SmartRecruiters....Hiring Made Easy! As They Say!!!
Updated April 16, 2015
SmartRecruiters....Hiring Made Easy! As They Say!!!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Personal
Overall Satisfaction with SmartRecruiters Personal
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.
- 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Nothing else compared as a free tool and other systems seem outdated not having social media compatibility.
SmartRecruiters Feature Ratings
Using SmartRecruiters Personal
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
Evaluating SmartRecruiters Personal and Competitors
- 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.
SmartRecruiters Personal Support
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Quick Resolution Good followup Knowledgeable team Problems get solved Kept well informed No escalation required Support understands my problem Support cares about my success | None |
No - get enough with the basic since we do not have an ATS.
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.
Using SmartRecruiters Personal
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
Like to use Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Quick to learn Convenient Feel confident using Familiar | None |
- 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.