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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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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
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SmartRecruiters Integrations
- LinkedIn Talent Hub
- Workday Human Capital Management
- DocuSign
- The Okta Identity Cloud
- 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
- Oracle Fusion Cloud HCM
- Jobvite
- Greenhouse
- Lever
- Workday Human Capital Management
- iCIMS
- Avature
- Success Factors
SmartRecruiters Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Languages | Afrikaans, 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 |
SmartRecruiters Downloadables
- Guide to Evaluating the Business Value of a Talent Acquisition Platform
- Global Hiring Trends 2023 - How Talent Acquisition can Adapt and Thrive in 2023 and Beyond
- Xplor Technologies Fuels Consistent Growth with Data-Driven Recruiting
- How Frasers Hires at Scale in Retail
- 11 Ways to Save Money for the ATS Search
- Technology Checklist for Building a Strategic Talent Acquisition Function
- Future Proof Talent Acquisition Checklist
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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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Reviewers rate Company Website Posting highest, with a score of 9.7.
The most common users of SmartRecruiters are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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SmartRecruiters is an incredible tool to keep all parts of the recruitment process in a single place. From posting jobs, managing candidates, keeping track of their status in the process, adding comments and important information about them in an organized way, collaborating with the hiring team, etc.
- Sending interview and self-schedule interview invitations directly from the platform and integrated to Outlook.
- All sorts of possibilities to ask questions or add important information about the candidate (screening questions, forms, specific and customized fields such as notice period, salary range or expectations, etc.)
- The recruiter interface is really good, with lots of details to allow the team to be more organized and efficient
- Too many filters that are not the most important ones. Sometimes it's hard to find what we are looking for
- I'd like the possibility to customize the fields and filters more (especially on the candidates tab)
- Because SmartRecruiters is SO complete, it can be complex to do some setups or to use all its functionalities sometimes
March 28, 2023
Great ATS, can always be better as any software but User Voice is nice and our CSM is really helping !
SmartRecruiters is used worldwide by all recruiters and managers to follow recruitment process, it's also used for internal applications.
Allowing us to track properly the candidates paths and improving the overall candidate experience, it also allows us to keep an history and track the right KPIs.
Allowing us to track properly the candidates paths and improving the overall candidate experience, it also allows us to keep an history and track the right KPIs.
- Interview scheduling
- Provide detail data
- Easy posting
- More automation on some settings
- Fields for recruiters other than notes (with privacy access)
- Being able to build our own dashboards
March 24, 2023
Very happy with my SmartRecruiters experience!
SmartRecruiters is used by our stores and support services. It allows: the complete dematerialization of the recruitment process (everything is centralized in the same tool, and for people who are not in the recruitment business, SmartRecruiters makes it possible to guide and facilitate the process and collaborative work), saving time (thanks to job templates, email templates, integration with Microsoft Office 365, job boards...), optimizing our processes, and centralizing and securing data.
- Job advertising
- Candidate experience
- User assistance (best HelpVenter and support team ever!)
- Integration via API of Pole Emploi
- Sharing reports with groups (not individual users)
- Be able to give read access to settings sections for custom system roles
March 03, 2023
Smart or Not SmartRecruiter
We use SmartRecruiters as a base platform or hub to advertise job openings and manage the candidates.
- Design of platform
- Ease of use
- database
- scheduling
- Actual link or window to subscriptions
- better pricing for more known job search engines
- ability to renew old job search titles
February 21, 2023
Smart ATS
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 to our careers page and other integrated job boards such as TradeMe, LinkedIn and Seek. We also track external and internal applications, process applications through the hiring process (reviewing screening questions and CVs, phone screening, interviewing, submitting applicant comments and ratings, declining applications, and submitting job offers). Our SmartRecruiters is also integrated with DocuSign, allowing us to generate offer details inside SmartRecruiters, which can then flow through to DocuSign to generate contract paperwork. We utilise back-end reporting as well to track our hire and turnover statistics.
- Offer template customisations
- Being able to set up multiple different approval chains for jobs and offers
- Applicant tracking
- Settings page can be difficult to navigate & find what you're looking for
- Job approval chains would be better with additional qualifying fields so that we can segregate different areas of the business better
- The ability to edit an existing offer template in-system would improve the experience, rather than having to edit offline and upload a whole new version.
February 09, 2023
Love it
We utilize it heavily for full cycle recruiting. we also integrate assessments as well as references
- Outlook integration
- user functionality
- Autosaves summaries when you dont click submit
- I would like to see the reporting change a bit so that a recruiter's name stays with candidate's offer so we can track what recruiter hired who. (when you change the recruiter on the REQ it names that recruiter for all the hires and offers)
- Stronger LinkedIn integration
- I would like to see an option for noting a role can be remote but either in a single state or certain states
November 01, 2019
Nice, intuitive and modern-looking tool that can feel slow at times
SmartRecruiters is used organization-wide for recruitment for a wide range of types of contracts. It is used by recruiters in the HR department, but also by the recruiting managers in the corresponding business unit. It is a central place where everyone can share and access information about job candidates within the organization.
- It has a nice modern design.
- Most of the application is rather user-friendly.
- It provides links to both documentation as well as communication with the candidate.
- Speed. The cloud solution has a tendency to be solved.
- Exporting of data. In some cases, it would be nice to consult data offline, which currently is not possible to do.
- Random sorting of data. Different people that connect have the candidates sorted in different orders.
SmartRecruiters is our primary talent acquisition (TA) platform used by HR and all the hiring managers across sales and services within the company. It allows for a transparent and organized recruitment feed between TA and the hiring managers. It stores all candidate information and notes from those involved in the screening and interview process.
- It provides better viability and stronger collaboration efforts between TA and hiring managers.
- One-stop tool for all things recruiting.
- Keeps historical data.
- There are a couple of different ways you can view candidate profiles, and depending on the route you chose to access, certain info varies. Would be nice to simplify this.
- Intelligence to make recommendations on other company positions per candidate submittal.
August 27, 2019
Great tool!
It is a tool used for both the internal and external hiring of the company.
- Handles end-to-end hiring process. You do not need to use another tool.
- Easy to access and manage.
- For internal hiring purposes, I would love to see the feature in which there is a notification email sent to the immediate manager of the employee once the employee submitted his application.
August 24, 2019
The only option we would consider.
We currently use SmartRecruiters as aggregate sourcing for new-hire candidates that cover all of our territories in FL, NY, CT, NJ, PA, TN, VA, MI, DC, and MD.
- The user-facing interface is intuitive and extraordinarily navigable.
- It has a robust scope of partnerships with other platforms like Indeed and LinkedIn, which broadens the pool of candidates to whom we have access.
- Front-end customization of response templates and dispositions.
- Batch processing of candidates would be nice. When we have over 1,000 candidates to review-- a quarter of which we can summarily dismiss due the candidates' physical location being dozens, if not hundreds of miles from our nearest territory (residing within the territory is the expectation)-- it would be beneficial and a more efficient process to have the ability to check a box next to each candidate and click on "Reject," rather than rejecting every one of them individually.
August 21, 2019
Simple interface
We use the system to quickly access new candidates and look through multiple resumes to find the right fit. In most business, it is important to have the opportunity to schedule interviews in a timely fashion. The growth of this brand has opened up the ability to conduct background checks and inboard a new hire in one system.
- Communication portal.
- Onboarding.
- Resume layout.
- Interface
- Video chat ability.
- Buzz word feedback.
June 12, 2019
SmartRecruiters - An Efficient Hiring Tool
The entire organization uses SmartRecruiters to track the entire recruiting process. It addresses the problem of organizing the candidate review, interview, and offer process. It allows team members across the globe easy access to review and share reviews of candidates along the way. It also supports recruiters in providing easily accessible review details.
- Candidate review process.
- Tracking the progress of a new hire.
- Accessibility into reviews of colleagues.
- Filtering results based on keywords found in a resume.
- Alerts based on other user feedback on a candidate.
- In-screen resume preview.
October 04, 2018
SmartRecruiters - The Heavy-lifting Recruiting, Candidate Tracking and Hiring Process Software
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.
- Buttoned-up tried and true recruiting processes - just works!
- Collaborative and comprehensive recruiting and hiring systems
- Flexible enough to customize easily!
- 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).
September 25, 2018
Improvement in efficiency
Currently, we use SmartRecruiters for full-cycle recruiting including sourcing, interviewing, offer, and acceptance/hire. After hiring a candidate, we also use SmartRecruiters for confirming their start date and notifying all appropriate people that the candidate has been hired. It is used in our HR department, Training department, and our billing department uses it slightly. Overall, it has helped our recruiting department become more efficient with automating processes and it's extremely useful with the email templates you're able to set up and integration with Google calendar. We have figured out a way to use it for our internal promotion process and also using it for approving new hires for certain positions.
- I love the integration with Google calendar because everyone who is involved in the interview gets an invitation and it shows up on your calendar.
- The use of auto-fill templates helps significantly and speeds up the time it takes to send an email to interested candidates.
- The offer approval process is easy to edit and helps keep everyone on the same page.
- Reporting features are very limited on SmartRecruiters. You're not able to run reports on what your team did throughout the week. Being able to track key performance indicators is very limited.
- There's missing pieces on the app side of things. For instance, on the app you get a notification of if there's an offer you need to approve. On the website, you do not get a notification (only email notification). As a result of this, offer approvals get lost in emails.
- I'd like to see more integration with text messaging. SmartRecruiters had mentioned they were in the works of creating text message notifications to confirm interviews and things like that. I haven't heard much more about it for the past 2-3 months, but this is something I'm very interested in.
March 18, 2018
Splashed
SmartRecruiters is being used to find Waterpark Staff. It was a program that was in place upon my arrival. SmartRecruiters is a useful tool in connecting me to applicants that I might not otherwise locate and have the chance to interview.
- Connects me to applicants that I might not connect.
- SmartRecruiters is another tool to use in my recruitment of new staff.
- Smartrecruiters allows me to prescreen applicants without going through the interview process. I receive an email anytime there is a potential candidate to review.
- SmartRecruiters allows me a place to keep job descriptions posted indefinitely.
- Have SmartRecruiters screen applicants. For examples: try to gauge the level of interest an applicant has in finding a job...casual, semi-serious, serious; are they looking for full-time, part-time, on call; what hour are they looking for days, mids, nights, weekends.
- A link indicator of the applicant posting a resume. Some of the applicants are in their profile, some are attached, and it is not always easy to determine which is which.
- Have the applicant select an expiration date on their interest. For example, I was on vacation shortly before a recruit posted an interest. By time I got back to her, she was no longer interested. However, I spent 3 days trying to pursue her before discovering her lack of interest.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
SmartRecruiters is our go-to hiring platform at Sculpt. We're a small shop, so lots of people have their hands in HR. I need administrative control of our software, but want others to collaborate. SR made that easy. We also needed a product that would streamline the chaotic process of recruiting, vetting and evaluating potential candidates, and nothing has come close to SmartRecruiters. We don't hire frequently, but when we do, it has to be smart.
- Creating and seamlessly syndicating job postings across the right places on the web
- Managing a database of job candidates in an easy-to-navigate interface
- Collaborating with our team throughout the entire selection process
- Communicating with candidates through the hiring process
- Sorting candidates by various attributes and ratings
- We never nail a job description the first time. A more clear and seamless edit function would ensure we can make changes on the fly without walking through the entire publishing process again
- Making blind hiring easier would be helpful
- Candidates often miss our request to upload additional documents because the only place to add it is buried in the main description
- Would be nice to upload or embed better media from more sources
- Integration with other job networks means the formatting looks a little funky when uploaded
March 07, 2018
SmartRecruiters at a glance
SmartRecruiters is being used by our Talent Acquisition Department in order to recruit in a high volume, high turnover environment.
- Organization: SmartRecruiters is an easy way to keep organized pushing candidates through each stage, with indications, as we go.
- Tags: The tag function allows you to pinpoint specifics of certain candidates and search those specifics, when needed.
- App: The SmartRecruiters App allows on the go access for hiring managers to review candidates.
- Recently Viewed: It would be great if SmartRecruiters had a recently viewed section on the side so that you can easily return to recent profiles.
- Pulling Data: SmartRecruiters is limited in pulling specific information and has much room to improve.
It's being used across the company to track employees and for adding comments to the candidate's profile.
- 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.
- Glitches from time to time.
- The smartrecruiters app could be better with more functionality.
March 06, 2018
SmartRecruiters should be part of your hiring system RFI
SmartRecruiters is being used for job posting and applicant tracking across our entire organization by replacing an in-house system that had grown obsolete. In the first 4 months we saw a 300% increase our year over year applicant numbers. Our hiring managers are impressed with the number and quality of the applicants and the speed at which they are able to fill new positions.
- Generate an applicant pool quickly.
- Track applicants through the hiring process.
- Posting positions to multiple job boards.
- Unable to skin the SaaS interface. Green may clash with your company branding.
- Lack of support for Job Posting Schema https://schema.org/JobPosting, used by some government job boards.
March 06, 2018
Love my SmartRecruiter!!!
We use SmartRecruiters across our Americas organization. The tool has helped automate and report in real time all of our recruiting activities. It has proven to be a highly valued tool, especially in our seasonal ramps. The tool has allowed us the ability to stay in communication with applicants and internally as a Team.
- The Apps on Android and Iphone are great while on the run.
- The ability to assess and see that as a consolidated score across Team members is great.
- Applicants love the auto import from Linkedin and Facebook.
- Adhoc reporting is not available on Team version.
March 06, 2018
SmartRecruiter- the next wave of Recruitment
SmartRecruiters is being implemented across the organization. All managers, recruiters, business partners and directors will use the system on a day to day basis. The employee population will also have access to the employee site/referral portal. The system allow us to work smarter not longer. It allows us to save money on job board distribution and integrates well with LinkedIn.
- Outlook integration is fantastic
- Notifications to the management team
- The ability to change things your self is amazing.
- There is no ability to post only internally, every job gets posted internally and externally
- The levels of security and functionality needs to be rethought. Managers should be able to view but not edit.
November 20, 2017
SmartRecruiters is worth a look!
I used SmartRecruiters (SR) in my previous company, as part of the HR team. We did have some hiring managers using it, as well, though we did not give all managers access, based on their capabilities. It was a great tool for aggregating jobs out and it was easy to use!
- Awesome aggregation! I think SmartRecruiters does the best job of covering the most job boards, whether free or paid. We tried other options and definitely got the most response from candidates through using SR.
- The capability to talk to candidates through SmartRecruiters and to send calendar invitations internally to managers and externally to candidates was great! Not always an option with each ATS.
- Very customizable! Great options to change hiring process accordingly, add tons of templates, and even some customization through the capabilities of the program based on your budget. There's even a free version!
- SmartRecruiters doesn't speak to every payroll/HRIS system, so it's hard to make it a seamless affair when hiring candidates.
November 14, 2017
StartUp Happy with SR
SmartRecruiters is used by all of our departments to list open opportunities, post listings to social media, and screen and manage applicants. As a small SaaS company, we don't have a full HR team, let alone a recruiter. SmartRecruiters has allowed us to find and hire quality team members, without having to hire additional staff to help us do so. I was recently hiring for my direct report... I was able to set up my listing, post it to LinkedIn, find and review applicants in no time. I used the system to communicate and select applicants. Without SmartRecruiters, it would have been a lot harder for me to find and hire a good team member.
- It was very simple to create a job listing. I was able to look at other listings we had and use the template for my specific needs.
- I was able to use the built in system to rate my applicants so I was able to spend time on the applicants I actually wanted to hire.
- I found a lot of applicants very fast!
- It was a little tough to have other people on my team look at applicants until I have them access to the system.
February 13, 2017
SmartRecruiters Review
SmartRecruiters is used to manage the application process for new potential hires in all departments. It is organized into different pipelines and assigned to that designated hiring manager to manage the pipeline and contact the candidates that apply for that position. We use it for hiring new employees across the entire organization.
- Organize candidates into different pipelines.
- Makes contacting candidates easy.
- Keeps track of every point of contact made to the candidate.
- Occasionally certain links take a long time to load or send a message multiple times.
- Offering more options for feedback selections about candidates.
February 08, 2017
Integrates Well!
I use SmartRecruiters to allow easy posts across multiple sites such as Indeed, CareerBuilder, Craigslist and Monster. We have access from the recruiter that works with my franchise to me. Easy to connect with people across the country to get someone hired. The system allows screening questions, progress tracking, and reviews to allow others to hopefully avoid pitfalls!
- Easy to access by applicants.
- Easy to connect to recruiter that may be in a remote location.
- Easy to advertise multiple vendors at same time.
- Creating a savable list to work from rather than performing entire search again the next day.
- Allow "locking" of candidate to prevent another location from viewing contact info until released by locking user or administrator.