Spark Hire vs. Workable

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Spark Hire
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
Spark Hire is a video interviewing platform. Some key features include: One-Way Interview, Live Interview, Collaboration and Shared Interview.N/A
Workable
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Workable is a recruiting software with HR integrations and AI-powered candidate sourcing. It has SEO-optimized job descriptions and one-click advertising across popular job boards. Workable also features communication tracking, real-time syncing, reporting, and mobile accessibility for collaboration.
$360
per month (starting with 1-20 employees)
Pricing
Spark HireWorkable
Editions & Modules
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Standard
$360
per month (starting with 1-20 employees)
Premier
$599
per month (billed annually) (starting with 1-20 employees)
Premier
$8148
per year (starting with 1-20 employees)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Spark HireWorkable
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details20% discount for annual pricing on Standard plan. Buyers can also select add-ons for an additional fee.
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Community Pulse
Spark HireWorkable
Features
Spark HireWorkable
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Spark Hire
-
Ratings
Workable
8.3
Ratings
7% above category average
Job Requisition Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Company Website Posting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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Spark HireWorkable
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User Ratings
Spark HireWorkable
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.8
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Spark HireWorkable
Likelihood to Recommend
It is great for first round interviews, or if you have a ton of candidates that need to be narrowed down quickly. However it is not great further along in the interview process as it lacks that personalized touch and the conversation is one sided. But overall, for the initial beginning stages of an intense recruiting process, it is a great way to learn more about candidates apart from just their resume.
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Workable is great at creating job posts and posting them to multiple job boards with a single click and also running paid campaigns on social media platforms to reach passive candidates as well. Workable has a friendly UI and has a very gentle learning curve. It is more appropriate for larger organizations where you need to hire thousands of people a year and need to always have a pipeline of great talent.
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Pros
  • Easy to use both for recruiters and candidates
  • Greater candidate profile screening capability
  • Transparency in recruitment
  • Multilayer engagement helps better collaboration in recruitment
  • Central data storage
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  • Workable was extremely user friendly and aesthetically pleasing to use. I had no trouble training or setting up new users, they always caught on quickly.
  • You are able to quickly review candidates at a glance with all notes, texts or emails sent at the top of their profile. This made jumping into a job order easy for those who may be out of the loop.
  • Workable's customer support is stellar, they offer free training and very timely responses for any questions or concerns you may have.
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Cons
  • I don't think the site is particularly user friendly. Since I use it so infrequently, I never remember where things are hidden and I do mean hidden.
  • Secondly, I had a wonderful sales representative the second year I used the service, Jacob Hall, who was always available to help me. Happily for him, he got promoted and this year I found the customer service lacking. If I had a problem, I either had to email your support team or leave a message in the general mail box. I found that very frustrating because I'm extremely busy when I'm staffing this event and I don't have the luxury of the time to take extra steps to resolve a problem.
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  • Candidate timeline history - you could say it's a double-edged sword. I love that I can follow how a candidate has progressed through the process and see all the notes, correspondence, and stage updates on one page, but it's also too much information sometimes. I wish there was a way that I could just filter it to see email history, for example.
  • Workable going to spam - if you or your client select the option that "hides" your email address in Workable email correspondence, sometimes candidate emails go straight to candidate's spam folders. I try to warn clients and candidates ahead of time about this, but it would be great if it didn't happen at all!
  • People Search - it's a great tool when it works, but oftentimes it brings up candidate search details that are no longer valid or true (out of date resumes, closed email accounts).
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Likelihood to Renew
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It's become a part of the fabric of our hiring process and we are growing like crazy! Once we have a working platform in place the cost of the change management typically far out weighs the benefits derived from the change! It's especially hard to change a process with employees who are not key stake holders, they are alway hesitant to invest time in a new product they are only going to use once in a while. With that said if something else came along with benefits far and above workable that we would gain a clear lift in productivity and capabilities we would make the change, we've done it with other parts of our tech stack
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Usability
Spark Hire is easy to use for both us and the candidate/interviewee. There is not a huge learning curve to being able to implement the program. Additionally, our clients (who are given access to the interviews) don't find it difficult to use, and our candidates have very few problems when recording their video interviews
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One thing, it just works as advertised. AI integration makes the work more easier, and we will be able to process the applications more faster with the help of AI.
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Support Rating
I have not used the support that much with Spark Hire but it seems that there are a lot of features available for support and different resources that are provided on Spark Hire's website. For the most part, the system is very user-friendly and it's easy to navigate and figure out things on your own.
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I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this.I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this. I have never had to rely on Workable's support team so I cannot attest to this.
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Alternatives Considered
We used to use Microsoft Teams for video interview and right now we moved to Spark Hire. The application is giving us extreme benefits of shortlisting the best suitable candidates. Recorded video interview sharing with the relevant hiring manager ensures proper transparency and 100% unbiased recruitment. Organization has got the central database with Spark Hire.
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Workable was an excellent tool for our start-up. It was cost effective but very user-friendly. It wasn't a difficult sell to ensure our hiring managers would utilize the tool, and I particularly liked the inbox feature to stay organized. I rated Workable very highly, though as our company grew exponentially, we did go in a different direction.
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Return on Investment
  • We're not spending valuable time conducting phone interviews for many candidates.
  • Our hiring managers can get visually acquainted with many different candidates in our industry.
  • It's not overly expensive to add more team members as users on the plan.
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  • There is a relatively large improvement in our ROI impact collected in the last few months of using Workable relative to the first few months that the platform was being used to manage the recruitment process.
  • Such improvement is possibly due to the fact that the results of hiring processes from months ago are being shown directly in the job performance of new employees.
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ScreenShots

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