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Toggl Hire vs. Workable

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Too many candidates still shudder at the thought of job hunting, often because of (all too recent) memories of a poor candidate experience.

Today’s hiring managers understand the importance of a positive candidate experience. And with the right recruitment software, you can get on top of your recruitment efforts while building an experience candidates love, saving your team time and money.

Workable and Toggl Hire are two full-cycle hiring platforms designed to do just that. They help recruiters and hiring managers with candidate sourcing, interviewing, and reporting—each in their own way.

As we’ll see, Toggl Hire focuses more on aptitude, fairness, and data-driven decisions, while Workable focuses on maximizing efficiency for larger hiring teams.

Toggl Hire wins over Workable because only Toggl Hire

  • Lets you shortlist candidates based on skills with one click
  • Offers more than five skills tests, all of them created by experts
  • Uses native tools to help reduce bias, promoting fairer hiring
  • Allows for asynchronous video interviews that candidates love
  • Is intuitive enough for your whole team to use and understand

What is Toggl Hire?

Toggl Hire is a full-cycle recruitment software designed to streamline the entire hiring process.

Tailored for recruitment professionals yet intuitive enough for anyone to use, Toggl Hire integrates essential recruitment features with powerful automation. This data-driven approach ensures a best-practice hiring cycle that both recruiters and candidates will appreciate.

With skills assessments and homework assignments at the heart of our candidate evaluation features, we’re able to help recruitment professionals make data-driven, fair hiring choices. Key features include:

Expert-crafted skills tests

Toggl Hire offers one of the most robust and extensive question libraries on the market. All the questions that make up our skills tests are crafted by subject-matter experts and curated by seasoned professionals. You can be sure that the skills test your candidates are taking are of the highest quality and accuracy on the market.

Toggl Hire skills assessment example

Async video interviews

Toggl Hire’s video interview feature allows you to review multiple candidates simultaneously and at your own pace. This means less time coordinating schedules and more time focusing on finding the perfect fit for the role.

Toggl Hire async video interviews

Candidate experience

With automatic candidate feedback, email integrations, and quick communication filters, candidates are always kept in the loop. That’s why 4 out of 5 candidates love Toggl Hire—making it a great tool to help you build a stellar employer brand.

Toggl Hire candidate experience

Talent pipeline

Toggl Hire offers more customization abilities than most other applicant tracking systems on the market. For example, you can easily drag and drop candidates across your pipeline. You can also mix and match stages like qualifying questions, video interviews, and more to build a custom pipeline that’s exactly what you need for maximum efficiency.

Toggl Hire candidate pipeline

Candidate management

With Toggl Hire, you have access to a centralized and organized database full of all your current and past candidates. You can easily add, update, or remove candidates as needed, simplifying your candidate records and streamlining your recruitment process.

Toggl Hire Candidate Management Features

Reporting & analytics

Toggl Hire transforms hiring data into clear, actionable insights. By analyzing candidate responses from skills tests, we generate detailed visuals and summaries that highlight a candidate’s strengths and areas for growth. This invaluable data empowers you to make faster, more informed hiring decisions, moving beyond mere ‘gut’ feelings to data-backed confidence.

Collaborative hiring tools

Hiring the best candidates often requires a team approach, which is why Toggl Hire has made it easy to connect hiring managers, recruiters, and others via dynamic hiring feeds and built-in notifications. With Toggl Hire, you can keep your team on track to meet their hiring goals.

Toggl Hire collaborative hiring features

What is Workable?

Workable is a comprehensive ATS designed to streamline the hiring process for larger businesses. It is ideal for teams with regular hiring needs, such as staffing agencies, multi-branch corporations, or bigger enterprises hiring for 50+ jobs per month.

Workable is designed to accompany you all the way from job description through onboarding. Top features include job posting, candidate management, interview scheduling, and employee management. Workable lets teams collaborate to hire and onboard the right talent efficiently.

Some other key features include:

  • Automated job posting: Post and promote job openings to over 200 external platforms and job boards with one click—and tap into AI-generated job descriptions for any position.
  • AI-powered sourcing and matching: Workable’s AI Recruiter can scan over 400 million candidate profiles and match them with relevant job descriptions. This saves immense amounts of time with candidate sourcing and helps increase total applicant volume with minimal input.
  • Personality tests: Workable offers five different cognitive and personality assessments to help you pick the right fit for the wider team. These are abstract reasoning, attention and focus, numerical comprehension, verbal comprehension, and workplace personality.
  • Onboarding and employee management: Streamline your entire employee journey with custom onboarding workflows, e-signatures, professional profiles, HR documentation, and org charts, all under one roof.
  • Employee referral portal: This portal offers employees the chance to help source their next hire. It’s quick and easy to use and can lead to three times the number of referrals internally.
  • 70+ integrations: Workable seamlessly integrates with several popular HR tools, helping you streamline your workflow and focus your time on what actually matters.
  • Automated recruitment reports: Stay on top of key hiring metrics with automated analytic reports and business intelligence integrations. Highlight elements of your process that could use a little love to achieve your desired recruitment results faster.

Toggl Hire is best for…

  • Unbiased, data-driven hiring
  • Expertly-curated skills tests
  • Shortlisting candidates with one click
  • Asynch video interviews
  • Stellar candidate experience
  • Remote teams spread across many time zones
  • Companies looking to hire fast and well

Workable is best for…

  • Automated job posting
  • Self-scheduling interviews
  • AI assistance with things like writing job descriptions, summarizing resumes and interviews, and more
  • Employee referrals
  • Full-scale hiring, from job ad to onboarding and employee management and everything in between
  • Mid-market and enterprise businesses
  • Traditional industries

You deserve more from your recruitment software

Compared to Toggl Hire’s tens of thousands of expertly curated skills assessment questions (for some of the world’s most in-demand skills), Workable only offers five personality assessments.

Why does this matter? Personality assessments alone can’t evaluate practical on-the-job knowledge the way Toggl Hire’s question library does. Especially for roles when hard skills matter, like developers and engineers, Toggl Hire helps you identify not only who is the sharpest pencil in the box but also who is the best cultural fit for your unique team.

Not only that, Toggl Hire can be used to upskill existing employees—essential for retention and keeping up with the ever-changing skills landscape in 2024. Close skills gaps and support internal mobility with a comprehensive skills-based question library.

While Workable allows for interview scheduling, it doesn’t have an option for async video interviews. This makes it a less attractive option than Toggl Hire for a manager hiring remotely, when time zones might be tricky to coordinate. This also puts Workable at a disadvantage for teams looking to hire fast, as Toggl Hire will allow them to bypass scheduling entirely and review multiple candidates at once to find the best fit.

Finally, there aren’t any purpose-built, Workable features dedicated to reducing bias in hiring. Toggl Hire is data-first by design, and data doesn’t come with bias or gut feeling. You can be confident you’re truly hiring the best person for the job every time.

Toggl Hire vs. Workable

Toggl Hire vs. Workable pricing

Both Toggl Hire and Workable offer tiered subscription models.

Toggl Hire’s free plan allows unlimited job openings for up to 3 candidates. With the $20/month Basic plan, this jumps to 20 candidates, and with the $75/month Premium plan, it’s 45 candidates. For full-scale customizable features and unlimited candidates, you’re looking at $469/month.

Workable offers a 15-day free trial and then starts at $149/month for two active job openings. The standard plan offers unlimited job openings at $313/month, while the Premier plan boasts a host of strategic hiring options at $628/month.

The verdict: Toggl Hire is the best Workable alternative to manage full-cycle hiring

Overall, Workable and Toggl Hire serve two different types of businesses. Workable is best suited to large companies with full-scale hiring needs, while Toggl Hire is designed for smaller and leaner businesses, specifically those that are remote, hybrid, or in a rapid growth stage.

Still, there are quite a few elements that make Toggl Hire stand out.

Intuitive interface

Toggl Hire is inviting and intuitive, making it easier for hiring managers to manage recruitment alongside their day-to-day work.

Robust skills tests

Toggl Hire offers thousands of skill-based questions crafted by industry leaders and vetted by professionals in the field.

Potential for upskilling

You can use Toggl Hire to help upskill your existing employees—not many ATS tools can do that!

Async video interviews

Forget aligning on schedules. Toggl Hire lets you review candidates on your own time, even from the other side of the world, with async video interviews.

More accessible pricing

Toggl Hire offers more bang for your buck—starting with a free plan and growing to a very accessible $20/month plan.

Try Toggl Hire for free

Sign up for your free Toggl Hire account and start experiencing the magic of 21st-century hiring.

Julia Masselos

Julia is a freelance writer and fierce remote work advocate. While traveling full-time, she writes about the intersection of technology and productivity, the future of work, and more. Outside work, you can find her hiking, dancing, or reading in a coffee shop.

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