Workello versus Google forms

You could use Google forms to collect your sales leads, but you don’t. For very good reasons. Why would you treat your job candidates differently?

Improve your candidate experience

Google forms leaks your best candidates before they take your test

You wouldn’t use a Google form to collect sales leads because it would reduce your conversion rates.

This is exactly why you shouldn’t use Google forms to manage your hiring pipeline.

Your candidates are people.

The best people want to work for the best employers.

And the best candidates are being evaluated by multiple employers.

And your goal is to convince the best writers you can afford to take your writing test so that you can hire them before anyone else.

So how do you get the best candidates to invest their valuable time into taking your assessment?

One of the easiest ways is to create a more engaging candidate experience than your competitors.

Check out Workello’s candidate status page.

Think about it from a sales perspective.

How much would you trust a company collecting your information with a janky Google form?

Probably not a lot.

Workello’s candidate experience is designed to keep your best candidates engaged so they invest their time into taking your writing test so that you can hire them before anyone else.

The best candidates.

The exact type of people you want to hire.

Are judging you as much as you’re judging them.

Create a more engaging candidate experience with Workello, hire better talent.

Stop ignoring candidates

Candidates have a lot of transactional hiring questions.

1. Did you receive my application?
2. When will I hear back?
3. Have you reviewed my test?
4. Have you made a hiring decision yet?

There are two conflicting problems:

1. Ignoring your candidates creates a negative candidate experience
2. Most, but not all questions, are being asked by candidates that aren’t qualified to work for you

When you’re using Google forms, you have two options:

1. Ignore all candidates and be OK if some great candidates slip through the cracks
2. Answer all candidates, and waste a bunch of time

Workello’s candidate status page stops transactional hiring questions before they happen.

By answering all of your candidate’s most common questions – before they’re asked.

So you can provide a positive experience to all your candidates.

Without wasting a ton of time responding to candidates that aren’t qualified.

99% less clicking

Using Google forms is better than email.

You should be proud about that.

But that’s where it stops.

Google forms still require a ton of manual work to bring candidates through the funnel.

Want to send a candidate a test?

Click, click, click.

Want to update a candidate’s status?

Click, click, click.

Checking a test?

Wading through a cluttered inbox.

Send an invite to interview?

Click, click, click.

The more clicks it takes, the more time you and your employees spend hiring and less time doing their actual job.

Ask yourself, or ask your hiring manager how much they love your process in 2023:

1. How many clicks does it take to move a new candidate to hired?
2. Is there anything else more valuable you would rather be doing if you could spend less time clicking?
3. Are you responding to candidates questions?
4. Are you making good hires?

If your team is as talented as you think, all of the mindless clicking might be the worst part of their job.

Now, besides the poor hiring experience for your team, there is a bigger issue.

The more clicks it takes to evaluate a candidate, the fewer candidates your team will evaluate.

If it takes 50 clicks, maybe your team just stops at a handful.

The fewer candidates you evaluate, the more likely you are to hire the wrong person.

In Workello, every action is automated in 1-click.

• 1-click invite to test
• 1-click invite to interview
• 1-click send offer

Because of the lower friction, you’ll end up evaluating significantly more candidates.

More candidates = better talent = better hires.

So to recap:

1. No more fumbling between apps
2. No more unstructured mailboxes
3. Spend less time hiring and more time doing your actual job
4. Attract and hire better candidates with a better candidate experience

Hiring metrics

You believe you’re doing everything right, but you’re still having trouble finding and hiring good writers at your budget.

Workello’s hiring metrics enable you to identify where your biggest bottlenecks are, and where you have the most room to improve.

With Google forms, you’re missing data you need to improve your talent quality:

1. Are we getting enough candidates? Maybe?
2. How many good candidates are we inviting to your test? No idea.
3. How many candidates are actually completing our test? No idea.
4. How many candidates are accepting / declining our offer? No idea.

Workello also has daily Slack reports so you know whether your hiring team is doing their job, without having to ask.

Better email delivery rates

You can’t hire candidates that don’t see your emails.

Are your email’s arriving in your candidates inbox, promotions, or junk?

If you’re using Google forms, you have no idea.

One of the ways you can guestimate is look at your newsletter open rates.

Most companies see a 20 – 40% on their newsletter.

That is……not good.

Here’s the math:

• You receive 100 candidates
• You invite 20 to take your skills assessment
• Only 4 – 8 people see your test

Did you setup SPF, DKIM and DMARC?

If you didn’t, your delivery is going to be on the lower side.

(If you don’t know what SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are, you didn’t set them up).

You can’t hire candidates that don’t receive your emails.

So we’ve made heavy investments into Workello’s email infrastructure.

And it shows.

87% of the skills assessment invites sent by Workello customer’s are opened and clicked.

Build a team

Chances are, if you’re using Google forms, it’s because you’re early in your journey.

One of the biggest mistakes early entrepreneurs make is believing that all they need for a successful business is leads and sales.

That’s wrong, though.

Because chances are, your goals are bigger then what you can fulfill on alone.

Once you’re generating more leads and sales than you can service on your own, the next stage of your journey is building a team that can deliver service as well, or even better then you can.

That means the next stage of your journey is dictated by who you hire.

And who you hire will decide whether achieving your goals are easy, hard, or impossible.

Make the wrong hire? Scaling is impossible.

Make the right hire, and scaling feels easy.

The more you invest into your candidate experience, the better candidates will apply, the better talent you’ll hire, the easier scaling will feel.

Backed by a team that’s built teams

Our team has personally evaluated 5,000+ candidates and hired hundreds of writers.

We’ve also supported 125+ teams evaluating 40,000+ candidates.

Which means we have answers that get results for your biggest hiring problems.

When you use Google forms you’re going at it alone:

1. Where should I post?
2. How much should I pay?
3. How do I onboard?
4. How do I manage?
5. How do I hire X new role?
6. What should I do in Z scenario?

You could ask in communities, ping your friend for advice.

But your friend is at the same level as you.

Or you could ask the team who has accomplished what you’re trying to do.

Again, and again, and again.

We’ve got your back.

Because Workello isn’t just a software.

We’re a solution to your hiring problems.

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