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Xref vs Zoho Recruit comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Xref
Ranking in Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software
26th
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Zoho Recruit
Ranking in Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software
3rd
Average Rating
7.8
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Video Interviewing Software (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software category, the mindshare of Xref is 0.3%, down from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zoho Recruit is 4.3%, up from 4.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Applicant Tracking and Recruiting Software
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1545606 - PeerSpot reviewer
Apr 1, 2021
Helps improve turnaround times and flags suspicious activity
Our primary use case for Xref is reference checking Xref has helped us improve our turnaround times. It is often quicker than playing phone tag, which happens a lot when you're doing reference check. Anyone that has done them before knows that they can turn into weeks of playing phone tag. This…
AdnanNasir - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 21, 2023
An all-in-one Applicant Tracking System (ATS) with a useful mass customization feature and good customer service
We are primarily using Zoho Recruit for recruitment. It works like an Applicant Tracking System or ATS and has different stages during the recruitment cycle. It gives us the candidate resumes, and the interview panel reviews them through Zoho. The interviews and tests are scheduled automatically…

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Pros

"It is often quicker than playing phone tag, which happens a lot when you're doing reference check. Anyone that has done them before knows that they can turn into weeks of playing phone tag."
"The pricing seems to be very reasonable."
"The solution provides the ability to integrate with other Zoho apps, allowing us to automate the hiring process."
"The CV parsing feature is the most valuable. It can parse resumes for the database. It is easy to deploy, and it is also stable and scalable. Its support is also good."
"Good reporting feature."
"The most valuable feature of Zoho Recruit is I can compete with the larger vendors in the business. I am constantly changing the configuration and the solution adapts to my needs."
"The solution is secure and also very user friendly."
"There are two features I love in Zoho Recruit. The first one is mass customization. I can customize the blueprint how I like, add some steps I want to include, and schedule a date and time to send the emails. I can also use a lot of templates. Secondly, the best thing about Zoho is the customer service. Whenever I have an issue or want to upgrade something, I text them through Zoho, and they respond within 40 seconds."
"The installation process isn't very complicated."
 

Cons

"It would be great to have a defense industry security check option. To be compliant, we have to have a different tool for that."
"I would like them to improve their UX and UI. The front screen or the home page is dull. The tools in the marketplace have flashy home pages and a very funky style. I think that's one area that they can improve. In the future, I would like an option to integrate Zoho by default with other tools, specifically the HR tools. I would love it if I could convert the candidates directly from Zoho. That would be a huge help. They have a paid extension, but it doesn't work well during the trial period."
"There is a limit to the number of lines you can extract."
"Zoho Recruit could improve in the ease of use because you need to know how to do scripting or coding to receive some of the functionality in the back end. For example, AI and automation need scripting and coding."
"Zoho Recruit could benefit from increased flexibility and customization when creating and sending offer letters to new recruits."
"No ability to automatically update details."
"Candidate filtering is a little cumbersome. I would love to see all the design and effort Zoho put in to the administrative user experience also be applied to the manager experience side. Quite a bit of filtering has to be done to get to what you want. Also, you can't get through many candidates because Zoho Recruit has a cap on how many candidates you can view at a time. If you've got hundreds of candidates per job, you may have to scroll through 10 pages."
"Its automation is currently complicated, and it could be better. The biggest problem is that their instructions, videos, and documentation are terrible. These should be improved. I would like to see an email tracking feature and an option to find email addresses and leads."
"It lacks the functionality for finalizing the process when a successful placement is made. There is no invoicing. It is missing the functionality for setting the placement and a start date. I do permanent placements as well as contractors, but it is not really geared towards contractors. So, I have to have a separate solution to manage contractors, timesheets, and things like that. It is just a bit of a pain. It is not as simple as some of the competitors, but it is far more able. There is a lot more to it, and it does a lot more than what any of the competitors currently do, which makes it a little bit more complicated to use, but it is easy enough. None of my staff have any issues. In all such solutions, you have to feed more than what they give you. It is a database at the end of the day, and I would like it to give me things. I would like to load a lead or get someone to just load leads all day, and I would like it to come back to me and say, "There's this position that you've loaded, and these candidates match. Can I send it?" I'd like it to be a little bit more proactive and feed me as much information as I feed it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Zoho Recruit is an affordable solution in comparison to BambooHR and costs relatively the same as Greenhouse implementation wise. It costs less than $100 per user. Large organizations will be able to get enterprise pricing, and Zoho is transparent with their pricing."
"The more you scale the solution the more it will cost. If you want the vendor to do the implementation or migration there are extra fees."
"I think it costs about $40 per month for a recruiter account. It comes with ten free accounts. It's well worth the money we are paying."
"In terms of cost, Zoho is by far the most reasonable for what you're getting. You get the option of monthly or yearly price. It is one cost per person for a license, and it is reasonable. My solutions are $50 per person per month."
"The cost of each user depends on the size of our user base."
"It is in the middle price range. Everything is included in the price."
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What needs improvement with Zoho Recruit?
Zoho Recruit could benefit from increased flexibility and customization when creating and sending offer letters to new recruits. I would suggest introducing more flexibility into the offer letter p...
What is your primary use case for Zoho Recruit?
Our company utilizes Zoho Recruit for the recruitment process, which is integrated with Zoho People to handle onboarding and other steps. This is an internal system. From the very beginning when we...
What do you like most about Zoho Recruit?
The solution provides the ability to integrate with other Zoho apps, allowing us to automate the hiring process.
 

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