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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AThe PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform is a talent management platform designed for Higher Education and Government organizations, now from PowerSchool (acquired August, 2018). Modules include analytics, applicant tracking, position management, onboarding, records management, and performance management.N/A

    Workable

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/AWorkable is a recruiting software with HR integrations and AI-powered candidate sourcing. It has SEO-optimized job descriptions and one-click advertising across popular job boards. Workable also features communication tracking, real-time syncing, reporting, and mobile accessibility for collaboration.

    $359

    per month

    Pricing
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from PowerschoolWorkable
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Standard
    $360
    per month (starting with 1-20 employees)
    Premier
    $599
    per month (billed annually) (starting with 1-20 employees)
    Enterprise
    $799
    per month (billed annually)
    Premier
    $8148
    per year (starting with 1-20 employees)
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from PowerschoolWorkable
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—20% discount for annual pricing on Standard plan. Buyers can also select add-ons for an additional fee.
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    Community Pulse
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from PowerschoolWorkable
    Considered Both Products
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    No answer on this topic
    Workable
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
    14 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    12 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    9 Answers
    Features
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from PowerschoolWorkable
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool and Workable
    Feature
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    7.7
    8 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Workable
    -
    Ratings
    New hire portal9.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting7.07 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool and Workable
    Feature
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    5.8
    3 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Workable
    -
    Ratings
    Corporate goal setting7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Individual goal setting7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility6.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance tracking2.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool and Workable
    Feature
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    2.7
    3 Ratings
    87% below category average
    Workable
    -
    Ratings
    Performance plans4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Plan weighting2.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans2.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review status tracking4.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Rater nomination workflow2.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Review reminders4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions1.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency4.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting1.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool and Workable
    Feature
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    7.3
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Workable
    -
    Ratings
    Create succession plans/pools6.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate ranking7.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate search9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate development7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool and Workable
    Feature
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    7.3
    3 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Workable
    8.3
    36 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Job Requisition Management8.03 Ratings8.030 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.22 Ratings9.032 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.12 Ratings10.029 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting8.12 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Customized Application Form8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resume Management7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention2.72 Ratings7.031 Ratings
    Candidate Search7.92 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking8.03 Ratings9.034 Ratings
    Collaboration7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Permissions8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.03 Ratings8.033 Ratings
    Reporting8.62 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from PowerschoolWorkable
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    8.0
    (37 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from PowerschoolWorkable
    Likelihood to Recommend
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    Organizations who have very few applications and/or very few positions posted are probably less likely to benefit as high from PeopleAdmin. Large organizations who have several positions and/or several applications/applicants can definitely benefit from this product. This product is not as well suited for performance management as I had hoped because there is not a lot of freedom to creating and designing different evaluations for different position types in the system when you have an organization that has thousands of different employees and types.
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    Workable
    Workable is great at creating job posts and posting them to multiple job boards with a single click and also running paid campaigns on social media platforms to reach passive candidates as well. Workable has a friendly UI and has a very gentle learning curve. It is more appropriate for larger organizations where you need to hire thousands of people a year and need to always have a pipeline of great talent.
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    Pros
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    • Applicant tracking was a good use of this tool for our department. I think it could use a few more customization features but overall it was a good tool to weed out applicants who were not qualified for the position.
    • The system has some canned reporting tools that also worked well for our department and management needs.
    • It was a great place to house our position descriptions and provided a readily accessible source for hiring managers to make requested updates and changes and for employees to see and have access to their position descriptions.
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    Workable
    • The platform allows us to implement a scorecard service through which it is possible to keep track of the quality of nutrition that each prospective employee could bring to the company, so that the decision to hire any of them is as profitable as possible.
    • Communication with candidates is very easy to track, so that it is possible to make sure that the results proposed by each employee in the recruitment area are totally adequate. This is useful to filter possible failures that may occur on the part of the recruitment team.
    • The platform works with recruitment funnels, whose structure allows us to purify the information of real utility for the company by the employees, and where we can even add databases with the information of all prospective employees that are kept in the recruitment process.
    • Using Workable in conjunction with the information provided by their online technical assistants results in a huge improvement in our labor operation, as they know the best strategies to leverage our hiring management. Workable's technical support is active most of the day.
    • Using Workable was no problem for our employees in the human talent development area, mostly because they, despite not having any experience with Workable, were able to adapt to the platform with incredible speed, thanks to the ease of use of Workable and the number of tools it has right out of the box.
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    Cons
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    • PeopleAdmin's internal report writer needs work. Currently, in version 7, reporting can only be done requisition number by requisition number. The report writer needs to be modified so it can create reports enterprise-wide.
    • PeopleAdmin's Data Mart product needs substantial modification. In version 5.8, on a monthly basis, PeopleAdmin provided us with an Microsoft Access database containing our historical data up to that period end. In version 7, the "Data Mart" contains our historical data. The Data Mart consists of over 300 files. These files are not database table downloads nor is it parts of a database data dump. Rather, the files appear to be scrapes from html pages. They contain html codes and other character data that needs to be cleaned before they can be uploaded. The files are not in a table-by-table format. Any one file can contain data from two or more tables. The format of the Data Mart makes it difficult to load the data into a database and format it in a table structure that is comparable to the Access database provided with version 5.8.
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    Workable
    • The ability to schedule interviews via Workable was great, but it was unable to pull other items from your calendar, so it was easy to end up double booked for appointments if you weren't careful.
    • The reporting leaves a bit to be desired, there is not a lot of customization for what I really needed reports on.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    We are evaluating our options as it relates to PeopleAdmin. We are likely to renew as we can not find another product that gives us the functionality we have with PeopleAdmin 5.8 in the area of Position Description. Outside of that, we would likely be close to finding another product solution.
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    Workable
    It's become a part of the fabric of our hiring process and we are growing like crazy! Once we have a working platform in place the cost of the change management typically far out weighs the benefits derived from the change! It's especially hard to change a process with employees who are not key stake holders, they are alway hesitant to invest time in a new product they are only going to use once in a while. With that said if something else came along with benefits far and above workable that we would gain a clear lift in productivity and capabilities we would make the change, we've done it with other parts of our tech stack
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Workable
    One thing, it just works as advertised. AI integration makes the work more easier, and we will be able to process the applications more faster with the help of AI.
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    Support Rating
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Workable
    I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this.I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this.
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    Alternatives Considered
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    I've used both Target Recruit and HR Smart. When working with Target Recruit it quickly became apparent it was not the right solution for us. Another solution we examined prior to selection PeopleAdmin was iCIMS. iCIMS is a very social system but was not as familiar with the Higher Education recruitment processes as was PeopleAdmin.
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    Workable
    Workable was an excellent tool for our start-up. It was cost effective but very user-friendly. It wasn't a difficult sell to ensure our hiring managers would utilize the tool, and I particularly liked the inbox feature to stay organized. I rated Workable very highly, though as our company grew exponentially, we did go in a different direction.
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    Return on Investment
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    • We are now able to track our recruitment sources to determine our ROI on university paid subscriptions.
    • We have reduced our recruiting approval review times by 50%
    • We have identified areas for improvement substancially by having robust reporting available at our fingertips.
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    Workable
    • Workable has a had positive ROI on our workflow management, as the basic pay-as-you-go feature for a single role is incredibly affordable ($50/month) for a 2-3 month mid-to-senior level candidate search.
    • The ease of use has helped us move candidates faster as well - our average time to close a role decreased by 22% after our first 6 months of using Workable.
    Incentivized
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