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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    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
    Pricing
    CareerPlugLever
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CareerPlugLever
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    CareerPlugLever
    Considered Both Products
    CareerPlug
    No answer on this topic
    Employ Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    7 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    7 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    CareerPlugLever
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of CareerPlug and Lever
    Feature
    CareerPlug
    8.1
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Lever
    9.7
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Job Requisition Management8.57 Ratings9.831 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.97 Ratings9.831 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media7.37 Ratings9.821 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting8.57 Ratings9.823 Ratings
    Customized Application Form7.97 Ratings9.829 Ratings
    Candidate Search8.27 Ratings9.833 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking8.27 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Collaboration8.26 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Email Templates8.27 Ratings8.928 Ratings
    User Permissions7.97 Ratings8.931 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts8.27 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Reporting8.27 Ratings9.830 Ratings
    Resume Management00 Ratings9.832 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings9.830 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings9.822 Ratings
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    CareerPlugLever
    Small Businesses
    Crelate
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Crelate
    Score9.1 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CareerPlugLever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    9.8
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CareerPlugLever
    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.
    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.
    • 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.
    • [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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    Usability
    CareerPlug
    No answers on this topic
    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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    Support Rating
    CareerPlug
    No answers on this topic
    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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    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.
    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.
    • 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

    Lever Screenshots

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