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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.
TopFunnel aims to make the life of hiring managers and recruiters easier at all levels. Whether you're hiring for a team of 10 or a team of 10,000 we can help supercharge your search.
Great for allowing the whole team to view candidate profiles. The reporting features allow more members of the organization greater clarity into the hiring process.
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.
Workable has proven itself to be, hands down, the best investment we ever made. It automates the manual process of finding and recruiting top talent and is perfect for our growing business.
Also, information from archived positions is not available unless you unarchive a position which can be a bit inconvenient.
Has a good collection of features that ease the recruitment communication, like email templates and integration. Easy to customize interview scorecards and workflow.
Only real complaint is with the mobile site, which isn't very usable, however it isn't meant to be used on mobile so understandable.
It was nice in searching new best applicants and good in making reports. Help me to in monitoring projects of employees.
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.
I love the reporting function. I like seeing which campaigns are doing better than others and how many diverse candidates I'm reaching out to.
Lag and data loss is the biggest downside by far (specifically, I lost previous email copy, webpages can take a while to load, and webpages can randomly jump between each other).
I like the ability to view candidates in Top Funnel directly with the condensed pop up view of their LinkedIn. I've enjoyed working with the TF team as support has been phenomenal.
I find that Clara can come across as a bit awkward to use with candidates.
The ability to contact any candidate from a lot of recruiting platforms is really amazing.
We need to send individual emails to each candidate and there's no bulk email option.
Good - it's a good LinkedIn extension tool with the option to have AI sourcing with a human touch.
I find it odd to pretend like it's a real person even though the responses it makes come across as robotic - I do not use this feature.
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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