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Workable is localizing hard while its hiring agent quietly gets adjustable.

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◆Current state
Two threads dominate. Localization is being pushed on both sides at once: the interface now ships in French, Canadian French, Danish and Dutch, and candidate-facing language kits expanded from five languages to nine. The other thread is the Workable Agent, generally available in June to run sourcing, screening and qualification against an ideal candidate profile, and now editable — teams can rewrite criteria, add or remove must-haves, and re-evaluate an existing pipeline against the revised profile at one credit per candidate.
◆Where it's heading
The Agent has moved from launch to operability in two months: the interesting release was not making it autonomous but letting a recruiter change its mind and replay the pipeline. That, plus credit-metered re-evaluation, tells you Workable is selling agent output as something to be corrected rather than trusted outright. Around it the platform keeps widening past the ATS — employee surveys, headcount reporting, entity-scoped HR admin — which is the HRIS build-out competing for the same seat. Localization serves both, and is the cheapest way to reach markets where an English-only ATS was disqualifying.
◆Prediction
Mobile app localization is stated as coming, and the language-kit and interface lists will likely converge. On the Agent, per-criterion transparency — why a candidate scored as they did — is the natural follow-on to letting teams edit the criteria.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Engage candidates in their native language

    Candidate-facing language kits go from five languages to nine, adding Latin American Spanish, Canadian French, Danish and Dutch. It mirrors the interface localization shipped six days earlier — recruiters and candidates being brought to parity in the same push.

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  2. 7d ago

    Workable now speaks French, Danish, and Dutch

    The Workable interface itself becomes available in French, Canadian French, Danish and Dutch, switchable per user and auto-selected from browser language for new accounts. Included at no extra cost, with mobile still pending.

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  3. 14d ago

    Edit the Ideal Candidate Profile and re-evaluate your pipeline

    The Ideal Candidate Profile driving the Agent's decisions becomes fully editable, with manual and bulk re-evaluation of existing candidates and refreshed auto-advance and auto-disqualify calls. Recent candidates re-evaluate free, older ones cost a credit each — the correction path for an agent that got the brief wrong.

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  4. 23d ago

    Assign HR access to specific entities and departments

    HR team members can hold admin permissions scoped to particular entities, locations or departments while keeping their normal role elsewhere. The delegation model multinational HR teams need before they will consolidate employee data in one system.

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  5. 26d ago

    Select all matching jobs in one click in the candidate database

    Candidate database filters gain a select-all for every job matching a search term, across pinned, active and archived jobs, with the selection saved in the URL. Aimed squarely at rediscovering past applicants for roles a company hires repeatedly.

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  6. 1mo ago

    30+ new tools in the Workable MCP server

    The MCP server gains 30-plus tools: field-aware advanced search across candidates and employees, the full performance review lifecycle, member management, and document retrieval. It gives an outside agent much of what the Workable Agent operates on internally, which is a notable amount of surface to expose.

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