SmartRecruiters vs. Workday Human Capital Management

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SmartRecruiters
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite is a cloud-based recruitment marketing and collaborative hiring platform. It features an open marketplace for third party recruitment services. SmartRecruiters also offers talent sourcing and screening as add-on features.
$0
per month
Workday HCM
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Workday Human Capital Management is built as a cloud-based system with global consistency in user experience. Workday HCM is part of a broader system with other Workday products.
$100
per year per user
Pricing
SmartRecruitersWorkday Human Capital Management
Editions & Modules
Corporate
Varies, per FTE
Billed annually
Global
Varies, per FTE
Billed annually
SmartStart
Free
up to 10 active job postings
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SmartRecruitersWorkday HCM
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup Fee$1,000 No setup fee
Additional DetailsThe software subscription is determined by the number of full time employees in your company. A one time cost to set up software, including customizations, integrations, data migration and training.
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Community Pulse
SmartRecruitersWorkday Human Capital Management
Considered Both Products
SmartRecruiters
Chose SmartRecruiters
Price, configurability, automation capability. At the top with Teamtailor and Workable IMO.
Workday HCM

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
SmartRecruitersWorkday Human Capital Management
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
8.3
127 Ratings
4% above category average
Workday Human Capital Management
8.0
44 Ratings
3% above category average
Job Requisition Management9.2109 Ratings8.242 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.7114 Ratings8.535 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.6112 Ratings8.131 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.1116 Ratings8.436 Ratings
Customized Application Form8.6104 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management7.8119 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention7.9114 Ratings7.035 Ratings
Candidate Search8.4122 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking9.3126 Ratings7.736 Ratings
Collaboration8.2117 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation9.197 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates8.5114 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions8.8109 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.3119 Ratings8.440 Ratings
Reporting4.5105 Ratings00 Ratings
Human Resource Management
Comparison of Human Resource Management features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
7.7
91 Ratings
2% below category average
Employee demographic data00 Ratings8.077 Ratings
Employment history00 Ratings7.486 Ratings
Job profiles and administration00 Ratings7.288 Ratings
Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.00 Ratings7.984 Ratings
Organizational charting00 Ratings8.383 Ratings
Organization and location management00 Ratings7.981 Ratings
Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)00 Ratings6.956 Ratings
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
7.7
76 Ratings
4% below category average
Pay calculation00 Ratings7.465 Ratings
Support for external payroll vendors00 Ratings7.553 Ratings
Off-cycle/On-Demand payment00 Ratings8.315 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.060 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings7.466 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings8.063 Ratings
Reimbursement management00 Ratings8.439 Ratings
Leave and Attendance Management
Comparison of Leave and Attendance Management features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.0
70 Ratings
1% below category average
Approval workflow00 Ratings8.369 Ratings
Balance details00 Ratings8.269 Ratings
Annual carry-forward and encashment00 Ratings7.456 Ratings
Employee Self Service
Comparison of Employee Self Service features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
7.8
90 Ratings
4% below category average
View and generate pay and benefit information00 Ratings8.379 Ratings
Update personal information00 Ratings8.188 Ratings
View company policy documentation00 Ratings7.169 Ratings
Employee recognition00 Ratings7.455 Ratings
View job history00 Ratings8.379 Ratings
Asset Management
Comparison of Asset Management features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
6.8
23 Ratings
13% below category average
Tracking of all physical assets00 Ratings6.823 Ratings
HR Reporting
Comparison of HR Reporting features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
7.7
76 Ratings
1% above category average
Report builder00 Ratings8.172 Ratings
Pre-built reports00 Ratings7.974 Ratings
Ability to combine HR data with external data00 Ratings7.262 Ratings
Onboarding
Comparison of Onboarding features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.1
54 Ratings
1% above category average
New hire portal00 Ratings8.250 Ratings
Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.150 Ratings
Performance and Goals
Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
7.7
57 Ratings
6% below category average
Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.047 Ratings
Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.056 Ratings
Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.149 Ratings
Performance tracking00 Ratings7.855 Ratings
Performance Management
Comparison of Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
8.2
60 Ratings
3% above category average
Performance plans00 Ratings8.259 Ratings
Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.951 Ratings
Review status tracking00 Ratings8.255 Ratings
Review reminders00 Ratings8.555 Ratings
Multiple review frequency00 Ratings8.449 Ratings
Succession Planning
Comparison of Succession Planning features of Product A and Product B
SmartRecruiters
-
Ratings
Workday Human Capital Management
7.0
37 Ratings
12% below category average
Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings7.832 Ratings
Candidate ranking00 Ratings6.633 Ratings
Candidate search00 Ratings7.335 Ratings
Candidate development00 Ratings6.634 Ratings
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User Ratings
SmartRecruitersWorkday Human Capital Management
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(129 ratings)
8.7
(103 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
6.0
(15 ratings)
9.0
(18 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(12 ratings)
7.0
(13 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(1 ratings)
6.6
(8 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(10 ratings)
8.0
(22 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.6
(6 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(7 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(2 ratings)
8.0
(11 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Ease of integration
7.1
(12 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SmartRecruitersWorkday Human Capital Management
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartRecruiters
SmartRecruiters has allowed us to enable our hiring managers to self-service their requirements for recruitment, simplifying our internal processes. We have visibility of recruitment requirements and significantly improved our approvals process using the software. We have been able to configure our hiring processes relevant to different areas of the business. Collaboration for our hiring teams (managers and business partners) is simple and effective. Candidate experience is enhanced and engaging. The platform has brought many benefits to our Resourcing business partners and hiring managers. We have visibility and insightful data which has integrity, allowing us to make informed business decisions. Our offer process has seen significant improvements and provides an engaging candidate experience, previously this was a labour-intensive process that is now streamlined and automated. The recently launched Community for collaboration amongst customers is very helpful and insigtful for how other people are using the software and exploring ideas with each other
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Workday
Workday human capital management is well suited for organizations to manage their employee records. It is also well suited for managing the employee's salary details, also the details of past salary changes, promotions, etc. It has options to keep track of employees' goals for the year, where they can keep track of their progress, and also managers can view the progress or share feedback. This is very helpful for tracking career progress and providing feedback. Other options, like training assigned to employees, can also be seen in Workday; users will get alerts by email for any new assignments or due assignments, etc.
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Pros
SmartRecruiters
  • Job Referrals - can easily refer others to a job posting and view the status
  • Job Postings - can easily search for job openings and read job description and criteria
  • Application online - Can easily apply for the job directly and see who the hiring manager and hiring recruiter is
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Workday
  • Groups employees in management hierarchies and creates Org Charts that are easy to navigate and allow for visualizing management chains regardless of employee locations
  • Intuitive and easy to use. The Workday search functionality works very much like Google; one can search for anything that they have access to in the database and drill down into the various details. All information is connected through hyperlinks and users can easily keep digging into the details for as far as their security access would take them.
  • Tasks such as to do, review or approve items are sent to the user's Workday Inbox, very much resembling email. Notifications about outstanding "to do" items are also sent to each the user's work email address on a daily basis.
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Cons
SmartRecruiters
  • Settings page can be difficult to navigate & find what you're looking for
  • Job approval chains would be better with additional qualifying fields so that we can segregate different areas of the business better
  • The ability to edit an existing offer template in-system would improve the experience, rather than having to edit offline and upload a whole new version.
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Workday
  • The web interface is awful
  • Terrible, terrible, UI. No modern features like auto-save. I can't count the times I have lost work.
  • Their UX team (if it even exists) must be aliens, because I can't see how humans would have come up with the UI conventions they have.
  • Who creates a website application where you can't open stuff in multiple browser windows and tabs easily?
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Likelihood to Renew
SmartRecruiters
I thoroughly enjoy using SmartRecruiters and have shared this feedback with those responsible, however I am not a decision maker in the process. I understand that at the moment there are lots of factors affecting the economy and business outcomes, so I cannot comment with certainty on the renewal of SmartRecruiters at this time, not involved in the confirmation of renewal.
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Workday
It is work to make one system the source of truth for our data, but now that it is done, there is less work involved in staying on this path. This means for us that maintaining and/or implementing new modules like performance, finance, talent, etc. is simple. It's a no-brainer
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Usability
SmartRecruiters
I would give this rating as overall it a great combo of all your problems. With just one click you can get away with all your problems such as recruitment, candidate update, Interview scheduling, updating candidates, reports of a job perspective, and recruiters perspective. Usability is worth of SmartRecruiters. The dashboard is also very attractive and once you open you will love working on this platform again and again. I would say it is the best platform to use once for smooth work in your organization.
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Workday
Workday's on a great path in terms of user experience. Their goals is to deliver a use experience that doesn't require training or instruction, like Amazon on the consumer side for example. That's hard to do when you're talking about complex business processes and important and sensitive employee information, but they're doing it well
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Reliability and Availability
SmartRecruiters
Rarely is there an issue and if the product is down, it typically is restored quickly.
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Workday
In 2014, Workday has changed the update process. There will be two updates a year; the updates will be delivered to customers typically in a 24 hour window during these two weekends a year. They also keep the Community up-to-date about any planned outages, etc. There is weekly scheduled downtime on Friday night.
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Performance
SmartRecruiters
I have no complaints about performance. The system works virtually flawless.
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Workday
From my perspective, the system runs like a well oiled machine and I have not had any issues with customers complaining about speed. If a report is taking long to run, the report can run in the background and you can go about your business. For larger enterprises, there is additional space and machines to process the application in what Workday refers to it as Extended Configuration Tenant
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Support Rating
SmartRecruiters
Response is normally very fast. There are times, however, when the response is not useful. It is difficult to work with the reporting and the offer letter templates, and the front line support agents usually are not very knowledgeable. Second, if there are any issues with integrations, the regular support agents will not be able to help you. You'll have to create that ticket and ask them to escalate it to an integration specialist.
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Workday
Workday is still learning about the needs of higher education. I have seen rapid improvement in support and knowledge over the last year so am confident this will continue to improve. Overall however, I have found the Support Team to be extremely responsive and Workday offers the advantage of having support across several timezones so that we never wait more than a few hours for a response.
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In-Person Training
SmartRecruiters
Quick and easy to learn.
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Workday
Some training is offered online. Cost is per-person. This also gets quite expensive. Training doesn’t follow a logical path A to B. Starts in middle. When you try to do it afterwards at your desk, difficult.
• Training scenarios are not very real
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Online Training
SmartRecruiters
No answers on this topic
Workday
I have done for report writing and mass imports (EIBs). They give materials and you run through examples, i.e. you don’t just watch them do tasks, so that is helpful. Training is expensive – a single reporting writing class is $600 per person for virtual training
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Implementation Rating
SmartRecruiters
It really was a painless and easy process to switch to SmartRecruiters.
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Workday
It was implemented before my joining the company. At my last company, we used Workday professional services.

Based upon my experience at my last company, I would rate the implementation experience an 8/10. There are different ways to set things up and we had different people telling us different things. It set us back a couple of times.

Regarding configuration advice, we could set things up where every manager has supervisory organizations, or have it financially based i.e. aligned to cost center/department. We chose the individual manager path and I think we should have chosen a department route. Going down the individual manager path, to maintain the information, we have to inactivate a supervisory org whenever a manager changes/leaves.
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Alternatives Considered
SmartRecruiters
I've really enjoyed using SmartRecruiters, but these other ATSs that we've checked out offer better reporting features and price points. Over time, we may be transitioning off of SmartRecruiters to one of these ATSs because the price is a set price where SmartRecruiters has employee-based pricing model. Also, these other software products offer better reporting features that would eliminate some of our manual tracking process that we're currently doing.
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Workday
Unfortunately, I do not recall the brands of the other human capital management software programs or tools I used at my current company or workplaces prior. I do think that is a testament to Workday with its strong branding and compelling features. I was not part of the selection process of Workday but have enjoyed my experience.
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Scalability
SmartRecruiters
No explanation really, just a great product.
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Workday
Workday has released Financials and is continuing to develop it's Human Capital Management footprint with the addition of Workday Recruiting. I think customers will find that is easy to add on additional functionality in the system. Workday does make it easy for customers to make changes without relying on IT resources. The Business Process framework is a visual tool that allows functional resources to make changes and see the flow of the transaction
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Return on Investment
SmartRecruiters
  • In terms of ROI, SR helped our business greatly in returning precious time to my productivity in business management, as well as my team's, so that we could get back to the main work we were hired for. The SR process did most of the heavy lifting.
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Workday
  • Positive ROI, we were one of the first organizations that went with Workday HCM, and we received numerous discounts. Cloud systems are the way to go and we feel the system is stable for our growing work force.
  • The user conferences have been helpful to network and learn more deepness in the modules and functionality.
  • Right off the bat, our implementation costs were lower than budgeted and we had less 'billing' surprises.
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ScreenShots

SmartRecruiters Screenshots

Screenshot of A candidate experience to  reach, engage, and connect with talent wherever they are.Screenshot of Engaged hiring managers empowered by collaboration tools and applicant tracking to drive better hiring decisions.Screenshot of Digital offer management, onboarding, and reporting deliver a seamless journey for new hires and recruiters.Screenshot of SmartRecruiters eases the burden of juggling multiple open roles and hiring large volumes.Screenshot of Frees up hiring teams to focus on making great hires and delivering a better candidate experience by automating routine tasks.Screenshot of Find and discover qualified talent while getting the most from the advertising budget.