If your company is required to comply with EEO/OFCCP regulations, you can rely on our easy-to-use tools. We’ll help you create and deploy a fully compliant application process. You can enable EEO/OFCCP options regardless of your plan. This feature only impacts jobs that are located in the US.
Managing compliance settings
If you’re an admin for your Workable account, you can manage your EEO/OFCCP options from the Compliance section under your Settings page.
In the EEO section, open the toggles for the survey and reporting options you want to enable.
- EEO survey: covers ethnicity and gender
- OFCCP veteran self-identification section in survey: for federal contractors only
- OFCCP disability self-identification section in survey: for federal contractors only
EEO focuses specifically on ethnicity and gender. The two OFCCP settings add federally approved survey questions for federal contractors: one covers Veteran status, the other covers disability. Because they're independent, a federal contractor can invite applicants to self-identify as a protected veteran without also asking the disability question, or the other way around.
Note: If your account had OFCCP enabled before this change, both the veteran and disability settings are on by default going forward — Workable doesn't turn either one off for you. As a federal contractor, it's your decision (and your legal counsel's, not ours) whether you're still required to invite disability self-identification. The separate requirement to invite protected veteran self-identification is unchanged.
EEO Statement
Once the setting is enabled, your EEO statement will appear at the bottom of your careers page. If you wish to customize/update your EEO statement, contact us for assistance.
What applicants see
Once enabled:
- Candidates applying through the Workable application form will have the option to fill out the voluntary survey right after applying for a job located in the US. Should they decide to skip the survey, Workable will email them with a friendly reminder to come back and complete the survey at a more convenient time.
- Candidates applying through a job board (even through "easy apply" mediums) will receive the survey invitation via email. Check the full candidate experience here.
- Candidates applying through Indeed will be prompted to complete the survey during their application process. The survey questions remain optional, so candidates can submit their application without providing any answers. Candidate responses are automatically ingested and are instantly visible on the Compliance report.
👀 These questions and the available answers are written by the US government and, as such, are not editable to remain in compliance. Whichever of the settings above you have on determines which of these sections a candidate sees — if a setting is off, that section doesn't appear in the survey. In addition to the details outlined below, accompanying text appears to the candidate and provides more information and context about each section of the survey.
EEO survey
- Race or ethnicity question
- Gender question
OFCCP survey
- Veteran status question
- Disability status question
Providing a disqualification reason
When EEO/OFCCP is enabled on your account, you will be required to give a disqualification reason every time a candidate is disqualified. This will apply to all your jobs (US and non-US) and cannot be set as optional for non-US jobs.
If you need to track a reason that is not covered by the default rejection reasons, select Write another reason at the bottom of the window to enter your custom reason and select the type of rejection reason.
If you disqualify candidates in bulk, you can still select a disqualification reason, but the same reason will be applied to the entire group of candidates you selected.
Note: You can choose to automatically disqualify candidates when they answer 'No' on a Yes/No application form question. These candidates will also be assigned a corresponding reason for disqualification, for example, ‘Doesn’t have required experience’.
Detailed reporting
Disqualification reasons will be displayed in the disqualification action item within the candidate timeline. From the menu, you can edit the reason and/or note, revert, or block the candidate.
Workable tracks and records responses to the applicant surveys to provide detailed data reports. The reports are in the EEO/OFCCP reporting section on the “Reports” tab at the top of your screen.
To see the detailed results per candidate, an Admin user will have to export the data by selecting Export data per candidate to CSV in the upper right:
The exported report contains detailed information, including the candidate's name, email, position applied for, application date, gender, race, disability, and Veteran status (if provided by the candidate and if the corresponding setting is enabled), disqualification reason, and disqualification date if the candidate has been disqualified.