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    CareerPlug

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ACareerPlug is a software company that helps companies across the U.S. and Canada to attract and hire the right people. Their hiring software works for non-HR people so every owner, operator, and hiring manager can make the right hires for their team. Headquartered in Austin, CareerPlug provides a playbook on How to Hire, making it easier to access best practices, and automating the process so users can focus on making the right hire.N/A

    Jobvite

    Score7 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Jobvite is a full recruiting platform. It provides features across the recruiting funnel - from sourcing and managing candidates via CRM and managing workflows to communicating with hiring managers and reporting through custom dashboards and reports.N/A

    Lever

    Score9.8 out of 10
    N/ALever is a Talent Acquisition Suite designed to help talent teams to reach their hiring goals and to connect companies with top talent. Lever provides ATS and applicant CRM capabilities, in LeverTRM. The Lever Hire and Lever Nurture features allow leaders to grow their people pipeline, build long-lasting relationships, and source the right people. Lever Analytics provides customized reports with data visualization, see offers completed and interview feedback, and it informs strategic decisions…N/A
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    Considered Multiple Products
    CareerPlug
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    Employ Inc.
    Chose Jobvite
    We found Jobvite to be more user friendly and it had everything we were looking for (including text, video, and onboarding).
    Incentivized
    Chose Jobvite
    Jobvite provides a great solution that uses every function a recruiter needs, while not necessarily providing hidden fields and values that would create more of a rabbit hole. All the information for hiring managers is available to them via a one-click email rather than …
    Incentivized
    Employ Inc.
    Chose Lever
    If your organization is rapidly growing it can be easy to outgrow a platform like Workable. It all really depends on what your company goals and objectives are for the year / near future. Workable is great for small businesses with a few job openings but as your organization …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    That's a tall order to ask. It's the latest generation ATS and seemed easier to configure than Greenhouse. SmartRecruiter didn't appear to have the reporting we wanted. In comparison to Taleo and Brassring it is superlative. It is definitely clear that they spoke to actual …
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    CareerPlugJobviteLever
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of CareerPlug and Jobvite and Lever
    Feature
    CareerPlug
    8.1
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Jobvite
    7.6
    64 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Lever
    9.7
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Job Requisition Management8.57 Ratings9.061 Ratings9.831 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.97 Ratings8.07 Ratings9.831 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.37 Ratings9.762 Ratings9.821 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting8.57 Ratings8.061 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Customized Application Form7.97 Ratings9.061 Ratings9.829 Ratings
    Candidate Search8.27 Ratings6.063 Ratings9.833 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking8.27 Ratings8.063 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Collaboration8.26 Ratings8.058 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Email Templates8.27 Ratings8.061 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    User Permissions7.97 Ratings8.062 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts8.27 Ratings7.061 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Reporting8.27 Ratings7.059 Ratings9.830 Ratings
    Resume Management00 Ratings7.062 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings5.058 Ratings9.830 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings7.050 Ratings9.822 Ratings
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    Crelate
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    Medium-sized Companies
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    CareerSiteBuilder
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    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CareerPlugJobviteLever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    8.0
    (91 ratings)
    9.8
    (35 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.9
    (22 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    -
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    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Performance
    -
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    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    Support Rating
    -
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    6.8
    (49 ratings)
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    CareerPlugJobviteLever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CareerPlug
    If you're looking to hire but don't want to have it be an all consuming portion of your job, CareerPlug is great! The automation behind it has been so helpful to us
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    Employ Inc.
    Jobvite was very useful when used to onboard our new hires. Being a Human capital management company, we hire many individuals on a weekly basis so it helps us keep all of the paperwork organized and prevent any accidents when managing all of the data. Sometimes it does pose a problem for those who are not technologically savvy.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    I think Lever is great for any sized company, but especially strong for smaller, growing teams. It's a very simple system, but clean, sleek, and very useful in any scenario. They have great support whenever you need it so those with smaller HR or People teams could easily benefit from their help. Can't think of too many scenarios where Lever wouldn't be well-suited, but maybe once you grow to International growth and hiring, it may be better to have a more Enterprise style business, set up for larger scaling.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    CareerPlug
    • Posting jobs to multiple job boards
    • Sending candidate communications through the interviewing/hiring process
    • Saving and managing job templates
    • Customizing the interview/hiring process
    • Providing reporting and data
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    Employ Inc.
    • Workflow- I love that you can immediately see where in the process a candidate is.
    • Dashboard- The customization and overall feel of the site.
    • Feed- The fact that you can see the feed from the candidates other applications is a plus.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    • Great integration: Keeps a list of Outlook email communication along with LinkedIn and other data sources
    • Is fairly lively, not too much lag between screens even though it is looking through a lot of data.
    • Has excellent reporting on how well each email message is working.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    CareerPlug
    • CareerPlug should have a training manual.
    • There should be an easier way to add leaves and incentives
    • Interface should be more precise.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    • Custom fields--custom fields do not follow the candidate from hire to onboarding. This is problematic because we then have to recreate on the onboarding side to then import into our HRIS.
    • Onboarding picklists are time-consuming to populate. We have to enter options one at a time, rather than being able to do an import. Also, field mapping on Hire is a lot easier than having to set up tags on option sets in onboarding.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    • [In my experience,] terrible customer support - pay more to get less...
    • Integrations are spotty and can break without reason
    • Lever has so much potential, but their Roadmap is lacking in ways that will really help customers succeed
    • Focuses on the number of candidates and not the company's need to build talent in a cost effective, data driven and collaborative way
    • Overpromised and underdelivered in [the] capability of the tool. [I believe that you should] not trust your sales team.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CareerPlug
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    If I were to become an internal recruiter again, I would almost definitely use Jobvite. I liked the fact that we could set up any job application link on our company web site to connect directly to Jobvite. I also liked that Jobvite made employee referral easy to submit, as employee referrals tend to be the highest quality candidates. Jobvite really has all the tools a recruiter needs to get a candidate through a recruiting process quickly without anything slipping through the cracks. Even though there are a lot of features I feel can be greatly improved, I don't think there is anything on the market today that is better than Jobvite
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    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    CareerPlug
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    Employ Inc.
    After using varios ATS's in the past, I have found most comfort and ease using jobvite. This tool has made the hiring process so easy to manage and just the fact that it is not complicated to use, makes it even better
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    It isn't difficult to use for the applicant processing, but [I feel] if you want to pull reports or use their tools, good luck!
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    Reliability and Availability
    CareerPlug
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    No issues (especially compared to ADP).
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    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    CareerPlug
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    Support used to be better. In the last few years, though, I feel like there has been significantly less investment in customer service. We used to have account managers who were very visible and always checking in. Also, there used to be a phone number to get around-the-clock support. I am not sure that that exists at the quality it used to
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    What support? - Add a ticket and get links to [I believe] their unhelpful user guide. Add a charge if you want better support - afterward just got those links faster...
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    Online Training
    CareerPlug
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    Had phone training. Lots of webinars. Generally pretty good. Not enough time to learn. User community exists, but haven’t used.
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    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    CareerPlug
    No answers on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    It forces you to evaluate your own business process.

    The software lets you re-engineer things
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    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    CareerPlug
    CareerPlug is cost efficient as compared to the other HR software. its easy to use and it can handle a lot more then other referred software.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    Before implementing Jobvite, we had iCIMS and Kronos Workforce Ready. Neither of these products got us where we wanted to be with metrics, candidate experience, or technology. I'm sure since we left them they have updated, but we are much happier with Jobvite than others. In the process of searching for a new ATS, we attended demonstrations of 9 other applicant tracking systems and were most impressed with Jobvite.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    Lever is comparable to Greenhouse in its basic recruiting functions. I have found it to be WAY better than Bullhorn (clunky and overly-complicated with a very dated and non-intuitive interface) and Jazz HR (slick and pretty, but limited in its functions). The best ATS I've used is the proprietary tool at Meta, but alas, that tool is for internal use only
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    CareerPlug
    • Increased quality candidates by 100%
    • Reduced monthly recruiting cost by 75%
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    Employ Inc.
    • Reporting - we had none before other than manually tracking things in excel documents, now we have a full suite of reports and dashboards we can customize.
    • Interview Scheduling - With the candidate self-scheduling feature, we can now schedule interviews in a matter of seconds while also automating the candidate confirmation email and the calendar invites.
    • More detailed source tracking than I have seen in any other product allowing full visibility on who we hire, where they came from and we can now analyze our sources.
    Incentivized
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    Employ Inc.
    • Lever provides an enormous ROI by getting us in front of the right candidates that are going to make us more money and more successful as an org.
    • I think that both the quality and quantity of new hires has gone up ever since we started using lever and involving the entire org in the process.
    • It also saves us a lot of time because we don't need to send referrals via email, while saving/attaching resumes and such.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    CareerPlug Screenshots

    Screenshot of Additional Job SharingScreenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Job DistributionScreenshot of Job IndexScreenshot of Job PostingScreenshot of Text Messaging

    Jobvite Screenshots

    Screenshot of where Jobvite centralizes onboarding activity, to standardize processes and seamlessly transition candidates, with the goal of providing them the best experience.Screenshot of the relevant, targeted content and job search appearing on a Jobvite career site, that helps to attract job seekers and make compelling first impressions.Screenshot of the relevant, targeted content and job search appearing on a Jobvite career site, that helps to attract job seekers and make compelling first impressions.

    Lever Screenshots

    Screenshot of where to identify the top origin and sources of candidates in all stages, the Offer stage, and the Hired stage.