Lily F.
Nice ATS but could be so much better
We've been with Workable for 9 months so far. We like them they have a lot of pros but at the same time I think there are areas that could improve and make a huge difference. Pros: - We love having everything related to the candidate in one place. And being able to have the entire hiring team able to collaborate in one space is excellent - Easy to navitage for hiring managers - My favorite feature is the ability to email candidates directly from the software. It's a great way to keep yourself organized especially when you are emailing a dozen candidates. - Easy integration - Great quality of mobile app - many of our hiring managers are on the go and find this very useful - Customer service is top notch, quick and very helpful. Cons or Suggestions: - More automations: So far we've been looking at some others ATS in the market which can offer to add automations to the stages, not just emails but interviews invites, to dos, send surveys, etc. - Scorecards: This is one of the key non-biased scoring system and yet in Workable is very basic and can't be customised. We are potentially thinking of moving to Pinpoint as they offer scorecards based on interview sections and highly customisable with numbers, faces and colours making it much more visual and more robust in terms of assessing a candidate at any stage. This is a big thing as hiring managers are finding the scoring/interview quite basic and not describing the full picture. This could be a deal breaker for us as we are reaching a year and considering other choices in the market. - You can't compare profiles side by side or scorecards. - Talent Pool: it's a bit basic and lacking structure. - Job adverts: We are a international company and after covid turned into remote work. We find we want to have many job adverts across many cities but you need to dupicate adverts. Other ATS are currently offering typing remote and multiple cities or countries in one job adverts and this is very appealing. - Make some features from the application form answers only visible to Admins and/or hiring managers. - Dashboard: It would be nice when connecting to have an overview of your open jobs, incoming interviews (calendar), new applications, some generic pipeline metrics shown.
Response from WorkableMay 23, 2022
Hi Lily, we appreciate your time and effort that you put into this review - it's insightful and gave us such a good feedback, both for strengths and weaknesses. To automate your events scheduling, you can use the self-schedule automation. To hide some answers from application form, you can use custom fields. If you need any further help, you can reach us on [email protected]. Thank you!




