Why Workday is a loss (part 2)

I was working applying for jobs late last night and I got to one of these and I couldn’t get the stupid passwords to agree …

Basically this is screening against any person more experience than those young pups with. only 2–3 years under their belts while screening against us manager types who have a long resume and don’t want to do all this several times.

Try A/B testing on your recruiting and see what works.

This isn’t a criticism; just trying to be helpful. “Negative” results don’t always show up … positive ones are obvious, but you don’t know who you’re missing with this detail.

I stopped looking at company sites looking for email; a lot have “contact us” pages but no email and no way to even attach a resume.

It’s clear to me these companies are afraid of email, in particular spam; the solution is from a company called Hey.com who I found in the Nytimes

Update for 8/16–17 2024: Workday is even WORSE for recruiting than I thought, and I was down on it with both feet previously.

I tried to apply for 5 jobs late this evening, just to get the message WORKDAY IS DOWN … then I tried to get on the company site to find an email address or contact info form of some kind, and mostly failed at that too. The upshot: if you’re using Workday for recruting, give it up or at least try an A/B test with a free (for the job seeker anyway) or just have a list of jobs and an email address on your website jobs@yourcompany.com! What’s hard to understand about that?

OK?