SmartRecruiters Reviews

Our primary use case is for the purpose of hiring. All our job requisitions will be created on SmartRecruiter. Once the requisitions are created, we will publish the jobs on our career pages. 

So Smart Recruiter is a whole and sole application where we create the requisition and publish the job that will reflect on the technical or organization career page. And people who apply through them the candidate pool will come and sit under SmartRecruiters under the specific job requisition. And that's where we screen the people, that's where we interview the people, we schedule the interviews, for example, in the Zoom kind of applications. 

And all our notifications all automated notifications, like; whether a candidate gets rejected or if the candidate gets hired, all the respective notifications will be triggered through SmartRecruiters. And if we select any candidate, they will pass through various stages of the interview, such as a technical interview, written test, business manager interview, or HR interview, all of that; the candidate will pass through from SmartRecruiters. 

The candidate feedback and scorecard will be saved in Smart Recruiter, and ultimately, the offer letter will also be generated through the system.

A bigger organization with more than 2000-3000 people regularly hiring would find it difficult to manage without this application. 

SmartRecruiters helps automate many tasks, such as sending rejection emails to many candidates. Instead of drafting hundreds of individual emails, customized messages can be automated in Smart Recruitment. 

With just a click of a button, we can manage the process. Even generating offer letters and obtaining electronic signatures through DocSign are integrated into this application. E signature will happen on the offer letter. So all these things are integrated within the application. We cannot do it manually. So, it definitely helps a lot.

The product was used while I was working at a Senior Living Medical Facility that did independent living. The organization did skilled nursing, and assisted living. When I got there, I came into an environment that was haphazard with recruiting. It was a subsidiary of a larger company, and all of the subsidiaries were doing things a little bit differently. Some had an HCM system, an Oracle-based system, and embedded in that Oracle system was Taleo. Others were just posting on Indeed. The community I came to, was going to the Indeed route. As an applicant in the past, when I'd used Oracle, and I've been a user of HR products throughout my career, it takes me 10 minutes to get through a Taleo-based applicant system, being a user of HR products. You have to watch how it parses your resume, you have to watch all of this stuff. I saw the cost that we were incurring on Indeed. And I made a change over to SmartRecruiters.

The company has a lot of Evergreen recruiting. They hire a lot of nurses, CNAs, and some other roles like on the independent living side such as restaurant servers for the dining areas. These were Evergreen roles. I knew I could use their free version, the SmartStart version of SmartRecruiters, and I transitioned away from other options. All the money that the company was spending on Indeed was shifted over to SmartRecruiters, to recruit for those roles. It made everything a lot easier and saved money as well.

It is an applicant tracking solution. It is similar to Greenhouse but for bigger companies.

It has a neat functionality built in where it rates candidates. So, before you even look at the resume, you see a rating, and it is based on keywords. For example, it will tell you that an applicant is a frontend engineer and has used React, Angular, etc. It gives you a heads up so that you don't have to go through a hundred resumes on Monday morning eliminating applicants. It will tell you that this applicant's skills match 87%, which is pretty neat. You can skip the ones that are rated 25% or something.

The email functionality to the candidates is a little easier to use for scheduling interviews and things like that. You just click Invite to Interview, and it'll send the candidate an email. There is a lot of extra functionality built in. It takes a little bit longer to learn and figure out, but once you do it, it speeds up the process a whole lot. It is pretty powerful.

We use this solution to offer a quick and simple way for people to apply for jobs or just browse the job opportunities. We are using its Enterprise version.

We wanted to give the best experience for people who are applying or just browsing the job opportunities. We wanted to put candidates in a center, and SmartRecruiters was a good match.

It is very easy to use. Before deploying it in the enterprise, we don't need to provide training to our users to use the system. If you have a Facebook or social media account, you would know how to use it. 

It provides almost real-time job publication. The moment you publish a job from SmartRecruiters, it goes to the respective channels. It has also helped us with GDPR compliance.

I use the solution in my company as an ATS platform. Our company uses it to manage the complete lifecycle of a candidate.

The most valuable feature of the solution stems from the fact that amongst all the other ATS platforms that I have used, SmartRecruiters is the most user-friendly tool. The tool is simple to use, and I have not seen a lot of lag in the system. Usually, I don't see a lot of glitches in SmartRecruiters, like the ones I experienced with Workday, which is very complicated, and I see the system hang often.

Our main function for the solution is definitely for the applicant tracking system. Any position that we need to fill internally for the company, has to go through here. We go through our approval process with the different managers and then once it's approved, we post it. We use the product to source candidates, track our candidates throughout the interview process, collaborate with managers as well throughout the hiring process in terms of candidate feedback, and communicate with candidates as well. There's multiple different features and functions there, however, overall it's just an applicant tracking system, essentially.

I'm still working remotely. It depends on where you're at within our company here in the US however, I sit in Houston and we're working remotely right now. It can be a bit tougher when you can't just pop down the office and pop your head in and say, "Hey, can you take a look at this candidate?" With everything online, it is just super easy now.

The major benefit would be a faster hiring process, or potentially getting someone in the seat faster. The product is reducing that time to fill. Collaboration with the hiring managers and even easier engagement with candidates and being able to keep track of communications makes things happen really fast. You can look at the solution and answer questions like" Did I reach out to this person? Have I screened this person? It's really helped reduce time to fill in that regard. Just being able to streamline the communication has made every aspect easier.

We used SmartRecruiters as our sole recruitment platform. Basically, we were using an HR system that had a recruitment module before, and it wasn't very good. So, we were using this as a standalone recruitment tool for all of our recruiting needs across five main areas of work. Essentially, managing the whole end-to-end recruitment process.

I used this program in my last role, which ended earlier in 2020.

There were several benefits to using this product. One of them was that we previously had a lot of problems with attracting enough candidates for our roles due to various reasons, but with SmartRecruiters, it made attraction significantly easier.

A lot of our roles would fill directly, just through the auto-posting features that SmartRecruiters has. We significantly saved on agency use and recruitment advertising, et cetera. We filled a lot of the roles directly on our own.

Another one was around visibility. Having access to data and reporting was really good. They've got some inbuilt reports around things like diversity monitoring, source of candidates, time to hire, and all of that is really easy to access. It gave you some really useful insight on where the holes in your process were and where things could be made better as well.

SmartRecruiters is a candidate management system or ATS system that we use for recruitment purposes.

The solution's reporting feature could be improved because it is not very strong.