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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    CareerSiteBuilder

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AN/AN/A

    Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)

    Score4 out of 10
    N/ALumesse was a talent management suite. Its core functionality is in recruiting and applicant tracking. Lumesse also offers other recruiting features, as well as onboarding and analytics capabilities. It was acquired by Saba and is no longer available.N/A
    Pricing
    CareerSiteBuilderLumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CareerSiteBuilderLumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Features
    CareerSiteBuilderLumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of CareerSiteBuilder and Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Feature
    CareerSiteBuilder
    7.7
    3 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Job Requisition Management5.73 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Company Website Posting7.93 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media8.73 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting8.73 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Customized Application Form7.92 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Resume Management8.73 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention5.83 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Search7.53 Ratings5.01 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking7.23 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Collaboration7.33 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation7.23 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Email Templates8.53 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    User Permissions6.73 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts9.03 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Reporting7.93 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of CareerSiteBuilder and Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Feature
    CareerSiteBuilder
    -
    Ratings
    Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    7.0
    2 Ratings
    4% below category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of CareerSiteBuilder and Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Feature
    CareerSiteBuilder
    -
    Ratings
    Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    7.0
    1 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of CareerSiteBuilder and Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Feature
    CareerSiteBuilder
    -
    Ratings
    Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    7.3
    1 Ratings
    6% above category average
    Review status tracking00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of CareerSiteBuilder and Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Feature
    CareerSiteBuilder
    -
    Ratings
    Lumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    6.3
    1 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings5.01 Ratings
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    Score9.1 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CareerSiteBuilderLumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (3 ratings)
    6.7
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    3.3
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CareerSiteBuilderLumesse TalentLink (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    CareerSiteBuilder
    If you have a job opening or a high turn around rate like we do. (we are a staffing company) [CareerSiteBuilder] is a great place to to start. It is affordable and reaches hundreds of potential employees. When you search resumes sometimes when you enter keywords you have to play around with it to find the right phrasing. Its not difficult just time consuming.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Lumesse is well suited for global companies, that are not too large and may get enough attention/support from other larger vendors.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    CareerSiteBuilder
    • Search features.
    • Quantity of resumes.
    • The format that the candidates information is presented.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • It has open text boxes to add notes, on the individual candidate home page. Which is helpful when making a quick look at an individual, these notes are very obvious.
    • It has a search function; however it lacks a wild card (*); so if a req or candidate are spelled differently or referred to differently, there is no way to find them
    • Its a simple, no frills lay out
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    Cons
    CareerSiteBuilder
    • There are some missing functionalities that could be addressed such as fusing resume search and recruitment edge.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • I have found the system to be very inconsistent and "buggy", for lack of a better term. Today I searched for an internal requisition number and the system could not find the data. I found it by scrolling through manually, and verified that I had entered the information precisely as it appeared. There seems to be no explanation as to why it could not locate this particular entry, but I have been able to use the function without a problem in other instances.
    • The navigation is not intuitive or user-friendly. It takes an exorbitant amount of clicks to accomplish a task. Each action is confusing and time-consuming.
    • The system requires a large amount of redundant information in order to enter a job and does not auto-populate. If I indicate a position is located in Chicago, it would logically follow that the state is "Illinois", the country is "United States", and the currency is "USD". I have to manually input these details in both the requisition as well as the separate job advertisement page.
    • Changes to the job requisition are not reflected in the job advertisement, as they are separate entities. If you need to make a change, you have to update the details twice.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    CareerSiteBuilder
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    This seems to work for us because of all the things we can do with the system (i.e. create all kinds of reports).
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    Alternatives Considered
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Affordable, quick, easy, super user friendly, well known, offers a large variety of job seekers[.]
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Lumesse is an average to abover average ATS in my opinion. We work with Lumesse because they came to us with our new client. I don't have an overall issue with Lumesse like I do with some other ATS's.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    CareerSiteBuilder
    • We have been able to present MORE candidates to our clients in the staffing industry, and therefore fill more positions.
    • We are able to find MORE QUALIFIED candidates using search features, to in turn fill more direct-hire positions.
    • We have to pay or Career Builder for thousands of people, so that takes away from ROI.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Decreased employee efficiency -- There are so many steps to create an entry that our recruiters use the system as little as possible. We had hoped to use Lumesse for centralizing information and reporting, but have not been able to do so. Instead, each recruiter keeps a separate Excel sheet, defeating the purpose of having an ATS in the first place. We only use Lumesse to post to our website now. We are very disappointed.
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