How to Apply to CVS / Aetna (2026): Step-by-Step

CVS Health hires at scale for store associates, shift supervisors, and pharmacy technicians, plus pharmacists, MinuteClinic clinicians, Aetna customer service and clinical staff, warehouse, and corporate and tech roles, all through one careers site and one Workday tenant (cvshealth.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com). The thing people miss: for many roles the Virtual Job Tryout (VJT) appears as a task in Candidate Home only after you submit, so the application is not complete until you finish it. Offers also arrive only inside Candidate Home.

Where the CVS / Aetna application lives

Official careers site: jobs.cvshealth.com. Applications run on Workday.

• Workday Candidate Portal — Where you apply, launch the Virtual Job Tryout, check My Applications, and review offers.
• In-store retail & pharmacy — Store associate, shift supervisor trainee, and pharmacy technician roles with paid LearnRX training.
• Students & early careers — Corporate, pharmacy, retail management, and clinical internships plus leadership development programs.

Step by step: applying to CVS / Aetna

1. Search jobs.cvshealth.com by career area, title, or location. Aetna, MinuteClinic, warehouse, and store jobs are all listed on the same site.
2. Click Apply. Create a profile in the CVS Health Workday Candidate Portal or log in. Password reset emails come from cvshealth@myworkday.com.
3. Upload a resume and complete the Workday form. If your school is not listed, type the first few letters and press Enter to search.
4. After submitting, open Candidate Home. If your role needs the Virtual Job Tryout, it shows up as a task there; launch and finish it.
5. If selected, a recruiter arranges a phone call or video interview. Retail candidates often report an in-store interview with the manager.
6. Offers appear in Candidate Home for review. Then comes the background check (support line 800-803-7860) and an I-9 through Certiphi over video conference.

What a Workday application is like

• Every employer has its own Workday tenant, so you create a separate candidate account (email + password) for each company, even if you have applied through Workday elsewhere.
• "Autofill with Resume" parses your PDF or DOCX into the form. It regularly splits job titles, dates and bullet points wrong — check every field of My Experience before moving on.
• The form runs in stages (My Information, My Experience, Application Questions, Voluntary Disclosures, Self Identify, Review). Nothing saves until you finish a stage, and sessions time out.
• Once submitted, an application cannot be edited. Withdraw and re-apply if you must change something while the posting is open.
• Status lives in Candidate Home under My Applications. Later applications to the same company can reuse your saved details ("Use My Last Application").

Tips from CVS / Aetna applicants

• Current CVS Health colleagues must apply through Workday via ColleagueZone; the public site will not take internal applications.
• CVS swaps experience for education one year for one year, so apply even if you lack the listed degree.
• Recruiters do not give individual feedback on declines; apply to other openings instead of asking why.
• If a job a friend mentioned is missing from the site, it was likely closed or internal-only.

How long the CVS / Aetna process takes

Indeed reports put store and pharmacy hiring at one to a few weeks with an assessment, phone screen, and store interview, while Aetna and corporate roles more often run one to three months with virtual interviews and slower background and education verification.

Before you hit submit

Two quick wins: check your resume against the posting with the resume keywords for your role, and attach a tailored letter — see the cover letter examples by role. Decide your answers to the standard screening questions once — see desired salary and work authorization — and keep a record in a tracker.

Apply faster

CVS / Aetna applications run on Workday, which JobRizzer autofills. Install the extension, open the CVS / Aetna application, and JobRizzer fills the standard fields from your profile — you review every field and click submit yourself.