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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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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 Integrations

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)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(1-3 of 3)
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William Friedmann | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
It's a great tool in the call center industry.
Recruiting / ATS (14)
79.28571428571429%
7.9
Company Website Posting
90%
9.0
Publish to Social Media
100%
10.0
Job Search Site Posting
100%
10.0
Customized Application Form
90%
9.0
Resume Management
100%
10.0
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
50%
5.0
Candidate Search
100%
10.0
Applicant Tracking
100%
10.0
Collaboration
100%
10.0
Task Creation and Delegation
50%
5.0
Email Templates
50%
5.0
User Permissions
50%
5.0
Notifications and Alerts
100%
10.0
Reporting
30%
3.0
The ability to import from Social tools is really great for candidates.
The tool keeps everyone informs of a open position and the candidates in consideration.
  • Faster Time to Fill Rates
  • Better overall collaboration
  • None
No, we use SmartRecruiters as a standalone recruiting solution.
We hope to integrate our recruiting tool into a new HR system but have nor decided on a final product. SmartRecruiters is a outstanding tool and we choose it over having an integrated system that did not offer all the benefits.
Assessment and Job boards are used extensively.
We were able to use some API integration that helped with our HRIS updates.
15
HR, Ops, Admin are all users as we rely on it form sourcing to onboarding.
2
Mostly initial social media coordinator then a handoff to recruiters who start the filters and assessments. They all have intermediate skills in using apps, but SR processes are very intuitive.
  • We ramp each season to a 3x of base and this tool allows for that level of efficiency and speed to fill.
  • The social aspects are very easy to use and makes for easy cross channel ads to specific target groups.
  • The approval flow to Ops as a final sign off has helped keep the process transparent.
  • We host meet-up of 20-30 applicants and in these casual meetings we interact with candidates, we also have Ops and others in the organization join using the tool on their smartphones they are able to assess realtime all of the candidates and after the meet-up HR has all the feedback instantly.
  • Hopefully to integrate into our HRIS tools.
It's been a tool that has given our organization the ability to ramp at speeds and with quality beyond what our local competitors could do.
  • Posting new Jobs and publishing is only a few clicks.
  • Reporting dashboards give me confidence we will fill our classes.
  • Some reporting APIs and deep data requires an IT tech to engage especially when we want to import information into our systems.
Yes
Excellent, both on Android and iOS
The ease of use is a primary reason we use this tool. Our employees have a full time job and being involved in the recruiting process needs to be easy and fast so they will participate.
Kristen McLain, CHRL | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

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.
Depends on the business need
Recruiting / ATS (15)
67.33333333333333%
6.7
Job Requisition Management
70%
7.0
Company Website Posting
90%
9.0
Publish to Social Media
80%
8.0
Job Search Site Posting
80%
8.0
Customized Application Form
100%
10.0
Resume Management
70%
7.0
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
N/A
N/A
Candidate Search
70%
7.0
Applicant Tracking
60%
6.0
Collaboration
80%
8.0
Task Creation and Delegation
80%
8.0
Email Templates
60%
6.0
User Permissions
20%
2.0
Notifications and Alerts
80%
8.0
Reporting
70%
7.0
It is a simple process that anyone can do.
I am not sure my hiring manager will use the system as it is meant to be used. It takes a lot of time, which they want to leave up to us.
  • Save time
  • Better quality of candidate - easier to apply
  • Identify gaps in the recruitment process
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
The product was user friendly and had a lot of features we were looking for. They were also priced more competetively.
I would like rate reporting higher
Yes
Njyon. It was a simple system that only provides the basics.
  • The interface is easy to use
  • Creating a poistion is easy and sending the jobs for approval is an easy process as well.
  • The reporting needs work. They are basic reports and you can only just now manually calculate time to fill but not by recruiter just by position.
Yes
Pretty well. It is easy to use.
Good system, easy to use just need to improve Reporting.
Jennifer Morris | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
With a small company like ours, we do not have our own Applicant Tracking System so SmartRecruiters has been an asset I utilize daily.
  • Activity log if great to have especially while adding team members to review
  • With no cost to our company, job posting to free boards has been useful along with the social media added.
  • User friendly and simplified!
  • Able to delete activity. Sometimes there our qlithes and duplicates are seen. Also, sometimes just busy and added activity/feedback on the wrong candidate.
  • Would like to be able to add entire address, not just the city and state.
  • Would like fields for "Phone" and "email" to not be required for candidate profiles as sometimes that is not always given on resumes while sourcing candidates.
Absolutely wonderful! Not all companies can afford an ATS so this is a great tool to have.
Recruiting / ATS (15)
88%
8.8
Job Requisition Management
70%
7.0
Company Website Posting
100%
10.0
Publish to Social Media
100%
10.0
Job Search Site Posting
100%
10.0
Customized Application Form
100%
10.0
Resume Management
80%
8.0
Duplicate Candidate Prevention
90%
9.0
Candidate Search
60%
6.0
Applicant Tracking
90%
9.0
Collaboration
100%
10.0
Task Creation and Delegation
60%
6.0
Email Templates
100%
10.0
User Permissions
90%
9.0
Notifications and Alerts
100%
10.0
Reporting
80%
8.0
  • increased employee efficiency so our team has a database of candidates now to confirm already notified or red flags on candidates.
  • Improved social networking
Nothing else compared as a free tool and other systems seem outdated not having social media compatibility.
10
recruiting manager and recruiters
2
Recruiter, myself, that helped implement SR with the company.
  • we did not have an ATS in place
  • was able to embed the job widget to the company website so all of our job postings are in real-time
  • ease of posting jobs to social media that older ATS's do not have
  • was able to embed the job widget to the company website so all of our job postings are in real-time
  • CMR tool
Been using since 2009. Even with all the other ATS's I've used while working with other organizations, SmartRecruiters is the only one that give me the capability to post in one click on free job boards and my social media accounts.
No
  • Price
have the free basic service while our company doesn't have another way to track applicants.
SmartRecruiters has been making changes since I've used it for several years but now the looking is starting to look sloppy and have to train users again on how to use it. Would be nice to get a notice prior to the change or a quick video to send to users that show the changes and how to work with them.
No
get enough with the basic since we do not have an ATS.
I have had outstanding support with them. Even though it's not as easy to pick up the phone, I do get a response and they usually try to have it resolved without escalating to another level.
Yes
Not so compatible with other browsers and that is something they still have not resolved and just suggested I used IE version 10 and not 11 or Google Chrome.
last May 2014, tried to send an invitation to join SmartRecruiters and the user received an error message every time they click on the invitation link. We were instructed to have the user clear with web browser cache and cookies prior to signing. After several attempts of them trying to resolve the problem, we found out that the problem was on our end with the user using a different browser using EI11 and had to put back to EI10 and was working properly.
  • layout
  • visual
  • create a posting
  • searches, can't search for a candidate by state in the filter. Have to use Boolean string to try to break down state candidates
Yes
When it first came out, you could only see postings. Now they have enhanced it so I can search candidates, etc.
Very user friendly and training for users doesn't take long.
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