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Trakstar Hire vs Workable: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 9th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 14,292 reviews from Recruiting users.
% Fit
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Job Posting
5.0
Applicant Tracking
4.7
Candidate Management
4.0
Application Management
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Resume Search
4.5
% Fit
High performer
Feature ratings
Job Posting
4.4
Applicant Tracking
4.4
Candidate Management
4.3
Application Management
4.4
Resume Search
3.8
User satisfaction
4.6
User reviews189
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.3
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.6
4.4
User reviews470
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.1
Value for money
4.1
Customer support
4.2
Price starts from
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Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Trakstar Hire is designed for growing companies that are looking to significantly improve their team's odds of hiring the right candidate each time.

Workable is for organizations of all types, anywhere in the world. From high-growth tech start-ups to well-established organizations in healthcare, hospitality, media, manufacturing and more.

User reviews
pros & cons
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Emily L
Director of Investor Relations
4.0

Emily: Hi, this is Emily. I'm a business strategist, and I would rate Recruiterbox a four out of five. And for more reviews, click below. Before I started using Recruiterbox, I was mostly recruiting off of LinkedIn and we weren't getting as wide of an applicant pool with various backgrounds that we were really looking for. And so Recruiterbox helped us pull in from a lot of different sources and we got a much wider range of applicants. There are a lot of reasons we ended up choosing Recruiterbox. For me, I really loved how easy it was to customize the workflow for my specific needs, all the way from screening through first interview, second interview, and ultimately through the offer stage. I also really liked that different members of the team were able to submit their feedback for each applicant after they were able to speak with them. It was really simple to get started with Recruiterbox. The platform is really intuitive and easy to use. If you're considering getting Recruiterbox, I highly recommend it, it's really helped streamline our recruiting process. So it comes highly recommended for me.

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Nancy C
Director of TA and EE
3.0

Nancy: Hi, it's Nancy. I am director of talent acquisition and employee engagement for Digital Yellow. We are a full-service marketing and advertising agency, and my rating for Workable is a three out of five. I've actually implemented several other systems in previous roles. So I've used CATS, I've used Jobvite, I've used Lever, I've used two proprietary systems and I know there's one more that I'm drawing a blank on right now. So I felt like when I decided to use Workable, because I used it in a previous role and had implemented it before, I knew what I was getting into. Well, I really like the people search function and I like the user interface of Workable. It's very easy on the eyes. Things are in places that make sense to me, and I felt like my hiring managers would find it easy to use. So onboarding was extremely frustrating, and that's part of why I'm not giving them a higher score... Oh, Jazz. Jazz is the other system that I was using. So I was migrating from Jazz. So Jazz provided me with, essentially, I think it was some absurd number, like 10,000 files, and none of them were mapped to each other. They gave me CSV files. And so then I went to Workable and was like, okay, how do I import all this in? And all Workable gave me was an Excel spreadsheet, was like, put everything here. Well, I couldn't figure it out. I asked multiple times for someone to get on the phone and talk to me and help me figure out how to do this and nobody would. I finally was able to just from complaining enough, get somebody to look at the files. They wouldn't even look at them. They were like, you didn't pay for migration. And what was frustrating to me was I was never offered to pay for migration. We are on a plan. We do probably 12 to 15 hires a year, so we didn't need to be on an upgraded plan, and the only way for them to help me with the migration was for us to spend another, I don't even know the number, it was an exorbitant number and it was to change our plan. I didn't need to change plan, but I would've paid a sum fixed fee to be able to have help to import everything in. I still have not been able to import everything in, and I think we're probably four or five months into using Workable. So basically two years of data because I started a year and used Jazz for a year, and so they were using Jazz before I got there for a couple years, I lost all that data. So anybody in particular that I know that I talked to before, I literally had to rely on my own memory. And so, it's frustrating because I can't go back to the historical data to be able to say, yes, this person interviewed with us. So our importing was horrible. And they assigned me an account person who was in Greece. I'm in the Eastern Time Zone. And so in order to be able to talk to that person, there was a two-hour window of every day when we were both working. So I asked to be reassigned, I never spoke to anybody else. And so onboarding, I knew how to use it, I wasn't able to get the information in. First and foremost, make sure that you are clear on how you're going to import your information in. Understand, and I think this is a problem with most applicant tracking systems is if I have a candidate that applies for Job A, Job B, and Job C, and we interview them for Job A, and then decide no, they're a better fit for Job B, all the information is captured in Job A. So all the interviews are in Job A. So if I'm now interviewing them for Job B, unless somebody knows that they've interviewed previously, that information is also lost. So there's no general candidate file because it's not a customer relationship manager, it's just an applicant tracking system. So that is a big thing for me. I also don't believe that the syncing between Outlook and Workable works correctly and consistently. So there have been emails that I have found that haven't sunk between the two systems, which makes me worried what isn't syncing. So I very much doubt the validity of the data, and honestly, I don't feel appreciated as a customer. So there's so many good things about Workable that I really like, the rating system or being able to set up the interview questions and thumbs up, thumbs down rating. It's very simple that way. But it's got a lot of quirks. It's got a lot of quirks.

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Trakstar Hire

29/44
  • Background Screening
  • Boolean Search
  • Compliance Management
  • Customizable Branding
  • Email Marketing
  • GDPR Compliance
  • Mobile Access
  • Process/Workflow Automation
  • Reference Checking
  • Referral Management
  • Searchable Database
  • Social Media Integration
  • Social Recruiting
  • Talent Pool
  • Task Management
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Applicant Tracking
  • Application Management
  • Assessment Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Calendar Management
  • Candidate Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Communication Management
  • CRM
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Email Management
  • Internal HR
  • Interview Management
  • Job Board
  • Job Posting
  • Job Requisition
  • Onboarding
  • Recruiting Firms
  • Reminders
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Resume Database
  • Resume Parsing
  • Resume Search
  • Self Service Portal
  • Third-Party Integrations
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Trakstar Hire
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Workable
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Trakstar Hire
  • By Mitratech
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1998
Workable
  • By Workable Software
  • Located in United Kingdom
  • Founded in 2012
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