Accurate Background vs. Employee Advocacy by Sprout Social

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Accurate Background
Score 6.8 out of 10
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Accurate Background is a provider of compliant, automated workforce screening solutions. The vendor states that over 16,000 global organizations trust them to mitigate risk, reduce cost, and deliver a positive candidate screening experience. The vendor further states that their full suite of compliant screening services lets users verify candidate backgrounds without sacrificing individualized attention or cutting corners. The technology is designed to reduce time…N/A
Employee Advocacy by Sprout Social
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Employee Advocacy by Sprout Social (formerly Bambu) is a social media marketing tool that leverages employee advocacy. Users can distribute company blog posts, press releases, news and articles, thought leadership, and customer case studies through employees' personal social networks.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Accurate BackgroundEmployee Advocacy by Sprout Social
Likelihood to Recommend
6.0
(5 ratings)
8.1
(8 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Accurate Background
Very well suited for our company because of their pricing, reliability, speed, detail, and user experience. I don't think there are any scenarios where Accurate wouldn't work for a business
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Sprout Social
It's a good fit for our recruiters because they are always looking for good info about our organization to share. It's a small but engaged group that takes advantage of having a niche topic and team. It also works well for huge company news, such as winning an award. Items that all employees know about and a large percentage of them are excited about perform best. Niche topics that are only relevant to one or a few small teams don't perform as well because employees not involved in that work are less likely to share.
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Pros
Accurate Background
  • Customer service
  • Accuracy
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Sprout Social
  • Scheduling out content / shares for the week
  • Providing a quick glance leaderboard of top content shares across departments
  • Easy to learn and leverage user interface (UI)
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Cons
Accurate Background
  • The screening process on the US side took 4+ months to be implemented even though there was no specific request or difficulty on our side: we have a very basic need that Accurate Background is supposed to be implementing easily.
  • Twice in the past Accurate Background's reports have shown blank records ... for people with a criminal history.
  • I receive on a regular basis from Accurate services emails asking for more information. But sometimes this email is not for me but for the candidate. And you never know what complementary information is required. You just receive an email stating "we need more information". You have to chase them to know what they need.
  • I have recently received a message stating that a search is complete. When you open the record, you realize the search has been abandoned. There is a sentence at the end of it stating that you have received an email from their services.... when you have received nothing.
  • All the above shows that there is minimum interaction with real people from their services, that their automatic messages are not complete nor accurate, and that their search results just cannot be trusted.
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Sprout Social
  • Sprout to Bambu integration is not what was depicted in trial and is not used because of this
  • Missing functionality: LinkedIn tagging
  • Missing functionality: posting videos
  • Missing functionality: posting something without a link. Example: picture from an event or community outreach
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Likelihood to Renew
Accurate Background
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Sprout Social
The program has given some early wins, and there are very active employees who have truly integrated sharing from Employee Advocacy by Sprout Social into their regular social media activity. It would be a huge lift to migrate people to a different platform. While we'd love to grow our program, there's already enough value to justify keeping an employee advocacy program.
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Usability
Accurate Background
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Sprout Social
It's fairly user friendly when it's working correctly. There are more instances of bugs and glitches compared to other tools, including Sprout Social's primary platform. There's also an exception for Facebook personal profiles where that is more clunky to share on compared to LinkedIn, X or even Facebook Business Pages. I'd also like more customization around photo formats/sizes and email templates. Despite those negatives, the end user can share quickly and easily, which is vital to sustaining user participation. Facebook can be clunky, but most of our employees share on LinkedIn, which is quick, easy and smooth.
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Alternatives Considered
Accurate Background
Accurate is much better. The most thorough background check company I have ever used.
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Sprout Social
It was similar in that it helped us push prewritten messages out to our team, but the UX/UI was far more dated and not as intuitive. It's mobile app also wasn't very useful; made it difficult to edit messages and would constantly need you to log back in. The two things GaggleAMP had over Bambu however was more comprehensive analytics and the ability to automatically push out social posts
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Return on Investment
Accurate Background
  • Our turn around time has decreased by half as far as complete background checks are concerned. This allows us to keep our candidates and improve their experience.
  • We averaged a savings of over $2,000/year thanks to Accurate's ability to create customized packages.
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Sprout Social
  • Positive returns -- sharing our brand and enabling our employees to share and tell their stories, ultimately helping them reach their own goals.
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