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Jobvite is a full recruiting platform. It provides features across the recruiting funnel - from sourcing and managing candidates via CRM and managing workflows to communicating with hiring managers and reporting through custom dashboards and reports.
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What is Jobvite?
Jobvite is a Talent Acquisition Suite that takes a marketing-first approach to attract dream candidates, automatically screen for quality, engage employees invested in the future, and retain the people who care the most about the organization by combining AI and a human touch. Jobvite boasts serving thousands of customers across a wide range of industries including Ingram Micro, Schneider Electric, Premise Health, and Zappos.com.
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Recruiting / ATS Features
- Supported: Job Requisition Management
- Supported: Publish to Social Media
- Supported: Job Search Site Posting
- Supported: Customized Application Form
- Supported: Resume Management
- Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
- Supported: Candidate Search
- Supported: Applicant Tracking
- Supported: Collaboration
- Supported: Task Creation and Delegation
- Supported: Email Templates
- Supported: User Permissions
- Supported: Notifications and Alerts
- Supported: Reporting
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Jobvite Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Languages | English, French, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Swedish, Italian, German |
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- Choosing the right Applicant Tracking System (ATS) for your organization can be a daunting task. You need something automated, yet personal, easy-to-use, but customizable, and affordable, but still has the bells and whistles. That's why we've put together the top 10 questions your recruiting software partner needs to answer in our guide, How to Choose an ATS.
- Every year, Jobvite surveys U.S. workers for our Job Seeker Nation Report to better understand the realities and preferences of today’s job seekers. This year, we asked roughly 1,500 adults to share their opinions of the current state of the U.S. workforce roughly one year since the onset of the pandemic.
- The 2020 IDC MarketScape reinforces the power of the robust functionality available to customers via both Jobvite’s Talent Acquisition Suite and its Talemetry Recruitment Marketing Suite.
- Download the Jobvite Fast Facts Data Sheet to learn more about Jobvite and how we serve our customers.
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Jobvite is a full recruiting platform. It provides features across the recruiting funnel - from sourcing and managing candidates via CRM and managing workflows to communicating with hiring managers and reporting through custom dashboards and reports.
Reviewers rate User Permissions and Notifications and Alerts highest, with a score of 9.9.
The most common users of Jobvite are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Jobvite Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
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| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 17% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 54% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 29% |
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Intuitive User Interface: Users have praised Jobvite's well-designed and intuitive user interface, with multiple reviewers stating that it is easy to navigate and use. Several users have also mentioned that the newest version of the system has further improved the user experience by requiring fewer clicks and performing better than previous versions.
Ease of Use: Many users appreciate how easy it is to manage and create requisitions in Jobvite, as well as move candidates from one requisition to another. They also highlight the system's personalization options, which allow for effective communication with candidates and managers involved in the hiring process through the app.
Versatility: Jobvite's versatility has been commended by a number of users who find it very user-friendly and suitable for involving the entire company in the recruitment process. The ability to receive referrals from employees through social media integration was particularly liked by some users.
Pricing Plans: Many users have expressed concerns about the pricing plans of Jobvite, stating that they can be quite high compared to other recruiting software options. Some users feel that the cost may not be justified by the features and functionality provided.
Technical Glitches: Numerous users have encountered occasional glitches and technical difficulties with Jobvite. These include slow page load times, system crashes, and delays in sending out interview invites. These issues can disrupt workflow and negatively impact user experience.
Limited Reporting Features: Users find the reporting features of Jobvite to be somewhat limited in terms of customization. They suggest improvements in this area to provide more flexibility and advanced analytics capabilities, allowing for better data analysis and decision-making.
Users commonly recommend the following when it comes to Jobvite:
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Allow yourself to play around with Jobvite and get comfortable with it. Taking the time to explore and familiarize oneself with the platform will maximize its potential.
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Make sure that your HCM is completely configurable with Jobvite and understand the actions it triggers. This will ensure seamless integration between Jobvite and your Human Capital Management system, as well as understanding how different actions within Jobvite may impact other processes.
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Get personal training and have a good project implementation team. Investing in personal training and engaging a competent project implementation team will ensure a smooth onboarding process with Jobvite.
These recommendations highlight the importance of familiarizing oneself with the system, integrating it effectively with other HR tools, and seeking professional guidance during implementation.
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August 02, 2022
Best in class in all categories - and only getting better
Score 10 out of 10
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We use Jobvite as our ATS, CRM, Careers Site, and Onboarding partner. The use cases are pipeline/candidate management, social marketing, and delivery and communication about required documents/steps post-offer.
- Transparency - hiring managers and recruiters can see the full activity/status/communication with a candidate.
- Candidate management - the workflow helps manage your pipeline, especially with a high number of applications.
- Careers site - our site is beautiful and effective.
- Customization - workflows, forms, communications, etc. all customizable.
- Onboarding suite - can build custom forms (and use out of the box forms, too) to have new hires complete required paperwork.
- Onboarding - many fields can transfer automatically from the hiring side to the onboarding side of the system, but not all of them.
- ATS - the structure of candidate applications (one candidate profile, but each application for each job has it's own record/info) can cause some minor inconveniences, but Jobvite has mitigated them.
February 12, 2021
Jobvite works for large-scale, multi-department recruitment
Jobvite is used across the organization, mainly used within the People Team (Human Resources) as an ATS and Onboarding system.
- Applicant tracking.
- Sharing candidate details - The ability to share candidate information across teams and hiring managers is a huge plus.
- Candidate screening / video interviewing is a big time saver.
- Campaigns and integrations into social media could be better.
February 11, 2021
I love my ATS
It is currently used in our Clinical Recruitment Department as an ATS. I love how easy it is to use and the archive it creates of candidates. You encounter a lot of repetitive candidates in our field so having that historical contact information is critical as well as previous email and notes from previous interactions.
- Workflow- I love that you can immediately see where in the process a candidate is.
- Dashboard- The customization and overall feel of the site.
- Feed- The fact that you can see the feed from the candidates other applications is a plus.
- Primarily the analytics they have worked on this recently but it does take some deep diving to really understand how to put it to use.
- Knowledge Base- Easier search criteria.
- Back Button- For some reason my browser does not like when I want to go back, a lot of time I just start over.
February 11, 2021
Solid ATS
Jobvite is set up for all active employees in the company, though it's mostly used by our Talent Team and those who are part of interview teams. Any active employee in the company can (and is encouraged to) use Jobvite to post jobs externally to their own social networks. <br><br>We use Jobvite to address needs related to recruiting and onboarding new employees. By setting up the Jobvite Onboarding module, they have helped us solve the problem of manually entering new hire data into our main HRIS. We now have a file that can be audited and imported directly into our HRIS.
- Standard ATS module is efficient and fairly customizable.
- It's fairly easy to add new custom fields, although those less familiar with the system should reach out to support to confirm they're setting up fields in the correct way to ensure there are no "trickle down" effects.
- Our assigned Customer Success Manager is fantastic and a great partner to work with on issues and new initiatives.
- Their knowledge base is pretty extensive, and I like that I can submit product feedback/suggestions and upvote any suggestions already created.
- Reporting is awful. They updated their reporting structure and it is *not* the most efficient. We've always had issues with Jobvite reporting, and while some things have improved, others got worse.
- We lost the ability to run certain fields, or even entire reports, due to Jobvite no longer letting us pull data that's obviously available in the system. I don't know why we can't pull data *we gather* in our system, and I haven't been able to get a solid answer on it other than "we just can't do that anymore."
- They've also removed the ability to share a report with a single user, which is a hindrance when we have confidential or restricted information we need to share. I don't want to set up individual user roles, set up a reporting folder, and have to move a report over to that folder, especially if it's a report they previously had access to prior to moving over to the new reporting system.
- Jobvite support is really hit or miss. Some support employees are extremely helpful, actually listen to the issue, and provide assistance accordingly. Others seem to skip over questions and facts entirely, answer from a predefined script, and "solve" an issue that wasn't even being asked.
- There are also often *very* long wait times for chat support (I'm talking an average 30-45 minutes waiting to ask a simple question - at that point, why even have the feature?).
- I'd like to see better integration and setup abilities between Onboarding and other systems. It's difficult to make necessary changes or updates without "breaking" something or having to use paid Jobvite services.
February 11, 2021
Couldn't be happier!
Our entire organization uses Jobvite - employees who refer their contacts to positions, administrative assistants who support their departmental hiring processes, managers who make hiring decisions for their area, executives who approve positions, and human resources employees who oversee the process. We've seen an increase in employee engagement in the recruiting process, our applicants appreciate the ease of the application process, and our hiring managers enjoy the ease of using the system.
- Updates to the system based on user needs.
- Customer support.
- Data available for reporting.
- Would like video interview to automatically move to completed status.
October 27, 2020
Talent Acquisition Game Changer!
We implemented Jobvite to provide better visibility and metrics into our recruiting process. In addition, we added texting and video capabilities to increase candidate communications. We also love the scheduler and analytics. Jobvite also broadened our exposure to internal staff and allowed them to easily share our jobs on their social media. The requisition and offer management has allowed us to streamline the process significantly. We are also enjoying the flexibility of onboarding for remote staff.
- Requesting candidate availability for scheduling
- Approval processes
- Candidate workflow
- Incorporating real-time video interview links (like RingCentral) into the scheduling without cutting and pasting
- Ability to send ad hoc candidate forms
- Ability to set permissions based on data components (like locations or department)
- Ability to have different internal vs external application processes/forms (also, the ability to forward application forms to candidates that come in through other means--like referred by a friend, added candidate, etc.)
- Ability to customize the in-app apply form from within Jobvite (vs the career site apply page)
October 09, 2020
Jobvite is a life changer!
We are using Jobvite for ATS and onboarding across our whole organization.
- Workflow--super easy to set up and maintain.
- Candidate experience--it is a smooth, professional experience for candidates. The text feature makes it feel personal.
- Onboarding experience--use of tasks makes the onboarding experience easy to administer, and easy for new hires.
- Custom fields--custom fields do not follow the candidate from hire to onboarding. This is problematic because we then have to recreate on the onboarding side to then import into our HRIS.
- Onboarding picklists are time-consuming to populate. We have to enter options one at a time, rather than being able to do an import. Also, field mapping on Hire is a lot easier than having to set up tags on option sets in onboarding.
October 02, 2020
Recruiting made easy!
We are using Jobvite across our whole organization to both manage recruiting and onboarding and to help share our career opportunities externally.
- A lot of functionality
- Ease of use
- Great reporting capability
- More flexibility on certain parts of the recruiting workflow.
- More options for custom templates and being able to share templates
July 23, 2020
Jobvite is excellent!
We use almost all of the Jobvite modules including Recruit, On-boarding, Engage, and Text. Jobvite is mainly prevalent in our recruiting team but is also touched by HR and our hiring managers in the field. We use it and our one true source of candidates and tracking for those candidates through the sourcing, screening, and hiring process.
- Extremely user friendly!
- Excellent customer support!
- Everyone can get access to the information they need, meaning that hiring managers do not need to depend on the recruiter.
- Helps provide a great candidate experience!
- I wish the reporting was a little more robust in the area of canned reports.
July 13, 2020
Jobvite Offers a Modern Tool for Talent Acquisition
Jobvite is used across the organization and is the sole application used by recruiters and managers for sourcing employees. The company also utilizes Jobvite's On-Boarding module and is the primary method for the on-boarding of new hires across the organization. The TA leadership team utilizes Jobvite's reporting capabilities to track metrics for management reporting purposes. Employees are able to use the Publisher functionality to post open positions to their social networks, although usage of this tool remains lower than hoped.
- Jobvite provides an excellent candidate experience, and we're able to minimize the time to apply and conduct all interactions through the application.
- The Engage CRM has robust capabilities around constructing and executing marketing campaigns for events such as college career fairs.
- The On-Boarding module is efficient and effective at providing an excellent new hire on-boarding experience. New hires are able to complete all but a handful of tasks prior to their first day on the job, improving time-to-productivity. Internal surveys have demonstrated a high degree of employee satisfaction with the process.
- The reporting functionality is not as robust as we would like to see. While improvements are underway, it is not as intuitive for building reports as desired.
- The implementation methodology for new customers left room for improvement. Not having an assigned resource who was accountable for the end-to-end implementation resulted in some delays in launching that could have been avoided.
July 13, 2020
Jobvite Improved Our Candidate Experience
It is being used by the recruitment department. It addresses keeping the candidate funnel intact, allows us to communicate with potential candidates, and create a positive candidate experience.
- Email campaigns
- Candidate status
- Web application process
- Downtime
- Grouping on candidates.
- Linkage between engage and hiring portions of the product.
July 08, 2020
Jobvite is in a class of its own
Jobvite is being used across the entire organization. Our package includes Hire, Engage, Onboard and we have a Jobvite hosted careers site (rather than using another vendor and the Jobvite API). We have hundreds of open positions, onboard hundreds of new hires each year, and receive thousands of applications. Jobvite allows us to have all of that information in a central place with a customized and powerful tool behind it.
- Customization
- Social Friendly
- Customer Support
- Continuous Improvement
- Some settings are "one for all" across different departments/categories
- Some training needed for end users (hiring managers)
- Onboard has a "mass export", but you can't customize what is included in that export
October 15, 2019
Great tool!
It was an HR tool that was used all across the organization. Our team used it to keep track of applicants, notes within the interviewing process and gave room for managers to share their feedback on candidates as well. Helped solve the challenges of sifting through applicants and making good use of everyone's time.
- Keep track of applicants.
- Entering notes in the system based on specific interviews.
- Able to auto-share open positions through social media platforms to encourage applicants.
- I know there were some difficulties in the back-end/HR side of things, but I'm not familiar with them.
October 14, 2019
Cost Effective and Reasonably Feature-rich
Jobvite is our applicant tracking system for North America. It allows us to:
The quality of support is excellent.
- Post jobs
- Collect incoming resumes
- Collect compliance information
- Collect initial screening information
- Distribute resumes to job boards
- Integrate with LinkedIn
- Manage candidates associated with requisitions
- Book interviews
- Directly message candidates
- Track a candidate's history with our organization
- Book and manage interviews
The quality of support is excellent.
- Sharing jobs on job boards and social media.
- Intuitive use and administration.
- Collaborate with recruiting colleagues on candidate statuses, moving candidates through the process.
- User access control - The ability to restrict certain recruiters to access requisitions and candidates associated with their office, country, or region.
- Is application-centric vs candidate-centric. If I search for John Smith, it looks like there at 10 John smiths in results, whereas in reality there is one who has applied to 10 jobs.
- Ability to integrate with multiple instances of Office365 for calendar/interview booking reasons.
October 08, 2019
Jobvite is the best rated ATS for a reason
We are currently using Jobvite as our principal ATS, CRM and will soon be deploying it's texting platform as well. Implementing Jobvite has been a tremendous success for us, it allowed us to greatly simplify the application process, and improve the overall candidate experience. Also by deploying it's CRM, we've been able to vastly improve our reach to candidates, both those of whom are in our talent community as well as those that we have sourced externally.
- Ability to leverage the platform to connect all of your users and their social networks to promote your jobs.
- Very easy to use interface for users, leaders, and applicants.
- Greatly improves the candidate experience.
- Integration with LinkedIn is a game-changer.
- Reporting could be a bit more robust, especially with custom reports, but they are working on that now with some improvements coming out soon.
- More customization with security for roles would be great. Restrict or open up what managers can or cannot see etc.
- Doing more to ensure there are no duplicate entries, meaning, the same people with different profiles in the system.
October 04, 2019
Jobvite to the rescue!
A considerable amount of our clients don't employ normally so we required a framework that was very easy to understand and would help them en route. We also are making a good amount of use of their reporting tool.
- The integration of the whole process with HR was excellent.
- Employee referrals.
- Very user-friendly.
- Very resourceful tool, but we'd love to see integration with Outlook.
January 02, 2019
Jobvite
Applicant tracking systems have come and gone at our company. With Jobvite we are able to make our image to the applicants much more streamlined. Much of our need was to make the experience quick and painless when applying for a job, will still being able to gather the applicant's profile details.
- Flexibility
- Social Networking
- User Experience
- More Integration with HRIS
- Managing Security
- Importing/Exporting Users
December 23, 2015
Jobvite, It's Okay....
We use Jobvite to manage our staffing and recruitment activities.
- Great for mobile access.
- Great for social media.
- Great for scheduling interviews.
- Data analysis and reporting.
- Searching candidates.
- Customer service.
- Would be great if we had a dedicated personal representative to contact.
- Managers and employees who use it have trouble with the system.
- It doesn't work with certain versions of Internet Explorer which our company uses.
November 11, 2015
Jobvite does the job!
We use Jobvite primarily for its ATS capability. It is primary used by HR in the recruiting function. The Jobvite tool helps provide us with recruiting solutions for managing the entire hiring process. I can track candidates easily, create reports, schedule interviews, etc. It truly goes beyond your typical ATS. The HireRight background integration in Jobvite is great as you can initiate background checks from the ATS itself. The features are innovative, easy to use, and really helps to streamline the hiring process.
- Reporting tools. You can create customized reports in this ATS from candidates in your current pipelines in certain requisitions to offer declines over a past year.
- Scheduling Tool. Jobvite integrates Google Calendar which makes it easy to schedule interviews in Jobvite itself.
- Social Recruiting. You can easily post positions out to your LinkedIn/Facebook/Twitter network.
- Tech support via chat. There are some instances when it takes awhile for a representative to help out via chat.
- When modifying a interview schedule, I wish the tool would automatically update the schedule when I make a change to one person on the list.
July 04, 2015
Jobvite - Reviewed by a Recruiter
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
The entire Recruiting function uses Trulia for all of our Applicant Tracking System needs. Hiring Managers and interviewers are entering in their feedback, seeing resumes, and accepting calendar scheduling.
- User Interface provides an ease of use
- Information is organized and easy to find and navigate
- The newest version requires less "clicks" and performs better than the previous version
- Better search capability
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Jobvite as our Applicant Tracking System. We use it throughout the organization to manage hiring for all levels of positions, from part-time staff to VP level positions. When we started using Jobvite, I was new to the organization and there was no ATS in place (resumes were sent via email). We began using the system to address the need to better track and manage our hiring process. We train all hiring managers on utilization, and the HR function manages the platform.
- Social recruiting is one of Jobvite's strengths. We are able to manually or automatically broadcast jobs on social media, like Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin. Our employees are also able to do the same, and we love the ability to engage with applicants in a variety of mediums.
- The communication tools in Jobvite are fantastic. They use coding to allow responses from candidates to be automatically captured in the file, so we retain all email communication in one place for reference. We have the ability to send emails to the candidate directly (including customizable templates), and also to make notes in the file that can automatically be emailed to various constituents.
- I love the tabbed format that allows us to see relevant information for candidates without being overwhelmed by data. The printing and viewing functions are great, and allow us to effectively see the candidate's original documents as well as text versions.
- There is a tab to allows you to see the history of all views and actions taken by people who have access to the file, so it's easy to identify and actor if a mistake is made, or to check the original intention of the person who made the change in the file. This allows us to give more ownership to Hiring Managers, as we can check their work.
- Jobvite can be a bit glitchy in different web browsers. We have a more detailed online application that we require applicants to complete before an in-person interview, and 10-20% of our applicants have challenges with completing it and need help. There are challenges with firefox and safari, so we usually recommend people use IE or Chrome. There is a registration process candidates need to complete by clicking and email and setting up a password after submitting their resume in order to access the site in the future, and many people miss completing this, which causes frustration in the future.
- The system has challenges with multiple browser tabs being open at once, and occasionally gives error messages when something is submitted due to conflicts.
March 10, 2015
Jobvite, a good recruiting, marketing tool
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I implemented Jobvite globally in January 2012, Our offices in US, Canada, China, Japan use Jobvite for Sourcing, Recruiting and Applicant Tracking. It is a great tool to use for tracking applicants and processing them through the recruiting process. It is also a great system to use to recruit through social networks. Currently we are not using all the features to full extend but plan on using them as we train our employees and managers and they get comfortable using it.
- It is very user friendly.
- Everyone in the organization can help source for candidates from their networks so it is not just the recruiters, HR and managers sourcing the candidates
- Once a person sends a jobvite to their LinkedIn network, email contacts etc. it has the capabilities to keep track of who initially referred the job.
- The interview scheduling capability where it links to Microsoft Outlook so you can see the availability of the interviews still does not work properly.
- Jobvite does not support older version of Internet Explorer which is an issue with mid size organizations who cannot move to new versions immediately
- Need to be able to customize the workflows more that currently available. The workflows work for us but could be better
February 26, 2015
great tool for growing tech company
We are using Jobvite as our applicant tracking system plus it is the display for our careers page. We use it company wide in all departments for all recruiting needs. Before we had jobvite, we were sorting through a general "Resumes" inbox which was time consuming, plus now we're able to track where applicants are through the entire interview process. It makes it easy for hiring managers to know the status of their applicants without having to send unnecessary (or constant) emails. I'm the only person for HR so I'm doing all of the recruiting as well. Jobvite easily organizes our roles and applicants without letting anyone slip through the process. Plus it makes it easy for our employees to upload referrals into the system without those getting lost in my inbox.
- It keeps applicants from submission through to hire (or rejection) very organized! You can add internal notes, screening questions and track all communications for each candidate.
- It promotes employee referrals and makes it easy for employees to reach their social networks. The majority of our employees automatically publish to their LinkedIn accounts on a regular basis with our open roles, therefore increasing the number of applicants we have (plus the quality is higher),
- There are several pre-made reports to easily grab statistics on job performance or information about hires without having to do a ton of analysis (which can be time consuming for a 1 person team.)
- One annoyance is that our company profile info (that is displayed on our careers page) can be updated in Jobvite, but then I have to submit a request to have it reflected on our careers page.
February 23, 2015
Jobvite is where it is at when it comes to ATS that are modern, elegant and easy to use.
I used Jobvite at two startups (HubSpot.com and Communispace.com). I ran recruiting for both companies at the time. It was used across the organization to hire the best possible talent.
- Infiltrates networks to find the best candidates within an employee's network.
- Great sourcing tool.
- Fantastic interface.
- Ease of use for non-technical staff.
- I have no suggestions for improvements.
- The product worked as advertised.
- They also have great software support.
Jobvite is our company's applicant tracking system. Jobvite is synced with our career site and it is the method in which we receive all of our applications. We also use Jobvite as our internal job posting and hiring portal. We are able to send internal job notifications through Jobvite and collect internal applications. Our employees are able to setup a publishing tool that automatically posts our jobs to their social networks on a regular basis. The frequency of how many times they get posted is determined by the employee. We have also been using their Engage tool which is primarily for sourcing. It's an additional cost and priced per user. Engage allows you to apply boolean search logic to search the open web for resumes. It's not the best technology we have seen so we are not utilizing it and have decided to go with another company to do this for us. They also have a Talent Community where you can either use their widget and add it to your site or build landing pages for the widget and customize it for each hiring event to collect resumes. It's a pretty good CRM tool.
- Social media recruiting. Their publisher app allows employees to very easily set up their social media pages once to automatically post jobs to their feed and they never have to update it again. It makes it easy for our company to get applications from employees and our employees receive a nice referral bonus to boot. The only problem is getting the employees to set it up to begin with.
- Their scheduling system is by far the best I've ever seen. The scheduling we do is very complex. We have 2 recruiting coordinators for a 1200 person company. We hire anywhere from 100-150 sales people a month and about 100 product/tech people a year. Our scheduling requires coordinating between several c-level, senior level executives with very limited availability. Some of our interviews take 6 hours onsite and must be scheduled in a specific order. Jobvite's scheduling tool integrates with Outlook and allows us to view availability and book conference rooms right from their platform.
- Jobvite allows you to track email communication to candidates. The way they do this is to have all communication go through their email server. The pro to having it setup this way is that they can track all communication with no additional work from the client. The negative to this is that there is a LOT of room for messages to get lost, end up in peoples' spam folders, or for emails to never get to the recipient. They could be lost for several reasons but because Jobvite shows that the message was sent on their end, there is very little they can do to help you resolve the issue.
- Very limited in customization. While Jobvite does have a lot of great features, there is not one system in the world that will work for everyone. So it's important to be able to openly integrate with other vendors that do specialize in the areas that they are not the best in and to be able to customize certain things like dashboards to fit to each individual company. I have tried to work with several vendors over the 5 years that I have used Jobvite and the one common theme I hear from those vendors is that they integrate with almost every major ATS out there except for Jobvite because Jobvite is difficult to work with. It would also be great to be able to customize our dashboards so different user roles can see only the things they need to see at a glace when logged in. Jobvite only has one dashboard for all users.
- Reporting is lacking. There is a limit to the fields Jobvite reports on. They have a contacts tab to keep track of your pipeline of passive candidates and there is no functionality to report on any activity tied to those contacts. It's also difficult to report on simple things.