Why Workday Recruiting is a Dead Loss Waste of Money

© 2024 Mark McWiggins

I was filling out a resume after 1am this morning when I found myself in the Workday app again … I thought I would go through it because it was a job I really wanted … But I couldn’t get the stupid thing to work in the middle of the night … you have to create an account and then carefully check the whole list of jobs on the “autofill resume” thing, which works a bit better than it used to … but still selects for young punks with only 3 or 4 years of experience and selects against (deeply) experienced candidates like me … it takes me about 5 minutes total to apply for a job on Indeed; up to 25 or 30 (or more) on Workday. I just was working on this one late one night because I really wanted the job.

Clearly this is another management challenge; maybe you’ll get a few acceptable candidates this way, but this service effectively screens against experienced candidates (like me).

The only way to test this is A/B testing to see which is more effective, and I’m sure that they haven’t done this.