Lever vs. Workable: Which System Wins for Smarter Hiring
If your hiring team uses Workable, you may feel stuck and ready for a change. Break free from static workflows, limited integrations, and shallow data reporting—Lever gives you the flexibility, automation, and integrations your team actually needs.
Lever vs. Workable: Who has the edge?
Lever vs. Workable: FAQ
Which is better, Lever or Workable?
Lever is the best talent acquisition software for mid-market companies. Here’s how we stack up:
- Built to scale. Lever supports growing teams with automation, advanced workflows, and flexible configurations—capabilities that Workable wasn’t built to handle.
- More than an ATS. With built-in CRM, actionable analytics, and smart candidate search, Lever goes beyond tracking to help you engage and hire better talent, faster.
- Seamless hiring experience. From sourcing to onboarding, Lever delivers intuitive tools for recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates, while Workable’s functionality stops short after the offer.
How do we migrate our legacy solution to Lever?
Ready to make the switch? We’ll guide you step-by-step through migrating your data, onboarding your team, and ensuring you leverage every feature that could improve your results. We’ll work with you to make switching as quick and painless as possible.
How much does Lever cost?
As a flexible solution, Lever offers custom pricing for each customer.
Integrations
You shouldn’t have to compromise the tools you love when building out your hiring tech stack—and with Lever, you don’t have to! With Workable’s limited integration portfolio, however, you might be stuck with disjointed systems.
- Lever supports 110% more integrations than Workable. Need to get up and running quickly? Lever has your back with over 300 out-of-the-box integrations.
- Comprehensive integration suite. Unlike Workable, Lever integrates with all types of hiring tools, from HRIS to productivity tools, background check vendors, and more.
Onboarding
Providing a great candidate experience doesn’t end once they join your team. While Workable’s utility mostly stops once the offer letter has been signed, Lever offers dedicated onboarding tools to prepare your new hires and get them contributing great work faster.
- Welcome new hires. Lever and Sapling work together seamlessly to make new hire experiences stress-free. Use the integration to welcome hires with branded preboarding materials and initiate role-specific onboarding.
- Streamline onboarding for managers. Lever helps both new hires and their managers by automatically populating new employee profiles, providing objective-based onboarding roadmaps, and automating workflows.
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Whether you have 100 reqs or just one hard-to-fill role, Lever gives you adaptable, Al-powered hiring software that flexes as your team grows, your roles change, and your priorities shift.
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Workflow and Configuration
Your ATS should work around your specifications, not the other way around. Lever is built with unmatched flexibility in mind, adapting to your unique workflows.
- Scalability guaranteed. Workable lacks important features that support scale, including the ability to merge duplicate profiles. However, Lever’s built to meet your current—and future—hiring needs. We scale with you to empower growth at any stage of your company’s life.
- Configurable workflows. Lever embraces emerging technologies, like automation and AI-powered features, to ensure your workflows are highly tailored.
Candidate
relationship management
Lever’s robust, built-in CRM allows you to nurture candidate relationships from day one. From proactively sourcing prospects to maintaining connections with them, you can achieve it all in one place in Lever’s platform.
- Native CRM capabilities. Unlike Workable, CRM features are a core focus of Lever’s platform. From the first touchpoint to onboarding, your candidates will feel welcomed and ready to succeed with personalized messaging.
- Multi-channel sourcing. Lever allows recruiters and hiring managers to find the best candidates from multiple sources, such as niche job boards, Indeed, and LinkedIn. Apply filters to narrow down cohorts of candidates, or run a direct search to pinpoint specific candidates that you are looking for.
Insights and
analytics
Without real-time talent acquisition insights, you may as well be flying blind. Lever goes beyond Workable’s surface-level dashboards to deliver visual, actionable analytics you can trust to help teams optimize every part of the funnel.
- Visual Insights dashboard. Track how candidates enter your pipeline and which channels perform best with an intuitive dashboard—no spreadsheet gymnastics required.
- Source quality tracking. Identify which campaigns, job boards, or referrals bring in top candidates using out-of-the-box reports designed to surface what’s working (and what’s not).
Candidate
search
Workable’s talent tagging system lacks standardization, resulting in messy data and missed opportunities. Lever offers advanced search tools and customizable scorecards, so your team can surface the best candidates quickly and give consistent, structured feedback that moves hiring forward.
- Advanced search. Find the right candidates fast with Boolean operators, keyword filters, and rediscovery tools—capabilities Workable doesn’t support.
- Smarter candidate rediscovery. Lever makes it easy to re-engage past applicants with saved searches, filters, and profile insights.
Praised by the People Who Matter Most
“The integrations with Lever are fantastic. They’ve helped us cut time to hire by 7 business days, which is amazing. Our leadership team was blown away by this because it used to take 15 more days to get somebody hired.”
“We e.l.f.ing LOVE Lever!”
“I’ve used Workday, Greenhouse, and even Breezy. I’ve tried a lot of ATS software, but Lever is the best. It’s the most user-friendly and it offers a wide range of integrations.”
“Our old applicant tracking system was not good for what Hopper needed it to do. I’m a two-time Lever customer and super psyched about it. So I knew that Lever was the solution for our scheduling, reporting, and pipeline management challenges.”
Is Workable not working for you anymore?
Switch to Lever for a future-proof, growth-oriented talent acquisition experience.
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