Oh you poor souls, I never knew how bad you had it but I do now and I’m so sorry for you. About a year ago, I read an article entitled, “Everyone Hates Workday” by Business Insider. Here is a key excerpt from the whole article:
“You’re given a long form to fill out with the information that’s already on your résumé. In a world where we can all attach PDFs, this seems unnecessary, but — ah, phew — the form promises to autofill the entries if you simply drag your résumé over, and — oh, crap. It loads all wrong. Your work experience is scattered across the lines that want your name and address. Your address, truncated, is where your college degree should be. It’s a mess. You find it’s easier to delete it all and manually type in each entry. How obnoxious.”
As part of my unemployment remittance, I am required to apply for jobs so I figured it would be no big deal, just email a few resumes out and wait for a call or rejection right? Well no. Almost every company is now using a horrible application called Workday and everyone hates it and so do I.
If you want to know why, just re-read that quote above, in some instances, the Workday implementation was so broken that I simply gave up applying for the job. If you’re a company and wondering why you’re not getting candidates for an open position, it’s a good chance that Workday is causing 80% of your problems.
Of course, Workday exists because HR “professionals” have been getting progressively lazy over time relying on tools and “automation” to serve themselves rather than the “resources” they are supposed to be managing and helping but if a firm’s leadership doesn’t want change it won’t happen. All you’ll get is internal decay.
In an era where AI tools like ChatGPT can basically launch a rocket into space all by itself, why does this Workday monstrosity exist and why is it so bad? Note that the article above is from May 2024 so they’ve had at least 1 year to fix using AI to strip all the data from a resume and populate all the fields correctly but it repeatedly fails.
It’s a good thing my wife and I are millionaires because if I really needed a job, I’d be livid!
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Have you had to deal with the Workday monster? Let me know in the comments below.