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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AThe former Luceo is now the CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking system. Luceo was originally Profilsoft, a French company, but was bought by Careerbuilder and rebranded Luceo, featured at over 400 companies worldwide. Luceo presented a full suite of features typical of applicant tracking systems: a user-friendly interface with mobile integration and an emphasis on the candidate's perspective, batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels such as email or by…N/A

    Hire by Google (discontinued)

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AHire, by Google, was a recruiting app for G suite customers. The product includes functionality for applicant tracking, candidate relationship management, and candidate sourcing. Google sunsetted the product in late 2020.N/A
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
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    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
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    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking and Hire by Google (discontinued)
    Feature
    CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking
    7.3
    3 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Hire by Google (discontinued)
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Job Requisition Management7.02 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Company Website Posting5.02 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting7.03 Ratings1.01 Ratings
    Customized Application Form7.02 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Resume Management9.02 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Search5.03 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking6.53 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Collaboration9.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates7.02 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    User Permissions9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts9.02 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Reporting7.53 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
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    User Testimonials
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    CareerBuilder
    Great for a small company that doesn't have a lot of resources. Allows manager and HR to be on the same location to review resumes and assess them. Alerts can be sent to managers all in the system. I really like the product so don't know where it would be less appropriated if you really needed a ATS
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    Google Hire is very good at doing the basics well. I believe for most internal HR departments at small companies, this is all you need. It also works well for small to medium-sized staffing companies that just want something reliable and easy to use. What Google Hire doesn't do very well is be flexible. They don't have custom options, they don't have a ton of settings, and their development cycle is slow. As a result, it's pretty much what you see is what you get.
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    Pros
    CareerBuilder
    • Easy user face.
    • Easy to learn.
    • Easy to work with, always helpful.
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    • Google does search well so when I search through our database for candidates, I'm confident that I'm pulling up all the right people from what we have.
    • They have a modern and nice user interface - this is one of the biggest reasons to use it over other systems, as most ATS' are pretty ancient looking and not very pleasant to use.
    • Their support is very good at answering and addressing questions.
    • Their pricing is incredible. I'm sure at some point it will change, but for small companies paying 100+ per user for other ATS' - it's incredible to pay 100/month for the whole company.
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    Cons
    CareerBuilder
    • Search tool has limits. You can key word search, and that is about it.
    • When reading a resume for one job respondent in a requisition, I would like to stay in that same viewing mode when jumping to the next candidate with less clicks!
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    • Despite many many months of requests, Google still hasn't implemented ANY custom fields. This makes it tough for an external recruiting firm to track what they want (most importantly: desired salary).
    • The job board integration is not great for external recruiters, mostly at the fault of Indeed. Indeed flagged us as a recruiting firm and so none of our jobs actually go live. While I know this is an Indeed problem (we had the same problem when using Bullhorn), Breezy ATS never has that problem for us so I don't know what they're doing differently.
    • Their development cycles are quite frankly very slow. I've requested some features, and while support is great about telling me it's coming or in the pipeline, I honestly don't really see a difference in the product since we started using it. It's still great to use, and we still love the software, but there haven't been too many visible improvements that make any difference to our work.
    • Being Google, it can sometimes be frustrating that one arm doesn't talk to the other. For example, they announced a Gmail for Works App/Extension integration, but for some reason when they launched it, admins of a domain couldn't install it. Google Hire pointed to the Google for Works team, and it took literally months to fix. Not the end of the world, but just very silly considering they're the same company.
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    CareerBuilder
    Didn't always get good resumes from Monster. CareerBuilder Applicant Tracking allowed us to get resumes and track all in one place which was very helpful for the project we were working on at the time. Resumes were good as well as system itself. The managers all like it as well which is a big help when you want their buy in to a product to use.
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    I picked Google Hire after spending about 3 months on Bullhorn. I found Bullhorn to be terrible. It's WAY more customizable and theoretically powerful, but it's also a pain to set up and maintain. Even just getting your job page set up on your own site required tech support. Getting it eventually to what you want could be a great benefit, but Google Hire does great right out of the box and is a lot cheaper. Breezy HR is a great system. It's a bit more expensive than Google Hire for multiple job postings, but their system is equally easy to use and straight forward. However, we are all in on Google Products, so it was just a no brainer to go with Hire for a better price and most likely a better search function.
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    Return on Investment
    CareerBuilder
    • Negative-ROI.
    • Positive - brand awareness
    • Positive - templates
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    • Google Hire makes, unfortunately, a very little impact on our ROI, but I think in the ATS world that's a good thing. It simply acts as a record that we can put everything in and easily reference, and the fact that it works overall makes it a positive software product in the long run.
    • While the search works great, I don't know that I've ever specifically found a candidate and placed them due to it. That could be a result of our job reqs though.
    • The biggest most obvious impact is really just the price. We needed a tool that does what Google Hire does, reliably. Most other companies charge at least 150 or so for 2 people, whereas Google Hire is 100/month for many users. It gives us flexibility for the future and helps minimize what could be a big expense. That definitely helps our bottom line.
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