Recruitee

Recruitee is a cloud-based, all-in-one hiring platform for teams of all sizes. Named the "Best Applicant Tracking System of 2015" by RecruitingTools, it delivers four important recruiting tools in one integrated package to optimize the entire hiring process:

•    An Employer Branded Careers Site
•    Flexible, automated job posting
•    Talent Sourcing widget
•    Customizable hiring pipeline for efficient Applicant Tracking

You can easily create a beautiful, mobile-friendly job site that today's computer-savvy candidates will want to use.

With integration into over 800 free and paid jobs boards and social media networks, Recruitee can get the word out fast when you have a position to fill. It even helps you scout out passive talent.

Once you have candidates in your pipeline, Recruitee makes it as easy as possible to track and manage them.

Let's look at each element of Recruitee in more detail.

The Employer Branding Editor

The competition for top employees is brutal. And today's candidates are mostly Internet veterans who have little tolerance for low-quality web sites. Recruitee makes it easy to create a modern,  attractive recruiting site in no time. We're talking about a mobile-friendly site that is hosted for you by Recruitee, but is fully brandable. Customers report setting up a full employment page within a few minutes.

How is this possible? You start with Recruitee's responsive core site design. Then you customize it by turning optional elements of the site on or off. You can then upload your assets (photos, messages, and so on), and apply your company branding. The result is a site that looks sharp, functions on whatever device prospective employees are using, and is uniquely yours.

The Recruitee Employee Branding Editor

NOTE: The Employee Branding Editor supports advanced features like language support and hosting on your own domain. But you don't need to deal with any advanced features to create a quality recruiting page.

Jobs differ in their requirements. The application forms should differ too. Recruitee includes customizable application forms. You can specify what standard information an applicant needs to provide (things like phone number, photo, and cover letter).

You decide whether applicants can apply by pointing you to their LinkedIn or Indeed profiles, whether the job listing can appear on social media and whether or not you will disclose the location of the job.

To help you screen candidates as early in the process as possible, you can add screening questions to the application form. These can be closed questions (yes or no or multiple choice) or open questions (free-form or essay type).

Promoting Jobs and Sourcing Employees

Creating quality job descriptions is important to getting quality candidates. And listing those jobs on an attractive, mobile-friendly career site can only help. But you still need to get potential candidates to see them. This is where Recruitee's automated job promotion and sourcing tools come into play.

Recruitee integrates with more than 20 free jobs boards and social media sites. Once you have a job description ready to go, you can click one button to post that job to all these locations. This is part of every Recruitee plan, assuring wide dissemination of your jobs.

Here's a partial list of the job boards you can automatically post to:

• Monster
• Glassdoor
• SimplyHired
• Indeed
• CareerJet

What about positions that need more specialized handling? The free boards and social media channels are not appropriate for every position. You might be looking for higher-level people, or staff in a different country. Recruitee can handle these situations too.

The platform includes its own job board search engine. At the time of this review, it gave you access to over 500 jobs boards located in 47 countries. You can get premium listings on these boards, with discounted pricing through Recruitee. You can get free advice from Recruitee on using these boards for specific jobs.

You can also use Recruitee to create targeted social media campaigns. Get your jobs listed on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, even YouTube for the best results.

The techniques we have discussed so far get your jobs in front of people who are searching for new positions. But you may also want to scout out talent that isn't searching right now. Recruitee makes this easier.

They have created an extension for the Firefox and Chrome web browsers. Once you spot talent, the extension imports their information to Recruitee. While scouting for talent is hard work, importing talent takes just a few clicks.

The Recruiting / Applicant Tracking System

Once you have jobs posted, you need to be able to handle the candidates efficiently. This is a job for the Recruiting / Applicant Tracking part of the platform.

Recruitee organizes all information related to applicants, from start to finish. From sending out mailings, to tracking progress through the pipeline, to team communication, its all managed here. The process works like this: 

As applications arrive, the candidates appear in your recruiting dashboard. You can review each candidate's qualifications from here. You can give an adjustable star rating to each candidate. This lets you pick out the most promising prospects at a glance.

The entire recruiting pipeline appears in the dashboard. This makes it easy to see where every candidate is in the process. Making things even easier, the pipeline has a drag-and-drop interface. When you want to advance a candidate to the next stage of the pipeline, just drag them there. Likewise, you can drag and drop candidates within each stage of the pipeline to order them by desirability.

The recruiting dashboard is a powerful applicant tracking tool, but Recruitee gives you more. Here are some more benefits to managing the process with Recruitee:

• Smart Analytics - The platform tracks the source of every candidate. Over time it can tell you which channels provide you with the best new hires. This allows you to spend your time and resources on the channels that provide the best ROI (Return On Investment).
• Customizable Pipelines - You can adjust the stages of the pipeline for each job. This ensures that the pipeline for each job matches your company's policies.
• Centralized Candidate Email - Handle all your email for an opening from a single screen. Whether you need to send a bulk mailing to every candidate, or target a specific individual, you can do it here. The mailing system supports attachments and email templates to reduce your workload.
• Recruitee's activity feed keeps the whole hiring team in the loop. It supports @-mentions for directing a message to a specific team member. Daily or weekly notifications are available too.

Mobile Apps

To ensure that your recruiting process doesn't get held up because you are away from you desk, Recruitee offers a free iOS app. The app handles four key elements of the process:

• Candidate profiles so you have information about each candidate at your fingertips, literally
• A Recruiting pipeline view so you can see where each candidate is in the hiring process
• Team Communications via notes or direct messaging from your mobile
• Notifications that keep you on top of, well, everything

Additional Resources

The Recruitee web site includes a number of additional resources that will help you understand the platform and use it better once you subscribe.

The Recruitee Academy

The Recruitee Academy is a good place to find pick up additional information about this platform. It includes:

• The Beginner's Guide, which takes you on a quick tour of the platform, from creating your first job opening to importing candidates.
• A searchable FAQ, with detailed answers to 70+ questions. Many are detailed, step-by-step instructions with annotated figures to guide you.
• A huge set of Job Description Templates. Over 200 templates in 16 categories to make creating a great job description easier.

Live Example Career Sites

This is a collection of Live Example Career Sites created using Recruitee's editor. These allow you to get a sense of what your career site will look like when you sign up for a plan. You can find these example sites near the bottom of the Employee Branding page at the Recruitee site.

View Live Career Sites Created with Recruitee

API and JS Widget

If you want to display job listings on your own web site (as opposed to, or in addition to, your hosted site at Recruitee) these tools make it possible. If you want to use either of these you will need to contact Support. They will work with you on implementing the interface you need.

Data Security and Ownership

Recruitee keeps all your data safe on encrypted servers. You retain full ownership of your data and can export it at any time with the help or Recruitee's Support staff. Contact them for details.

Pricing

Recruitee offers five pricing plans. The plans are distinguished by the number of active jobs they support. For example, the Starter Plan supports 1 active job, while the Corporate Plan can handle 20 active jobs. The top tier is the Enterprise Plan, which is customized to meet your organization's needs. Each plan gives you access to the full set of features offered by the platform.

The prices range from $19 per month or $190 per year for Starter, to $199 per month to $1990 per year for Corporate. The price for the Enterprise Plan will depend on what you negotiate with Recruitee.

Conclusion

Recruitee can be a powerful tool in your quest to attract and hire the best employees. As you've seen here, it has many characteristics that could make hiring a better, faster, more cost-effective process for your company. But you will never know for sure if a tool like this is right for you until you try it yourself. To that end, Recruitee offers a free, 18 day trial program. 

Simply fill out the sign up form to create a company account and you are ready to go. No credit card is required. You will be able to set up a Recruitee-hosted career site, post jobs, and experience the entire process with a live site. There's no better way to understand what Recruitee can do for you and how it would fit into your organization.

To start your own free Recruitee trial, click the image below.