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    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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    Lever
    Considered Both Products
    Employ Inc.
    Chose Lever
    I am user and its company decision where it is cost efficient and user friendly
    Incentivized
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    It’s great.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever doesn't have quite as many features as Greenhouse, and Greenhouse would probably be a better choice for a large enterprise organization, but for small enterprises and below, Lever will work great, and it's quite a bit less expensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever is more visually intuitive. It is a faster platform since it requires less clicking around to accomplish tasks.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    I think Lever stacks up fairly well and is right above the midpoint. iCIMS and Greenhouse provide a larger, more Enterprise style product for huge scale, so I'd put the two of them above Lever at this time, but we chose Lever over Greenhouse for a reason. I just don't know if …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever's candidate first view over job requisition view is confusing and often managers are unable to get a real time update of their pipeline, I've found. I'd recommend Greenhouse
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    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 …
    Incentivized
    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
    I will be reaching out to Greenhouse to compare, but I am not familiar with the product just that it has a good reputation. UKG (Ulitpro) was worse than Lever when I used it last.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    I strongly prefer Greenhouse, but lever will get the job done. Equal cost I go with Greenhouse. If Lever is much cheaper they aren't wildly differentiated
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever is a great option for nonprofit organizations, campaigns, and the like. It is an easy enough system for both the operations team and prospective job candidates to use, facilitate, and navigate with little to no training. It is also a huge time saver when trying to fill …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    I wasn't part of the evaluation process but it seems like Lever was selected due to its simplicity and ability for employees to easily refer their friends to work here. As mentioned, I wish there was more collaboration involved throughout the hiring process--could be something …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever is one of the best products out there because the customer support is so great. They are super helpful and can help in any way you need. This is what makes it stand out against other products.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    They are not too similar, but are the only two tools I've used.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Simple to use with key points readily accessible.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever is a less 'mature' ATS. Also much less expensive. iCIMS is a much more robust ATS.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    We have used Recruiterbox previously, but the recruitment team decommissioned it due to a few reasons that I am not sure of. However, I can see that lever generally aesthetically is more pleasing to use.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    I think that lever is much more secure and manageable than similar tools, especially when dealing with warm referrals. Lever may not have the outbound/social aspect that other cold-recruitment tools may have, but as I said before I think the quality of hires has increased …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    Lever and Recruiterbox are comparable systems. Lever allows for better "interview panels" which must be scheduled individually in Recruiterbox.
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    We were using a free version of Breezy before. It was clunky and difficult to use. The time spent trying to navigate the product could be better spent on candidates. I used it for a few weeks while waiting for Lever to get spun up, and the transition from one to the other was …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    From an interviewer perspective, both are similar in that they provide easy feedback inputs and organization. Overall I liked Greenhouse better in my previous role because it seemed to have more customization around quantitative evaluation. You could break down more skills with …
    Incentivized
    Chose Lever
    It's not worth the trouble.
    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
    Chose Lever
    I checked different products mainly based on paper. There was a kind of Gartner chart available which described the strength and weaknesses of the systems. I matched my thoughts with this document which brought me to Lever due to the following reasons: 1. Have the potential to …
    Incentivized
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    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    Lever
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Lever
    Feature
    Lever
    9.7
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Job Requisition Management9.831 Ratings
    Company Website Posting9.831 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.821 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting9.823 Ratings
    Customized Application Form9.829 Ratings
    Resume Management9.832 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.830 Ratings
    Candidate Search9.833 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking9.832 Ratings
    Collaboration9.832 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation9.822 Ratings
    Email Templates8.928 Ratings
    User Permissions8.931 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts9.832 Ratings
    Reporting9.830 Ratings
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    Crelate
    Score9.1 out of 10
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    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Lever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (35 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Lever
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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    Screenshot of where to identify the top origin and sources of candidates in all stages, the Offer stage, and the Hired stage.