Brightmove vs. Zoho Recruit

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Brightmove
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Brightmove is a cloud-based ATS developed by Brightmove, Inc based on Florida.This product offers features typical of applicant tracking systems, as well as a few other features: a customizable dashboard, mobile accessibility, SMS messaging from the dashboard, and batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels such as email or by leveraging its integration with social networking sites via the “Social Bar” that allows the recruiter to view Facebook and LinkedIn…
$125
per month per user
Zoho Recruit
Score 6.4 out of 10
N/A
Zoho Recruit is a cloud-based ATS. Zoho offers a full suite of features typical of applicant tracking systems, including social recruiting and resume parsing. Its custom automatable reports enable analyses of processing and information sharing. It is available in Free, Standard, and Enterprise versions.
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Pricing
BrightmoveZoho Recruit
Editions & Modules
BrightMove for Staffing or HR
$125
per month per user
BrightMove for RPO or PEO
$225
per month per user
Forever Free
$0
Standard
$25
per month per user
Professional
$50
per month per user
Enterprise
$75
per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BrightmoveZoho Recruit
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptional$30 per user per month
Additional DetailsZoho recruit also provides options for add-ons such as a client portal ($6/license/month) and video interviews ($12/license/month).
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Community Pulse
BrightmoveZoho Recruit
Considered Both Products
Brightmove
Chose Brightmove
Brightmove does all we need from a resume database and ATS and job board posting perspective compared to Zoho Recruit. When we initially started with BM, it was a more cost-effective and simple solution...which is why we chose Brightmove. Ironically, now we are looking at the …
Chose Brightmove
It isn't even remotely close how much better Brightmove is compared to PCRecruiter. PCRecruiter is living in the early 90s, while Brightmove has brought recruiting and ATS software into 2018. Highly recommend it.
Chose Brightmove
More affordable, easier to learn, more included features, best resume parser. Job board is very easy and yields good candidates.
Chose Brightmove
Brightmove seems to be pretty similar to Vurv, but overall the functionality of the other systems I have used has been better. I didn't select to implement Brightmove, it was already in place when I joined the company.
Chose Brightmove
I have only used one other system - it was antiquated and could not hold a candle to Brightmove.
Chose Brightmove
Brightmove is visually appealing and easy to use. It has great functionality when it comes to looking at the candidate page, job page, or a dashboard that is fully customizable. Brightmove makes it easy to post jobs to internal sites and external sites. It does lack on the …
Chose Brightmove
I greatly prefer Bullhorn over Brightmove. The email functions offered through Bullhorn are exceptional, tracking candidates is a breeze, and uploading resumes to specific job orders is a snap.
Zoho Recruit
Chose Zoho Recruit
Similar product, way cheapet
Chose Zoho Recruit
The main difference maker for us was pricing. Zoho's pricing was much more competitive for a company our size. We also liked that we could try the software before committing to it.
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zohorecruit is the best platform for small and mid-sized companies. It will help us to save lots of time in the recruitment and hiring journey. We have used Oorwin also in the past, but this is much better than the Oorwin, and it's very robust and easy to use, and the site is …
Chose Zoho Recruit
The all-in-one recruitment, good price, easy-to-connect with other systems, custom reporting, and notification.
Chose Zoho Recruit
I was first introduced to Zoho Recruit by a colleague. I was impressed by the ease of use and pricing. I've been a happy user of Zoho for 3+ years now. I have been checking out Loxo because I have friends in the industry that rave about it.
Chose Zoho Recruit
I do not have much familiarity with other products, but Zoho Recruit has worked very well [with] our team, and we have had successful hires. I know we have also used Recruit CRM and have had success with this tool as well, but it does not integrate into the other Zoho products, …
Chose Zoho Recruit
The ability to modify different fields, the accuracy of parsing is efficient, and the ease of implementation and support makes Zoho Recruit a standout platform. From the pricing tiers they have for different businesses and organizations plus the ratings we saw for the …
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is surely at par with workable and LinkedIn jobs, but [lags] behind in terms of new candidate discovery. Also, it mostly always is the second one to get new features that other tools try and that work for them. But overall, it's a fast, simple and easy to use tool.
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is way better than any other softwares simply because it integrates with other Zoho products. If you use other zoho products, then this is a no brainer.
Chose Zoho Recruit
We didn't use another software before so we are very happy we found Zoho Recruit. It is way better than not using a software. The price is reasonable and makes things very easy.
Chose Zoho Recruit
I've only selected Zoho Recruit because that is the Applicant Tracking System my current company uses. I would actually choose Lever over Zoho Recruit because they send me notifications if I've set a reminder in the past, while Zoho does not. You have to just check what tasks …
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit provides us with the opportunity to post unlimited jobs, manage the entire recruiting process, integrate with job boards, and have a career site- at a low cost. They continue to add on new features and work with staffing agencies to create tailor-made tech …
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit is far superior to all the other tools I evaluated. It alows for a ton of customization across the application. Templates and automated workflows allow for streamlining processes. It has integrations with several Zoho products and external tools, including …
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zoho Recruit stacks up on the price and quality of service. We are a small business and our budget is limited. We are looking for the most out of our business and looking to scale the business with the right resources for the job.
Chose Zoho Recruit
We evaluated Zoho Recruit first, and we found it suitable for our needs. We have used it now for over a year. We chose this application because we wanted to reduce most of the manual work done by the HR team, but after one year we have not been able to fully operationalize the …
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zoho has everything that you can want in a recruiting software. From on time support and a vast expansion available to fit yout needs. It is very flexible.
Chose Zoho Recruit
Arithon is a widely used system, it is similar in functionality, but much more expensive. Salesforce has a system also, but once again is very expensive, and too cumbersome, might be better for very large organizations. We have viewed other systems, such as Firefish, but again …
Chose Zoho Recruit
Maybe not quite as good as the big boys in the market, but at a fraction of the cost certainly worth the consideration.
Chose Zoho Recruit
I have used both Bullhorn CRM and Zoho. Both are very good products. However, the price point for Zoho is much less than that of Bullhorn. That being said you don't have all the support or customization options in Zoho that we had in Bullhorn. In this case - since we simply …
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zoho does well as we did not have to purchase other assets like a Web Server, Database, and pay a developer to get it rendered and running
Chose Zoho Recruit
Bullhorn and RDB were much advanced and maybe better suited to large agencies, however the costs for them is significantly higher. Workable I didn't think was helpful at all in managing vacancies, in fact it seemed pretty useless. Zoho had the best features at the most …
Chose Zoho Recruit
Zoho is far superior in my opinion to all other systems and can not be beat for the price point. This system has everything a business owner could ask for and with half the price. I would highly encourage any recruiter or staffing firm to take a look at this platform.
Features
BrightmoveZoho Recruit
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
Brightmove
9.2
Ratings
14% above category average
Zoho Recruit
7.0
Ratings
13% below category average
Job Requisition Management9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media9.00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Customized Application Form10.00 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Resume Management9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Candidate Search9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Collaboration9.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation9.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Email Templates9.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
User Permissions9.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts10.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Reporting10.00 Ratings4.00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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User Ratings
BrightmoveZoho Recruit
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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7.0
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Likelihood to Renew
3.0
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10.0
(0 ratings)
Availability
7.0
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(0 ratings)
6.0
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.0
(0 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BrightmoveZoho Recruit
Likelihood to Recommend
Brightmove is well suited to a large active team of recruiters. It is too expensive to be good for a smaller shop, especially if there are several users. If you are considering this product, I recommend that you ask about upgrades and improvements, "up time", what the service response is like, what new interfaces they are planning, what will be included in the next release, and how that new release will be communicated in advance
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With the business I am in I have to be able to search and reach potential candidates from hours away due to the scope of the contract we have covering a solid couple hundred sq. miles of the state; so being able to have a software that can search, sort, rank, and suggest candidates without having to spend ours of time or driving hours for an interview I can connect with one person and make a decision and have the software there for them and send an email or two with the steps and instructions and 5 minutes later be doing the same for another candidate hours away without even needing to leave the office or even from home and knowing that I'm able to monitor and adjust the steps or make adjustments along the way and being able to trust that it is choosing quality candidates and able to help me hire the right people to do my job to keep my contractors and homeowners safe is amazing for our business.
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Pros
  • The overall ease of use. The functionality of all of the features are simple.
  • The ability to navigate through the various features makes the screening process more efficient.
  • Keeping track of candidates and job files.
  • Cross-posting of job announcements across 15 job boards.
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  • Like other HR-based services, Zoho Recruit allows you to track the behavior of candidates during the execution of your hiring process, so that you can create constant notes of any problems that may arise and that may prevent a proper job.
  • The relationship between employers and candidates can be measured, which is excellent for creating reports on the development of each hiring process, and employees can then be evaluated on their ability to manage and communicate correctly with each candidate under their direct care.
  • Hiring sessions can be recorded using a variety of methods. It does not necessarily have to be done using an audiovisual recording tool (which is possible through different integrations) but a convenient recording system that allows you to note down important data, and where even the candidate's photographs can be saved.
  • We believe that some features of Zoho Recruit's support service could be improved, although this is probably a general service by the Zoho team for all their programs. The staff is not sufficiently explanatory, and therefore we have not been able to meet our expectations for troubleshooting.
  • We like that using Zoho Recruit is so convenient, and that it interfaces well with the other services that the entire Zoho suite has to offer: Zoho Recruit is a good alternative for human resources, which shows a reliable and easy-to-manage operability, so that all registration and follow-up processes are simple.
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Cons
  • Brightmove could offer more detailed and user friendly reports.
  • Brightmove could add more screening questions to applicants when they are applying to a job. The feature that is already there is not really useful.
  • Brightmove needs to separate internal applicants from external applicants.
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  • When searching for a name, it brings up much too broad of a list.
  • Adding candidates from LinkedIn sometimes has a lengthy delay and takes up to 2 minutes to be able to search from them, though I have found a workaround by navigating to the home page to find activity of adding a candidate.
  • Would be helpful if it were more intuitive with adding duplicates.
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Likelihood to Renew
Brightmove has worked well as we are a company with 120 employees. For as long as we stay around this size, we will continue with Brightmove, but as we grow we will start looking for an ATS that can directly tie into our CRM (NetSuite). The price point is great for the functionality when compared to other ATS solutions
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We have evaluated every other ATS on the market, and do so every 1-2 years just to make sure we aren't missing out on anything better, and found that Zoho offers more functionality than any ATS with a per-recruiter-price under $100. Once it introduces automated job alerts and candidate login functionality there will be no reason for us to look elsewhere.
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Usability
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The user interface looks clunky and designed by engineers. I suspect it didn't undergo much user testing.
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Support Rating
The Customer Support is the best part of using this ATS vs others. They have a chat feature on the home page where you can ask a question and have a Customer Service rep help you in less than a minute. I have found that to be invaluable and a life saver on several occasions. I'm not sure you get that kind of service from a bigger ATS provider.
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I give Zoho Recruit this rating because over all, it has helped me to organize my candidates and saved me time and energy in organizing them myself. Without Zoho Recruit, I simply would not be able to keep my talent pool straight, and it certainly gets the job done. I took off a couple points because if I download a resume after already inputting the candidate into Zoho, it won't automatically sync the two profiles up. It also does not remind me when a task is expired.
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Implementation Rating
The Info Tech conversion and implementation team was too small to meet our needs
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Alternatives Considered
Brightmove is visually appealing and easy to use. It has great functionality when it comes to looking at the candidate page, job page, or a dashboard that is fully customizable. Brightmove makes it easy to post jobs to internal sites and external sites. It does lack on the corporate recruiting side, but not enough for it to not be looked at
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Zoho Recruit is far superior to all the other tools I evaluated. It alows for a ton of customization across the application. Templates and automated workflows allow for streamlining processes. It has integrations with several Zoho products and external tools, including Zapier. It provides a set of APIs to use with it. It allows for to-do lists with reminders. It allows for storage of all documents shared by candidates, including assignments. It allows you to create customized offer letters for candidates and keep track of them through the application. None of these capabilites are available in the other tools that I experimented with
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Return on Investment
  • Positive ROI in terms of time spent by our recruiting team. Our old ATS was clunky and forced users to spend more time on mundane tasks.
  • Positive ROI in terms of connecting without outside job boards and finding job candidates.
  • Positive ROI in terms of motivating our team by seeing their numbers in an easy to understand/read dashboard.
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  • I can't say anything about ROI, but Zoho Recruit made our recruitment process highly effective.
  • We did not need to hire more HR managers as the system helped to manage the processes automatically.
  • We saved money with Zoho Recruit for sure. And this was very best.
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