Name: Workday Recruiting
Rating: 4.3 (44 reviews)

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Updated 13th October 2025

What is Workday Recruiting?

Workday Recruiting is a software designed to support the entire talent acquisition process, from workforce planning and sourcing to candidate engagement and hiring. The software offers features such as job requisition creation, configurable workflows, candidate tracking, automated screening, interview scheduling, and onboarding integration. Workday Recruiting enables organizations to manage applicant pipelines, communicate with candidates, and facilitate feedback collection among hiring teams. The software aims to streamline recruitment operations, improve collaboration between stakeholders, and provide analytics for evaluating hiring metrics. It helps businesses address workforce needs by simplifying the process of attracting, assessing, and onboarding new talent within an integrated human capital management environment.

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Manager, Human Resources

3B - 10B USD, Energy and Utilities

FAVORABLE

“Workday Recruiting Prioritizes Mobile Experience and Workflow Configuration Simplicity”

5.0

Jan 14, 2026

The Workday Recruiting module is a modern marvel. Workday Recruiting is user-friendly, robust, engaging and mobile-friendly.

DIRECTOR

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education

CRITICAL

“Some great features, but usability is lacking. ”

3.0

Jan 29, 2026

I have not found Workday to be particularly user friendly. I know there are many ways of doing the same thing but many steps in Workday are not very intuitive.

About Company

Company Description

Workday is the AI platform for managing people, money, and agents. Workday unifies HR and Finance on one platform with AI at the core to empower people at every level with the clarity, confidence, and insights they need to adapt quickly, make better decisions, and deliver outcomes that matter. Workday is used by organizations around the world and across industries.

Company Details

Company type

Public

Year Founded

2005

Head office location

Pleasanton, United States

Number of employees

10001+

Website

http://www.workday.com

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I think that Workday Recruiting provides an amazing mobile experience which is important in this day and age. Second, Workday Recruiting is also very easy to configure, especially around setting up workflows and approvals from position requests, new job requisition requests and offer requests. Third, Workday Recruiting provides powerful tools to source and select candidates and provides deep and meaningful full talent acquisition analytics to ensure we have optimized our hiring process and are acquiring top talent.

I really like the dashboard, there is a lot of valuable information at the ready. In particular, as someone that manages people that use workday to hire I like to see the time to fill metric. I also appreciate the candidate pipelines.

Integrated experience - Workday's end-to-end suite allows for a unified platform that connects workforce planning, recruiting, CRM, scheduling, hiring and onboarding needs. This reduces friction and improves overall efficiency. Innovation & AI: Workday's new features, including the Recruiting agent and simplified process automation advances automation and reducing screen and overall time to fill.

Nothing. The Workday Recruiting module now includes some amazing new technologies that Workday has purchased and integrated into the Workday Recruiting suite including HiredScore and Paradox. Workday is still working to fully integrate these applications into their core application and with time that integration will continue to be stronger.

As I mentioned I think setting up a job req is not particularly easy. I don't create too many as I have staff for that but when I recently did I felt like the drop down menu's were cumbersome. I also found the onboarding tasks to not be very helpful, but that might be because of the way my organization set them up. I recently spent some time in the career hub and was very disappointed with it. One it does not seem to pull vital information about myself and from future job applications into the mentor and connection area. Also the Connection tab is not at all helpful. As a director at a university it should intuitively know that I don't need to connect with every TA on campus. When I do try to filter those roles it was almost impossible to drill down to a more appropriate level. For example, it knows I am a director why doesnt it suggest I connect with other directors? Seems like a simple request.

Workday can continue to bring processes together for hiring managers. Manager insights hub does this, but there are quite a number of hubs. Workday should continue to enhance UX and search capabilities, along with nudges and agentic solutions as there are many touchpoints in the end to end recruiting process.

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Gov't/PS/Ed

Education

Review Source

Some great features, but usability is lacking.

1B-10B USD

Energy and Utilities

Workday Recruiting Prioritizes Mobile Experience and Workflow Configuration Simplicity

<50M USD

Miscellaneous

Workday Recruiting is at least 10 years behind the best ATS' out there

1.0

Oct 22, 2025

The recruiting module is at least 10 years behind any other dedicated ATS in the market. The positive reviews don't seem genuine, because it just doesn't operate as an effective ATS. It lacks even the simplest of features to make it effective. It's not innovative, it's clunky to navigate and as a recruiter or TA leader, you can't change or create anything without having to work through an admin. With regards to the candidate experience, that is poor too. At the very beginning of a candidate applying for a job, they have to create a WD account, and the rest of the process is clunky. Then if they were to apply to a job at two more companies who also use WD, they would have to create two more WD accounts! It really is quite embarrassing.

VP, Human Resources

Software

Transforming Recruitment and Talent Acquisition Processes through Integration and Automation with Workday

Jan 13, 2026

Workday continues to be a leading SaaS tool focused on the end-to-end candidate, hiring manager and recruiter experience. With the recent acquisitions of HiredScore and Paradox, Workday Recruiting continues to allow for a transformed end-to-end experience, centered around AI-driven talent intelligence and automation. Workday is positioned well as a future-ready solution for modern hiring and talent needs.

Director of Human Resources

10B+ USD

Manufacturing

Workday’s Advanced Integration and Usability Balanced by Concerns Over Pricing

Workday is a true strategic partner. We work together often to solve problems and ensure that we are maximizing the use of the platform. Workday has a genuine interest in making sure we understand their products and solutions and that we get the most out of them.

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“Workday Recruiting Prioritizes Mobile Experience and Workflow Configuration Simplicity”

“Some great features, but usability is lacking. ”