Lever vs. SFX CRM

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Lever
Score 9.3 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
SFX CRM
Score 7.0 out of 10
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SFX CRM is a recruitment marketing solutiont that helps talent teams find, engage, and nurture right-fit candidates. The solution combines segmentation, automated workflows, candidate insights, and AI-powered email content creation, to make personalized communication simple and scalable. With analytics across every activity, SFX CRM gives teams visibility into what drives engagement and where to optimize. Recruiters can deliver timely, relevant outreach; build stronger, long…N/A
Pricing
LeverSFX CRM
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LeverSFX CRM
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
LeverSFX CRM
Features
LeverSFX CRM
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Lever
9.3
34 Ratings
16% above category average
SFX CRM
7.0
3 Ratings
12% below category average
Job Requisition Management9.431 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.431 Ratings8.03 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.321 Ratings5.03 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting9.423 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Customized Application Form9.429 Ratings5.03 Ratings
Resume Management9.432 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.430 Ratings1.02 Ratings
Candidate Search9.433 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Applicant Tracking9.432 Ratings8.02 Ratings
Collaboration9.332 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation9.422 Ratings6.02 Ratings
Email Templates8.728 Ratings9.03 Ratings
User Permissions8.731 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts9.432 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Reporting9.430 Ratings5.03 Ratings
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LeverSFX CRM
Small Businesses
Breezy HR
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 9.2 out of 10
Breezy HR
Breezy HR
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
PeopleStrong
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
LeverSFX CRM
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(35 ratings)
10.0
(3 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
1.1
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
LeverSFX CRM
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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Symphony Talent
I think all organizations both small and large could benefit from Symphony Talent. It is a must to have a recruitment marketing platform these days given it's a job-seekers market. It is more important today more than ever to capture and nurture leads for your organization and keep them updated on jobs and things happening related to the culture of your organization. Organizations with less than 100 people may be able to get away without it
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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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Symphony Talent
  • Ability to track candidates engagements with requisitions
  • Personalized email campaigns
  • Ability to post requisitions in different job sites
  • Easy to integrate other systems with SmashFly
  • Talent Network Forms
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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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Symphony Talent
  • Moving candidates through steps can seem very clunky. When I first started using the software, I was turned off because it seemed to be a little redundant.
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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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Symphony Talent
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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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Symphony Talent
I believe SmashFly does a great job supporting their system and staying involved with their clients. Everything in the system is basically a workflow so you can create them or reachout to support for help
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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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Symphony Talent
It was like night and day. Success Factors had horrible customer service and we had very limited control over the platform. When we transitioned to SmashFly, their customer service was excellent and we had complete control over the system to make any changes we needed quickly. The technical support with SmashFly is also one of the best I've seen in the business. Their turnaround time is pretty quick when compared to others
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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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Symphony Talent
  • From what I've heard, recruiters have noticed a big upswing in candidate response rate, which of course, leads to increased rates of hire.
  • Some recruiters are reluctant to use smashfly because they think they're doing double effort.
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ScreenShots

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