SeekOut review
March 22, 2024
SeekOut review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SeekOut
As leader of Executive Search, I use SeekOut to source/search for candidates and, more specifically, to acquire contact information, including email and phone numbers.
- Provides email addresses for most individuals that are correct.
- Provides phone numbers for most individuals that are 50% or better correct.
- Helps to identify diversity groups, such as female candidate.
- SeekOut needs better updates to the backend repository, LI. Several times, when pulled through, SeekOut pulled up LI profiles that were not up to date compared to when searched on LI directly.
- It would be helpful to have better/more updated phone information. As noted in the previous screen, approx. 50% of phone contact information is spot-on, however capturing more up to date information for phone would be helpful.
- Although picky, having different colors for screens to highlight areas would be helpful. Working late at night, which many times do, the screens are similar in color and brightness, and it would be beneficial to have more distinguishment in colors or brightness so as not to blend.
- Reduced time to find diverse candidates. This is one area where agency spending has been highest, and SeekOut has been helpful in producing pipelines in a timely manner.
- I have found that Seekout also reduces the tie to source International candidates by more than half the time previously, with all its levers to search by continents and dive deeper from there to specific territories.
- As a negative, SeekOut, as stated previously, can have older LI versions that do not relate to the current candidate's work experience, which can be annoying and difficult to decipher at times.
While I have not evaluated any other products similar to SeekOut, I am aware Hireology, Entelo, GEM, and others. We have not gone down the path to review these as for now SekOut has covered most of objectives needed. The information provided for both email and phone, along with diversity settings to search have been very helpful for our team.
Do you think SeekOut delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with SeekOut's feature set?
Yes
Did SeekOut live up to sales and marketing promises?
I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process
Did implementation of SeekOut go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy SeekOut again?
Yes