




SeekOut Dashboard





Supported Operating System(s):
Mac OS, Web browser (OS agnostic)About SeekOut
SeekOut is a cloud-based talent sourcing solution that helps small to large enterprises source and recruit candidates from across multiple channels. It enables users to filter candidate pools based on work history, location, keyword, education or skills and can even retrieve results using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Key features of SeekOut include talent sourcing, people insights, data import/export and messaging. It allows businesses to accept or reject suggested applicants and add selected candidates to ongoing projects helping to streamline workflows across the organization. Setting itself apart from competitors is SeekOut's Github sourcing. SeekOut combines users’ GitHub profiles and code contributions with their work experienc...
SeekOut Dashboard
Supported Operating System(s):
Mac OS, Web browser (OS agnostic)Average User Ratings
Overall
Ease-of-use
4.5
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.5
Functionality
4.5
Likelihood to Recommend
Not likely
Very likely
March 2020
Adam from Ridgeline International
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2020
What a great tool for sourcing
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
Reasons for Choosing SeekOut
The salesperson reach out quicker
March 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 10,000+ employees
Time Used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
March 2020
The Evolution of a Great Talent Sourcing Tool
I have used SeekOut as a tool to augment information about target talent audiences. SeekOut's ability to aggregate social data has been a game-changer. SeekOut Expert has been a valuable addition to its offering. SeekOut insights have been valuable in terms of visualizing information that illustrates trends that TA leadership values. Finally, SeekOut's ability to integrate with our CRM has been extremely valuable.
Pros
SeekOut is a product that has done their background research on what the talent acquisition marketplace needed. They listened and made the improvements the market requested. Now as the organization has evolved, SeekOut is not anticipating and leading in innovation in this key software segment. Specifically, what I like about SeekOut is the ability to aggregate data from Linkedin Public Profiles with other social sites like GitHub. I am particularly enjoying the SeekOut expert and other features that facilitate original research on target talent.
Cons
I am skeptical about the ability of AI-based on the limited information contained on a LinkedIn public profile to be robust enough to really make a positive impact. The beauty of AI is its ability to process big data and make recommendations based on parsing lots of information. Also, I find there are about 15-20% fewer people with public LinkedIn profiles that are found on LinkedIn's own platforms. Finding a way to add those missing profiles would be an added addition. Finally, increasing the number of home email addresses fro the target talent is an ongoing challenge. While improvements are made, this might be an area where AI can shine.
Reasons for Choosing SeekOut
Again, the ease of use which led to greater user adoption and the value of SeekOut Expert and other features.
Reasons for Switching to SeekOut
Easy of use and value of SeekOut expert.
March 2020
Jessie from HUDSON RPO
Company Size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Hospital & Health Care
Time Used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
2.0
Value for money
5.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
4.0
March 2020
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.
Reasons for Choosing SeekOut
Seekout is more boolean friendly and the insights are good!
Reasons for Switching to SeekOut
LIR was too expensive.
March 2020
Russ from HackerTalents
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Computer & Network Security
Time Used: Less than 12 months
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
5.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
4.0
Functionality
4.0
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.
Reasons 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.
March 2020
Anonymous
Company Size: 2-10 employees
Time Used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
Ease-of-use
4.0
Value for money
4.0
Customer support
5.0
Functionality
5.0
March 2020
Expensive but Unbeatable Search Capabilities
I'm very disappointed SeekOut increased its price by almost 200% and eliminated their monthly subscriptions. For almost every search, I rely on my custom boolean vs. using only their filters. Because I don't utilize all of SeekOut's features, we're still unsure if the price increase is worth it but will re-assess at the end of the year.
Pros
I really enjoy being able to use their pre-populated search features in addition to the custom advance search features. I'm able to narrow down candidates with very particular skills and experience with no problem. I also really enjoy that you can request contact info (not always available /accurate). It's super helpful that your search is automatically saved/attached to the project in which you added your search results, so you don't have to worry about where you left off!
Cons
Not much that I don't enjoy. They could improve by making it easier to navigate back and forth from the project and search page. It would help if they offered more project ranking options. Also, when using * in the keyword/boolean search, it would help if the results would show the corresponding keyword on the profile (just like the regular search feature).
Reasons for Choosing SeekOut
Better search options, capabilities, and candidate database