Jobvite

It's very frustrating when you don't know if the message you are sending as a hiring manager or a candidate will get to the other side. Something that we as a society are used to by 2017 is that simple messaging tools do their jobs reliably - Jobvite hasn't been able to do that.

Overall, we've had a decent transition over to Jobvite. It is our organization's first ATS and we purchased Engage at the same time. With Hire, the functionality of reporting and integration with gcal and gmail has been invaluable to our team. The formatting for our job board is finicky, but functional. However, customer service was mixed until we found a dedicated person to help us. Once we found her, she's been great!

With Engage, we were sold a product that didn't work as promised. (The job notification feature does not work and the "seamless" integration with Hire wasn't working - resumes were not transferring). Customer service complaints have gone unresolved for months. Emails with people on the Engage team have not been responded to. So while I'd recommend Hire, I would think twice before purchasing Engage.

Overall, Jobvite is a good platform. The video interview is one of my favorite features--it has really helped us screen candidates before inviting them for interviews. And the interface is aesthetically more appealing than other similar systems I've worked with. That said, I've had a few issues with Jobvite, including emails sent through the system going to spam folders, where applicants never find them. I also find myself clicking around Jobvite A LOT, and the pages load slowly (granted, this could be an issue with my company's wifi). For example, I wish there was a way for me to easily navigate back to a requisition page from a candidate's page without having to click at least two times. Another thing is that my coworkers just don't seem motivated to use the Jobvite feature, which is a huge part of the Jobvite platform. Maybe we're a too-small company to really take advantage of it, but I also had a problem where the links in my Employee Jobvite weren't indicating which employee had made a referral, and that issue was never resolved by Jobvite support (and more recently, Employee Jobvites started throwing up spam/phishing warning messages in my coworkers' inboxes). I've had great success speaking with Jobvite support people via chat, and I really appreciate that function. Finally, it would be VERY helpful if I were able to change the workflow for a position on my own. Having to go through Jobvite support is a real pain and time waster.

As I said, I enjoy using Jobvite overall, and I understand that it's a very complicated platform with a lot of moving parts. I wonder whether creating a version of Jobvite for small businesses would make sense--there are so many functions I don't use, simply because my company has less than 50 employees and they're irrelevant to us. I'd love a more streamlined version.

I love that Jobvite has great social media integration and makes it easy to share job openings with my network!

UI is not intuitive, or pleasant.
Formatting job descriptions is a mess - gets messed up easily and is a headache to sort out.
Workflow makes it difficult to move canddiates around req's easily.
No easy way to see summary of candidate's info (job history, education) in a pipeline.
Reporting is difficult from here.

We've been using Jobvite for 2 years and have been very pleased. The Jobvite referral system is especially easy to use and we've had great success with our employee's sharing out our jobs on various social media platforms!

We have recently converted to Jobvite and have been really happy with the social media capabilities and ease of use of the product. IT is very quick and easy to post open requisitions and to move candidates through the work flow. It also makes it easy to collect information directly to the candidate's record, such as reference check responses.

Have a great experience using Jobvite, love the fact that it so seamlessly connects with outlook and calendar and keeps everything so organized..

Has greatly streamlined and centralized our recruiting process.

Jobvite has been wonderful to work with - with the exception of modifying the reporting.:)

Jobvite has made a huge difference to our talent acquisition process. We are very happy with this platform and plan to keep it.