Workday alternative
Looking For A Workday Alternative? We Run It Instead
Managed Zoho Recruit puts your candidates, openings, career site, and interviews in one system we configure and run for you. We build your hiring process into the software, connect it to People and CRM, and keep it working as your team and your roles change.
With Cascadia you get
- We configure your real process
- Candidates who actually hear back
- Job boards that stay current
- Screening you can defend
- Your account, your data
- Connected to the rest of Zoho
The short version
Where a managed service beats running Workday alone
Every criterion you set is a decision about people, repeated hundreds of times. If it was chosen because it was easy to measure rather than because it predicts anything, that is both worse hiring and harder to justify.
What you get here
- Job Opening Templates
- Requisition Approval Workflows
- Source Tracking & Attribution
- Referral Program Setup
- Career Site Build & Branding
- Job Board Publishing
- Application Form Design
- Candidate Portal Configuration
What ships in the standard plan here
One price covers the lot. There is no upgrade tier holding a feature back.
- Job Opening Templates
- Requisition Approval Workflows
- Source Tracking & Attribution
- Referral Program Setup
- Career Site Build & Branding
- Job Board Publishing
- Application Form Design
- Candidate Portal Configuration
- Screening Question Logic
- Interview Scheduling & Feedback
What changes once we run it
An applicant tracker is a filter applied at scale, which gives it a defensibility problem most software does not have. Every criterion you set is a decision about people, repeated hundreds of times.
Candidates who actually hear back
Silence costs you the people you wanted most. We build the automation that sends status updates on a schedule, nudges interviewers sitting on feedback, and flags candidates stuck in a stage too long.
Job boards that stay current
A filled role still advertised wastes budget and your reputation.
Screening you can defend
Knockout questions only help when they filter the right people out.
Your account, your data
Nothing sits behind an agency account, so there is no export to negotiate and no leverage held over you. If you bring this back in house, it is already yours.
Who this comparison is for
Teams already running Zoho People and CRM
We connect Recruit to Zoho People so an accepted offer becomes an employee record without rekeying, tie it to CRM, and report across hiring and the rest of the business from one place.
Companies hiring out of a shared inbox
Resumes in an inbox work until two people are hiring at once and nobody knows who replied.
Staffing and recruiting agencies
Agencies run two pipelines, candidates and clients, and most tools handle only one of them well.
How our managed Zoho Recruit service works
Whether you are moving off a shared inbox or inheriting a Zoho Recruit account somebody configured two years ago, the sequence is the same. We get the candidate data and the daily pipeline right first, then sourcing and screening, then everything else.
- 1
We assess your current setup
First we look at how things run today: what you already pay for, what is configured where, and which parts are actually causing you trouble.
- 2
We audit and load your candidate data
We check the result against your own records before your recruiters rely on it, because a pipeline that quietly lost last quarter’s shortlist costs more than the migration saved.
- 3
We build the pipelines and workflows
We test each one on a live role, then connect your career site and job boards so applications arrive in the right place.
- 4
We keep it correct as you change
From there you get the ongoing work, meaning new roles and pipelines configured when you need them, job board channels kept current, automation adjusted as your process shifts, integrations checked each cycle, and a monthly summary of time to hire, source performance, and anything still open.
What clients say about working with Cascadia
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“I’ve worked with Cascadia for several years now. They are always ready to help in any way I ask and can implement my ideas with ease. A company that values their clients!”
“Cascadia has been great to work with! We recently needed some updates, and Cascadia was quick to get them completed! We highly recommend Cascadia Web Services.”
“Cascadia is very responsive and we’re happy with them as our primary IT vendor.”
“They do great work, been using for years. Prompt responses to requests.”
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Workday alternative questions
Straight answers about switching, pricing, and what moves with you.
See Managed Zoho RecruitWe already use Workday. What changes here?
What changes is that candidates actually hear back. We build the automation that sends status updates on a schedule, nudges interviewers sitting on feedback, and flags candidates stuck in a stage too long. Your recruiters stop spending mornings on follow up that a rule can handle without them.
Should we get Zoho One instead?
If Recruit is the only Zoho app you run, the standalone plan is the cheaper choice. Once you are on three or four apps, managed Zoho One usually costs less than stacking individual plans and gets everything managed together, which matters because most Recruit problems turn out to be People or CRM problems. We flag that when your usage crosses the line rather than waiting for you to ask.
What is managed Zoho Recruit?
Managed Zoho Recruit is a subscription where we run your Zoho Recruit applicant tracking system for you at a flat monthly rate. That covers the initial configuration, your candidate database, hiring pipelines, career site, job board publishing, screening rules, interview scheduling, and offer workflows, plus the ongoing changes as your hiring process shifts. You get an ATS configured properly and kept correct without hiring somebody to administer it.
What does Zoho Recruit actually do?
Zoho Recruit is Zoho’s applicant tracking system. It holds your candidate database and resumes, manages job openings and requisitions, publishes to your career site and job boards, parses applications, runs screening and assessments, schedules interviews and collects structured feedback, handles offers and e-signature, and reports on your hiring funnel. It works for internal HR teams and for staffing agencies managing clients alongside candidates.
How long does setup take?
Most clients are hiring through the system within three to four weeks. The first week covers the audit, the candidate and job data migration, and the pipeline structure. The second and third cover your career site, job board connections, screening rules, and interview workflows. Complex setups, especially staffing agencies running client side pipelines too, can take longer, and we tell you that before you sign rather than after.
Can you migrate candidates from our current ATS?
Yes. We migrate candidate records, resumes, application history, and job openings from most systems, including Bullhorn, Workable, Greenhouse, Lever, and spreadsheets. We map your existing stages to the new pipeline so history is preserved rather than everyone landing in a single default stage. We check the result against your own numbers before your recruiters start working in the new system.
Do you build our career site?
Yes. We build the Zoho Recruit career site, match it to your brand, structure the job listings, connect it to a subdomain of your own site, and set up the application forms. The goal is an apply flow short enough that qualified candidates finish it on a phone. If you want the careers page built into your main website instead, we can discuss that as separate development work.
Which job boards can you publish to?
Zoho Recruit connects to the major boards including Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, and Monster, alongside free and premium posting options that vary by region. We configure the channels you actually pay for, set the publishing rules so a single opening reaches all of them, and make sure closing a role pulls the listings down instead of leaving stale ads running.
Does this work for staffing and recruiting agencies?
Yes, and agencies are where Recruit is strongest. We configure the client and contact side alongside candidates, set up client specific pipelines and submission workflows, connect it to Zoho CRM where your sales team works, and build the reporting that shows placements and revenue by client. Zoho Recruit has a staffing agency edition and we set up whichever edition fits your model.