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James C.

Verified reviewer

Staffing and Recruiting, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2020

Return on Investment

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.

Reason for choosing SeekOut

More functionality for the value.

Russ

Computer & Network Security, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

SeekOut Basic Review

SeekOut has provided our company with a great source of candidates and direct contact information and is a good tool for creating and maintaining talent pools. I've used it to support a client in their contract staffing needs (IT Consulting Co.) very well.

PROS

There are several features that the basic version has that we find very useful: - Filters for searches - Ability to exclude/include companies, titles, skills in searching - search down to the city area level - Being able to quickly create projects for searches - Finding contact information (personal emails, some ph #'s and even work emails) - The AI Recommendation of candidates once a project has been established. Great source of additional candidates possbilities.

CONS

It doesn't integrate with ATS's ... at least not at the basic user level. It does allow for CMS file creation but has a limited # of pre-mapped tables you can use with other tools (11 in total). This could definitely be improved. Also, direct integration would be an improvement where you could send candidates into your ATS directly without downloading. There seems to be a growing number of outdated profiles in the system. SeekOuts database needs to be updated more often.

Reason for choosing SeekOut

More cost-effective and better sourcing option!

Reasons for switching to SeekOut

SeekOut searches and AI are much easier to utilize over LOXO's very cumbersome setup.

Vendor Response

We appreciate the review, Russ. SeekOut integrates with over 20 different ATS & CRM systems. You can read about it here: https://support.seekout.io/hc/en-us/categories/360004811831-Integrate-your-ATS

Replied March 2022

Jere

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed March 2020

SeekOut Review

I really like this tool it helps me get in front of many [potential candidates

PROS

Seekout is a great tool for a recruiter that needs to search social media. it narrows the candidate pool down helping you pinpoint candidates that have the skills you may need. What really nice feature is the messaging feature. allowing you to send messages/emails to candidates

CONS

A lot to learn can be frustrating at times as you are trying to do other searches.

Reason for choosing SeekOut

Pricing was very fair and was recommended by other recruiters I network with

Joe

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2020

My SeekOut comparison with others

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.

Reason for choosing SeekOut

Mentioned above - SeekOut's functionality, UI and messaging automation

Reasons for switching to SeekOut

Besides switching from Hiretual, I also demoed AmazingHiring, and previously used Entelo. Hiretual I didn't feel was meeting my needs anymore. AmazingHiring, that was a tough decision especially since their cost was a bit more affordable, but SeekOut won me over.

Bonnie

Civil Engineering, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

(Easy Product) AND (Great Support)

We are still getting used to all of the capabilities. Still tweaking the searches to match our needs. Overall, a very nice product.

PROS

Diving in and using this product has been very easy. It gives you more choices to make to narrow down the search. I like the ability of sharing with co-workers so they can review the profiles to see if they are a potential candidate for a particular position.

CONS

No guaranteed connection with a "profile". The contacts can be very outdated.

Reasons for switching to SeekOut

We wanted a more affordable product with more features.

Anonymous

10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2020

Relatively New SeekOut User Experience

I am not a manager or an executive. I am very much a tactical recruiter and it has been quite easy to incorporate SeekOut in my daily recruiting process. Additionally, the SeekOut team is accessible and friendly. I can call or I can email anytime. I get responses back quickly/usually within same day. When I started using SeekOut, the manager I worked with did as much training as I needed and answered all of my annoying questions. Some organizations are too big to be able to provide that kind of customer dedication now

PROS

I don't think there is just one aspect that I appreciate most about SeekOut which is why I like it and why it has become a "go-to" tool in my recruiting portfolio. It provides me with options. SeekOut is one source that has a lot of sources in one and it is highly user-friendly. It also automates and therefore reduces a lot of the time I spend "meta-sourcing" meaning activities like searching for contact information for a prospect or candidate's profile.

CONS

Right now, I use the first two tabs the most. I think that 3rd tab has a lot of potential and would love to see that somehow become a more robust component within SeekOut. I would like the additional option of the SeekOut Robot to not only be tied to Project folders in order to use it. I like to do targeted and general searches and feel like SeekOut Robot is better suited for targeted or more specialized searches.

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Kate Margoth

Verified reviewer

Retail, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2022

Seekout daily use

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

Vendor Response

Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback on SeekOut! Glad to hear we're helping you find great people!

Replied November 2022

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Randy

Verified reviewer

Retail, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

Seekout as a Talent Intelligence Platform

PROS

My favorite use of Seekout is as a talent intelligence tool. My second favorite use is to help find/augment data from preexisting lists.

CONS

I wish data was refreshed on a more frequent basis. I also would like the ability to add more information for the system to match against when uploading data to projects. Along the same lines, from a UI perspective, when you upload data, I wish it would first go through the whole list, then ask you how you want to proceed with the questionable matches.

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Maria Alejandra

Verified reviewer

Outsourcing/Offshoring, 1,001-5,000 employees

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2023

Great Software

In general our experience with the software has been quite positive, and we are currently considering purchasing one of the paid plans that the platform manages, due to its versatility.

PROS

One of the features that makes this tool so attractive is the scope of people it has, as it has a large database that provides a variety of profiles that allow you to choose personnel that adapt to the multiple vacancies that need to be filled.

CONS

Sometimes the information provided by this platform is not the most accurate, but in many cases this can be improved by fixing the search filters.

Vendor Response

We appreciate the feedback! Thanks for taking the time to share this review with the community.

Replied January 2023

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Md Jahan

Verified reviewer

Internet, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2022

"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.

Vendor Response

Thanks for taking the time to share your SeekOut experience with the community!

Replied August 2022

Patricia

Automotive, 51-200 employees

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed December 2019

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

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.

Vendor Response

We have been making incremental improvements on our messaging feature. Please reach out to support@seekout.com with specific enhancement requests so we can address.

Replied March 2022

Joel

Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2020

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.

Rachel

Staffing and Recruiting, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed March 2020

One of my most valuable Recruiting Tools

I like Seek out. I find it to be one of my most valuable tools for Recruiting aside from my company's database.

PROS

I like seekout because it is visually easy to read quickly and understand. As a Recruiter, my time is very valuable and it's extremely valuable to me that I can quickly glance over the little mini "summaries" of each profile I am looking at to get an idea of what that professional does. I like that you can click right on it and it takes you right to their profile.

CONS

I think if there was a way to more easily look for similar professionals who work for a company competitor that would be helpful. Sometimes it is difficult to find professionals in a certain organization if the organization's name can be spelled different ways or is difficult to spell

Reasons for switching to SeekOut

My company suggested i do so.

Vendor Response

We suggest company names after typing in a few letters, please reach out to support@seekout.com if you're having trouble finding a particular company.

Replied March 2022

Anna

Human Resources, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2022

SeekOut is by far the best Sourcing Platform I've used.

I've found amazing and relevant candidates; I love that SeekOut shares a candidates LinkedIn/Github/Publications and other social media links so I rarely have to cross reference on other sites. SeekOut has one of the most accurate filters I've used as well, it makes it so easy for me to narrow down the profiles I'm looking for and also be able to add to projects and easily share with my hiring partners - it has been great to providing my hiring partners insights into specific talent pools. Overall, amazing platform that I use everyday!

PROS

What I like most about SeekOut is how accurate. I could type in a long Boolean or a very short/basic one and it yields very accurate results. When I add different filters, it's very accurate and definitely helps to narrow down the type of profile I'm looking for.

CONS

I can't think of any. SeekOut is by far the best sourcing platform I've used.

Reasons for switching to SeekOut

I wanted to see how results would differ from LinkedIn.

Kelsey

Staffing and Recruiting, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2020

SeekOut - Top Choice for Recruiting Platform

SeekOut provides a creative, more efficient way to source candidates, reach out directly to candidates, as well as keep connected with those candidates via campaigns.

PROS

SeekOut is my top choice for a Recruiting Platform because of numerous reasons: - The ability to source diversity candidates (ie: women and HBCU alumni) - The ability to create message campaigns to email directly through SeekOut and have it interconnected with your inbox, as well as the analytics of these message campaigns. - The ability to find direct contact information of candidates (both email and more recently, phone numbers) to increase your chances of connecting with candidates.

CONS

None that I can think of off the top of my head.

Catherine

Computer Software, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2021

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.

Scott

Human Resources, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2020

Great tool for Talent Acquisition

Our overall experience with SeekOut is extremely positive. And their Customer Service is outstanding!!

PROS

SeekOut is an integral part of our daily workflow. It enables us to identify and connect with the talent that we are looking for.

CONS

I like the ability to gather prospective candidates' phone numbers in addition to their emails - but the accuracy re: phone numbers could be improved.

Jyotsana

Civic & Social Organization, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2022

Seekout Review

Seekout is a good tool, specially for the diversity

PROS

It gives you the clone candidates and diversity candidates.

CONS

It gives you the screened candidates which is time consuming.

Vendor Response

We're glad you enjoy using SeekOut to find top talent while saving time

Replied August 2022

Jia

Airlines/Aviation, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2020

Passive hiring!

PROS

We can create projects and easily move them to an Excel is most useful. Contact info available for candidates makes it a quick process to reach out to candidates- Opening up the pool of candidates globally has really worked well.

CONS

Some LI profiles are duplicate and some need to be updated- Not all contact #s listed are correct, some are company #s which are not helpful-

Joshua

Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2022

Great tool to use when finding candidates for Niche roles/ Diversity roles, AI Matching is Amazing!

Great Experience!

PROS

- The Power Filters - The advanced Boolean option - The AI Matching - The Messaging Campaigns - Being able to customize filters and create own filters - Talent Insights

CONS

- Need more learning on how to utilize this tool more efficiently, as there is so much that can be done, but not everyone would be aware of how to.

Lauren

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2022

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.

Sadak

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2020

Excellent recruiting tool

Very satisfied

PROS

Diversity filters, Github search, social media functionality

CONS

Data refresh could be sooner, some missing links

Reasons for switching to SeekOut

Powerful search feature

Anonymous

10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2022

SeekOut is Great for building diverse pipelines

PROS

I love that diversity and inclusion is at the heart of this company. It’s a strong focus for my team since we primarily source based on diversity.

CONS

I think a lot of the candidates profiles are not updated. I’ve noticed that some profiles are extremely old in Seekout vs. looking at them in LinkedIn. It can be annoying when I find a great candidate and then realize they just started a new job two months ago.

Phaedra

Information Technology and Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2022

SeekOut - Excellent New Tool!

My overall experience with SeekOut has been positive. It can be a bit overwhelming with the amount of results from searches, but the support team and trainings offered, are a HUGE help in narrowing down qualified candidates.

PROS

What i believe sets SeekOut apart from other platforms is the quantity of candidates that come back from a search. SeekOut taps into a tremendous amount of folks that each search returns. It is very user friendly, and easy to narrow down results and put them in 'projects' to contact with a mass email, or reach out individually.

CONS

I wish SeekOut had the ability to capture CURRENT Full Scope Poly folks. As it stands now, there is a filter for folks that have held, or may have held one now or in the past, but nothing definitively confirms a current clearance.

Bethany

Defense & Space, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2022

Best product out there!

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.

Reasons for switching to SeekOut

I like how seekout works so much better

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