You are implementing the Enterprise Checklist functionality for one of your customers.

Full Detailed In-Depth Explanation:

Oracle Global Human Resources Cloud’s checklist functionality allows tasks to be automatically allocated to workers based on specific triggers or actions. The requirement here is to allocate tasksbefore the hire date, which points to the use of the "Pending Worker" functionality, as employees are not fully active until their hire date.

Option A: A Pending Worker is a person added to the system before their official hire date (e.g., during recruitment or pre-boarding). Checklists can be tied to the "Add a Pending Worker" action, ensuring tasks are allocated automatically when the worker is entered as a pending worker. This meets the requirement of pre-hire allocation and is the correct approach per Oracle’s checklist setup process.

Option B: Managers can manually allocate checklists from the Onboarding work area, but this is not automatic and does not guarantee allocation before the hire date, as it depends on manager intervention post-hire.

Option C: Areas of responsibility (AOR) can trigger checklists, but this is typically for existing employees when assigned specific responsibilities, not for pre-hire scenarios.

Option D: Life events (e.g., marriage, birth) can trigger checklists, but they are unrelated to the hiring process or pre-hire allocation.

Option E: Eligibility profiles can automate checklist allocation based on criteria (e.g., job, location), but they apply to active employees, not pending workers before their hire date.

The correct answer isA, as it leverages the Pending Worker action to meet the pre-hire requirement, as detailed in "Implementing Global Human Resources" under Checklist Configuration.