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.
SmartRecruiters an efficient ATS
SmartRecruiters review
Best TA Suite out there
Not only the tool is great, but the overall customer support is really good!
Recruitment coordinators review
SmartRecruiters...really is the Smart choice!
Using Smartrecruiters it is never wanted other product !
The rolls of the ATS market !
Great ATS, can always be better as any software but User Voice is nice and our CSM is really helping !
Al…
Very happy with my SmartRecruiters experience!
Smart or Not SmartRecruiter
Candidate selection process streamlined
Reliable Applicant Tracking System
Smart ATS
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Popular Features
- Applicant Tracking (126)9.393%
- Notifications and Alerts (119)9.393%
- Candidate Search (122)8.484%
- Resume Management (119)7.878%
Reviewer Pros & Cons
Pricing
Corporate
Varies, per FTE
Global
Varies, per FTE
SmartStart
Free
Entry-level set up fee?
- $1,000 Required
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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.
- 9.2Job Requisition Management(109) Ratings
Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily
- 9.7Company Website Posting(114) Ratings
Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website
- 7.6Publish to Social Media(112) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites
- 8.1Job Search Site Posting(116) Ratings
Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites
- 8.6Customized Application Form(104) Ratings
Application form for applicants allowing capture of required information
- 7.8Resume Management(119) Ratings
Software allows resumes to be uploaded in bulk, and for contact information to be parsed
- 7.8Duplicate Candidate Prevention(114) Ratings
Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added
- 8.4Candidate Search(122) Ratings
Search capabilities allows candidates with certain attributes to be located
- 9.3Applicant Tracking(126) Ratings
Applicant tracking allows recruiters to assign applicants to various stages so others can see status at a glance
- 8.2Collaboration(117) Ratings
Collaboration capabilities provide the ability to share notes and evaluations
- 9.1Task Creation and Delegation(97) Ratings
Task creation is the ability to create recruitment process tasks and assign them to others
- 8.5Email Templates(114) Ratings
Software allows creation of standard email templates for communication with candidates
- 8.8User Permissions(109) Ratings
User permissions allow you to decide which information is viewable or editable by others
- 9.3Notifications and Alerts(119) Ratings
Notifications and reminders inform you of tasks to be completed
- 4.6Reporting(105) Ratings
Standard reports on key recruiting metrics such as time-to-fill
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Competitors
- Tech Details
- Downloadables
- FAQs
What is SmartRecruiters?
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
SmartRecruiters Video
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 |
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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
Frequently Asked Questions
Comparisons
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Reviews and Ratings
(238)Attribute Ratings
- 6Likelihood to Renew15 ratings
- 9Availability1 rating
- 10Performance1 rating
- 9.1Usability12 ratings
- 9Support Rating10 ratings
- 9.1Implementation Rating2 ratings
- 9Product Scalability1 rating
- 7.1Ease of integration12 ratings
- 7SmartRecruiters Candidate Experience89 ratings
- 7.5SmartRecruiters Hiring Manager Adoption87 ratings
Reviews
(51-75 of 129)A simple, but solid candidate application tool
- 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
- Integration with Workday to transfer user content into the HR system
SmartRecruiters is smarter than most!
- The Support Team is super responsive and quick to resolve issues accurately the first time! They are also super friendly, which goes a long way!
- SmartRecruiters allows users to customize the workflow based on their particular needs.
- The platform in general is very user friendly and compared to other ATS it is very intuitive and easy to train others on.
- The mobile app is great!
- As an agency, we would love to see SmartRecruiters roll out nationwide job listings that can push to aggregates in multiple locations!
- We would also like to see the platform tie into local and state college jobs boards including an integration with HandShake!
Good basic tool
- Easy to use
- Fast
- Easy to sponsor an ad on multiple platforms
- Even my "non-tech savvy" employees can navigate this easily
- Very quick to navigate
- Logical approach to a recruiting tool
- Customer service is great but more "glitches" than I'd like
- No ability to text candidates, emails are clunky
- It's expensive compared to other similar platforms (paid version)
- Not as easy to customize
- Limited reporting features
Splashed
- 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.
Don't Be A Dummy! Go with Smart Recruiters!
- SR iterates very well based on customer feedback. Myriad suggestions have been turned into product enhancements since we signed up with SR.
- The basics are there and done well. There are no major holes in the product for SMBs.
- Support is great. Every company touts there customer service, but SR has delivered for us.
- I see some need for automation with interview scheduling or at least an integration with a solution like Calendly.
- More vendor partners that deeply integrate into the tech.
- 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
Collaboration is key
- Collaborate with hiring team
- Integrates with job boards
- Communication with candidates
- Provides a record of who said what and when
- Search for specific jobs, particularly my jobs
- Mobile functionality, specifically with my jobs- doesn’t seem to be a wY to default to those
SmartRecruiters at a glance
- 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.
Less appropriate for pulling data required for upper Management reviews.
The honest truth about recruiting
- Helps you organize and keep good notes on candidates and potential candidates for all the different positions available for hire.
- I'm able to see if another location hired or has already corresponded with a certain candidate.
- Keeps track of candidates that have been interviewed and gives us the ability to correspond with the candidate before offering an in person interview.
- More drop down options so there is less typing input.
- 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.
SmartRecruiters is a smart choice!
- Tracking Applicants: At Edge, we had about 11 different offices we recruited for. Despite the high influx of applicants we had on a daily basis, SmartRecruiters is set up in such a way that it's easy to differentiate between offices and not lose track of applicants.
- User Friendly: SmartRecruiters navigation is very intuitive, and every service rep I spoke to was extremely helpful and quick to solve any problems I might have had.
- The only issue I ever encountered was the actual moving of candidates throughout the "Hiring Process." The navigation system works fine, I would just like to see it a little more fine-tuned.
SmartRecruiters should be part of your hiring system RFI
- 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.
The inability to skin, brand or create a sub-domain for the SaaS experience can lead to a jarring user experience, particularly for users trying to check out multiple jobs.
Smart Recruiters review - AgileHires
- The interface has become fairly polished and easy to use.
- The multiple job boards are nice, and being able to add multiple paid or unpaid options is nice.
- The application processes are very seamless.
- Don't really love the color scheme.
- Not a huge fan of how the job description & other fields are segmented.
- UX/UI could use a refresh.
Love my SmartRecruiter!!!
- 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.
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.
SmartRecruiters was the smarter choice!
- SmartRecruiters is totally customizable to our needs and as a bonus it was already integrated with our employment screening service provider, which really makes tracking our candidates progress that much easier.
- SmartRecruiters offers multiple ways of keeping track of your progress and helps us to stay at the top of our game as a team.
- SmartRecruiters also offers us the ability to be able to view other team members jobs so that in their absense we are able to assist and keep candidates up to date with their progres.
- I really do not have any cons at this time.
SmartRecruiters works well for us
We made the move to SmartRecruiters from another platform that really wasn't addressing our needs, it just wasn't flexible enough, and there was too much manual work required. We are hiring 50-60+ people a year and we screen 100s if not 1000s of candidates so needed a platform that could really help simplify the process from gathering candidates to shuffling them through our hiring process.
- Job postings - I really like the ability to create job templates and then to use those templates as you are putting up new posts. It simplifies a lot of the overhead required in creating new job listings.
- Email templates - probably one of my most favorite features of the platform. You can create different email templates, e.g. setting up an initial phone screen, requesting a technical phone screen, gathering references. Then you just need to select the template and hit send. Saves me a tone of time from having to copy and past emails every time.
- Hiring team management - I appreciate the simplicity of managing the different folks who are on the hiring team. The platform makes it easy to add/remove individuals and makes sure that any confidential information, e.g. salary is exposed to those that shouldn't see it.
- Offer template - Another area where SmartRecruiters really makes my life easy. The ability to upload various offer templates so when we are at the point of making an offer to a candidate we just have to select the template, specific a couple of inputs (e.g. salary, options, start date) and hit save. PDF is automatically created and I can then send in a quick email directly from the platform.
- Job board postings - when we first started we would get a lot of organic candidates coming to us from various job boards that SmartRecruiters would post for free. Then all of a sudden the number applying just dropped off dramatically as it appears that the number of free job boards they post to was shrunk.
- Letters of reference - there is no way to request/collect letters of reference directly in the platform. This means you have to manage that piece yourself outside of the platform which creates a lot of busy work. They have the ability to handle emails and attachment directly within the tool, I don't see why they haven't added support for this very common step in the hiring process.
- Notifications - notifications are sporadic at best. Sometimes a candidate applies or notes are added to a candidate's profile and you get an email and other times you don't.
We love SmartRecruiters!
- It keeps all of our applicants organized by position and has become indispensable to our operation.
- We were able to incorporate our printed employment application online, which streamlined the process and made it paperless.
- By posting each job to many sites, it saves us a lot of time and gives us good visibility. Also, the analytics that go with that make it valuable.
- SmartRecruiters has great customer support!
- The Lead functionality is not that clear and could use a different solution.
- SmartRecruiters has a nice UI and interviews are easy to set up.
- It is very hard to get reports or analytics from smartrecruiters.
- It is hard for me to find candidates once in the database once they have been moved to the rejected phase.
- Lead candidates candidates processes are very confusing.
SmartRecruiters is worth a look!
- 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.
First ATS Experience
- The system is very intuitive. It's easy to navigate and there is more than one way to get to a particular place in the system.
- They launch new system updates almost monthly, so it demonstrates they are listening to their customers and always working to improve the system.
- I wish you were able to edit things once submitted.
- The offer letter templates don't pull the fields like I wish they would. I often have to type in each candidate's address because it doesn't pull it from the resume (this is likely because people put their address in different places on their resume).
StartUp Happy with SR
- 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.
Why would you not want to work Smart?
- Recruiting Metrics. I love the dashboard for each role and easily being able to see important recruiting data at the click of a mouse. This is helpful as we look for trends in our process as well as when we show hiring managers and senior leaders the type of candidates we have in our pipeline.
- Team Plan. On the team plan, you are able to make comments to other members of your team about a candidate as well as send hiring managers messages regarding where we are in the process of filling an open position. This communication is huge and helps everyone involved feel at ease and part of the process.
- The app! Being able to review new candidates and move them along in the process all from my phone or tablet has changed the way I work! I am able to look at resumes in real time and schedule out next steps quickly with ease.
- I do not have any suggestions for improvements at this time! I have really enjoyed learning SR and have been impressed with how easy they make it to use.
SmartRecruiters Review
- 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.
Smart recruiters use Smart Recruiters!
- Easy to use. We trained 100's of managers very quickly on this intuitive system.
- Lowered our external posting spend. We can post to our site and it also goes out to multiple free aggregator services that then post to multiply traditional paid sites for free.
- Cuts down on lag time by having one system to manage all recruitment efforts from start to finish.
- Great and very attentive vendor support at all levels.
- Always focus on end user in all new features. Most companies have recruitment departments that are doing more with less. Create functionality to help them.