Lever vs. LinkedIn Recruiter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lever
Score 9.2 out of 10
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Lever 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
LinkedIn Recruiter
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
LinkedIn Recruiter is a hiring platform for talent professionals that helps find, connect with, and manage the people you want to hire.N/A
Pricing
LeverLinkedIn Recruiter
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LeverLinkedIn Recruiter
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
LeverLinkedIn Recruiter
Considered Both Products
Lever
Chose Lever
Lever is more visually intuitive. It is a faster platform since it requires less clicking around to accomplish tasks.
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 …
LinkedIn Recruiter
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter has the largest reach globally. I mean, if you're not on LinkedIn, do you even exist? ;) It is the only real game in town for one-stop-shopping for candidates. The service is premium, and so is the price. However, there is nothing that I'm aware of in the …
Features
LeverLinkedIn Recruiter
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Lever
9.2
34 Ratings
15% above category average
LinkedIn Recruiter
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Ratings
Job Requisition Management9.231 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.331 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.221 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting9.223 Ratings00 Ratings
Customized Application Form9.329 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management9.332 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.330 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate Search9.233 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking9.232 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration9.232 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation9.222 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates8.628 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions8.631 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.232 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting9.230 Ratings00 Ratings
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LeverLinkedIn Recruiter
Small Businesses
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Medium-sized Companies
Breezy HR
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Lever
Lever
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
LeverLinkedIn Recruiter
Likelihood to Recommend
9.2
(35 ratings)
8.8
(25 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
8.8
(6 ratings)
Support Rating
1.1
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LeverLinkedIn Recruiter
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.
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LinkedIn
LinkedIn Recruiter is better suited in terms of the filters it provides to search for a pool of candidates. Features like past and current companies, past universities, or years of experience, AI Search, and AI message drafting do wonders in terms of recruitment. But some more filters can be added, which will help further in recruitment. For example, Boolean search in job titles, targeting specific keywords in recent experience, etc.
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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.
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LinkedIn
  • The scheduler is my most favorite part of Recruiter. Super easy and organized to use.
  • It also can integrate with my applicant tracking system when and if I hire from LinkedIn Recruiter.
  • The fact that you can see an applicants full profile gives more information than just a resume when selecting candidates to interview.
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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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LinkedIn
  • For some reason, whenever I click "View in Recruiter" it takes me to the project summary screen instead of that candidate's profile in Recruiter
  • It would be nice if candidates got automatically moved to the appropriate stage when an action is taken (ie "Contacted" after sending them a message)
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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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LinkedIn
This portals helps to source the profile directly from the LinkedIn where I don't need to check the resume and LinkedIn separately every time. LinkedIn Recruiter is the best platform for posting the job effortlessly. It requires only few details and we can get response quicker.
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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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LinkedIn
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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
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LinkedIn
SeekOut has a diversity filter, which I like. They also list some candidates that are not on LinkedIn, but ultimately SeekOut routes me to LinkedIn. So technically SeekOut allows me to screen for filters that LinkedIn does not, but I actually end up using LinkedIn Recruiter to manage and communicate with the candidates.
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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.
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LinkedIn
  • It's a must have for reaching passive candidates.
  • Love being able to identify candidates we may need in the future and saving them in a project.
  • It's difficult to cut through the noise using Inmails since everyone is using the tool.
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ScreenShots

Lever Screenshots

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