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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

    Saba Cloud (legacy)

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Saba Cloud was a talent management suite that included performance management, succession planning, learning management, planning, and recruiting.N/A
    Pricing
    LeverSaba Cloud (legacy)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LeverSaba Cloud (legacy)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    LeverSaba Cloud (legacy)
    Considered Both Products
    Employ Inc.
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    92%
    Would buy again
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    88%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    19 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    92%
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    23 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    88%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    89%
    Implementation went as expected
    17 Answers
    Features
    LeverSaba Cloud (legacy)
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Lever and Saba Cloud (legacy)
    Feature
    Lever
    9.7
    34 Ratings
    20% above category average
    Saba Cloud (legacy)
    8.6
    8 Ratings
    19% above category average
    Job Requisition Management9.831 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Company Website Posting9.831 Ratings8.35 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media9.821 Ratings8.54 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting9.823 Ratings7.04 Ratings
    Customized Application Form9.829 Ratings8.34 Ratings
    Resume Management9.832 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.830 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Candidate Search9.833 Ratings8.55 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking9.832 Ratings9.25 Ratings
    Collaboration9.832 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation9.822 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email Templates8.928 Ratings9.26 Ratings
    User Permissions8.931 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts9.832 Ratings9.17 Ratings
    Reporting9.830 Ratings9.28 Ratings
    Onboarding
    Comparison of Onboarding features of Lever and Saba Cloud (legacy)
    Feature
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Saba Cloud (legacy)
    7.9
    24 Ratings
    9% above category average
    New hire portal00 Ratings7.511 Ratings
    Manager tracking tools00 Ratings8.019 Ratings
    Compliance tracking and reporting00 Ratings8.223 Ratings
    Performance and Goals
    Comparison of Performance and Goals features of Lever and Saba Cloud (legacy)
    Feature
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Saba Cloud (legacy)
    7.7
    26 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Corporate goal setting00 Ratings8.224 Ratings
    Subordinate goal setting00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Individual goal setting00 Ratings8.026 Ratings
    Line-of sight-visibility00 Ratings8.525 Ratings
    Performance tracking00 Ratings7.025 Ratings
    Performance Management
    Comparison of Performance Management features of Lever and Saba Cloud (legacy)
    Feature
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Saba Cloud (legacy)
    7.2
    28 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Performance plans00 Ratings8.022 Ratings
    Plan weighting00 Ratings6.514 Ratings
    Manager note taking00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
    Performance improvement plans00 Ratings7.218 Ratings
    Review status tracking00 Ratings7.919 Ratings
    Rater nomination workflow00 Ratings7.415 Ratings
    Review reminders00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
    Workflow restrictions00 Ratings6.414 Ratings
    Multiple review frequency00 Ratings7.016 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings7.027 Ratings
    Succession Planning
    Comparison of Succession Planning features of Lever and Saba Cloud (legacy)
    Feature
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Saba Cloud (legacy)
    7.5
    14 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Create succession plans/pools00 Ratings8.013 Ratings
    Candidate ranking00 Ratings7.312 Ratings
    Candidate search00 Ratings7.412 Ratings
    Candidate development00 Ratings7.313 Ratings
    Learning Management
    Comparison of Learning Management features of Lever and Saba Cloud (legacy)
    Feature
    Lever
    -
    Ratings
    Saba Cloud (legacy)
    8.9
    31 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Course authoring00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
    Course catalog or library00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Player/Portal00 Ratings8.628 Ratings
    Learning content00 Ratings9.029 Ratings
    Mobile friendly00 Ratings8.025 Ratings
    Progress tracking & certifications00 Ratings9.630 Ratings
    Assignments00 Ratings9.629 Ratings
    Compliance management00 Ratings9.030 Ratings
    Learning administration00 Ratings8.830 Ratings
    Learning reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.830 Ratings
    Social learning00 Ratings8.021 Ratings
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    LeverSaba Cloud (legacy)
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    Crelate
    Score9.1 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    CareerSiteBuilder
    Score10 out of 10
    SumTotal (legacy)
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JobDiva
    Score8 out of 10
    Cornerstone Galaxy
    Score8.1 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LeverSaba Cloud (legacy)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.8
    (35 ratings)
    9.0
    (50 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.8
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.1
    (5 ratings)
    8.3
    (16 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    4.5
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LeverSaba Cloud (legacy)
    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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    Discontinued Products
    Our organization uses Saba Cloud primarily to manage all types of learning systems or staff training empirically. In addition, it provides us with a quick test-based follow-up to the trainees. We use Saba Cloud to train our clientele in a professional manner with respect to our worldwide online service. With this tool we are able to enhance the customer experience with the organization. Similarly, our organization uses Saba Cloud to monitor the performance and effectiveness of our employees and customers after having access to all the information provided by the application to subsequently make learning and development reports.
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • Skills Management - Saba has allowed us to set specific expectations for employees based upon their role, and this has clarified the skill requirements for employees.
    • Goal Management - With Saba, managers can easily create goals aligned up to senior leadership, and then work with their direct reports to create supporting goals.
    • Learning Management - Using Saba's built-in Smart Lists, assigning compliance training is a simple process that used to be a challenge in our former LMS.
    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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    Discontinued Products
    • Saba continues to improve their reporting and analytics. While it is much improved over previous versions, it can be improved.
    • Release Notes for system updates need to be delivered to admins farther in advance of the update in order to prepare properly.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Typically customers that acquire a Saba solution rarely move away. There are reasons and "legends" behind this. The investment is significant. Time and money are required to make the engine go smoothly. But once it runs at full capacity, it doesn't stop! Professional Services are extremely competent and able to close implementation gaps quickly.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    As someone who creates classes and is also a learning administrator in the system, I have run into some issues with the system's capabilities for my needs. I am not a fan of having to use Adobe Captivate to download a PowerPoint presentation into the system, as my training sessions are much more than a glorified PowerPoint. Our organization has yet to turn on Saba Meetings, which may help with these limitations.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    For the times that we have used the support provided by Saba, it has been a very pleasurable experience for our department. Part of our package with Saba includes a specified number of hours of "training" time with Saba. During these meetings, we have shared our desires of the product and the support personnel have either shown us how to accomplish our task or they have taken our requests to their developers to look at future enhancements. Overall, very pleased with the support.
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    Implementation Rating
    Employ Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    Was not involved with integration.
    Incentivized
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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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    Discontinued Products
    We had extensive reviews with a plan of what we needed and must have out of the system, including custom learning paths and tracking inside our HRIS system to grant permissions and positions based on completed learning certifications and courses. We weighed each option and chose based on the one that met the most of the must-haves.
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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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    Discontinued Products
    • This may seem small but with 90% of our workforce not at our main facility just the fact that since July 1, 2021, we have had over 18,956 compliance-related training completed by our staff. Do the math the ROI is wonderful.
    Incentivized
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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.

    Saba Cloud (legacy) Screenshots

    Screenshot of The Intelligent Mentor in Action - RecommendationsScreenshot of Learning PlanScreenshot of Informal LearningScreenshot of Performance Check-insScreenshot of Succession Talent DashboardScreenshot of Organizational Planning