SmartRecruiters is an ATS Worth Investigating
Updated April 22, 2021
SmartRecruiters is an ATS Worth Investigating
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Corporate
Overall Satisfaction with SmartRecruiters
We use SmartRecruiters company wide for internal and external hires. It allows all communication and documentation to be tracked in a single place, which makes reporting and processing simpler. Having a single platform with workflows and templates also assures consistency and quality control, not to mention enforcement of legal and compliance matters.
- Organization - SmartRecruiters is not so busy that I cannot easily tell what I am looking at. Everything is easy to navigate and follow intuitively.
- Workflow - SmartRecruiters allows me to set up logical connections to automate subsequent fields in job creation. This aids in accuracy of job creation to match our payroll system, plus makes the process of creating a new requisition/ad faster.
- Approvals - Approvals of job requisitions and offers could not be simpler.
- Customization - There is very little that cannot be customized and/or branded to fit my organization's needs, including connecting to my other business platforms.
- Reporting - There are several fields that are not easily reported on in SmartRecruiters. They have made some significant improvements, but there are still inaccessible fields in the reporting tool that would help me avoid using another service to build my reports.
- Posting Partners - SmartRecruiters has made recent changes in their contracts with high visibility platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed which may not fit with what I am trying to do or what I have done in the past.
- Offer Templates - Creating a good looking offer template that goes to the recipient exactly the way it looks when I built it is nearly impossible. The import mechanism only accepts .doc (but really wants a .doc created in LibreOffice if you want spacing and paragraphing to work perfectly). In short, there is a lot of guessing to getting offer letters just right, unless you want a plain text offer letter (and who does?).
- SmartRecruiters has unified the approach of my recruiting team, so everyone is processing their jobs the same way, which gives me the confidence that my payroll system will be loaded correctly.
- SmartRecruiters has offered me integrations with electronic signatures, background checks, and job boards so that I don't have to manage multiple platforms to see recruitment/hiring information.
- SmartRecruiters has given me the ability to see at-a-glance how we are doing in recruiting and our application volume to see how well our efforts are working.
SmartRecruiters was a good fit at the time of purchase. The price was competitive and the features were exactly what we needed to move as a blended company with multiple locations, brand names, and a large employee base. The company really did a good job of helping us get things setup as smoothly as possible. I can't blast other companies because either they weren't on our radar at the time or just weren't a good fit. Every ATS does something a little differently. SmartRecruiters was the best fit for us.
Do you think SmartRecruiters delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with SmartRecruiters's feature set?
Yes
Did SmartRecruiters live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of SmartRecruiters go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy SmartRecruiters again?
Yes
SmartRecruiters Feature Ratings
Integrating SmartRecruiters
Yes, we've integrated SmartRecruiters with our HR System. - ADP Vantage
We were able to maintain current company data (employees, departments, job information, etc) in SmartRecruiters through a daily feed from ADP to SmartRecruiters.
We were also able to automate a large portion of our ADP onboarding processes by a daily feed of hiring activity from SmartRecruiters to ADP.
We were also able to automate a large portion of our ADP onboarding processes by a daily feed of hiring activity from SmartRecruiters to ADP.
We used the connections to the aggregates, but also to recruiting boards for paid ad placements. We also setup integration with background check services and electronic signatures.