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# Rival Recruit Review

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-   Overview
    
-   User Interface
    
-   Popular Alternatives
    
-   Pricing and Plans
    
-   Features
    
-   User Reviews
    

## Overview

Rival Recruit

3.9

[(24)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/hr/silkroad-recruiting-profile/reviews/)

Pricing

Starting at $3.00 per month

### About Rival Recruit

Rival Recruit empowers organizations to source, recruit, and hire the best talent, add precision to their strategy, and maximize their technology investment. Recruit is a flexible talent acquisition suite that transforms the candidate experience by delivering a scalable, personalized, on-brand solution that drives engagement and conversion while seamlessly adapting to changing business needs.

It is an applicant tracking system that is pre-populated with over 700M passive candidate profiles and includes AI-enabled recommendations for prioritization and communication, interview scheduling and conversational messaging, branded career sites, recruitment marketing and analytics.

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## Rival Recruit User Interface

## Popular Rival Recruit Alternatives

Main Product

Rival Recruit

3.9

[(24)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/hr/silkroad-recruiting-profile/reviews/)

Ratings Breakdown

-   3.85Ease of use
-   3.75Value for money
-   3.83Customer support
-   3.65Functionality

Pricing

Starting at $3.00 per month

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Ratings Breakdown

-   4.82Ease of use
-   4.62Value for money
-   4.62Customer support
-   4.73Functionality

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Starting at $89.00 per month

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-   4.89Ease of use
-   4.85Value for money
-   4.85Customer support
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Starting at $49.00 per month

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-   4.36Ease of use
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-   4.39Ease of use
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## Rival Recruit Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $3.00 per month

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## Rival Recruit Features

-   Popular features found in Applicant Tracking
    
    Application Management
    
    Assessment Management
    
    Background Screening
    
    Careers Page
    
    Communication Management
    
    Interview Scheduling
    
    Job Management
    
    Pipeline Management
    
    Resume Parsing
    
    Resume Storage
    
-   More features of Rival Recruit
    
    Applicant Tracking
    
    Billing & Invoicing
    
    Candidate Management
    
    Candidate Profiles
    
    Candidate Tracking
    
    CRM
    
    Generative AI
    
    Internal HR
    
    Interview Management
    
    Job Requisition
    
    Onboarding
    
    Recruiting Firms
    
    Resume Search
    
    Self Service Portal
    
    Workflow Management
    

## Rival Recruit User Reviews

## Rival Recruit customer ratings

- Overall rating: 3.9/5
- Total reviews: 24

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 9 reviews (38%)
- 4 stars: 9 reviews (38%)
- 3 stars: 3 reviews (13%)
- 2 stars: 3 reviews (13%)
- 1 star: 0 reviews (0%)

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 3.9/5
- Value for money: 3.8/5
- Customer support: 3.8/5
- Functionality: 3.6/5

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### Starting to get obsolete

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Rachel N.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used other for free trial
- Reviewed: January 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

A trusted name that has been around for a while, best for onboarding.

#### Cons

Old, a bit outdated. BEtter software is available.

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### Silkroad Recruiting is All-in-One human resource software.

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Hailie M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Construction
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall SilkRoad Recruiting is on of the best cloud-based applicant tracking system and it has every tool to save time and effort , after 4 years of using it I feel very grateful.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

You can set some (keywords) to go through candidates resumes easily.Customer Service is amazing and responsive almost 24/7 .

#### Cons

I had some issue first when I tried integrating Silkroad with our HRIS ,but I had it solved after like two and a half months.

#### Reasons for choosing Rival Recruit

Because of the pricing plans.

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### Great company, but doesn't seem like recruiting product is their focus

- Overall rating: 2/5
- Reviewer: Beth W.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2017
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I love the people at SilkRoad, and they have other products that are great, but the Recruiting product feels like an afterthought. There are so many other options out there now that feel more current. If SilkRoad wants to keep customers on the Recruiting platform, they need to actually put more attention into it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 2/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

- Customer service for any SilkRoad product is great. Very responsive and eager to help. - Price! It's definitely one of the most affordable options out currently.

#### Cons

- We've been using the product for almost 3 years and there have been little to no improvements in those 3 years. The releases are few and far between with this product and those that do come are so minor that they're really not even noticeable. - The UI is clunky and needs an overhaul - it feels dated and our hiring managers don't want to use the tool. It's not intuitive, so we end up doing a ton of work "outside the system" and then copying/pasting back in to save to candidate profiles. - The interview scheduling tool doesn't work with macs (1/2 our office uses a MacBook). - Only 1 scorecard can be created, which makes it difficult to create anything useful - we ended up not using it.

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### Simple and easy to use software

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Nikki S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Staffing and Recruiting
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

From a recruiter's view, it's an easy to use software for uploading candidates but there is no way to make any changes or even view the candidate submitted.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

I use this software to upload candidates into my clients candidate portals for positions that I recruit on. I basically find the position the client has assigned to me and then I upload candidates for that specific position. Once that candidate is uploaded I receive a thank you for submitting a candidate or I receive a notice that the candidate is already in the client's candidate pool.

#### Cons

I do not have the ability to view all candidates I have submitted and do not have the ability to go back into a candidate profile to make changes such as a phone number, address etc. Once the candidate is submitted I no longer have access. I am also not able to upload a newer or updated version of a resume. It would be very helpful if there was a way for the recruiter representing the candidate to have access to the resume to make changes to the candidate profile.

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### A solid recruiting tool at an affordable price point

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Brian G.
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2017
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

This is a tool that should more than meet the needs of most users. It is fairly basic and doesn't necessarily have all of the newest technology or shiny bells and whistles, but it does everything we need for it to do, and is a stable and secure product that has been around for some time.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

It has almost all or most of the functionality that the larger, enterprise-level systems/products offer. It is a robust candidate database and applicant tracking system that meets our organization's needs and allows us to create a better candidate experience, as well as integrating well with our other systems. It is affordable and cost-effective as long as it is set up and maintained properly.

#### Cons

It feels a bit dated or underdeveloped in certain ways, and could be more user-friendly from a hiring manager perspective. Also, there are additional costs/expenses to consider when making even minor changes in the system. There could also be more improved branding and social media integration options.

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### It is what you make it

- Overall rating: 3.5/5
- Reviewer: Sara K.
- Industry: Primary/ Secondary Education
- Product usage: Used unspecified for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2015
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4.5/5
- Customer support: 1.5/5
- Functionality: 4.5/5

#### Pros

This applicant tracking software has really changed the way we do our hiring; we were doing paper applications and now, 3 years later, I don't know how we would ever go back. Our company is 500 FT employees and 1,200 total employees. The requisition and job offer approvals helped us to remove several hard copy forms that would often get lost, and the history tab lets you know who and what has been happening on each persons profile. Correspond with candidate is also an awesome feature.

#### Cons

SilkRoad's technical support has dwindled significantly over the last years. There used to be a candidate support line; then they took that away. Now, they will only let 2 of our super-users even call technical support or put in a support ticket. I would think they would at least give our 7 full-permission users ability to call technical support. This can be frustrating when candidates call in and we have no one else to refer them to. The application itself seems to have never-ending quirky issues like timing out and browser compatibility problems for our non-technical users. Since we hire many academics (and not computer users). we get a lot of complaints about the ease of applying (note - we have a custom eApp. most complaints include the eApp which we choose to implement).

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### There are better ATS on the market

- Overall rating: 2/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2019
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 2/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

One of the most economical ATS on the market, but you get what you pay for

#### Cons

Weak reporting, non user-friendly interface, difficult to track candidates and overall recruitment progress, not many customization options and spending a lot of time formatting due to no template options

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### Ok, but could be better

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Suzanne W.
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2017
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

SilkRoad is updating their software but has a long way to go to bring it up to date with features that are user friendly and cross platform. The system is good for a small company who is not a sourcing driven organization.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 3/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

Fairly easy to use and administrator functions are straight forward. Very easy to train someone how to use. Does well with basic job posting and candidate review.

#### Cons

User experience is clunky and unfortunately is not up to date for viewing on tablets and smart phones. Searching and reporting features are limited.

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### Used Silkroad Recruiting at Bakery Manuf Company

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: erika t.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2020
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I would use it again, if given the chance. It was an easy implementation.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Haven't used the tool for a few years but when I implemented it, it was easy, great customer service, intuitive for both recruiters and candidates.

#### Cons

It didn't integrate with our HRIS at the time which was painful. A system was being worked on to solve the integration when I left.

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### Silkroad

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: michelle b.
- Industry: Primary/ Secondary Education
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used other for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: September 2018
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I think that this is really great because it's connected to linked in. This isn't used at my company, but it should be. I let our career services know about this product but it's not up to them to use. Part of our school's perks is to help students find the job they are looking for. What better way, then for them to use this product so they could help the students get linked in and find the right recruiter's. Not only that but we have positions that haven't been filled in over 6 months which wouldn't happen if we had more access to applicants.

#### Cons

I only ran into this product because of where I worked before. This could really use some more advertising so it falls in the right hands.

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