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What is Broadbean?

Broadbean, now offered and supported by Careerbuilder, is a job search and posting solution, built around features such as social recruitment, cross-channel candidate search, and data analytics.

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Broadbean has proven to be a valuable tool for recruiters and hiring managers in the Agency Staffing/Recruitment industry. Users have been …
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Broadbean-- A Review

6 out of 10
June 21, 2019
Incentivized
We use Broadbean as one of our sourcing methods for open roles, both temporary and permanent positions. Broadbeans allows us to post open …
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What is Broadbean?

Broadbean, now offered and supported by Careerbuilder, is a job search and posting solution, built around features such as social recruitment, cross-channel candidate search, and data analytics.

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Broadbean has proven to be a valuable tool for recruiters and hiring managers in the Agency Staffing/Recruitment industry. Users have been able to source the right candidates promptly and reach out to new candidates in the market. By easily posting job adverts to numerous job boards and their own website, Broadbean has made the recruitment process efficient and time-effective. The software simplifies manual job posting, significantly minimizing the time required for job distribution and eliminating the need for copy-pasting and remembering multiple logins. It also allows users to advertise jobs in multiple locations with just one click, saving time and effort. Additionally, Broadbean's integration with ATS/CRM systems enables automatic tracking of job board sources and applicant linking, facilitating ROI tracking. Users have found this integration extremely beneficial in terms of managing applicants seamlessly. The software has also increased revenue for recruiters, helping them achieve targets more easily. Overall, Broadbean is regarded as a reliable and widely-used solution that greatly streamlines the recruitment process. However, some users have noted that there are areas that could be improved for better user experience, such as the recent issues experienced with the new Veritone system integration. Nevertheless, Broadbean remains a top choice for recruiters looking to optimize their recruitment spend and effectively target their recruitment efforts.

Efficient Job Search Process: Many users have found Broadbean helpful in accessing multiple recruitment portals simultaneously, allowing for a more efficient job search process. They appreciate the convenience of having access to multiple job boards in one place for CV sourcing, saving time and effort.

Effective Integration Capabilities: Users praise the integration capabilities of Broadbean, specifically mentioning the ability to integrate with TextKernel and other software solutions. Once set up, Broadbean saves users hours of work and is simple to use. The ability to integrate into their CRM system is considered its best feature, finding it reliable and user-friendly.

Time-Saving Tool: Users find Broadbean to be a time-saving tool for posting jobs to multiple job boards. They value the ability to post to multiple sites in one stop, making it easier to reach a wider pool of potential candidates. The website design is liked by users, finding it easily accessible and consistent with the brand's logo. The reporting and posting features are also praised by users as they save time.

Cons:

  1. Lack of modern user interface: Some users have expressed dissatisfaction with the outdated and not very functional interface of Broadbean's software, which they feel only achieves the bare minimum in terms of usability.
  2. Performance issues and bugs: Users have reported experiencing frequent lags, freezing, resume flashing, and other bugs while using Broadbean's software. These issues can be disruptive and deter users from utilizing the platform more often.
  3. Slow customer support response: Several users have criticized the customer support team for being slow and incompetent in resolving issues. They specifically mentioned problems with CV parsing function as well as general delays in getting system bugs resolved.

Users have made several recommendations for Broadbean based on their experience with the software. The most common recommendations include integrating with other systems such as Salesforce and other applicant tracking systems (ATS). They suggest exploring how well Broadbean integrates with your current system, as it has been reported to have major issues in some cases.

Many users find that Broadbean is a time saver when it comes to posting job ads on multiple job boards. It allows businesses to easily reach a wider audience without manually posting on each platform individually.

Users also recommend trying out Broadbean as it is widely used in the Agency Staffing/Recruitment industry. It is seen as a valuable tool for businesses that frequently post roles across multiple job boards, offering time and cost savings during the recruitment cycle.

Overall, users recommend using Broadbean as an additional tool for integrating with your ATS, exploring its integration capabilities, and considering it for streamlining recruitment processes across multiple platforms.

Reviews

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Tim Pilbeam MREC CertRP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pasring is no longer fit for purpose <br>I have used Broadbean for 12 years, I like that it integrates with our Bullhorn System <br>Broadbean was good until November 2023 when they migrated us over to the new Veritone system which is completely inadequate. It now only extracts limited information to be parsed over making it impossible to be able to search your database for skills or relevant experience as well as now having to manually parse the details over from the attachment in the application.<br>Customer support team are not much help<br><br>
  • posts adverts on mulitiple job boards
  • makes your datbase no longer of use
  • takes up lots of time having to manualy parse the cv
  • migrate the system back to pre veritone
  • make the parsing function acually parse the cv in full
  • customer support stop giving the run around on an issue that all their customers are having
Migrated us to the new veritone system that now voids the parsing success
  • Cv Parsing
  • Job board Posting
Job Board (9)
33.333333333333336%
3.3
Applicant Screening
20%
2.0
ATS Integration
70%
7.0
Analytics Reporting
40%
4.0
Campaign Optimization
30%
3.0
Candidate Communication
70%
7.0
Candidate Management
10%
1.0
On-Site Promotion Strategies
10%
1.0
Resume Database Search
40%
4.0
Team Collaboration
10%
1.0
Recruitment Marketing
N/A
N/A
  • now void - just a cash drain
  • no longer any benefit more of a hindrance
  • creating more admin
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Broadbean integrated with our CRM (Bullhorn) this allows us to post job ads to multiple websites and manage applicants all in one place. historically we used this as a separate entity but since the integration, with Bullhorn it has been such a time saver!
  • flawless integration with other systems
  • Applicant tracking
  • Multiple platform posting
  • Job description design, headers etc would be nice to have
  • tech support needs improvement - queries take too long sometimes
Broadbean saves the team hours in multiple platform job postings since its integration. in addition to this because it integrates with our CRM we are able to manage applicants for each role in one place as opposed to each individual system/job board. this has freed up time that can be spent elsewhere on other activities.
  • CRM integration
  • Great price
  • Worth the money as so much more time can now be spent on other revenue generating activities
  • tricky to set up with Xing initially and very little support
  • Needs very little maintenancer when set up
Broadbean is the only tool we as a business have come across that brings most job boards together in terms of posting adverts and managing the influx of applicants. This works better and provides a greater ROI than using Indeed for example because this system forces you to manage your applicants within their built-in CRM as opposed to integrating with your own. This means more time is spent form filling and saving CV's etc than needed if you want to get a candidate into your company database.
Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365), Microsoft Teams, Lusha Extension
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Broadbean as one of our sourcing methods for open roles, both temporary and permanent positions. Broadbeans allows us to post open vacancies across multiple job boards seamlessly, enabling us to reach passive and otherwise forgotten candidates in the process. Broadbean serves as another recruitment tool in our arsenal to deliver talent.
  • Broadbean allows us to post roles on job boards that we normally don't get a match on, and lets us expand our search and visibility to more candidates than ever before.
  • Extremely easy to post, detail, and edit job postings on multiple jobs boards instantly.
  • Customer service and the help center are friendly and responsive.
  • Some of the job boards that serve on Broadbean are not the best, and can sometimes reach the wrong type of candidate (background & experience level).
  • The technology needs to be updated with the new ATS changes. There hasn't been an update to the system in quite some time.
  • They could work on parsing their data better with social media outlets, like posting on Linkedin, Twitter, etc.
Broadbean is well suited in the event that a candidate search has come to a standstill, and it's become virtually impossible to find the right person for the job. Broadbean serves as a method and tool to find that "passive" candidate who could lead to a placement. Because it's easy to use and versatile, the posting is not time-consuming or tedious.
Job Board
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Recruitment Marketing
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N/A
While not as popular ZipRecruiter, it does, in some cases, lead to hard-to-find candidates that are exclusive to the Broadbean search. I wouldn't say that Broadbean is as strong as Zip in terms of its reach to candidates, but it does serve well as another complementary tool for the recruiter. I would, however, give the slight advantage to Broadbean for its integration with our ATS, as to where Zip is more its own manual program.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Broadbean is used by all recruiters at my company. It is used to post job adverts and to search for candidates on job boards and who have applied to jobs.
  • Posting job adverts
  • Easy to search for candidates
  • There are a lot of steps to post adverts or even search candidates
Posting adverts and searching job boards
Job Board
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N/A
Recruitment Marketing
N/A
N/A
  • It is great to post adverts to multiple job boards and get that information out to a wide audience
I have not used any other similar systems
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