Workable Review (2025): Pricing, Pros & Cons

As a job applicant I received a confirmation which included details scraped from my CV by Workable. I can honestly say it was an appalling conversion and completely inaccurate. It listed as my headline a role I last performed 20 years ago. None of my most relevant experience was listed.My conclusion is that if you are an average applicant who submits basic CVs in a tired, old-fashioned way then you will be fine, as Workable will probably translate your CV accurately. So mediocre candidates will be favoured.However, if you are a bit smarter and want to stand out from the crowd, with a CV that is fit for 2024, and not 2004, Workable will not do you, as a recruiter, any favours.So, a simple plea to any recruitment agencies out there, do not believe the sales hype. Stop using automated software. Hire genuine talent spotters and not automated software if you want the best candidates applying for your roles.Show more

Our company spent several weeks creating job listings and learning how to use the workable site. It was not easy but we noodled thought it. There are a lot of features and most things are not user friendly. Our company is not a consumer facing brand, so we did not have a website and they would not approve our job postings with out one so we created a website. This also took a couple of weeks. Once our new website was live we then went back to workable and still could not get the site to allow us to post a job. We contacted customer service and they were useless. We got excuses like, “we cant talk to that department” and “there is nothing I can do” and “no there is not a supervisor you can speak with about this issue”, and the best of all, “I am sorry but there is nothing I can do”. We left a thumbs down on the user chat and suggested in the comments section that workable use its service to hire more helpful customer service agents. Within 15 minutes we were sent an email that our account had been cancelled. Good luck if you choose workable, they don’t care if their site does not work for you, or that they have unhelpful customer service. If you don’t like it they will cancel you.Show more

About WorkableInformation written by the company AND EDITED BY A COMPLETLEY UNSATISFIED EX-CLIENTWorkable is NOT the world’s leading hiring and HR management platform, THIS IS FACTUALLY UNTRUE, A LIE. We provide ILL INFORMED AND UNDER QUALIFIED in-house recruiters, DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND hiring teams, and HR professionals THAT ARE UNEMPLOYABLE ELSEWHERE with more ways to find more qualified candidates, and help them work together to identify, hire, onboard, and manage the best OF A BAD BUNCH THEY RECOMEND TO FILL THE VACANCVY THAT THEY HAVE LITTLE OR NO KNOWLEDGE OR BACKGROUND IN. Companies who use Workable get from requisition to offer letter faster, with automated and AI-powered tools that source and suggest candidates, simplify decision making, streamline the hiring process, and enhance employee management THAN IF YOU USED A TANNOY IN THE LOCAL JOBCENTRE. SADLEY Workable was founded in 2012 and has since helped more than 27,000 UNFORTUNATE companies hire 1.5 million NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE candidates. Workable has over 250 employees across Greece, Australia, the US, and the UK WHICH IS NOT A LOT WHEN THEY SAY “We provide ILL INFORMED AND UNDER QUALIFIED in-house recruiters, DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND hiring teamS, and HR professionals”….., and works with a diverse group of organizations THAT Workable WHO SAY THEY ARE THE the world’s leading hiring and HR management platform CAN ONLY NAME THREE LARGE COMPANIES AS CLIENTS WORLDWIDE Starling Bank , JOEY Restaurants, RyanAir, and many more.ABSOLUTLEY THE WORLD WORST HIRING PLATFORM, AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.TERRIBLE COMPANY TO DEAL WITH.Show more

Created an account and a job listing, started receiving candidates, only to have my account suspended two hours later. Support stonewalls you and doesn’t give you a reason. Wasted half my afternoon trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Switching now to a competitor, good riddance.

We feel; 1) they are DISHONEST, IMMORAL SCAMMMERS using dumb, useless software designed by incompetent, clueless clowns who have made a nightmare of a website that we found to be infuriatingly complicated, faulty, senseless and misleading to try and navigate through. 2) Their so-called “free trial” for posting jobs seems to be a totally misleading fraud, 3) they used several tricks including claiming by a deliberately vague email with no explanation or further info that our recruitment ad did not “meet all the requirements for job boards”. They ignored all our messages for assistance, live chat people were totally unhelpful, arrogant and clearly coming up with several well rehearsed lies and excuses before disconnecting us, never answered their phone number, ignored our emails. Ludicrous and criminally dishonest in my opinion to force us to pay for our advertisement when they promote a “free trial” in big letters. They seemed at the time as if they would have thousands of job seekers as customers, but that seems a total lie and sham in retrospect. So reluctantly we did pay for the advertisement, and surprise surprise, the exact SAME ad was accepted and supposedly made “live” on what I would describe as their useless and senselessly complicated/confusing mess of a website. We normally receive around 40 applicants a day when our job vacancy ads go live on the big job sites. This farce of a so-called business managed ONE applicant in 4 days and the person who applied was totally unsuitable. We then requested a refund and not only did they ignore those requests too, but they shut down/blocked our account so we could no longer get access to anything, including communication with them. Total disgrace. We will be taking further action. TOTAL WASTE OF OUR TIME, PLEASE PLEASE AVOID THESE PEOPLE, I TRULY BELIEVE THEY ARE IMMORAL, DISGRACEFUL CROOKS WHO SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN BY THE FINANCIAL AUTHORITIES AND JAILED.Show more