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Overview

What is SmartRecruiters?

SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite is a cloud-based recruitment marketing and collaborative hiring platform. It features an open marketplace for third party recruitment services. SmartRecruiters also offers talent sourcing and screening as add-on features.

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Best ATS I have used!

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 11, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use SmartRecruiters for all of our recruitment (Early Careers to Senior Hiring) in the UK and Australia. It supports all the way from attraction to onboarding where we move...
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Verified user
Manager
SmartRecruiters5 years of experience

SmartRecruiters an efficient ATS

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 7, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use SmartRecruiters to do all our recruitment up to onboarding. SmartRecruiters solved our problem with multicasting, delayed responses and application tracking. We use it ...
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Verified user
Program Manager
SmartRecruiters2 years of experience

SmartRecruiters review

Rating: 6 out of 10
December 6, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use SmartRecruiters as our ATS for both US and Barcelona open requisitions. I would say our hiring needs are a bit volatile, and quite dormant in 2023 but we've been able t...
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Desiree De Los Santos
Employee - Human Resources
HR Generalist
Red Points
SmartRecruiters2 years of experience

Best TA Suite out there

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 6, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
SmartRecruiters is the only way talent gets into the organisation. It's our way to attract, evaluate, select, and manage all applicants at QuoIntelligence. It's a critical ass...
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Antonio Arias
C-Level Executive - Human Resources
COO (Chief Operations Officer)
QuoIntelligence
SmartRecruiters6 years of experience

Smart ATS

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 21, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use SmartRecruiters as a full applicant tracking system, integrated with PhenomPeople on our front-end careers page. We use it to obtain job hire approvals and post job ads...
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Emily Wallace
Employee - Human Resources
Talent Acquisition Coordinator
The Warehouse Group
SmartRecruiters3 years of experience
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Pricing

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Corporate

Varies, per FTE

Cloud
Billed annually

Global

Varies, per FTE

Cloud
Billed annually

SmartStart

Free

Cloud
up to 10 active job postings

Entry-level set up fee?

  • $1,000
    Required
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.smartrecruiters.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

8.5
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is SmartRecruiters?

SmartRecruiters enables Hiring Without Boundaries™ by freeing talent acquisition teams from legacy applicant tracking software. SmartRecruiters' next-generation platform serves as the hiring operating system for 4,000 customers like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa. Companies with business-critical hiring needs turn to SmartRecruiters for best-of-breed functionality, world-class support, and a robust ecosystem of third-party applications and service providers.

SmartRecruiters Features

Recruiting / ATS Features

  • Supported: Job Requisition Management
  • Supported: Company Website Posting
  • 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

SmartRecruiters Screenshots

Screenshot of a candidate experience to reach, engage, and connect with talent wherever they are.Screenshot of engaged hiring managers empowered by collaboration tools and applicant tracking to drive better hiring decisions.Screenshot of digital offer management, onboarding, and reporting deliver a seamless journey for new hires and recruiters.Screenshot of how SmartRecruiters eases the burden of juggling multiple open roles and hiring large volumes.Screenshot of an example of the routine task automation that frees up hiring teams to focus on making great hires and delivering a better candidate experience.Screenshot of where to find and discover qualified talent while getting the most from the advertising budget.

SmartRecruiters Video

SmartRecruiters Integrations

  • LinkedIn Talent Hub
  • Workday Human Capital Management
  • DocuSign
  • Okta
  • SAP SuccessFactors Learning
  • Job Boards
  • Assessment Services
  • Background Checks
  • Video Interviewing
  • Onboarding
  • Reference Checks
  • Right to Work (RtW) checks
  • Conversational Hiring Experience
  • Communication and Scheduling
  • Interview Intelligence
  • Workforce planning software

SmartRecruiters Competitors

SmartRecruiters Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported LanguagesAfrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

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Frequently Asked Questions

SmartRecruiters’ Talent Acquisition Suite is a cloud-based recruitment marketing and collaborative hiring platform. It features an open marketplace for third party recruitment services. SmartRecruiters also offers talent sourcing and screening as add-on features.

SmartRecruiters starts at $0.

Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM, Jobvite, and Greenhouse are common alternatives for SmartRecruiters.

Reviewers rate Company Website Posting highest, with a score of 9.9.

The most common users of SmartRecruiters are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Candidate selection process streamlined

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 01, 2023
Verified User
Team Lead in Marketing
Research Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartRecruiters
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use SmartRecruiters when recruiting for new team members. It's a great tool for tracking the entire progress and analysing new candidates. I have used many different functions including the referral process and found it to be smooth and useful. There's a really handy link section including CVs of candidates interviewed, and useful places to keep and share notes between HR and hiring managers.
Pros
  • Provide multiple functions
  • Good CV linking
  • Referral system
Cons
  • Difficult journey back to my open roles
  • Always pushed to a homepage of all vacancies in company vs individual dashboard
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartRecruiters is well suited for companies who have both HR teams / Talent Aquisition teams / Hiring managers working across multiple roles together. It allows you to share back and forth notes internally, as well as rating. You can get a good overview from either view, and also add permissions for people helping the hiring process but not necessarily needing all information (i.e. salary etc.). It offers a handy way to download CVs and compare candidates.

A simple, but solid candidate application tool

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
September 25, 2018
CK
Cody Kimball
Machine Learning Engineer
The Data Guy (E-Learning, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartRecruiters
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is used across the entire organization as a simple platform for candidate life-cycle management when tracking prospective candidates for open positions. Really simply it fills that need without any burdensome overhead for implementation and integration with the rest of the HR suite of tools currently used.
Pros
  • Provides transparency to candidates to see where they are in the application life cycle
  • Collaborative capabilities for hiring committee to collect and understand opinions of candidate quickly across all hiring committee members
  • Simple clean UI
Cons
  • Integration with Workday to transfer user content into the HR system
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for tracking candidates in the hiring life cycle; really in my opinion [it] shouldn't be used for other use cases which would be better suited for other tools.

Excellent ATS for the bottom line and candidate experience

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 07, 2018
AV
Amit Vasudeva
Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant at AOL
AOL (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartRecruiters
5 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It's being used across the company to track employees and for adding comments to the candidate's profile.
Pros
  • Has a lot of filters to get exactly the job or candidate you want to view.
  • iIt's very user friendly to post jobs and update a candidate's status.
  • I like the reporting tool, it shows where we are coming short in the recruiting process.
Cons
  • Glitches from time to time.
  • The smartrecruiters app could be better with more functionality.
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartRecruiters is well suited for recruiters and hiring managers to make sound decisions on candidates.

SmartRecruiters - The Heavy-lifting Recruiting, Candidate Tracking and Hiring Process Software

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
October 04, 2018
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Retail Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartRecruiters
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our small entrepreneurial enterprise used SmartRecruiters for all HR Recruiting work throughout the organization. The software suite and support team helped us tremendously by helping us to cut costs in recruiting new FTE, as well as form a buttoned-up recruiting process. In about two months time, I was able single-handedly post three job postings, scour through literally hundreds of legitimate applicants, filter out candidates that were not a match while at the same time sending out friendly notifications communicating clearly each candidate status, and utilize a single centralized dashboard for each interview and hiring process. We used all this to collaborate as a hiring time - I went on to involve 3-4 of my non-management team members to help review each top-rated candidate in a clean, consistent, collaborative manner. A bonus value-add was having everything at one glance, with comprehensive reporting abilities for our senior management and company partners. Hands down, one of the most flexible, collaborative recruiting tools with amazing buttoned-up processes.
Pros
  • Buttoned-up tried and true recruiting processes - just works!
  • Collaborative and comprehensive recruiting and hiring systems
  • Flexible enough to customize easily!
Cons
  • SmartRecruiters could easily use some lower tier pricing packages - particularly for super small companies with smaller budgets who may be unable to keep up one year agreements. Option to downgrade during time of need, or during lull in hiring, should be easy - would help retain SmartRecruiters clients while clients maintain full access to their recruiting software systems.
  • SmartRecruiters staff could be more helpful when the business has a need to downgrade levels (from $300/mo) to save in monthly expenditures, in order to keep clients. Or, at least offer an option to downgrade for little/no fee simply to have the business data retention factor - enabling for easy, quick upgrades for full access at later date (as in, seasonal businesses who hire once or twice per year).
Likelihood to Recommend
The cash saved in using a truly comprehensive software suite such as SmartRecruiters is, hands down, a no-brainer, if a business is hiring or re-hiring numerous staff each year. The alternative often is paying a recruiting firm several thousand dollars per head for finders' fees, or a recruiting staffing firm in overage fees for contract staff adds.

SmartRecruiters for Your Recruiting Needs

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 04, 2017
Verified User
Professional in Human Resources
Motion Pictures and Film Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have just started using SR for a few months in my company. I am a recruiter and we used to use Taleo before making the switch. We are a large, multi-location company and we use SR for the recruiters as well as for the hiring managers across 8 locations all over the world. So far, we have a count of about 35,000 applicants in our system. So, just to give you an idea of the volume that we deal with.

So far, like every other software out there, there are pros and cons with SR. It really depends on what your company needs. The SR team was very good in trying to keep up with our demands and requirements. There were and are hiccups here and there, but in my experience, it is expected because our industry is quite specific and our internal workflow is also very specific. However, I have to give it to the SR team for doing their best to try to meet our demands.

Now moving on the specifics. It has been a few months of using SR and we are getting the hang of it.

Pros
  • It has a LinkedIn/Facebook type of interface. Internally, you can "rate" candidates, leave comments and reviews on their profiles which can be seen by everyone who is in charge in all of our locations. This eliminates feedback getting lost in emails or candidates falling through the cracks.
  • You can connect Outlook to SR. Messages that you write to candidates through SR go through your Outlook and conversations can be continued through Outlook and recorded in SR. In that sense, it's very transparent as anyone who has access to internal SR info can view your conversations with the candidates.
  • Scheduling interviews is super easy. Interviews scheduled through SR are sent to Outlook directly as a normal calendar entry in Outlook. You can invite multiple people through outlook scheduling and send an interview invite to candidates directly in SR as you are scheduling. Candidates will also get an invite in their emails and they can "accept" the invitation and we will be notifed once they "accept".
  • You can include screening questions for applicants, so when they apply from our website, depending on which job they apply for, the correct screening questions will be asked while they are doing their application.
  • You can also import resumes easily to create new profiles.
  • The site is user friendly.
  • The candidate search functions are great, ie: the SR tagging system
  • Job search functions are great, ie: if you have multiple recruiters, multiple departments, multiple locations, and hundreds of job listings.
  • Candidate organization is also great. Different statuses allow for better candidate organization ie: New, Review by recruiter, Review by hiring manager, interviewing, on hold, etc. When a candidate's status has been changed, the candidate will automatically be moved to the relevant list within the specific pool.
  • Iphone/Andoird SR app is useful if you are on the go and you want to review candidates quickly or if you want to quickly put in interview feedback right after an interview.
Cons
  • The main con about reviewing candidates is that there are no clickable links in the SR phone app. In our industry, viewing demo reels is a main thing. Any youtube links, or vimeo links that are within the candidate's profile are not clickable. I hope they fix this soon, otherwise you are not able to view demo reels using the phone app. If you are on a web browser on your computer, if there is a demo reel link in the candidate's profile as well, it is also unclickable. Candidates can only include one link as an "attachment". If they have multiple websites or multiple demo reels, they can include them in the main body of their profile, but we have to copy and paste the links one by one to the web browser to view them.
  • When you create a new profile by importing a word or pdf file, sometimes the information is not extracted properly.
  • The list of jobs that are posted on our website through SR are not in alphabetical order. They are ordered by the newest posting at the top. As we deal with high volumes of postings, it's quite inconvenient to find a specific posting.
  • When messaging a candidate, you are unable to CC another person in the conversation. There is only a BCC option.
  • We had to transfer all of the details of our candidates from the previous software that we used to SR and they have not found a way to transport all of the reviews and feedback that we had accumulated in the last 2 years, ie: we have no way of knowing if we had hired a particular candidate in the past. Again, keep in mind that we deal with high volume.
  • You are unable to merge two profiles together. For example, if you have a candidate who applied twice with different email addresses, you are not able to marge the two profiles.
  • Once you start a conversation with a candidate through SR, when you continue the conversation through outlook afterwards, email addresses are shown as SR email address which is a long combination of letters and numbers. This has been confusing candidates because they think that the email address that they see is incorrect.
Likelihood to Recommend
For high volume, SR has some limitations. For a smaller company who do not not have too many people involved in internal hiring process, SR would be quite effecient. It really depends on the company's internal hiring process. For us, we are a large multinational company and we have specific internal hiring process within our recruitment and HR department. Therefore, we have experienced some hiccups when it comes to using HR for our hiring process. But, so far, things seem to be getting better slowly but surely. I would definitely recommend SR, but I would also suggest really knowing what it is that your company needs and knowing what it is that SR is good for before jumping in with both feet.
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