SeekOut Reviews

"An excellent resource for locating contact information"

Pros:

SeekOut is a wonderful resource for locating potential candidates and obtaining their contact information. It's a simple and effective tool for recruiting firms. The boolean search feature, in particular, is quite beneficial for sorting certain choices. A fantastic tool!

Cons:

It's a special tool for me, I haven't found any particular bad issue.

SeekOut review 03.24.2020

Comments: SeekOut is a tool that I am happy my company uses

Pros:

Diversity filter. Finding emails. Market insights.

Cons:

Not integrated with applicant tracking system/customer relationship manager. Only has public profiles on LinkedIn and not all profiles. Life sciences features need to evolve for biotech industry. Does not have collaboration features to show work of other users at my company.

Great tool that speads up the identification of candidates!

Pros:

I love the fact that you can source for candidates from multiple platforms / networks, manage projects, find contact details and create messaging campaigns on one unique tool. The diversity filter is great too. The insights are very helpful.

Cons:

Unfortunately, messaging campaigns are independent from the projects so you have to manually update the statuses of your candidates when they respond. Xing.com and Viadeo.fr are not supported (FR and DE professional networks) It seems like Seekout finds less candidates than x-ray searching.

User Review

Pros:

The search functions are pretty versatile and accuracy is good; also the Chrome extension is very helpful.

Cons:

The search functions target sites/apps that are oriented more towards software engineers; we recruit in hardware so we don't have much use for them. We can only really leverage LinkedIN with it.

My SeekOut comparison with others

Comments: Great. The platform is easy to use and the Chrome extension is good too.

Pros:

SeekOut functionality and UI were better than others I demonstrated. Also, SeekOut's outreach messaging automation is pretty good too.

Cons:

SeekOut is a little bit more expensive than others and they limit their contact credits with no rollover.

Two years and counting

Comments: Overall experience is very positive.

Pros:

It's extremely easy to search. Many, many search parameters to consider.

Cons:

Not every email is accurate. I know it isn't possible to get all.

This tool saves sourcing time!

Comments: A lot to appreciate. Pleas focus on accuracy, integrity than adding new function.

Pros:

Identifying candidates from underrepresented group. Creating a report on the search I run.

Cons:

Diversity filtering is not 100% accurate. (ex. male candidates in female search result, Asian shown on African American target search, etc. some simbols creates error on boolean search. (Ex. A/B testing) Please add period setting for 'shrink profile you already view' (viewed within last 3 months, 6 months, from thid search, etc)

Seekout daily use

Comments: I'm satisfied so far using this software. easy to filter, easy to save hfilter history

Pros:

I like how easy to navigate the filters to find candidates for open job roles we are looking for

Cons:

the least thing I like is just 1 wrong space or spelling the search wont work. but it's fine

Return on Investment

Comments: Great product and value!

Pros:

Seekout is an exceptional tool. It is a real time saver and versatile functionality. I reviewed several tools to simplify and streamline recruitment searches and messaging. For the money it is the best tool for the money. The messaging/campaign system is better than my ATS!

Cons:

They are always working to improve functionality and contact finding has improved greatly in the last year.

What a great tool for sourcing

Comments: Overall, it is my go-to sourcing tool!

Pros:

The power filters are a great feature, I even had the team create custom power filters for me which was a great thing to have done to assist with my daily searches. I use the messaging tool constantly for drip campaigns. The github search is awesome looking for devs

Cons:

The AI sourcing can be improved with better matches

Need to work out some of the kinks ... but could be a great tool for some recruiters.

Comments: Overall good experience, not great, but I'm good (not great) with Boolean searches. I was testing another AI product alongside, and found it easier to find candidates with the other product. The other product really has a good AI/machine learning feature, while SeekOut requires you to use more Boolean-driven search features. If you're comfortable with Boolean, then then you'll be fine using SeekOut. Finally, I think the ability to use SeekOut to effectively search through Github for IT recruiting is a really powerful offering from SeekOut, and could be a game changer. I didn't do this, but my friends who do way more IT recruiting than I do say SeekOut is their tool of choice because of this feature.

Pros:

Email campaign features are great. I liked that once you set up an email campaign, it was easy to add candidates to the project and the campaign. I liked that there is an analytics dashboard for each specific campaign. I liked that that emailing through SeekOut integrates with your email, so you don't have to be on SeekOut to respond. I like that you can look at the various emails attached to a candidate and determine which the most valid one to use in your campaign. Finally, outstanding customer service.

Cons:

Email campaign features need improvement. It's not intuitive to set up the campaign. Once you set it up, it works easily, but getting there may require help from customer service. The analytics related to the campaign aren't consistent or accurate. You will see which emails bounced in the first 24 hours, but then the "bounced" tag reverts to "opened," which skews your data and doesn't allow you to follow up with those candidates via another email or a call if you don't catch it right away. Also, if the email bounces, and there are other emails attached to the candidate, SeekOut doesn't automatically email the candidate at one of those other addresses. You have to do it manually.

Great

Pros:

SeekOut's filters allow you to hone in on the talent you're looking for a lot quicker than normal. It provides a way for us to filter FOR diversity which then gives our team a leg up balancing their pipeline of candidates. Another aspect of SeekOut that I love is that we are able to do a lite market map of candidates using the filters that are in place - that can be shared with people who don't have access to Seekout like leaders.

Cons:

When looking at the insights for projects made up of candidates in other continents - you aren't able to get a global breakdown of diversity (ie % of females are in this project). I think the product is still growing internationally so I can't wait until it's as robust as the candidates based in the USA. In some cases, the profiles are either not updated with a candidate's latest move (within 6 months) or clicking on their Linkedin profile leads to a broken link. That's likely because the person has changed the URL in their Linkedin since the last time Seekout updated their database.

A great recruiting tool

Comments: So far, it has been very positive.

Pros:

I've had experience with a number of recruiting/talent management software packages. SeekOut stands out (pun intended) in its versatility and amount of data on candidates that it collects. I've been using it for about two months now, and can confidently say that it is one of the most robust platforms for identifying candidates in a very targeted, precise way.

Cons:

So far, I haven't found any feature that I would say I liked the least. One functionality that I wish it had would be the ability to search on candidates from LinkedIn that are tagged "Open to Work."

Very Useful Product for Sourcing!

Pros:

I use Seekout often to find candidate emails and profiles I normally don't come across, which I'm able to port over into Linkedin and Greenhouse very easily via the Chrome extension.

Cons:

It would be great if SeekOut provides more up to date data on where a candidate is currently, since usually Seekout reports candidates at their old jobs and is not always the most up to date if the candidates have moved.

I like seekOut more that Talent Insight (LinkedIn)

Comments: In general I like the portal because show me candidates from specific regions and qualifications

Pros:

Friendy and easy to use and you canr quickly master it.

Cons:

In some specific positions I need to make two research because the candidates mixed the language at the same time use (Spanish and English) and in this way I can find more possible candidates

SeekOut-NextGEN Recruiting Platform

Comments: Experience has been outstanding.

Pros:

Ease of use, intuitive design and functionality, filter options, interface, reporting and campaign outreach abilities. Email/contact information research function. Unparalleled Support (often immediate response and a genuine interest in getting things fixed, interest from SO in the user experience and how they can improve platform)

Cons:

No real CONS/roadblocks come to mind.

Excellent resource for stragetic sourcing

Pros:

The search functionality and customization options, the automated campaign messaging system (especially the humanization features such as the "send as reply" options), and the ability tag candidates across multiple users to avoid duplicate contacting.

Cons:

There are some features that I wish existed that do not, for instance the ability to search for only candidates who have held a specific job title for a minimum cumulative number of years, even amongst different employers. My only other complaint is that sometimes profiles appear in searches claiming that they contain a specific mandatory keyword, when in fact upon opening the profile the keyword is nowhere to be found.

Best product out there!

Comments: I would pick having a seekout license over having access to any other tool. I can't live without it!

Pros:

The boolean search and filters they have are so much better than any other tool. I also love that I can use their contact finder and import it into my ATS.

Cons:

I wish I had a better sense of who is actively job searching and what locations they might consider.

Awesome! I don't need much more than SeekOut

Pros:

Expert search is the best for those hard-to-find/hard-to-fill roles.

Cons:

I'd love the ability to automatically seek more ways to find their contact info.

Great product, easy to us

Pros:

SeekOut is intuitive and easy to use. I love that you can build boolean searches and save them to specific projects. The advanced filters are incredible for targeted searching, and I love that there is an option to filter for diversity. The ability to "collapse profiles I've already seen" is ESSENTIAL to my workflow each day. And I especially love that there's a dark mode :)

Cons:

I was not in charge of integrating this software, so I can't speak on that part. I wish that there were a way to target specific companies to source from, and/or to filter companies by type (e.g. "SaaS companies"). Every once in awhile, there will be a profile mismatch (one profile is listed on SeekOut, and a separate or broken profile opens up on LinkedIn when you click it), but that's rare and super minor.

Great software!

Comments: Great Software. It is definitely worth it to use in recruitment. Life saver

Pros:

The ability to target specific candidates in the candidate database.

Cons:

Nothing. Very intuitive. Good software. Very useful for recruitment.

Great Tool for Recruiting!

Comments: Great tool! Highly recommended.

Pros:

Seekout is easy to use and has so many great features that makes it easy to discover new candidate profiles! Entelo only gives you one email address at a time, but Seekout will try to find all the email addresses and check them if they work. They even give you the candidates phone number which helped me so much with cold texting and calling. The and AI and filters are awesome and it has become one of my go-to recruiting tools.

Cons:

Product is great and works well, no complaints

SeekOut has been a game changer

Comments: It's been wonderful!

Pros:

Easy to use and navigate. [SENSITIVE CONTENT] and his team have been super helpful with providing trainings to make sure we are utilizing the tool correctly. I use this software more than LinkedIn. Helps to find candidates that aren't coming up in normal searches.

Cons:

The software was more challenging to adapt to at first, but probably because I wasn't giving it a fair shot and also getting familiar with LinkedIn recruiting at the same time. Once I spent the time in this tool, it was easy to pick up.

SeekOut Is a Great Sourcing Tool

Comments: I use SeekOut to source and contact candidates in volume and have had a positive experience doing so.

Pros:

I love the ability to reach technical candidates by sourcing candidates through GitHub and opening their LI profile. The search filters on both GitHub on LinkedIn is wonderful. On GitHub you can specify language, systems, AI, server, cloud, and many other options. The LinkedIn filters are very similar to LinkedIn Recruiter, though they do not have the open for opportunities insight. They also have pretty reliable contact information.

Cons:

The LI profiles can be out of date by up to a year, but the link to LI allows for a quick update.

Finding Diversified Candidates made Easy!!

Pros:

Ease of finding diversified candidates especially women and people in minority

Cons:

Credit usage and individually updating contact details when i am doing a Project and Campaign