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Workable

Score7.9 out of 10

78 Reviews and Ratings

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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Workable Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Workable has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 78 ratings of Workable's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Publish to Social Media

    Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites

    Category average: 7.5

  • Company Website Posting

    Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website

    Category average: 8

  • Job Search Site Posting

    Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites

    Category average: 7.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Job Requisition Management

    Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily

    Category average: 7.7

  • Notifications and Alerts

    Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed

    Category average: 7.8

  • Duplicate Candidate Prevention

    Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added

    Category average: 7.4

Who Buys & Uses Workable

Workable Reviews

What users are saying about Workable.
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Workable

Incentivized
Charlie McShaneView profile
Corporate Recruiter in Human Resources at PJ Fitzpatrick, Inc. (201-500 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • User interface
  • Texting
  • Applicant tracking

Cons

  • Texting
  • Identifying duplicate candidates

Return on Investment

  • Hiring
  • Growth
  • Organization

Alternatives Considered

JobDiva

Other Software Used

Indeed.com, DocuSign, Employee Navigator

Next-Gen Recruitment Platform

Incentivized
Priya JoshiView profile
Assistant manager in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (10,001+ employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • Teams other than the recruitment team are able to be a part of the hiring process leading to a better collaboration and engagement within the teams.
  • Able to attract and hire the candidates who were not even looking for a job change.
  • In terms of overall value generated by using Workable (including both tangible and intangible), we are definitely saving a lot of money in terms of tapping the right kind of talent pool.

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Jobs, LinkedIn Learning (Lynda.com), Workday Cloud Platform

Workable implements CRM tools for talent management

Incentivized
Jason Kerley
Social Media Manager in Social Media at SSDIGITALCO (201-500 employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Unlike many other recruitment-oriented services, Workable does not let us use internal HR tools, so our human talent management with Workable is limited to hiring only, and this makes it impossible to match candidates with regular employees within the platform.
  • It has no employee portal creation function, so the information provided on our employee portal web page is usually not useful to employees, as we cannot create a second portal where we can inform them about our job bulletins.
  • It does not allow you to evaluate the amount of learning that candidates have received within the service unless they expressly state so. In this sense, it would be useful if you could add a form where candidates could fill in windows with their opinion about certain points of the process.

Return on Investment

  • There is a relatively large improvement in our ROI impact collected in the last few months of using Workable relative to the first few months that the platform was being used to manage the recruitment process.
  • Such improvement is possibly due to the fact that the results of hiring processes from months ago are being shown directly in the job performance of new employees.

Other Software Used

Altair Inspire, ForceManager Mobile CRM, Salesforce Audience Studio (formerly Salesforce DMP)

Workable made job application process easy

Incentivized
Matthew GoldbergView profile
Instructor at Temple (51-200 employees)

Pros

  • Good interface
  • User centered features
  • Easy to navigate

Cons

  • 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

Return on Investment

  • Easy to find applicants
  • Good way to gather data on applicants
  • Positive application experience

Other Software Used

Gusto, Trello, Slack

Make the right hires at the right time

Incentivized
Sharon Greyling
Talent Acquisition Specialist in Human Resources at Paycorp Holdings (201-500 employees)

Pros

  • 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.

Cons

  • Takes time to set search filters by skill, experience, location and more.

Return on Investment

  • Built-in, AI-powered sourcing technology.
  • Supports real-time reporting.
  • Passive candidate search.
  • Recruitment marketing.

Alternatives Considered

Greenhouse

Other Software Used

Paylocity, BambooHR

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