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- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 1,001-5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Workable Review
Reviewed on 24/07/2022
It is helping me to download resumes, track applications, shortlist candidates, and tag the interviewer with my comments.
Pros
Tracking any candidate with an email ID and showing how many times the candidate applied for multiple positions. and it's very simple and easy to track and update feedback.
Cons
Nothing as such but searching with name is a bit confusing as we get the various result which is not relevant.
Response from Workable Software
Appreciate the invaluable feedback, Neelam. Always working to better search results - will look to make search by name as tight as possible. Thanks for being a Workable customer!
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Workable is Great!
Reviewed on 15/08/2019
What is really nice about Workable is that everyone on the team can see each other's comments and updates in real time. The calendaring feature that allows us to invite the candidate and have it show up on our outlook calendar is fabulous and makes our lives so much easier. Workable also sends emails with upcoming trainings which we find helpful.
Pros
What I like most about Workable is that it is intuitive and easy to use. We do very little training when we add employees to use the system. I also like how the system saves what I've been working on and can return to my notes without having to start over from the beginning.
Cons
Right now, there is nothing that I would complain about or change with Workable.
Alternatives Considered
iCIMS Talent CloudReasons for Choosing Workable
Our contract was up with our former company and no one on our team was around when we first started the contract so we decided it would be a good time to investigate all options and see what was out there. After seeing what other companies had to offer, we went back to our former company to see if they could do some training with us to see if there were features we weren't using that would enhance our experience. They were very unhelpful with this. Another reason we made the decision to change is because of cost.Switched From
iCIMS Talent CloudReasons for Switching to Workable
We looked at several options but had it narrowed down to 2. The other option was much more expensive and we couldn't justify requesting the expense.Response from Workable Software
Thanks for your feedback! We're glad getting people to adopt the system has been easy, and when your team needs additional training that we meet your needs.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
The Bad Outweighs the Good- Beware Sales!
Reviewed on 03/02/2020
Solid tool if you have a fairly simple process; still allows for customization, which is great.
Hilariously/infuriatingly rude sales process. No desire to fix issues, just to trap you in contracts.
Pros
Workable has a simple, clean layout that was easy to customize and train my team on. It did exactly what we needed it to do and allows for a good deal of customization for our somewhat-unique hiring process.
Cons
The sales team are vultures. We planned to renew our contract after one year, and confirmed so via *email*. After some discussion, we realized we were probably overpaying; we included People Search in our initial contract (which is terrible and doesn't work reliably at all). We asked our sales rep, [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN], if we could remove that from our invoice, and were told we already had "a grandfathered deal" and should be glad we weren't paying more. The tone was downright rude.
Because we don't need anything too complicated, we decided to move to another ATS with a slightly lower cost. When Workable sent us the invoice to renew, we notified them that we would not be doing so- 2 weeks before contract expiration. [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] *so rudely* replied that my verbal acknowledgement a month before was binding, and that we were stuck with another year. Obviously, we're fighting that, but it's really shocking that Workable is more interested in roping customers into contracts than understanding why they want to leave in the first place.
Response from Workable Software
We're so sorry that you did not have a good experience with the Workable product and our Sales Team. Customer success is very important to us. As your Account Manager is in contact with you currently, we will also make sure to further understand everything in this review during our conversation.
- Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Fantastic Solution For Recruiters
Reviewed on 12/01/2023
It enabled us to conduct a more thorough evaluation of our candidates. We were quickly and easily onboarded by the Workable team, who also got us up and running.
Pros
The collaborative options are limitless, and the UI is simple to use. It offers all the information necessary, to begin with, reporting and visualizations, and understanding the fundamentals of the hiring strategy and recruiting metrics. Additionally, it offers incredible interfaces with LinkedIn, job boards, mobile apps, and many others.
Cons
I wish Zoom or other virtual conferencing services were compatible with the platform for scheduling interviews. Emails from your inbox do not automatically sync or appear right away on Workable. Once a candidate receives an offer letter, the workable's functionality is finished.
- Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Excellent For Collaborating With Various Vendors and Busy Team
Reviewed on 07/12/2022
It allows me to save time on HR-related tasks. A single click could retrieve very specific reports. It eliminates the need for manual work, really a time savior.
Pros
The plugin that allows us to connect it to our social network account is really cool. I've always loved how simple it is to interact with vendors and link them with teams. I also like the email alerts that notify me when someone evaluates a candidate.
Cons
It does not allow to modify the questions once candidates started applying. We can not include more than one location in a job posting. While sending rejections, we can not distinguish between those that have been sent and those that have not.
- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Monthly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Tracking referrals
Reviewed on 20/09/2022
Easy to use with helpful metrics shared. Easy to refer directly through the portal or send a link.
Pros
Can easily share links for referrals. Also tracks clicks and applications on either direct link or LinkedIn shares.
Shows you active referrals and stage of recruitment proces.
Cons
Wish there was a feature to see shared feedback on candidate
Response from Workable Software
Thanks for your feedback, Lex! Ensuring we understand your product suggestion: all members of the hiring team can see shared feedback on a candidate. Externally, we'd bump into privacy issues. Here's more: https://help.workable.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012983547-Reviewing-and-evaluating-candidates. Appreciate you as a customer, and encourage all product ideas to be sent directly to our team in our customer community: https://community.workable.com/ideas. Thanks again for your feedback!
- Industry: Airlines/Aviation
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great Plataform
Reviewed on 14/12/2022
I have solved the easy way to see the all scenario of a candidate. All the information is displayed and using # we can quickly understand the status of the candidate.
Pros
Lack of crashes and quick plataform, easy to integrate and takes minutes to create profiles. We are able to delete status etc. Great
Cons
The process was very easy and its intuitive.
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
An easy-to-use tool for recruiting
Reviewed on 09/12/2022
I use the tool as a hiring manager. It makes it easy to align with other hiring team members and recruiters,
Pros
UX is quite good; it's easy to see the pipeline of candidates; email notifications are useful and enable the hiring team to move quickly
Cons
- would love to have the candidate's resume and submitted work sample test download button available on top so that I don't have to scroll all the way down.- always logs me out when I close the tab

- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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It gets the job done without frills
Reviewed on 08/05/2018
Pros
Workable isn't the most feature-filled option out there, but I kind of like that about it. It's to the point, good integrations for the most part, and effective. You also have lots of customizable options with regard to your desired pipeline flow.
Cons
Some more integrations would be great, but my primary request would be for them to lower the number of clicks required to achieve certain functions. It can be incredibly repetitive with unnecessary clicks.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
A rather easy to use ATS
Reviewed on 13/11/2022
Pros
The job created in workable creates a hyperlink that u can add to other ad posting platform and your applicants will be all consolidated in one place. You every stage in the pipeline has its own disqualified pool. This will allow future you or your team who revisits have a better understanding of what happened before.
Cons
The “schedule link” doesn’t allow us to enable a “buffer” time before meetings. There may be instances where ur call with candidates are back to back.
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
The Easiest Applicant Tracking Software to Figure Out
Reviewed on 11/07/2017
We're a startup with less than 15 people trying to hire 4-5 more. We have two people in charge of recruiting.
After getting in touch with other ATS' (Lever, BreezyHR, Jobvite, HiringThing, the Applicant Stack), we went with Workable. This is possibly simply because most of those other softwares put me into a sales cycle queue, and I had to wait 3-4 days before I could talk to someone or see a demo. Meanwhile, Workable lets you sign up for a trial, and gets out of your way. I figured everything out on my own in 20 minutes. I think this is a testament to how well built their UI is-- you don't need a 30 minute handheld demo to figure it out, unlike other ATS (apparently).
To compare, BreezyHR was also fairly intuitive, but we liked the feel of Workable better. Lever is also VERY beautiful software, but we got quoted around 6k/year (no monthly option). Meanwhile, Workable, is 200/mo for 4 jobs (monthly, not annual contract), and has 98% of the same functionality. Lever, based on the demo I got from their very nice saleslady, seems better if you're a big company where you need help streamlining communication quickly between departments, or want help auto-nurturing your recruited candidates. That just wasn't us, we're smaller and only hiring 4-5 people right now.
Workable was easy to figure out, responsive, customizable, and I liked the monthly pay option. I would recommend it to any startup or small company, without any hesitation.
Also, if you're recruiting...the real Workable seller is the People Search function. I almost don't want to talk about it, because I don't want other people to know about it.
Pros
-Incredibly intuitive interface
-Upfront pricing that's easy to understand and reasonable (not great, but reasonable)
-Customizable pipeline
-People Search Chrome extension is INCREDIBLE and no one else has it.
-Easy, one step posting to multiple job sites (free and premium)
-Custom links so applicants can apply from anywhere and still end up in your pipeline.
-On/Off mode: You can pay monthly when you're hiring, and stop when you have no active jobs. You won't lose your data.
Cons
-A few bugs (software doesn't always fetch a photo when you put in an email, even if it finds multiple social profiles)
-Customer Support isn't immediate (you have to email, but they usually respond in <6 hours)
- Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great tool to support with hiring in a start-up phase
Reviewed on 25/07/2021
Workable was our 1st ATS. It is a smart, easy-to-use product that helped us grow the company to close to 450 employees. Managers were very happy with the tool.
Pros
Workable provides great automation solutions & features for many different things that allow saving lots of time: emailing candidates in bulk, interview scheduling, interview feedback, configurable roles and permissions, communication templates and customizable steps in the interview process.
In addition to this, it has a great analytics dashboard, a user-friendly mobile app, and a fantastic People Function that allows to source passive candidates directly from the ATS, which might be very handy, especially for teams that don't have a LinkedIn Corporate Recruiter licence.
Cons
My team couldn't engage with candidates at scale through personalized email campaigns, which made us switch to another ATS. Because close to 40% of our hires are done through outreach automating this part was crucial to us.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Easy to Use and Cost Effective
Reviewed on 17/04/2018
It's a good company and a good platform that is easy to use. If you are looking for a more cost effective option and are okay with losing some of the features you would get with a bigger ATS, Workable is a good choice. They do focus on rolling out new features and I am excited to see what happens next with them.
Pros
Very easy to use system, and the interfaces are intuitive for admins, users, and applicants. Each job goes out to 12 free job boards and candidates find it very easy to apply. Also allows candidates to apply with LinkedIn. Tracking of candidates through each job process is very easy with the "Bins" that peoples can flow through. Email templates, interview templates help keep the process simple and effective. Workable allows for each integration with HRIS, screening tools, and other interfaces.
Cons
Not much customization available depending on the price point you are willing to pay. More of an out-of-box software and does not allow the flexibility you would see with some other bigger ATS's. Some features you
- Industry: Law Enforcement
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Simpsonville PD Review
Reviewed on 07/10/2022
I think it is a great program. I like the ease of posting and accessing so many people with the one post. I like the accessibility of resumes that can be attached.
Pros
I like how it branches out to many different companies with one posting. I also like the ease of how to contact the interested candidates.
Cons
I haven't fount a feature that I like the least. It is pretty simple to use and allows us to have access to a vast amount of people that we would not generally reach with just our website.
Response from Workable Software
Great to hear we're hitting the mark, Cheryl. Thanks for your review, and for being a Workable fan!
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
It was a great stepping stone
Reviewed on 07/06/2017
If you only need a few roles, and you want something super easy to use with basically no learning curve, this is a great option. If you need 5 or more open jobs at all times, you might benefit from shopping around.
Pros
Workable was VERY easy to use - the buttons are where you want them to be, it's easy to create new roles, emails, etc. My favorite piece was the clean/easy dashboard. An unlimited user is a nice feature. The scorecards are awesome and easy to use, and they are creating new helpful features like this all the time. Gmail integration works well.
Cons
Workable's pricing structure isn't conducive to our needs anymore, it's gotten expensive for the platform that it is. There's no email automation aside from template creation, you can't create different pipeline stages for different roles - you are stuck with one pipeline for all your reqs. Outlook integration does NOT work well.
- Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Workable review
Reviewed on 21/08/2018
Pros
Workable is extremely easy to use. The features built in are very self explanatory and the job boards are top notch.
Cons
Everything seems to be coming at a price now. Workable started off as one of the most truly affordable ATS systems. They have not always been the first ATS to the table when introducing new functionality, but they seem to do a good job with it. However, they have been taking away portions of the product that were initially available, which comes off as greedy. Customer service is incredibly inflexible at times, which is quite frustrating for a company that has been with them for so long.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Great program
Reviewed on 21/05/2022
Pros
The ease of use and a quick implementation of the program. The evaluation or assessment made it so easy to have a review board and communication was so much easier between team members. The able to connect to my existing HRIS system makes onboarding easier.
Cons
Nothing it has made everything so much easier
- Industry: Internet
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Made my life easier!
Reviewed on 18/05/2018
Organized candidates, kept track of communications to candidates, easy to pull reports!
Pros
Keeping candidates organized, create own pipeline stages, communicate with others or with candidate directly.
Cons
Messages meant to be sent within the company were sent to the candidate by different stakeholders, ie more than one person made this mistake which means this is a flaw in the design. Talent pool was also a bit confusing, I'd like to move candidates from Talent Pool to a pipeline and vice versa.
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 11-50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Great customer service!
Reviewed on 27/11/2017
Pros
It's simple and easy to use. Easily posts to external job boards with just a click. The employer careers pages are simple and clean- could be more customizable and interactive but the product is fairly cheap compared to competitors.
Customer service is FAST and always helpful. We've been with workable since the beginning and they've taken our feedback into consideration.
Cons
The only real downside is the database search is somewhat cheap. I'm a huge pipeline recruiter- their hashtags to categorize help but a boolean search function would be awesome.
- Industry: Oil & Energy
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Simple and effective applicant tracking system
Reviewed on 05/08/2018
Pros
Whatever advertisement you post, gets automatically posted in free job sites and you get more reach and this feature is available in both free and paid versions. The application is very cost effective. A clean and intuitive interface is provided. It is one of simplest applicant tracking system. The pipeline feature is very much customizable. You are provided with a people search google chrome extension which reduces time consumption. There is this on and off mode, as payment is concerned, you need to only pay for the time you use the application. The applicants can also apply via linked in. the application provides a lot of integrations including HRIS and other screening tools. The available email and interview templates help in simplifying the process and reduces the time lag. The interfaces are easy to use for both the users as well as the applicants. Very responsive customer service and support system.
Cons
The Application is a little pricey for small firms even though the features are well suited for startups.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Very easy to set up, tidy simple process and dashboard
Reviewed on 11/07/2017
Work definitely recommend for those wanting to streamline recruitment and build a talent pipeline without an expensive outlay.
Pros
Easy move through, simple to track notes and to share with hiring managers, easy tagging, not complicated, intuitive easy to manage the candidate experience.
Cons
Lack some of the features of some larger more expensive packages but is a minor for under 100 staff still a great product
- Industry: Staffing & Recruiting
- Company size: 2-10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Excellent ATS that is easy to use
Reviewed on 18/03/2022
I use workable daily for multiple functions and its interface with other professional media platforms is incredibly helpful.
Pros
Workable's ease of use is its best feature. We can track our applicants through the entire recruitment process and keep all of their information in one place.
Cons
No, I like all the features it provides.
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Excellent ATS, excellent team! Great for small businesses.
Reviewed on 19/03/2015
Overall, Workable is a great applicant tracking system (ATS). When my team was using a different ATS, every hiring manager began the meeting by telling me how much they hated that ATS. Once we switched to Workable, everything just worked the way it was supposed to. The hiring managers enjoyed using it too.
Some of my favorite parts of it are:
- it is very easy to set up
- the UX is very clean and easy to use
- the customer service is excellent - I always got speedy responses to any questions I asked!
- the integrations with free/paid job boards is great, they offer a lot of options
- they're constantly making improvements and adding new features
- the 15 day trial is a great way to play around with it and see how easy it is to set up
- the Chrome extension that allows you to import profiles into Workable
Some small but standard features that I think it's missing are:
- the ability to delay emails (i.e. if you're rejecting a candidate, have the email send in 1 or 2 days instead of immediately)
- the ability to customize job pipelines for each role (you can customize it for the entire company, though!)
We are switching to another ATS because we want more out of our ATS (offer letter integration, interview feedback, etc). However, Workable is a great tool! I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to start using an ATS to organize their hiring, or anyone who is unhappy with their ATS and wants something basic but very solid. The ability to pay monthly without a contract is also appealing - you can try it out and then switch if you don't like it.
- Industry: Financial Services
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Organizes the entire recruiting process
Reviewed on 18/05/2022
Pros
What I like most about Workable is ease of use overall and secondly the ability to post comments and easily share with the team. Dashb
Cons
I really like everything about workable but they can improve on their general formatting.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
It is exactly a Human Resources choice
Reviewed on 04/04/2018
Pros
I had my HR team use this software and everyone told me that starting from maintaining the resume data till the candidate is onboarded the product employs all streamlined methods to ensure the data is stored correctly without any inaccuracy.
Cons
I understand it is little time talking for anyone to understand the tool first because it looks like it is complex at a first glance., but training can reduce this shortcoming.