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SmartRecruiters

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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Recent Reviews

Best ATS I have used!

9 out of 10
December 11, 2023
Incentivized
We use SmartRecruiters for all of our recruitment (Early Careers to Senior Hiring) in the UK and Australia. It supports all the way from …
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Smart ATS

8 out of 10
February 21, 2023
Incentivized
We use SmartRecruiters as a full applicant tracking system, integrated with PhenomPeople on our front-end careers page. We use it to …
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Awards

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Popular Features

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  • Applicant Tracking (126)
    9.3
    93%
  • Notifications and Alerts (119)
    9.3
    93%
  • Candidate Search (122)
    8.3
    83%
  • Resume Management (119)
    7.8
    78%

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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.

8.3
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 SmartRecruiters eases the burden of juggling multiple open roles and hiring large volumes.Screenshot of Frees up hiring teams to focus on making great hires and delivering a better candidate experience by automating routine tasks.Screenshot of Find and discover qualified talent while getting the most from the advertising budget.

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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

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 9.7.

The most common users of SmartRecruiters are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

(235)

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Reviews

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Joel Zak | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use SmartRecruiters as our central platform for recruiting throughout our entire organization. HR posts the positions and we invite hiring managers to view and rate candidates, while HR continues using the tool throughout the hiring process. SmartRecruiters has as addressed our past problem of not having a recruitment tool for our managers and for human resources. Having a replaced a paper-based application and hundreds manual emails, it has vastly streamlined our process. The best part, as a non-profit, is the cost - free!
  • Streamlined communications with candidates - send emails and invites directly from a candidate's profile
  • Posting jobs - SmartRecruiters has dozens of major job boards built into the system, allowing for an easy "pick and click" job posting function
  • Strong support team. Through a message board system, as well as an assigned company representative, questions are typically answered quickly and honestly.
  • Ease of use. The interface is very user-friendly, both from an administrative and end-user perspective.
  • Flexibility in adding additional questions to the application. While there is a custom area for additional application questions, it is very limited and looks like something thrown in to the end of the application as an add on.
  • Customization. More customization of the product would allow us to capture additional information we need for specific positions.
A couple of our positions require DOT-specific information in the application process. Unfortunately, we can get this information through SmartRecruiters. If you are looking for specific information based on a position, it may not be the best for you.
  • Better customer service - we are able to communicate quickly and effectively with candidates throughout the job posting process, including informing those we do not select.
  • Eliminated the printing of thousands of emailed resumes, saving annually on paper and printer supplies. (Part of this was just the fact that we went from a paper application to an online system).
  • Cost savings on recruitment. Multiple hours were spent posting jobs to individual websites in the past, now all done on one screen via SmartRecruiters.
SmartRecruiters was a simple choice for our organization at the time of our implementation of an online recruitment system because of cost. While other systems maybe had more bells and whistles, integration, or better support, we chose SmartRecruiters because if was free. A government-funded non-profit is rarely stable and often facing budgets cuts, we based our decision extensively on this factor. The ease of use of the product was also very important.
We may chose to go in a different direction in the coming year, mainly due to the potential implementation of a new HRIS that has an integrated ATS. If we don't go in that direction, we will stick with SmartRecruiters, as it is a very solid product. You really can't ask for much more out of a free product.
20
As the organization's recruiter, I use SmartRecruiters on a daily basis. Additional members of HR use it when I am out of the office. Otherwise, all of our hiring managers are required to use it as the main piece of our recruiting structure. These positions range from mid-level managers on up to our Executive Director.
20
I provide all of the in-house support to our end users whenever they need help. As part of our policy, HR oversees all job postings and communications with candidates. This limits the amount of features management needs to use. If there are ever any major questions, I ask SmartRecruiters directly. Skills needed would be knowledge of web-based applications, strong writing skills (for job ads and email responses). It's a fairly easy product to implement and teach to staff.
  • Time Savings - The ability to post to multiple job boards in mere seconds
  • Ease of use
  • No cost
  • Web-based
  • The ability to post jobs to multiple websites with one click.
  • Time savings. The user interface makes it easy to view and rate all applicants quickly and efficiently.
  • Job widget. No longer do we have to manually create the job ad for our website.
  • Full-featured reports (If we upgrade to Enterprise edition)
  • Agency management (A feature we currently do not use)
  • Mobile recruiting
No
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
For a non-profit facing budget cuts, cost was the initial reason. To have a full-featured ATS for free is amazing.
If I was working from a larger budget, I would probably request demos of other products and compare, utilizing and internal test group.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
We were very careful in implementing the product, presenting it multiple times and getting feedback from our managers before our final decision and go ahead.
  • Resistance to change - some managers "didn't want to learn another system with a password"
  • Ability to track all of our EEO data the way we had previously
It really was a painless and easy process to switch to SmartRecruiters.
No
Not in our budget at this time.
Usually, responses are answered in a quick fashion. Follow-up from company reps if it is a major issue.
Yes
Yes to both.
I was emailed immediately from SmartRecruiters when I had posted an issue on the community message board. Albeit a small problem, it was taken care of quickly.
  • Multiple job site postings
  • Adding users
  • Contacting applicants
  • Modifying/customizing application
  • Simple edits of job postings are cumbersome
The product is very easy to use. It's simple and well put together, but flexibility for customizing is lacking.
No explanation really, just a great product.
Rarely is there an issue and if the product is down, it typically is restored quickly.
I have no complaints about performance. The system works virtually flawless.
No
  • n/a
  • n/a
No
Yes
If we get to the point where the additional features are needed, we will surely explore the option of paying.
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