate; it lives in Workforce Analytics reporting and is not part of the candidate record.
Workforce Analytics
Compensation Distribution
Recruit CRM & ATS
Custom Field
lossyWorkforce Analytics compensation distribution data (salary bands, actual compensation, equity, bonus) maps to custom fields on the Recruit CRM candidate profile if the customer has a business need to carry this data into the recruitment process. Compensation data is sensitive; we apply field-level encryption in transit and at rest, and we flag any records containing compensation data for explicit customer sign-off before migration begins.
Workforce Analytics
User / Owner
Recruit CRM & ATS
User
1:1Workforce Analytics users who will use Recruit CRM post-migration need to be provisioned as Recruit CRM users. We extract the user list from Workforce Analytics by email, match against Recruit CRM's user table, and identify any gaps. The customer provisions missing Recruit CRM users before migration, as OwnerId references on candidate records require a valid Recruit CRM User.
Workforce Analytics
Custom HRMS Objects
Recruit CRM & ATS
Custom Objects
1:1Any custom objects configured in Workforce Analytics (e.g., Certifications, Background Checks, I-9 Records, Skills Matrices) map to Recruit CRM Custom Objects of matching API name. We pre-create the destination schema in Recruit CRM before any data import, including custom fields, picklist values, and any lookup relationships to standard objects. Compliance-related custom objects (I-9, background check status) are migrated as notes-only unless the customer specifies a business need for structured fields, due to the sensitivity of this data.
| Workforce Analytics | Recruit CRM & ATS | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee | Candidate1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Department | Tag or Custom Fieldlossy | Fully supported | |
| Reporting Relationship | Custom Field or Notelossy | Fully supported | |
| Employment History (effective-dated records) | Candidate Work History1:many | Fully supported | |
| Performance Rating | Custom Field or Notelossy | Fully supported | |
| Tenure Distribution / Flight Risk Score | Note1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Hiring Velocity / Headcount Plan | Job Order1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Compensation Distribution | Custom Fieldlossy | Fully supported | |
| User / Owner | User1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Custom HRMS Objects | Custom Objects1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Workforce Analytics gotchas
Award/EBA-encoded pay calculations are platform-specific
Roster optimization is project-output, not transactional data
Audit-pack PDFs have legal retention implications
Engagement-led rather than self-serve subscription
Recruit CRM & ATS gotchas
API rate limits are license-scaled and can throttle bulk migration
Custom field schemas vary per organization and require field-level mapping
Files and email attachments require separate extraction and re-upload
Email sequences and automation logic do not transfer between platforms
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discovery and data audit
We audit the Workforce Analytics instance to identify the full record inventory: total employee count, department count, custom objects, effective-dated record volume, and any configured reporting relationships. We identify which records have mandatory Recruit CRM fields (email, name) populated and flag records missing required fields as candidates for manual enrichment or notes-only import. We also identify any sensitive fields (compensation, background checks, performance ratings) requiring explicit migration approval. The discovery output is a written migration scope with record counts per object and a list of data requiring manual review.
Data model design and candidate profile construction
We design the target Recruit CRM schema based on the customer's recruitment workflow. This includes provisioning custom fields on the Candidate object to carry Workforce Analytics data (previous department, last performance rating, compensation where approved, manager name), configuring Tags for department mapping, and setting up any custom objects required for non-standard Workforce Analytics entities. We validate the schema in Recruit CRM's sandbox before any data loads begin.
Sandbox migration and reconciliation
We run a full migration into a Recruit CRM staging environment using a representative sample of production data volume. The customer's HR or operations lead reconciles record counts, spot-checks 25-50 candidate profiles against the Workforce Analytics source records, and validates that required fields are populated correctly. Any mapping corrections, missing field handling, and custom field configuration adjustments happen here before production migration begins.
Sensitive data approval and field encryption
We present the customer with the complete list of sensitive fields identified during discovery and receive written approval for each field to be migrated. For approved fields, we apply encryption in transit and configure field-level access controls in Recruit CRM. For fields the customer chooses not to migrate, we export them as a separate written data inventory. This step prevents inadvertent exposure of protected HR data and adds one to two days to the timeline but is required for compliance.
Production migration in dependency order
We run production migration in record-dependency order: Users (validated against Recruit CRM user provisioning), Candidates (constructed from Employee records with work history entries from effective-dated records), Tags (applied from department mapping), Custom Objects (populated after candidate records are live), and finally the reporting relationship CSV export. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report before the next phase begins. The final step is applying the manager reporting relationships as custom lookup fields where the manager also exists as a candidate.
Cutover, validation, and automation inventory handoff
We freeze Workforce Analytics write access during cutover, run a final delta migration of any records modified during the migration window, then enable Recruit CRM as the system of record for candidate and recruitment activity. We deliver the full automation and report inventory document to the customer's HR and recruiting admin teams for rebuild evaluation. We support a one-week hypercare window where we resolve any data quality issues raised by the team. We do not rebuild Workforce Analytics automations as Recruit CRM workflows inside the migration scope; that work is a separate engagement.
Platform deep dives
Workforce Analytics
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Recruit CRM & ATS
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard HRMS migration. 2 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Workforce Analytics and Recruit CRM & ATS.
Object compatibility
2 of 7 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
7-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Workforce Analytics: Not publicly documented — typical SaaS limits assumed and confirmed during scoping..
Data volume sensitivity
Workforce Analytics doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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