From Visa and McDonalds to LinkedIn and Skechers, more than 4,000 companies all over the world use SmartRecruiters for high-volume recruiting and talent sourcing—but is it the best solution on the market for your business?
Reviews of the ATS platform often point to the software’s ease of use, but also highlight feature limitations such as the inability to schedule interviews, a lack of reporting functionality and a poor mobile app experience.
Fortunately, there are a lot of SmartRecruiters alternatives to consider. Let’s take a closer look at seven of the most notable SmartRecruiters competitors to help identify the best ATS for you.
Why consider alternatives to SmartRecruiters?
SmartRecruiters is a popular choice for some of the world’s biggest brands, but it’s not without limitations. Some of SmartRecruiters reviews on tech comparison platform G2 highlight this.
“[Y]ou can’t create customized prescreening questions,” said one reviewer, while another highlighted the lack of video interview functionality and limited e-signature support.
SmartRecruiters is also one of the most expensive ATS platforms on the market, with Capterra estimating a starting price of $10,000/year.
Occy
Occy addresses the lack of solutions for volume and hourly recruiters. This end-to-end ATS platform significantly reduces the cost of volume hiring, while taking care of repetitive and tedious admin for you.
Occy’s recruitment automation functionality streamlines your hiring pipeline, eliminates manual tasks like setting up interviews, sending emails and reference checks, while also ensuring a continuous flow of candidates with automated recurring job advertising campaigns.
Occy features
Occy’s key features at a glance:
- DE&I tools
- Automated job advertising campaigns
- Professional copywriting support
- Task automation
- Smart candidate filtering
- Automated screening tools
- Automated email and sms candidate communications
- Self-serve interview date selection
- Bespoke career sites
- Offer letter and contract e-signing
- Collaborative hiring tools
- Granular access permissions
- Recruitment analytics
- Video profiling
- Mobile app
Occy has a comprehensive suite of features designed to support volume and hourly recruiting, but how does it compare to SmartRecruiters which also considers itself a platform ideal for high-volume recruiting?
In terms of price, SmartRecruiters will generally cost your business more than Occy.
SmartRecruiters offers many of the features you’d expect to see within an enterprise ATS, such as applicant tracking, job advertising and distribution, career sites and onboarding support, but as reviews have highlighted, it does lack some functionality—particularly in comparison to Occy.
A good example of this is Video Interviewing, something that’s becoming much more popular since the boom in remote working post-Covid. This is a big gap in the SmartRecruiters toolset and something Occy does offer, although SmartRecruiters does integrate with a third-party solution.
Another advantage of Occy is the DE&I tools designed to ensure fair hiring processes, something SmartRecruiters hasn’t quite cracked. What’s more, specific DE&I reporting functionality quickly highlights where the recruitment process is letting down your diversity efforts.
“The system asks candidates questions that are required in the US, but that are inappropriate for a Canadian employee trying to implement best practices in diversity and inclusion,” said one reviewer on G2.
Another feature that separates Occy from SmartRecruiters and its other competitors is their professional copywriting support. The quality of the job ad makes a huge difference to the quality of candidates that apply, and you can benefit from Occy’s professional job copywriting service to give your applications a boost. Our clients are seeing views-to-application rates of 79% on Reed when using our copywriting service compared to the 53% site average, and 24% on Total Jobs compared to a 16% site average.
Occy pricing
Occy offers a simple pricing model with two tiers based on the size of the organisation: Starter for organisations with 50 employees or fewer, and Pro for larger companies.
The Starter tier includes two support contacts and ten guest accounts, at a cost of £208 per month.
The Pro tier starts from £416 per month and includes unlimited guest accounts, although the cost and number of support contacts depends on the size of the company:
- 51-200 employees: 2 support contacts at £416 per month
- 201-500 employees: 3 support contacts at £583 per month
- 501-1000 employees: 4 support contacts at £833 per month
- 1001-2000 employees: 5 support contacts at £2,000 per month
- 2001+ employees: 5 support contacts at £2,916 per month
Who is Occy best for?
Occy is one of the only hiring platforms that has been designed specifically for in-house high-volume and hourly recruitment. Occy takes care of all that monotonous hiring admin for you, saving time and money during the recruitment process.
Occy is particularly popular with some of the economy’s key sectors, including manufacturing, logistics, care, security, construction, retail and hospitality.
So, Occy is likely a good fit for you if you’re
- recruiting for lots of different roles all year round, including the same jobs multiple times
- working in an industry that demands fast and low-cost hiring
- you’re looking to promote your ATS across multiple job platforms like Reed or Indeed
Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is one element of Zoho’s wider software ecosystem, which also includes sales, marketing, accounting and operations solutions.
Zoho Recruit features
Zoho Recruit’s key features at a glance:
- Candidate sourcing
- Careers sites
- Employee referral
- Resume management
- Background screening
- Hiring analytics
- Assessments
- Video interviews
- AI recruitment
- Onboarding
Zoho Recruit offers automation, analytics and communication features that support the recruiting efforts of corporate HR departments and staffing agencies.
The platform also has robust AI features and can be customised to your needs, but several important ATS tools only come as add-on features that need to be paid for.
Zoho Recruit pricing
There are different pricing models with Zoho Recruit depending on whether you’re a corporate HR or staffing agency.
Corporate HR users have the choice between the free plan, Standard (£20/recruiter/month) and Enterprise (£40/recruiter/month).
Staffing agencies can also choose the Free and Standard packages, but there’s an additional Professional package to choose from (£40/user/month). For agencies, the Enterprise package is £60/user/month.
Alternatively, Zoho Recruit can be purchased as part of Zoho One, the all-in-one suite that includes all of their solutions.
Pricing for Zoho One is billed (annually) at:
- £37/employee/month, when purchased for ALL employees
- £80/user/month, allowing you to purchase only the licenses you need.
Who is Zoho Recruit best for?
Zoho Recruit is designed for staffing agencies and corporate HRs, while it also specialises in the manufacturing, education and technology sectors. It could also be a good fit for you if you’re already in the Zoho ecosystem of products.
Breezy HR
Breezy HR is one of the most recognisable brands on the market, which offers both an ATS (Hire) and employee engagement platform (Perform).
Breezy HR features
Breezy HR Hire’s key features at a glance:
- Career sites
- Employee referrals
- Recruitment pipeline automation
- DEI&I tools
- Collaborative hiring
- Video interviews
- HRIS integrations
- Reporting and analytics
Breezy HR is considered a modern ATS solution that is user-friendly and makes it easy to distribute job openings across more than 50 job boards. That ease-of-use is important because Breezy HR doesn’t come with any phone support.
The platform is also one of the most expensive systems in this list, despite the free version, but it’s a highly robust system that boasts a lot of great features.
Breezy HR pricing
There are four pricing tiers for Breezy HR’s Hire solution:
- Bootstrap, which is ‘free forever’
- Startup — $157/month
- Growth — $273/month
- Business — $439/month
All of the above prices are based on annual billing and the available features are different across each package.
Who is Breezy HR best for?
Breezy HR is most suited to fast-growing SMEs that hire frequently, operate remotely, or have limited experience with HR software.
HireRoad
HireRoad primarily focuses on people analytics with its flagship software, PeopleInsight, but it also offers a recruitment platform—Recruit—as well as an onboarding and training platform.
HireRoad features
HireRoad’s feature set is more limited compared to many of the ATS platforms in this article, although you can automate repeatable tasks and processes, and stay engaged with candidates with scheduled notifications.
Reporting and analytics offer insights into your recruitment pipelines, while you can also keep track of recruitment on-the-go with mobile-friendly dashboards, but the platform lacks some of the more advanced features found elsewhere.
HireRoad pricing
HireRoad doesn’t make their pricing public on their website, but according to Capterra the starting price is $350/month, although it’s likely prices vary depending on organisation size and desired features.
Who is HireRoad best for?
Recruit by HireRoad would be most suited to organisations already using the PeopleInsight software, although a new version of Recruit is currently in development.
Occupop
Occupop has been designed to offer a simple alternative to the more complex hiring solutions on the market for small recruitment teams.
Occupop features
Occupop’s key features at a glance:
- Job posting engine
- Candidate tagging
- Smart screening
- Candidate automation
- Team collaboration
- Analytics
Occupop provides all of the essential ATS functionality small-to-medium-sized businesses would need, including job posting across multiple job boards, smart screening, candidate automation and analytics. However, Occupop lacks features intended for volume hiring, such as no option for automated email responses, as well as limited options for multiple interview processes and data reporting.
Occupop pricing
Occupop is available in one of three set pricing tiers: Build, Grow, and Scale.
- Build — £290/month
- Grow — £495/month
- Scale — £832.50/month
The above monthly prices are based on annual billing with varying feature sets.
Occupop also offers a ‘Custom’ tier, although you should note that this Custom package is still likely to be the most expensive as it includes all of the features available from Scale alongside implementation, a dedicated Success Manager, and advanced compliance.
A 14-day free trial is also available.
Who is Occupop best for?
Occupop was built for small recruiting teams of 2-3 people within SMEs looking for a simpler recruitment software solution. As a result, it might lack some of the functionality that mid-market or enterprise-level businesses are looking for.
Greenhouse
Greenhouse is an all-in-one ATS solution designed to manage every stage of the hiring process, from sourcing candidates to onboarding new hires.
Greenhouse is a big player in the ATS space, but according to Gartner, Greenhouse performs worst in terms of service and support.
Greenhouse features
Greenhouse’s key features at a glance:
- Talent sourcing
- Multilingual job boards
- Automated campaigns
- Video interviews
- Reporting
- Offer forecast
- Integrations
- GDPR tools
- New hire onboarding
Greenhouse is one of the most comprehensive all-in-one recruiting solutions around, with a robust set of features, including offer forecasting, GDPR tools, multilingual job boards, new hire onboarding and over 500 integrations.
Greenhouse is also pretty customisable, but it can take some time to set up and its complexity means there’s a steeper learning curve. Greenhouse is also particularly expensive compared to the other products highlighted in this article.
Greenhouse pricing
Greenhouse has three tiers with varying features—Essential, Advanced and Expert—, but they don’t have set prices, instead basing them ‘on the size of your company’. Pricing info was also unavailable on the various review sites featuring the platform.
Who is Greenhouse best for?
Although considered to be one of the best ATS solutions, Greenhouse is also one of the most expensive and complex platforms on the market. Greenhouse is typically better suited for global enterprise-level organisations that require complex HR integrations across international locations.
Workable
Workable is an all-in-one hiring and HR platform designed to manage recruitment, onboarding and employee processes, such as payroll and performance management.
Workable features
Workable Recruiting’s key features at a glance:
- Job board distribution
- AI-powered candidate sourcing
- Customisable candidate profiles
- Multilingual job ads
- Anonymised screening
- Automated and personalised bulk communications
- Insights and reporting
Workable is an easy-to-use platform that’s designed to scale with your organisation, but there are some limitations with the software. There’s a lack of onboarding features and limited search functionality. As a result, Workable might not be ideal for larger businesses with more complex requirements.
Workable pricing
There are three pricing tiers available for Workable:
- Starter — $189/month (only monthly billing available)
- Standard — $313/month (billed annually), $378/month (billed monthly)
- Premier —$628/month (only annual billing available)
Workable also offers a 15-day free trial.
Who is Workable best for?
Workable HR and Workable Recruiting are branded as two products but are sold together across their three pricing tiers. As a result, Workable is one of the more expensive solutions, making it most suitable for larger organisations.
Note that Workable has not been designed to specialise in any specific sectors, with the website claiming ‘Companies of all shapes and sizes are using Workable’.
Which should you choose?
Each of the seven SmartRecruiters alternatives we’ve highlighted here offers a wide range of features and tools that can support your recruitment processes, but choosing the best solution for your business will depend on a few factors, including budget, organisation size, target market and the business’ typical hiring volume.
However, if you’re looking for a specialised ATS for in-house high volume and hourly recruitment, we believe that Occy is the standout choice—and our customers would agree.
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