Responding to an EEOC charge: 5 common employer mistakes
When it comes to being an equal opportunity employer, good intentions are not always enough. Even when you think you have done everything right, you may still face a complaint under EEOC regulations....
View ArticleWhat a year in a coworking space can do for your company
Three short years ago Workable was two people and our first customer. We are now approaching 80 people with more than 4,000 customers. Although the company was started in Greece, most of our customers...
View ArticleHow To Scale Your Distributed Team
Technology has advanced to the point that remote working no longer conjures the image of freelancers in pajamas. Thanks to high-speed internet and an improving array of online collaboration tools, many...
View ArticleUnderstanding the gig economy
The future of work is clouded by two contrasting visions. One is a daydream with a laptop and a sea view, where highly-skilled work is divorced from any particular location. The other is a nightmare of...
View ArticleHow to advertise a job opening on pay-per-click job boards
Recruiting is just like any other business cost, so employers have a duty to hunt for the best deals when they advertise a job opening. When trying to make your recruiting dollars work harder it pays...
View ArticleHow to post a job on Facebook
Facebook isn’t just the most wildly successful social network online, it’s also a place to post your jobs and find qualified candidates. So many of us spend so much of our time on Facebook (40 minutes...
View ArticleHow to post to multiple job boards
It has never been easier to cast a wide net by posting jobs to multiple job boards. In this post we offer a refresher on the basics from writing great job descriptions to getting the right balance...
View ArticleJoin us in launching Workable Ideas
Save the date, Tuesday March 15, and join us in launching our new speaker series, Workable Ideas. We’ll be kicking off with one of the big topics of our working times, “The Rise of the Remote Worker”,...
View ArticleThe questions recruiting metrics need to answer
Metrics, reports and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are only as useful as the questions they answer about your business. So, before we talk about the myriad of metrics we can measure and plot in...
View ArticleInterviewing techniques: 10 mistakes experienced interviewers avoid
Interviews have been the hardest part of the hiring process throughout their history. Finding interviewing techniques that work is challenging and mistakes that can compromise your judgement, from...
View ArticleThe 15 unsung heroes of the modern workplace
We spend the majority of our lives at work and yet most of us know almost nothing about how the modern workplace came to be as it is. How was it that we came to congregate in offices and why are they...
View ArticleThe Magnetism of Meetups
Creating and nurturing a local community of professionals working in a particular field is a great idea. This realization is particularly relevant to those of us who live and work outside traditional...
View ArticleWorkies Awards 2015: The Shortlist
Building a talented team that works well together is important and challenging work. We’re recognizing the best hiring and recruiting strategies (Best Careers Page, Best Referral Program, Best Job...
View ArticleWorkies Awards 2015: The Winners
Hiring is as tough as it is important. It is also an art and people who do it well deserve to be made an example of. So, with not much further ado we would like to introduce you to the first ever...
View ArticleNew release: snooze a candidate
It’s not even summer yet, and already 2016 is proving to be a big year for us. The team is expanding, we’ve just moved into new offices and we’re launching new features at quite a pace. As change is...
View ArticleNew release: a partnership with BambooHR
Today we’re excited to announce our partnership with BambooHR! Users of Workable can now seamlessly transfer data from Workable into their BambooHR account, turning candidates into employees without...
View ArticleNew features for mobile recruiting!
It’s been some time since the launch of Workable mobile, but we’ve been working hard behind the scenes. We’ve got some major updates coming in the summer and we’re releasing new features as we go....
View ArticleThe new look job editor
It’s been a busy few months for my team. Not only have we released interview kits and scorecards, but regular users will notice we’ve also refreshed the Workable job editor. There are more changes to...
View ArticleNew release: Interview kits and scorecards!
If you’re a regular Workable user, you might’ve received our recent email about the upcoming launch of Interview Kits. We certainly know that quite a few of you read it, because the response was...
View ArticleAn easier way to post to multiple job boards
Recruiting software is a useful tool – but it’s nothing without great candidates to fill your pipeline. If you’re not sourcing passive candidates then you’ll need to tell job seekers that you’re...
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