How to Apply to General Motors (2026): Step-by-Step

GM posts everything — hourly production and skilled-trades openings at assembly plants, manufacturing leadership, engineering, software, and a large intern and TRACK rotational intake — on search-careers.gm.com, a search front end that hands you to a Workday tenant (generalmotors.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com) when you click Apply Now. Hourly plant roles are often posted as temporary production worker jobs under the 'Production & Skilled Trades' team filter rather than under Manufacturing, where most people look first. GM also schedules many interviews through a virtual assistant named Ev-e, so a scheduling message after screening is normal.

Where the General Motors application lives

Official careers site: search-careers.gm.com. Applications run on Workday.

• Workday application board — Where Apply Now lands; your Workday candidate home here shows application status.
• Early careers — Internships (10 to 12 weeks), co-ops (3 to 6 months) and the TRACK rotational program for recent graduates.
• How we hire FAQ — GM's own answers on confirmation emails, editing applications and expected timing.

Step by step: applying to General Motors

1. Search on search-careers.gm.com. Use the Team filter — 'Production & Skilled Trades' for hourly plant jobs, 'Students & Recent Graduates' for early careers — because keyword search returns hundreds of engineering roles first.
2. Click Apply Now. You land on GM's Workday board and sign in or create a Workday account with your email; unfinished applications can be resumed until the posting closes.
3. Add a resume, check what Workday parsed into experience and education, then answer the posting's screening questions. Once submitted, nothing can be edited, and the posting's expiry also locks it.
4. Watch for the confirmation email GM says it sends on submission. Qualified candidates may then be sent an online assessment; GM does not name the assessment publicly.
5. Interview scheduling for most roles comes through Ev-e, GM's virtual assistant, which offers time slots. Interviews are competency-based, and GM asks for STAR-format answers built on real examples.
6. An offer goes to the selected candidate, then background check and drug screen. Check status any time in your Workday candidate home, where you can also withdraw an application.

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 General Motors applicants

• Temporary production worker postings are the usual route into hourly plant work; they are tied to a specific plant, so search by city (Flint, Lockport, Marion and so on) rather than by title.
• Join GM's talent network on Beamery for alerts; it is separate from your Workday account, so having one does not create the other.
• Do not rush the submit button — GM's FAQ is explicit that nothing can be added or corrected after submission, but you can save and return before the posting expires.

How long the General Motors process takes

GM's own FAQ says the process generally takes a couple of weeks from application through to offer, while Glassdoor reports an average closer to a month, with phone screens and one-on-one or panel interviews the most common steps. Expect a background check and drug screen after the offer.

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

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