Workable Review - why 4.4 stars?
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ITQlick Score: | 96/100 |
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ITQlick Rating: | (4.4/5) |
Pricing: | 2.8/10 - low cost |
Category: | Applicant Tracking -> Workable |
Ranking: | Ranked 6 out of 222 Applicant Tracking systems |
Company: | Workable |
Pricing: | starts at $129 per job/month |
Typical customers: | Small, medium and large size businesses |
Platforms: | Desktop, Mobile, Cloud |
Links: | Workable pricing, Workable alternatives |

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What is Workable and its features?
- Centralized Hiring Dashboard: Workable features a dashboard that shows the user in real-time what is happening, what is next, and what is left to do for each job and candidate.
- Branded Careers Pages: This feature allows companies to create career pages without coding, including search, filters, and auto-fill applications.
- Video Interviews: This feature ensures businesses screen applicants via video interviews.
What is Workable rating?
Who uses Workable?
The product is meant for companies that are looking for a recruitment solution that can scale with their growth. Workable currently offers five different versions that are based on the number of Active or concurrently running job applications that a company has. In this way if the business has a low or high recruitment requirement, Workable can provide a solution as well as allow it to upgrade as its recruitment volume increases.
The product is offered as a cloud based solution with a monthly subscription fee, minimal technology investment and no software maintenance. This is good for small & medium businesses which are looking for a cost effective option, rapid deployment and a quick Return on Investment (ROI). Additionally the product offers companies a free trial so that it minimizes their investment risk, by ensuring they can confirm the fit of Workable with their requirements.
Customers for Workable include Pingdom, TransferWise, InVision, Insight Riot, NetGuru, TechCrunch, Mobi2Go, Marks & Spencer and Intercom
Is it easy to use?
Is Workable cloud-based?
Can it be used on mobile?
Is Workable the best Applicant Tracking system?
What are their main features and functionalities?
What are Workable's pros? (5 Pros)
- Workable has features that streamline the hiring process effectively
- The background screening feature on the software is excellent
- Workable is a relatively low-cost solution
- Workable provides an API for integration with third party software
- The solution includes discounted access to numerous premium job boards as well as LinkedIn integration
What are Workable's cons? (5 cons)
- The mobile version is problematic to use
- Workable support channels are not very encouraging to users
- The product does not offer advanced Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
- Workable does not provide social collaboration tools
- Multiple language support is not provided by Workable
Who are their main alternatives?
- Cost: Workable is cost-rated 1.4/5 where 1 is low-cost, and 5 is high-cost, indicating that it is a low-cost software. However, Jobvite, Lever, Greenhouse, and iCIMS did not disclose their pricing details. Both Workable and Jobvite have a free trial version.
- Functionality: Workable compares favorably in terms of functionalities compared to its alternatives. The software favors integration with other tech products. Workable has a background screening feature, which Lever does not have, and a portal for recruiting firms, which Jobvite does not provide.
- Scalability: Workable is built-to-scale businesses of any size, as well as its competitors. They all support small and medium businesses and can provide solutions to businesses of any size.
- Support: Workable provides 24/7 email, chat, FAQ, and phone support. In comparison, Lever and Greenhouse do not offer phone support round the clock, while Jobvite does not provide 24/7 support. iCIMS provides all forms of support channels as Workable.
- Popularity: Workable is a popular brand compared to its competitors. Since its establishment in 2012, the software vendor has raised over $70 million in seed funding and has processed the hiring of over 1.3 million talents worldwide. iCIMS has about 4,300 customers, in comparison.
- Cloud/Physical: Workable is entirely cloud-based. The software shares a similarity in this category with its competitors, apart from Lever, which has an on-premise version.
- Customers/Industries: Workable targets more industries and has more customer engagements with over 20,000 firms registered and more prominent brands as customers, like Starling Bank, LA Clippers, etc., compared to its competition.
What is the cost of Workable?
The first, the Paygo plan, is a self-service package for businesses that hire occasionally. Paygo is priced at $129 per month and comes with HRIS and Zoom integrations.
The Core Plan is designed for small businesses and offers all the features of Paygo and more like GDPR compliance. The pricing details for this plan are not public.
The Growth Plan is best suited to firms looking to scale, but the pricing information of this software is not public. Growth comes with all the features of Core and additional functionalities like anonymized screening.
The Premier Plan is specifically for companies looking to hire top-class talent. The package comes with all features on the Growth Plan and other functionalities like native language support. The pricing details for this plan are not public.
What is the REAL total cost of implementation? on top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate you need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 2.8 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). You can fine here the REAL total cost breakdown for Workable. You can also find here pricing information from Workable's website.
What should you ask Workable during a demo session? (65 questions)
Where Workable is used?
Workable applicant tracking software is ideal for businesses of all sizes and individual recruiters, helping small and large-scale businesses find the right talents. Companies sized between 1-1000+ use Workable. The software is used across several industries, from ICT to finance, from marketing to Human Resources. Workable is especially relevant in the HR and recruitment industry. Customers like Eurobank, LA Clippers, Imagr, and Valiant Finance use Workable to meet their hiring needs.List of categories
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Author
Shlomi Lavi
Shlomi holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information System Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 15 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant, and implementation expert for small, medium and large size (global) companies.