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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Loxo Talent Intelligence Platform

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Loxo Recruitment Platform is a talent intelligence platform that functions as an applicant tracking system and CRM. Via automated sourcing, recruitment marketing, and its contact information finder, Loxo helps recruiters identify, engage and hire the relevant candidates for jobs.

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    SilkRoad Recruiting

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ASilkRoad offers OpenHire, a recruiting and ATS system. It offers recruiting access through social media channels, data security, and EEO compliance for mid-sized to large businesses. It is a component of SilkRoad’s Lifesuite product line.N/A
    Pricing
    Loxo Talent Intelligence PlatformSilkRoad Recruiting
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Loxo Talent Intelligence PlatformSilkRoad Recruiting
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Loxo Talent Intelligence PlatformSilkRoad Recruiting
    Talent Intelligence
    Comparison of Talent Intelligence features of Loxo Talent Intelligence Platform and SilkRoad Recruiting
    Feature
    Loxo Talent Intelligence Platform
    6.3
    2 Ratings
    19% below category average
    SilkRoad Recruiting
    -
    Ratings
    Existing Skills Mapping/Lanscaping5.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    AI-Based Role Definition6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Candidate Modelling5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Talent Rediscovery8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Candidate Evaluation/Scoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal Mobility Recommendations7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    ATS Integrations7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Loxo Talent Intelligence Platform and SilkRoad Recruiting
    Feature
    Loxo Talent Intelligence Platform
    -
    Ratings
    SilkRoad Recruiting
    6.8
    14 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Job Requisition Management00 Ratings7.214 Ratings
    Company Website Posting00 Ratings8.714 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media00 Ratings7.812 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting00 Ratings7.813 Ratings
    Customized Application Form00 Ratings5.212 Ratings
    Resume Management00 Ratings7.014 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention00 Ratings7.213 Ratings
    Candidate Search00 Ratings8.714 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Collaboration00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation00 Ratings7.310 Ratings
    Email Templates00 Ratings5.714 Ratings
    User Permissions00 Ratings3.714 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts00 Ratings4.714 Ratings
    Reporting00 Ratings4.714 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Loxo Talent Intelligence PlatformSilkRoad Recruiting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.2
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (12 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    5.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Loxo Talent Intelligence PlatformSilkRoad Recruiting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Loxo
    It's great if paying for full suite of products and if you had a limited footprint within a market and needed traction. It definitely lends itself to the next generation of recruiters and does leverage AI well. It's fast and generally a stable platform that is fairly intuitive to use from the outset
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    SilkRoad
    I think OpenHire is best for a small company (max about 2500 employees). The more employees you have the more HR people you should have and this can get expensive. I know most larger companies are using more advanced systems as well (Workday). During the selection process be sure to determine how many OpenHire users you would need. Ask whether your managers will be willing to work in the system as well or whether HR would have to own the entire process. If you are EEOC compliant, make sure you ask about diversity posting, APP tracking of applicants, and reporting needs. If you require an onboarding tool, SilkRoad offers RedCarpet. I found it to be very complex and hiring managers refused to use it. If you require an onboarding tool, definitely look into it. The demo may look great but there were a lot of implementation steps done to make it work and it just didn't fit our company culture. So make sure it fits yours.
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    Pros
    Loxo
    • Candidate and contact information
    • Email campaigns
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    SilkRoad
    • The ease of use when it comes to create requisitions from a hiring managers side of things is definitely a positive. It's very much user intuitive and the specifications can be completely customized as to what a company would like to appear within said requisition.
    • Candidate correspondence is an absolute breeze as you can custom load templates into the system that can be edited at any time through an administrator in your company instead of having to go through a technical support team on the other side of things.
    • Overall, it's a pretty no muss no fuss system to use as there's not a great layer of complication about it and like most things, spaced practice and consistent exposure to it tend to iron out those rough edges. From an administration standpoint, adding in locations and hiring managers is incredibly simplistic along with reporting functionality.
    • Candidate folders have come a long way in the system and are much more user friendly at this point than when I began using the system some four years ago. It's very easy to shift candidate profiles between folders and edit on the fly.
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    Cons
    Loxo
    • The training could be significantly expanded
    • Some of the "basics" covered on more legacy crm/ATS software not adequately addressed by Loxo
    • The interview process on Loxo is not intuitive and feels underdeveloped
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    SilkRoad
    • OpenHire's user roles can create issues depending on how your company's hiring process flows. For example, at one company, the hiring managers were extremely involved in screening candidates yet the system seems very geared towards use of centralized recruiters who distribute candidates. The lack of ability to customize roles and security to match our managers' needs created additional burden on HR as well as frustration from hiring managers.
    • I experienced several problems uploading documents to accompany a candidate's offer. There was a limit on the number, size and type of attachments that could be included, and there was no alternative (as vetted with OpenHire) besides sending a separate correspondence to the candidate. I found this to appear unprofessional to the candidate as well as creating an extra step in the process for HR/recruiting.
    • The requisition process had a few issues which created inefficiencies in the process. Firstly, for times when you need to post a role confidentially outside of your standard process, there was no way to designate the req as 'confidential'. Instead, you had to use the 'executive' status which created issues (ie: inaccurate data in reporting). Secondly, OpenHire was unable to upload the company directory of emails in the requisition approver fields so rather than being able to select from a drop-down or using a 'smart' field, you had to type each approver's email out manually thus increasing the potential for error and delay in the process.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Loxo
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    SilkRoad
    It was a great solution for the company in all aspects, especially the cost. The company was not in a position to afford a solution such as Oracle PeopleSoft. The only reason we did not renew OpenHire was we got acquired by a much larger organization and started utilizing the tools that the parent company had available
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    Usability
    Loxo
    [Loxo Recruitment Platform is] intuitive to learn and use[.] It would be better if you save searches, had mobile functionality, and had an easier to search the candidates with a NOT feature (not having specific attributes or an empty field)[.]
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    SilkRoad
    It's not a bad system to use, there just seems to be so much click through to get one task achieved. Once you know all the little routes and pieces it gets easier.
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    Support Rating
    Loxo
    Timely, caring, and knowledgeable
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    SilkRoad
    The support for Silkroad is awful. I know they are working on it and it seems to be slightly better but it's still not great. I have had multiple cases I have never heard from them on, others I have had to follow-up multiple times and one that took a year
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    Alternatives Considered
    Loxo
    Loxo was more of a multifaceted product that lends itself to multi client serach agency work
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    SilkRoad
    NeoGov is a more simple system but just being able to require specific documents has been a huge time saver for us. Other elements in NeoGov aren't as robust but still it saves me a lot of time compared to OpenHire.
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    Return on Investment
    Loxo
    • we've seen stong ROI on certain candidate campaigns
    • Strong on technically focussed searches where technologies and languages matter
    • our passive candidates have more than doubled
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    SilkRoad
    • The cost was very high
    • It made managers more involved in the process
    • It got managers involved earlier than they had been in the past
    • It forced managers to stay involved in their recruiting and not just wait for HR to hire someone
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