Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 58 → 47 of 47
Workday · 5 categories · RankedWorkday Recruiting
178Judge labels
16First choices
67Negative labels
14 / 14Models named it
5Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
13% in Applicant tracking syste for enterprise buyers
Rank 64 of 65 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 55% of its 20 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Workday Recruiting →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business49 of 49
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market64 of 65
0%20 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise3 of 57
13%60 labels
accepted challenger
In applicant tracking syste · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Workday Recruiting for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicant tracking systems | Talent acquisition | 0% | 64 of 65 | 55% | 20 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| AI recruiting assistants | Talent acquisition | 0% | 90 of 90 | 75% | 12 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Interview scheduling | Talent acquisition | 0% | 73 of 75 | 40% | 5 | under 10 labels · led by Calendly at 20% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Recruitment marketing and career sites | Talent acquisition | 0% | 56 of 104 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by Teamtailor at 23% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
| Recruiting CRM and sourcing | Talent acquisition | 0% | 106 of 111 | 100% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Gem at 15% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Workday Recruiting held within the floor in all five categories: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Applicant tracking syste · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 49 → 53 of 54
Enterprise▲+1Since September 2026: 12% → 13%, +1 point. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
13%from 12% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 12 pointsRank 3 of 53, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Applicant tracking syste | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 49 → 64 of 65 |
| AI recruiting assistants | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 84 → 90 of 90 |
| Interview scheduling | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 55 → 73 of 75 |
| Recruitment marketing | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 59 → 56 of 104 |
| Recruiting CRM | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 106 of 111, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Workday Recruiting across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Workday Recruiting across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct16 labelsNone
Paraphrase44 labels14
Comparative39 labels3not counted in share
Budget-constrained13 labels2
Scale-constrained11 labelsNone
Negative55 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative178 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 19 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Largest enterprise market share (~39%), deep HCM integration, global compliance | Complex, expensive, sensitive to resume formatting” Kimi K2 · Applicant tracking syste · comparative prompt · alternative
“Workday Recruiting is the enterprise default — it lives inside Workday HCM” Muse Glimmer 30B · Applicant tracking syste · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Workday or iCIMS if you are a massive global enterprise” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · comparative prompt · alternative
“Workday or iCIMS for larger, more complex environments” GPT-6 Luna · Applicant tracking syste · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Mobley v. Workday, Inc., has drawn national attention, where the plaintiff alleged that Workday's AI-powered applicant screening tools discriminated against applicants based on race, age, and disability.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“facing a collective-action lawsuit based on claims that the artificial intelligence used by the company to screen job applicants discriminated against candidates 40 years old and over” Muse Glimmer 30B · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“Be cautious with these AI recruiting tools... Workday: Faces multiple class-action lawsuits... alleging its AI screening discriminates against Black applicants” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI recruiting assistants · negative prompt · hard negative
“❌ The Worst Offenders: Workday and Oracle Taleo ... It is widely considered the most frustrating ATS for job seekers.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Applicant tracking syste · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Recruiting, over the 178 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Recruiting was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Workday Recruiting, over the 178 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Workday Recruiting was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Workday Recruiting. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 167 of the 178 answers that named Workday Recruiting and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
greenhouse.com77
lever.co72
pin.com62
darwinbox.com44
forbes.com41
gem.com36
selectsoftwarereviews.com35
skima.ai35
pinpointhq.com34
metaview.ai33
469 of the 469 domain citations in answers naming Workday Recruiting came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
Where Workday Recruiting stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.ShowHide
Search and answers
Where Workday Recruiting stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimates- Searches for its name, Google
- 390 a month (“workday recruiting”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 53 a month
- Its own site
- It sits on Workday's site (workday.com), so there are no site figures for it alone
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 64 of 65 in applicant tracking syste
Segment leader
40%
Greenhouse
- First choices
- 16 across its categories
- Named in
- 178 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 167 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Workday Recruiting
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Workday Recruiting; a claim can dispute any of them.
Workday 28Workday (AI-powered recruiting module) 1Workday Talent Acquisition 1
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The company
Workday is the company behind Workday Recruiting.ShowHide
The company
Workday is the company behind Workday Recruiting.
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Company recordsIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- une solution unifiée pour un recrutement moderne
- For
- les recruteurs et les employeurs
- Customers named
- PwCAdventHealthFerringDATEVBurlingtonJohnson ControlsJLL
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What Workday Recruiting's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: workday.com/fr-fr/topics/ai/ai-in-recruiting.html, workday.com/fr-fr/topics/hr/applicant-tracking-system.html, workday.com/fr-fr/topics/hr/applicant-tracking-software.html, workday.com/fr-fr/products/talent-management/ai-recruiting.html, workday.com/de-de/products/talent-management/ai-recruiting.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Workday Recruiting is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Workday Recruiting, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.