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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AThe PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform is a talent management platform designed for Higher Education and Government organizations, now from PowerSchool (acquired August, 2018). Modules include analytics, applicant tracking, position management, onboarding, records management, and performance management.N/A
    Pricing
    JobviteLeverPeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    JobviteLeverPeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Free Trial
    NoNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    JobviteLeverPeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Considered Multiple Products
    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 …
    Incentivized
    PowerSchool Group LLC
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    90%
    Would buy again
    27 Answers
    92%
    Would buy again
    23 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    23 Answers
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    27 Answers
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    79%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    90%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    JobviteLeverPeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Jobvite and Lever and PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Feature
    Jobvite
    7.6
    64 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Lever
    9.7
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    7.3
    3 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Job Requisition Management9.061 Ratings9.831 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Company Website Posting8.07 Ratings9.831 Ratings7.22 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.762 Ratings9.821 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting8.061 Ratings9.823 Ratings8.12 Ratings
    Customized Application Form9.061 Ratings9.829 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Resume Management7.062 Ratings9.832 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention5.058 Ratings9.830 Ratings2.72 Ratings
    Candidate Search6.063 Ratings9.833 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking8.063 Ratings9.832 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Collaboration8.058 Ratings9.832 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation7.050 Ratings9.822 Ratings7.12 Ratings
    Email Templates8.061 Ratings8.928 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    User Permissions8.062 Ratings8.931 Ratings8.42 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.061 Ratings9.832 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Reporting7.059 Ratings9.830 Ratings8.62 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Jobvite and Lever and PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Feature
    Jobvite
    -
    Ratings
    Lever
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    Ratings
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    7.7
    8 Ratings
    6% above category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings00 Ratings9.07 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.07 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Jobvite and Lever and PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Feature
    Jobvite
    -
    Ratings
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    5.8
    3 Ratings
    23% below category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings2.03 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Jobvite and Lever and PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Feature
    Jobvite
    -
    Ratings
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    2.7
    3 Ratings
    87% below category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Plan weighting00 Ratings00 Ratings2.02 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings00 Ratings2.02 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings00 Ratings4.03 Ratings
    Rater nomination workflow00 Ratings00 Ratings2.02 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions00 Ratings00 Ratings1.02 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings00 Ratings4.02 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings00 Ratings1.03 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Jobvite and Lever and PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Feature
    Jobvite
    -
    Ratings
    Lever
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    Ratings
    PeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    7.3
    4 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings00 Ratings6.33 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings00 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
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    JobviteLeverPeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
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    Medium-sized Companies
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    SumTotal (legacy)
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JobviteLeverPeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (91 ratings)
    9.8
    (35 ratings)
    8.0
    (20 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.9
    (22 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (11 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    6.8
    (49 ratings)
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    JobviteLeverPeopleAdmin Higher Ed Platform, from Powerschool
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    PowerSchool Group LLC
    Organizations who have very few applications and/or very few positions posted are probably less likely to benefit as high from PeopleAdmin. Large organizations who have several positions and/or several applications/applicants can definitely benefit from this product. This product is not as well suited for performance management as I had hoped because there is not a lot of freedom to creating and designing different evaluations for different position types in the system when you have an organization that has thousands of different employees and types.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    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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    PowerSchool Group LLC
    • Applicant tracking was a good use of this tool for our department. I think it could use a few more customization features but overall it was a good tool to weed out applicants who were not qualified for the position.
    • The system has some canned reporting tools that also worked well for our department and management needs.
    • It was a great place to house our position descriptions and provided a readily accessible source for hiring managers to make requested updates and changes and for employees to see and have access to their position descriptions.
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    Cons
    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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    PowerSchool Group LLC
    • PeopleAdmin's internal report writer needs work. Currently, in version 7, reporting can only be done requisition number by requisition number. The report writer needs to be modified so it can create reports enterprise-wide.
    • PeopleAdmin's Data Mart product needs substantial modification. In version 5.8, on a monthly basis, PeopleAdmin provided us with an Microsoft Access database containing our historical data up to that period end. In version 7, the "Data Mart" contains our historical data. The Data Mart consists of over 300 files. These files are not database table downloads nor is it parts of a database data dump. Rather, the files appear to be scrapes from html pages. They contain html codes and other character data that needs to be cleaned before they can be uploaded. The files are not in a table-by-table format. Any one file can contain data from two or more tables. The format of the Data Mart makes it difficult to load the data into a database and format it in a table structure that is comparable to the Access database provided with version 5.8.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    We are evaluating our options as it relates to PeopleAdmin. We are likely to renew as we can not find another product that gives us the functionality we have with PeopleAdmin 5.8 in the area of Position Description. Outside of that, we would likely be close to finding another product solution.
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    Usability
    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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    PowerSchool Group LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    Employ Inc.
    No issues (especially compared to ADP).
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    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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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    PowerSchool Group LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    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
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    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
    PowerSchool Group LLC
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    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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    PowerSchool Group LLC
    I've used both Target Recruit and HR Smart. When working with Target Recruit it quickly became apparent it was not the right solution for us. Another solution we examined prior to selection PeopleAdmin was iCIMS. iCIMS is a very social system but was not as familiar with the Higher Education recruitment processes as was PeopleAdmin.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    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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    PowerSchool Group LLC
    • We are now able to track our recruitment sources to determine our ROI on university paid subscriptions.
    • We have reduced our recruiting approval review times by 50%
    • We have identified areas for improvement substancially by having robust reporting available at our fingertips.
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    ScreenShots

    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.