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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Podio

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/APodio is a cloud-based platform for organizing team communication, business processes, and reporting in project management workspaces; also it may be used as a light CRM platform. It enables workflow automation and integrations. It includes a free version and paid packages with additional features.

    $14

    per month per user

    Pricing
    LeverPodio
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Plus
    $14
    per month per user
    Premium
    $24
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LeverPodio
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional Details—A discount is available for annual pricing.
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    Community Pulse
    LeverPodio
    Considered Both Products
    Employ Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    89%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    86%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
    8 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    86%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    75%
    Implementation went as expected
    6 Answers
    Features
    LeverPodio
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Lever and Podio
    Feature
    Lever
    9.7
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Podio
    -
    Ratings
    Job Requisition Management9.831 Ratings00 Ratings
    Company Website Posting9.831 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.821 Ratings00 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting9.823 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customized Application Form9.829 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resume Management9.832 Ratings00 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.830 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Search9.833 Ratings00 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking9.832 Ratings00 Ratings
    Collaboration9.832 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation9.822 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates8.928 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Permissions8.931 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts9.832 Ratings00 Ratings
    Reporting9.830 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Lever and Podio
    Feature
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Podio
    7.7
    28 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.026 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings9.522 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings2.09 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings6.523 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings10.026 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings7.528 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings9.016 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings8.524 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings6.022 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings6.523 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings9.019 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings9.017 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Lever and Podio
    Feature
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Podio
    6.3
    14 Ratings
    20% below category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings6.010 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings6.010 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings5.07 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
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    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LeverPodio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (35 ratings)
    2.7
    (42 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (17 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    7.2
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LeverPodio
    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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    Progress ShareFile
    [Citrix Podios's] customer support is very quick and they provide you an option to convert your
    project into small tasks so that you can better assist your team and extract
    maximum work out of them hence I will totally recommend its usage. I could not think that keeping track of tasks could be this much easier and smart. It is a fully customizable tool that manages my tasks efficiently and deal with them effectively.
    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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    Progress ShareFile
    • Very easy for people without coding or technical skills to set up and maintain information in "Apps".
    • Platform is very easy to learn and adopt--it's intuitive.
    • Project management potential is awesome--instead of having to fit your projects into a structure that is industry specific, you can build an app that tracks what you want, in the order you want it.
    • Has a "relationship" field that allows you to relate an individual item or record to a record in another app. It effectively gives some of the functionality of a relational database.
    • Very useful for information sharing when staff members are in different regions or places.
    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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    Progress ShareFile
    • More filter options for calendars.
    • Customizable views for Relation fields.
    • Full featured Podio mobile App for iPad.
    • A customizable profile status – would love to work with Podio in silent mode (logged in while working, but "not available" for requests when in heavy work mode)
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    Podio customer service is great. The cloud and mobile service is fast (almost instant, continuous syncing). With a solid user base, and backed by Citrix, this is a serious business solution. They're also constantly working on improving and making it more powerful. I anticipate it only getting better
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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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    Progress ShareFile
    It takes a while to understand how to wield the power of 'relationship' fields and unlocking the flow of data across Podio apps and workspaces. Once the lightbulb comes on, the options and builds are effortless and limitless. Because of the unrestrained customization, you truly start with a blank slate and must endure a potentially frustrating learning curve to crack to (no)code. But once you get it, all the power is readily at your fingertips.
    Incentivized
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    Reliability and Availability
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    I have not experienced any down time
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    Performance
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    It works all the time and if I have a question, support get back to me ASAP
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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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    Progress ShareFile
    Podio support was always responsive and very quick to provide answers and assistance during the history of using this product, their support team has always been top notch. There have been several cases where calling podio support a feature was not available and they provided either workaround solutions or added the features straight into their roadmap.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    Could of got more help sooner and mapped out structure after the 1st month. Future planning
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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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    Progress ShareFile
    I have not yet found a permanent solution that meets all of our needs. We continue to use different tools across our different departments, and none of our tools really communicate with one another to our satisfaction. We remain optimistic, however, that a company will emerge that embraces an abstract, highly customizable interface and also provides exceptional customer service with an open-minded development team that does not simply say no to everything by default.
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    Scalability
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Progress ShareFile
    As you business grows, so does Podio. There seems to be no limit to the workspace and apps you can create on the platform
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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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    Progress ShareFile
    • Podio is great for task assignment and tracking. The ability to enter and assign tasks from mobile and track their completion saves me several phone calls a day.
    • Podio outdoes email as my go to place to search for information. The ability to forward emails into the system, organize by projects and contacts, and search it all saves considerable time and confusion.
    • Podio has considerable potential to reduce overall admin time spent organizing information (filing, tracking, etc) The ability to keep a single record of a given piece of information without being tied to email vs file structure works very well.
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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.