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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)
    8.4
    84%
  • Resume Management (119)
    7.8
    78%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Investment Management Company, 501-1000 employees
Verified User
Program Manager in Human Resources
Telecommunications Company, 501-1000 employees
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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.

SmartRecruiters Video

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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

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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 9.7.

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

(238)

Attribute Ratings

Reviews

(26-50 of 90)
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April 30, 2018

Good basic tool

Emily Tennant | TrustRadius Reviewer
Emily Tennant
Recruitment and Retention
Hudec Dental (Consumer Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
7
It's very basic but met our needs. We needed something more complicated than the free version. I really like that they stand behind their product and you can try before you buy. I would have loved to be able to customize a little bit more (especially in the reporting) but I'm pretty happy with it.
March 18, 2018

Splashed

BA
Bill Ayshford Jr
Venetian Waterpark Manager
Holiday Inn Arbor Lakes (Hospitality, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
7
Overall, I would say that we have hired about 50% of the SmartRecruiter applicants. Our non-hires have been because of interview no shows, lack of applicants following up with us after our initial contact, and not matching their needs for a job due to hours, shift availability, etc. despite the job description being posted with those details.
March 12, 2018

Don't Be A Dummy! Go with Smart Recruiters!

Ken Gardner, aPHR, CUDE | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ken Gardner, aPHR, CUDE
HR Generalist
Greater Texas Credit Union (Banking, 51-200 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
10
SR has enabled us to achieve a candidate satisfaction rating of 89% since launching. We do not have comparative data but this score would have been significantly lower with our previous partner based on anecdotal feedback and the amount of support calls we received.
March 12, 2018

The Smartest Way to Hire at a Startup (their name says it all)

Josh Krakauer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Josh Krakauer
Co-Founder | CEO
Sculpt (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Candidate Experience
6
Several candidates have had trouble uploading the documents we requested, or seem to miss it outright. We never had issues with internal testing of the tool but it's frequently come up. They also often email to confirm we have received it because they were not sure it had published correctly.
March 12, 2018

Collaboration is key

Russ Knight | TrustRadius Reviewer
Russ Knight
Professional sales, client relationship, marketing and team leadership
Service businesses in Tulsa & beyond (Automotive, 1-10 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
5
The candidate experience is more my doing than SmartRecruiters. It's easy to reject an applicant and not send them a notification as to why. That is understandably frustrating for an applicant.
SmartRecruiters makes it easy for me as the hiring authority but it's often up to me to provide value for the candidate. I wouldn’t say SmartRecruiters does anything different for candidates vs other ATS systems, other than prompting for rejection/response.
March 07, 2018

Excellent ATS for the bottom line and candidate experience

Amit Vasudeva | TrustRadius Reviewer
Amit Vasudeva
Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant at AOL
AOL (Internet, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
10
The candidate experience has been great since smartrecruiters has a good way of tracking candidates' statuses so we know where the candidate is in the process and get them ready for orientation. No more using spreadsheets and a white board, smartrecruiters' tracking function makes recruiters' life easy.
March 06, 2018

SmartRecruiters is a smart choice!

Hailee Sender | TrustRadius Reviewer
Hailee Sender
Human Resources Generalist
Hudec Dental (Consumer Services, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
8
Prior to SmartRecruiters, the HR department was using Google Sheets. This program, while effective in its own way, was not fulfilling our department's needs.Candidates were forgotten, accidentally deleted, etc., and our recruiting numbers definitely suffered. With SmartRecruiters, we were better able to track candidates in whatever stage of the recruiting process they were in. As recruiters, we were much more organized, able to call and communicate with candidates much quicker, without anyone feeling forgotten.
March 06, 2018

SmartRecruiters was the smarter choice!

Verified User
Professional in Human Resources
Real Estate Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
10
SmartRecruiters keeps your candidate up to date as you move them through the process. This is highly valuable to the candidate and the recruiter, especially when the recruiter receives hundreds of resumes for each open position. As the recruiter moves the candidate from application status to in review it alerts the candidate so that they are in constant contact on where they stand and the recruiter can continue to move forward with other candidates.
March 06, 2018

SmartRecruiters works well for us

Matt Dyer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Matt Dyer
Head of Product / Marketing
4Catalyzer (Biotechnology, 51-200 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
7
I think in general our experience has been pretty good, especially in comparison to previous tools, in that most of the interaction can be automated, or at least drastically simplified from within the tools versus a lot of manual work that we had to do with the previous tool. Candidates seem to appreciate our process and having everything tracked and standardized (via templates) makes it a lot easier for us.
November 21, 2017

Not happy with SmartRecruiters - they are aware that we are not happy

Verified User
Manager in Human Resources
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employees
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
2
I am sure the candidate experience side is very easy, candidates do not have to supply a resume- they can use their LinkedIn profile. If the candidate uses their LinkedIn profile, it is harder to view on the recruiting side.

I am personally very frustrated with SmartRecruiters and have not had the best customer success rep in the last few months. I have waited over a month now for some very basic reporting.
November 14, 2017

First ATS Experience

Stephanie Opoku, SHRM-CP, CIR | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stephanie Opoku, SHRM-CP, CIR
Senior HR Generalist
Tax Analysts (Publishing, 51-200 employees)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
9
Based on feedback we do in a new hire survey, our candidates are very pleased with our interview process. I am not sure we have specific feedback on SmartRecruiter, but I gather their overall positive review has to do with the process from beginning to end.
November 14, 2017

StartUp Happy with SR

Jordan Moskowitz | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jordan Moskowitz
Senior Demand Generation and Marketing Operations Manager
ServiceChannel (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
9
I was part of the team that selected SmartRecruiters. Before them, we weren't using any system at all. Hiring was difficult to impossible. We weren't hiring any people outside of the circle of employees friends. Compared to having no system, SmartRecruiters was great. Not having a system to manage applicants was really really hard. We would lose track of applications, forget to contact people, and were inefficient.
May 26, 2017

Why would you not want to work Smart?

Lisa Whealon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Lisa Whealon
Chief People Officer
Forbes Human Resources Council (Civic & Social Organization, 11-50 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Candidate Experience
10
The candidate experience helps assure those that apply that not only did the company receive their application, but that someone is reviewing it. Email templates help candidates know where they are in the process and is quick and easy for recruiters to schedule out next steps. Teams are able to go into a candidates profile and view which positions they have previously applied for and notes on their application.
February 10, 2017

Smart recruiters use Smart Recruiters!

Jason Fisher, PHR/SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jason Fisher, PHR/SHRM-CP
Director, Human Resources - US Retail / North American Talent Acquisition
DFC Global Corp (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Candidate Experience
9
From the manual paper system we had is is night and day for our candidates. The fact they can use SmartRecruiters via mobile makes it even better. We can always improve but our candidates now feel they are applying at an up to date professional company.
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