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Workable

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What is Workable?

Workable 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.

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Great experience

8 out of 10
September 09, 2021
Incentivized
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Popular Features

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  • Company Website Posting (31)
    9.0
    90%
  • Applicant Tracking (33)
    7.5
    75%
  • Job Search Site Posting (33)
    7.3
    73%
  • Notifications and Alerts (32)
    6.7
    67%

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Starter

$149.00

Cloud
per month

Starter

$313.00

Cloud
per month

Premier

$428.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
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  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $149 per month
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Features

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

7.7
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Workable?

Workable simplifies HR with a suite of products for recruitment and employee management:


Workable Recruiting is an Applicant Tracking System, enhancing hiring with AI, sourcing tools, and integration with major job boards. It speeds up hiring with automation, and keeps the user informed with reporting.


Workable HR enables employee management from start to finish. The system handles employee data, manages time off, and integrates with payroll.


In addition to Workable’s HR suite, Jobs by Workable connects candidates with opportunities at Workable-powered companies, while Workable’s Branded Job Boards offer customized job boards for communities and networks to attract talent.



Workable Features

Recruiting / ATS Features

  • Supported: Job Requisition Management
  • Supported: Company Website Posting
  • Supported: Publish to Social Media
  • Supported: Job Search Site Posting
  • Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
  • Supported: Applicant Tracking
  • Supported: Notifications and Alerts

Additional Features

  • Supported: Assessments
  • Supported: Background Screening
  • Supported: Candidate Management
  • Supported: Collaboration Tools
  • Supported: Interview kits and scorecards
  • Supported: Job Boarding Posting
  • Supported: Job Requisition
  • Supported: Onboarding
  • Supported: 360 Degree Feedback
  • Supported: Employee Database
  • Supported: Employee Lifecycle Management
  • Supported: Self Service Portal
  • Supported: Built-in ATS
  • Supported: Job Management
  • Supported: Resume Posting
  • Supported: Interaction Tracking
  • Supported: Anonymized screening
  • Supported: Video Interviews
  • Supported: 2-way email and calendar sync
  • Supported: Zoom integration
  • Supported: Share candidate
  • Supported: Hiring team rights and roles
  • Supported: Custom pipelines
  • Supported: Offer letters and approval workflows
  • Supported: Department hierarchy
  • Supported: Single sign-on
  • Supported: Candidate surveys
  • Supported: GDPR, CCPA & EEOC/OFCCP compliance
  • Supported: Requisition and budgeting workflows
  • Supported: Technical tools
  • Supported: New hire onboarding portal with e-signatures
  • Supported: Custom onboarding workflows
  • Supported: Onboarding dashboard
  • Supported: Custom employee profiles
  • Supported: Employee self-editable profiles
  • Supported: Organized, searchable company file storage
  • Supported: Fillable document templates with e-signatures
  • Supported: Org chart
  • Supported: Employee Directory

Workable Screenshots

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Workable Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesUnited States, UK, EU, AUS
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

Workable 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.

Workable starts at $149.

Greenhouse, Lever, and Breezy HR are common alternatives for Workable.

Reviewers rate Company Website Posting highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Workable are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Workable is a versatile and user-friendly tool that offers a range of use cases for managing candidate databases and streamlining the recruitment process. Users, including HR professionals, hiring managers, and executives, have found Workable to be an intuitive platform for evaluating the talent of each candidate and ensuring a positive candidate experience. By integrating with social networks, Workable allows users to access additional information about prospective employees and review job applications more effectively. The customizable templates provided by Workable's flexible candidate tracking tool make it easy to keep track of candidates, interviews, evaluations, and reporting. Additionally, the integration with company careers pages and social media platforms enables users to attract candidates from various sources, while posting jobs on multiple job boards simultaneously. Workable has proven valuable in coordinating and conducting interviews for the Talent Acquisition team and Hiring team. Moreover, the Applicant Tracking System of Workable takes care of all recruitment tasks, from defining job descriptions to onboarding hired candidates. Overall, Workable has simplified the recruiting process by providing a centralized platform for all recruiting information and candidate tracking, resulting in a streamlined and organized hiring process.

Streamlined Feedback Collection: Users appreciate the feedback tool provided by Workable, which allows hiring managers and teams to provide feedback after on-site interviews. This tool simplifies the process of collecting feedback and ensures that all relevant input is captured and considered during the decision-making process.

Efficient Candidate Search: The search functionality in Workable is highly valued by users. They can easily search for candidates for new openings, saving time and effort in finding suitable candidates. The search feature enhances the efficiency of the recruitment process.

User-friendly Design: Users find Workable easy to navigate through and appreciate its intuitive design. It makes it simple to move through different steps of the recruitment process, contributing to a seamless experience for the entire team.

  1. Non-Intuitive User Interface: Some users have found the user interface of Workable to be confusing and not intuitive, especially when navigating from the home screen. They have mentioned difficulties in locating important items such as editing templates and hiring stages, suggesting that quick links could be helpful in improving navigation.

  2. Lack of Automation: Users have expressed the need for better automation within the software, specifically suggesting features such as automatically sending disposition emails to candidates based on specific reasons selected. This lack of automation has been viewed as a drawback by some users.

  3. Mobile-Friendliness: The mobile-friendliness of Workable has been criticized by users who feel that it could be more optimized for mobile devices. This limitation has been mentioned by several users, indicating a need for improvement in this area.

Users recommend considering the pricing and features offered by Workable and utilizing the chat and customer support for assistance. They suggest taking advantage of the referral options to hire quickly and find qualified candidates across all job boards. Users also recommend using the interview scorecard feature and seeking assistance from the Workable team to improve its usage. They find Workable easy to use, allowing seamless collaboration between departments and the talent acquisition team. Users suggest using Workable for hiring purposes and uploading candidates from various recruiting sites to keep the recruitment process organized. They also appreciate that Workable eliminates the need for paper and post-its. Users recommend giving Workable a try as it simplifies applicant tracking and posting on job sites. They suggest meeting with a representative for a demonstration to fully utilize its capabilities. Additionally, users recommend considering adding other language options to the ATS for non-English speakers and exploring partnerships in other countries. Overall, users find Workable to be a reliable and user-friendly platform that streamlines recruitment processes, provides transparency and collaboration, and offers customization options supported by a responsive support staff.

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April 27, 2022

Workable

Charlie McShane | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am a recruiter, and Workable is my applicant tracking system. I use it to keep track of all applicants, I use the email and texting functions to contact candidates. Workable connects to a variety of different job boards (Indeed, LinkedIn, etc.) and the candidates are pulled right from there to Workable.
  • User interface
  • Texting
  • Applicant tracking
  • Texting
  • Identifying duplicate candidates
I like Workable because it is simple and clean.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workable is being used across the whole organization as a part of our hiring efforts. We use it to collect our candidates and to move them through the pipeline during interviews. It's allowing us to keep organized even with a high number of candidates and ensures that all of our team comments and notes are kept in a single place that we can go back and reference at any time.
  • Easy applications for candidates
  • Easy to move candidates through the pipeline
  • Organizes comments well
  • Would like to see more default reports on dashboard
Workable has worked really well for our hiring and interview needs. It's helped us organize and streamline the hiring process. It ensures we don't lose any candidates in the pipeline and helps us respond appropriately to all.
September 09, 2021

Great experience

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I was the main user of Workable. Worked on it as recruiting system / ATS. Also, hiring managers worked on the system with me on specific jobs. Workable helped us manage the hiring process better, to track candidates, to improve the flow and to easily contact recruiters and candidates.
  • Track the hiring process
  • Provide templates for every step, help us be more professional
  • Increase exposure of job post on relevant job boards
  • Issues with languages, when CV arrived in Hebrew sometimes Workable didn't recognize the name
  • Identify double CV in the system. If [the] same candidate applies for a different role it will still appear double.
All in all, Workable is an easy to use system, gives good answers to our needs, [and] provided even more than we needed as a small company (candidates evaluation tools, employees referral, annual planning). For me it was good and easy and I will be glad to work with Workable again. I didn't use reports too much so I can't tell how good it is. I'm sure that for bigger companies it will be a helpful tool.
Matthew Goldberg | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Workable to apply for a new position. I found it to be a seamless experience and it was easy to complete my application. Even better, I ended up receiving the jobs, which means the company was definitely looking at Workable -- it must have been easy on the backend to see the responses I gave to their application questions.
  • Good interface
  • User centered features
  • Easy to navigate
  • Would have been good to check status of application
  • The next part of the hiring process was outside Workable
  • Wish it would have autosaved responses
Workable is well suited to use in the context of providing questions and collecting information about job applicants. As a user, it was easy to navigate and felt like a polished interface. On the back end, I imagine it helps to centralize data about various applicants to easily compare. Useful when collecting resume and cover letters, as well.
Sharon Greyling | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Hiring platform that has empowered the HR department to streamline recruitment by providing us with tools that help us scan thousands of candidate profiles to find qualified candidates and determine top talents. In addition, the platform keeps HR teams connected anywhere and anytime through its mobile app.
  • Makes it easier to assess and onboard potential hires quickly.
  • The solution centralizes resumes and interview information to help reduce time spent looking for candidate data.
  • Lets us create job descriptions from templates.
  • Takes time to set search filters by skill, experience, location and more.
By creating SEO-optimized job descriptions, this recruiting software enables us to find more candidates. We also make use of its one-click advertising across job boards. It can be integrated with many productivity and HRIS tools so that you can build a full hiring toolkit.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workable is used by the Talent Acquisition team within the HR function as well as the Hiring team to coordinate and conduct interviews. Workable offers a world class Applicant Tracking System which takes care of all the recruitment task from defining a job description to posting it at hundreds of job boards, conducting the interviews over video calls, and finally the onboarding of the hired candidate. It is backed by the cutting edge Artificial Intelligence recruiting platform which allows us to reach not only the active potential candidates but also the passive ones.
  • One can literally hire people without even opening their laptops. The mobile apps are present across Android and iOS devices and are powerful enough to get all the work done.
  • Customer support is at the next level. It's the best I have seen so far for any technical vendor.
  • Help[s] us tap [into a] more diverse talent pool by optimizing our job descriptions.
  • Capability to search the job descriptions, archived posts, and resumes needs to be drastically improved.
  • No feature to see if the candidate has applied for other roles in the past in the organization and how [they] fared then.
  • Employees should have a way to track the status of their referred candidates.
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.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workable has been an awesome partner for our company. We have grown from a team of 40 to over 120 employees in the past 18 months. I run the sales team, but the whole org uses the app. Business results: faster time to hire, better collaboration between interviewers, and the scorecards have helped us roll out a hiring methodology and an ICP.
  • The mobile experience is awesome.
  • Implementation was super easy.
  • The app continues to get better features.
  • No complaints from us.
Any company looking to hire and manage all the tasks and planning that goes into it would benefit from Workable.
September 10, 2018

Time Saver

Maryann Merolla | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am the main user. For each posted job, I add co-workers who will be involved in the interview and hiring process.Using Workable has made the entire recruiting process streamlined, organized, and simplified.
  • It's easy to add co-workers to Workable, and since it's very user-friendly, they are able to use it without any training. We can share comments, evaluations, and scheduling right in each candidate's profile. I can customize the process based on co-workers' needs: for example, one hiring manager asked me to add a "Maybe" category so he could easily review candidates that he was not sure about.
  • Job postings can be saved and reused. Pre-screening questions are easy to add and change. I can post to numerous free job boards with just one click. It's also easy to post to premium boards.
  • Workable is integrated with my email and my calendar, which is a huge time saver.
  • Customer service is excellent. Fast response, patient with my many questions, knowledgeable.
  • I would like to have a "keyword search" function right in the candidate's resume.
Workable has been a life saver for me, whether I am recruiting for one job or ten. Having everything - resume, cover letter, screening questions, emails, comments - all organized and easily accessible is invaluable.
Jared Henderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Only used by three workers within the Company (2 Corporate Recruiters, and One HR Manager, Truly only 2 users, the Recruiters.) Addressed the following

  1. Applicant Tracking 2016-2017
  2. Keyword Recruiting searches 2016-2017 "boolean string tools"
  3. Pre Hire Screened Questions ("Local to D/FW, Yes or No, Do you have 3 years of XYZ")
  • User feel - Very easy to sort through applicants by position, also time relevant of when applied
  • Very easy to post positions that sync up to other of our platforms such as Indeed, and LinkedIn.
  • Parsing resumes and other attachments within a candidate's profile. It was accomplished but can be easier.
Well suited for Development & Technical Positions, ones that require 3-4 screener questions. We loved the Yes/No or Multiple choice feel of the system.
Nicola Young | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workable is used across the organisation with all managers having access to rate candidates and add in comments. It has streamlined the recruitment process and enabled us to build a pipeline of future talent.
  • It is intuitive and easy for users to use.
  • It is easy to collaborate and add comments.
  • The tag's allow for quick notes, pipeline and creating different ways to identify candidates for future opportunities.
  • Flexible in how the dashboard is set up and you can change it easily to suit your needs.
  • The ability to set up messages to send in the future would be a nice feature to have.
  • The brief questions that are asked in the application process - it would be nice to have these plus contact details at the top rather having to scroll down as they are the first thing I look at to decide if we will progress.
Very well suited to small to medium business as it's easy to set up, intuitive, cost-effective, and has just about all the features you need. For multiple recruiters and complex reporting, it probably is not as suitable.
Samantha Pacheco | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Workable for our recruiting process, from job posting through offer letter. I manage it within HR, but our managers are responsible for reviewing candidates and providing feedback. It has helped us provide a centralized place for all recruiting information and candidate tracking.
  • Easy to use and move from each step in the recruitment process.
  • The integration with the free postings.
  • The ability to add evaluations and assessments.
  • It would be nice to see more editing capabilities around the job posting layout.
If you need an all-in-one Applicant Tracking System, Workable will do the trick. We have been pleased with the ease of use for all of our users.
August 29, 2018

Workable Really Works

Jim Leahy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workable was used across the entire organization, including HR, Hiring Managers and Executives. We used the tool to ensure our recruiting pipeline was streamlined so that we knew where each candidate was in the pipeline and what next steps we needed to take in order to ensure a positive candidate experience.
  • Workflow
  • Basic Reporting
  • Collaboration
  • Some of the tabs hindered user experience
  • Not as robust and as comprehensive as other ATS systems
  • Easy to use but would love even more customization control
We used Workable at a start-up which was extremely wise. We weren't hiring for 50 open requisitions, we were hiring usually for five or six requisitions at a time. The cost and functionality were so helpful that we used this platform up until we were growing exponentially. After our growth took off, it made sense to utilize a different tool (especially as expectations in measurements shifted).
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used Workable as our applicant tracking system. We would post to several job sites, manage applicant flow, schedule interviews, send job offers and background checks. Workable consolidated our records so that everyone involved in recruiting had a a central source of information. We were able to handle all our different jobs/offers/candidates within the system.
  • Workable was extremely user friendly and aesthetically pleasing to use. I had no trouble training or setting up new users, they always caught on quickly.
  • You are able to quickly review candidates at a glance with all notes, texts or emails sent at the top of their profile. This made jumping into a job order easy for those who may be out of the loop.
  • Workable's customer support is stellar, they offer free training and very timely responses for any questions or concerns you may have.
  • 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.
Workable is perfect for small to medium recruiting teams with less than 50 open positions. My team had around 5 or so people involved in the hiring process, and we were able to communicate easily and understand what had taken place. However, if you are not diligent at note taking or updating information, Workable will quickly leave you in the dust. Without proper notation on your part, Workable cannot track everything automatically.
August 29, 2018

We love Workable

Abby Mathews | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At HireVue, we use Workable across our entire organization as our Applicant Tracking System (ATS). Workable is where our team refers candidates and a place for hiring managers to manage their hiring process.
  • Workable integrates well with Zapier to create automatic recruiting workflows.
  • Workable is easy to use for hiring managers who are hiring for multiple roles.
  • Workable pairs nicely with LinkedIn.
  • Workable could be more mobile friendly.
  • Workable could have a better candidate referral process.
Workable is well suited for teams under 500 people. Workable is less suited for large enterprise companies.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We started using Workable when I first realized that there wasn't an applicant tracking system in place. We needed something that would be user-friendly that way we could train our supervisors to really utilize the program. It isn't the fanciest but it gets the job done and their customer service department is great!
  • It is user-friendly and it can be tailored around each specific position you need.
  • It allows you the opportunity to chose which job boards you want your position posted on.
  • The software is priced well.
  • I would like to see more options for integrations with job campaigns on Indeed.
  • If there was an opportunity to create some sort of reminder or follow-up option, it would help us a ton!
If is someone is looking for a great starting place, Workable is it! I wouldn't recommend it to someone who is looking for a super advanced ATS, but if they are struggling to get users up to speed, then this program won't overwhelm them and allow them to really utilize what is available.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My whole org. used Workable and it was really helpful. It makes hiring new people so much easier. I think any HR department would greatly benefit from a software program like this. I would recommend it. I especially liked the scorecards and recruiting reports. Also, the career pages are pretty cool, too.
  • You can make beautiful, easy career landing pages. I haven't seen another program that does this. It's nice not having to go through IT to manage these pages
  • It's great to be able to work remotely. The whole team can access it.
  • The dashboard is really user friendly and intuitive.
  • I wish the people search had more advanced options
  • It's expensive
It's great for a big organization/company. It's less useful for a small org.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used Workable to recruit for the human capital management software organization where I was working. The company did not have an ATS before I joined. After looking around, we chose Workable because it was affordable, easy to use, and covered all of the areas we needed.
  • Workable makes it easy to track candidates through the recruiting process. It can be customized for the number of stages a company has to hire someone, from initial interview to final offer.
  • It is easy to share job postings on Workable across various recruiting platforms.
  • The Workable dashboard is very user friendly. It is simple to get started effectively and get jobs posted right away.
  • Workable is very affordable.
  • It would be nice if Workable had an on-boarding function, where it could still be used after the offer is accepted and the background check complete.
Workable is well suited for a company that has a smaller recruiting team and a team that wants to start using an ATS immediately. It is easy to use and covered every aspect of the recruiting process for me. It does so much for a great price.
February 22, 2018

Workable Works!

Erin Holm | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Workable for all of our recruitment needs as our applicant tracking system of choice. About 20 members of our organization, across various departments, have access. We hire on a fairly consistent basis, and Workable helps us keep track of candidates, interviews, evaluations, and reporting. We have it integrated with our company careers page, as well as our company Facebook. As the recruitment coordinator, I use it daily to ensure candidates are coming in, and moving through the process efficiently. Workable is user-friend, so makes this an easy process, even for those who don't use it on a regular basis.

We've also seen value from the various job boards Workable connects us with for free. Many of our candidates come from the free Indeed, Glassdoor and LinkedIn pages, which Workable connects with. This makes posting jobs in multiple places very easy.
  • Visibility - Workable presents your open jobs in a very prominent manner, and makes it easy to see how many candidates are in each stage.
  • Connectivity - Hiring mangers/users of Workable are informed when emails are sent from candidates, and correspondence is stored within the platform. Prior to using Workable, we were having trouble keeping track of messaging going between the recruitment coordinator, hiring managers, and candidates. Although it's not 100% accurate, it has helped with this issue.
  • Reporting - We appreciate the reporting tools Workable has within its platform. We're able to see how we're doing with our hiring, and where we can make improvements, simply by running a report. This is a fairly easy, and user-friendly setting, as well.
  • Support - Workable has recently added a chat feature to their support, which has been incredibly helpful. Previously, you had to send in a request, and it took a bit to get responses. However, now asking a few questions is very easy.
  • Resources - Thankfully, this platform is more than just an ATS. Workable's blog, templates, and training information, among other things, are very helpful. If you have employees who are new to interviewing, there are interview kits within the ATS you can provide. They also have great suggestions when it comes to reviewing your interview process. I've recently been accessing this information, and am thankful I found it!
  • Although Workable is user-friendly, there are times where I find the platform to not be particularly intuitive. There's been several times I've asked a support person how to access what I think is a fairly common-sense feature, and they've said 'we actually don't have that, but that's a great idea! We'll pass that along to our product support team'. An example is the Talent Pool - you would think candidates that apply for a role, but aren't actually a fit could be put in your talent pool, almost like a holding place. Nope - not an option. They have to submit their information through another portal. This, among other features, gives me the impression that actual recruiters/HR professionals were NOT consulting when adding new features/creating the ATS. There's a lot of potential here, but it doesn't seem that anyone actually using the platform was consulted when designing new features.
  • The People Search function seems to be an after thought, and not particularly helpful. This could be that not enough people are in Workable's pool, but I've yet to find it useful.
  • Although Workable will post your jobs to other job boards (Indeed, Glassdoor, etc), it does not communicate with those boards, and you as the use have no access to what's being shown on those boards. I recently had an issue with a role on a board, and had to contact support. I was told I'd have to utilize my Glassdoor account to fix the issue. The problem - I don't have one! My only contact with Glassdoor is via Workable. There has to be a better way for the two to communicate.
  • Features can often be buried within the platform. There have been times where it's difficult to find certain things. Your jobs page is your home screen, which is helpful, but finding items not on that page can often feel like a treasure hunt.
Although I have mentioned some flaws with the features within Workable, overall, I find it to be a helpful tool. It's a great way to house all of your candidates, and keep the interview process moving forward. Because we have various hiring managers using the platform at different times, it's nice that it is user-friendly. Some use it more often than not, so the fact that it isn't over complicated is helpful.

Also, with the integration options that are available, it does a nice job of connecting our various resources outside of Workable. It is rather all-encompassing.

My suggestion would be to think through the features that are being added a bit more. There have been multiple times where I have asked support people about a feature, and they've said 'unfortunately, it doesn't do that. We'll pass that along!'. These are not outlandish requests. They are what most professionals utilizing this system would want/need.
Brad Price | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Workable is managed within the HR department. I have created accounts for key players in our development, marketing and sales teams, as well as for our executives. This allows me to collaborate with relevant team members when hiring for a particular role. This is our primary ATS platform, and we use it for the purpose of moving applicants through our hiring process. We also spend a great deal of time interacting with the pipeline as a whole. We just last week hired someone we'd last interviewed 6 months ago. We use the tag feature to tag applicants that are not suitable at the time we speak to them for any number of reasons, but that strike us as good options for the future. This last week was a perfect example of that paying off. Using a platform like Workable has helped us streamline this process really well.
  • Custom email templates: much of the time, you send the same or similar communications throughout the hiring process. Having these templates which you can edit, or send in bulk, really makes the process of communicating the same thing to many applicants is fantastic.
  • Tag an applicant: this allows you to tag someone with any word you choose, like "future" or "sales". When you are looking for someone in sales and want to look back on previous applicants that you liked at the time, you can search for "future + sales" and find them easily. This is exceptional to help you avoid wading through 1000's of applicants you weren't particularly interested in.
  • Moving candidates from stage to stage: the process of moving candidates to different stages of the hiring process is easy, whether you're doing it one at a time or in bulk. This is a great time saver.
  • Integrations: I'd like to see a few more integrations with other HR platforms. Workable seems limited in this regard.
  • Archiving a job: most things in Workable are easy, but finding a way to archive jobs was surprisingly difficult. Once you've found it, it's easy, but it struck me as odd that it was so difficult to find in the first place.
  • Re-order job listings: I'd love to be able to reorder the listings as they appear on the backend, without being forced into alphabetical order. You can favorite a listing and bring it to the top, but if you favorite more than one, you're once again limited to another subset of alphabetical order.
Workable is really well suited to collaborating with team members during the hiring process. It makes this really easy, efficient and effective. It's easy to add new users, for users to look through the applicant history, to ask questions, tag other users, leave comments, etc. Other members can also read interview templates and see what the interviews to date have yielded. Workable doesn't seem to have a lot going for it in terms of sourcing candidates. It seems limited, primarily, toward managing inbound applicants. I'd like to see more outreach.
August 22, 2017

Workable workability

Amanda Ludwig | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Workable for hiring employees - full time, seasonal, and interns. It is used across the company in all of our different departments. Each user that does hiring has a specific log in where they are able to view candidates for the job listing that they posted. So in my particular department, I can view one job listing, and my coworker can view a different if we are each hiring.
  • Very good work flow. It is good for moving people as you progress along the hiring process.
  • Automatically moves disqualified candidates out of the running, which is also nice.
  • Great communication features and pre-made responses.
  • I wish that once you closed the job listing, Workable would automatically send a denial email to anyone who didn't get the position.
  • Wish there was as-you-go training.
  • When I log in, I can see my whole company's job listings. Wish it was narrowed down to just mine.
Workable is great for hiring interns, as I use it. We don't have a huge flow of traffic coming through applying, but enough that the organizational level is highly appreciated. I also really like the automatic "disqualified" feature since this position needs to receive college credit and a lot of people who apply won't be receiving it. I have never used it with a higher trafficked position, but I can imagine that people would get lost in the submission process with how it is set up.
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