CareerPlug vs. Trakstar Hire

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CareerPlug
Score 8.1 out of 10
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CareerPlug 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
Trakstar Hire
Score 7.4 out of 10
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Trakstar Hire (formerly RecruiterBox) is a cloud-based ATS boasting a suite of features: a centralized candidate database, batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels such as email or by leveraging its integration with social networking sites (e.g. LinkedIn), instantaneous posting to multiple job boards, a customizable career page, resume parsing and bulk uploading, and customizable applications including questionnaires. Feedback sharing is facilitated by allowing…N/A
Pricing
CareerPlugTrakstar Hire
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CareerPlugTrakstar Hire
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
CareerPlugTrakstar Hire
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
CareerPlug
8.1
7 Ratings
1% above category average
Trakstar Hire
8.5
11 Ratings
6% above category average
Job Requisition Management8.57 Ratings8.410 Ratings
Company Website Posting7.97 Ratings9.29 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.37 Ratings7.47 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting8.57 Ratings7.58 Ratings
Customized Application Form7.97 Ratings7.110 Ratings
Candidate Search8.27 Ratings8.510 Ratings
Applicant Tracking8.27 Ratings9.411 Ratings
Collaboration8.26 Ratings9.410 Ratings
Email Templates8.27 Ratings9.111 Ratings
User Permissions7.97 Ratings8.611 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts8.27 Ratings9.410 Ratings
Reporting8.27 Ratings9.77 Ratings
Resume Management00 Ratings8.810 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.811 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings7.88 Ratings
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User Ratings
CareerPlugTrakstar Hire
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(7 ratings)
8.8
(11 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
CareerPlugTrakstar Hire
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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Mitratech
Before, it was a nightmare of spreadsheets, email templates, and needless to say, many many applicants fell through the cracks or left with a bad impression of our firm due to the poor communication. With Trakstar, we're able to easily track where every applicant is in the funnel, collect information on how they are doing, and manage the whole communication process. I love being able to work in both Gmail and in their software and I love how it tracks the conversations so that I can easily go back and review where things are with any given applicant. That said, the product is more geared toward someone that is hiring for one person per role. We make it work, but there is a lot of functionality that doesn't get used because of that
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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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Mitratech
  • You can create your own fully customized job board, so that you have indefinite openings for different types of jobs, and so that all interested parties can apply to meet certain openings. This is an excellent way to organize each candidate from the beginning.
  • Recruiterbox lets us program our own workflows within the platform, which are useful to better define the work organization that must be in place for all recruiting processes to meet the right requirements, and this is reflected in improved reporting.
  • The platform automatically creates analyses based on the resumes of each candidate, so that, depending on each resume, they are shown offers that are fully compatible with their type of employee and their previous work operations.
  • We like the customer service offered by Recruiterbox, which has been able to meet our employment needs in a short time and in a mostly accurate way. Thanks to this, we were able to solve the usage error we had with the platform and our current results are much more profitable in terms of analytics of recruitment operations.
  • Recruiterbox is an exemplary service in terms of usability mechanics, with an extraordinary ease of application and a deployment that allows us to work on different platforms without any usability problems or labor errors, as with most human talent services nowadays.
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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.
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Mitratech
  • The interface isn't dazzling. But it's clean. Perhaps there's some opportunity to sexy up the UI.
  • The labeling was a bit awkward, and doesn't work so cleanly when you forward a candidate to the data store, via the application email. For example, you can add the candidate manually using the web-based UI, or you can forward an application from your email client to an email alias. Also, the conversion from email-to-"creation of candidate profile" was not entirely great. But it was close enough to get the name logged in there. You just have to properly label and format the profile later, if you want the candidate repository to be well sorted and easily searchable.
  • You cannot transfer jobs from one account to another. What I mean by this is: If you have multiple organizations within a single tenant, you can move the position within that tenant. But let's say you and a colleague signed up separately, and want to merge candidate databases and job settings. It's a no go. You'll have to do a bulk import. Which kind worked out to be an imperfect migration for us.
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Likelihood to Renew
CareerPlug
No answers on this topic
Mitratech
We have not renewed our subscription for Recruiterbox. Although it is a great platform with great customer service, it does not have the functionality our company needs to be able to scale and there weren't plans to develop that functionality soon.
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Usability
CareerPlug
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Mitratech
Recruiterbox is extremely easy to use and to learn. The only function that is difficult to use, even once you have the hang of the system, is reporting.
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Support Rating
CareerPlug
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Mitratech
The customer service has always been fantastic. We were always taken care of and no issue or problem went unsolved.
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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.
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Mitratech
Recruiterbox does not have as many features as other products I have used, however I would rate it very strong for ease of use. If you need something simple & out of the box, I had no complaints. I also experienced very few, if any, bugs while using the product.
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Return on Investment
CareerPlug
  • Increased quality candidates by 100%
  • Reduced monthly recruiting cost by 75%
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Mitratech
  • By automatically managing the recruitment process, the tool frees up the working time of different employees, which is reflected in efficiency and performance in the working day.
  • The use of Recruiterbox allowed us to generate fewer expenses in paperwork or recruitment systems, which is specifically noticeable in accounting.
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ScreenShots

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