Find Candidates to Work Shifts

Manager Guide

Version
R2025.2.1
ft:lastEdition
2025-12-01
Find Candidates to Work Shifts

You can use the find candidate functionality in Schedules and Centralized Schedules to fill unfilled shifts or reassign shifts to other employees.

Role feature access: Schedules > Find Candidate

To find candidates to work shifts:

  1. Go to Schedules or Centralized Schedules and load a schedule.
  2. (Centralized Schedules only) Expand the grouping hierarchy to view the schedule.
  3. Select a scheduled or unfilled shift, click the down arrow next to the edit icon, and then click Find Candidate.
  4. (Optional) Click Configure Option(s) to configure the candidates that Dayforce shows in the Find Candidate dialog box:
    • Max Results: The maximum number of employees that Dayforce shows.
    • Max Severity: The maximum severity that would result from assigning an employee the shift. For example, if you select Warning, Dayforce shows employees if scheduling them would cause a warning, but not if it would cause a critical error
    • Ordering Policy: The order in which Dayforce shows employees.
  5. Select the employee that you want to assign the shift to.
  6. Click Apply, then Save.