iCIMS Talent Cloud vs. LinkedIn Recruiter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
iCIMS
Score 6.4 out of 10
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iCIMS is a web-based applicant tracking system (ATS). The tool's talent recruiting and management functions include features like social recruiting, talent sourcing, offer management, and onboarding. The programs are centralized on iCIMS’s UNIFi platform and are scaled for mid-sized to enterprise businesses.N/A
LinkedIn Recruiter
Score 9.0 out of 10
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LinkedIn Recruiter is a hiring platform for talent professionals that helps find, connect with, and manage the people you want to hire.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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iCIMSLinkedIn Recruiter
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
iCIMS Talent CloudLinkedIn Recruiter
Considered Both Products
iCIMS
Chose iCIMS
iCIMS Talent Cloud is well-thought out with opportunities to manage candidates in process for larger organizations. It also partners well with job boards for ease in job posting. ADP WFN decreased our # of candidates unnecessarily because of the required login. BerniePortal …
Chose iCIMS
The difference between iCIMS Talent Cloud and Salesforce is night and day. We were stuck in the stone age of applicant tracking and metrics. iCIMS has given us the freedom to do with our data as we see useful for us. We are also able to integrate to current HCM/HRIS very easily …
Chose iCIMS
iCIMS and Munis actually are used together for our company in order to communicate together for better information. There are things that each does better than the other, but the platforms are geared in slightly different ways so those differences are expected. Using them …
Chose iCIMS
I believe compared to other software iCIMS is very easy to use. It is not complicated, user friendly, and system maintenance has never been an issue. The support desk is always available for assistance and training manual is very beneficial when using for new on site staff. …
Chose iCIMS
Fully available automation, lesser bad data quality, more information is gathered at the time of applicant profile creation without having the need to ask for any follow ups or additional notifications. Integrates better with Oracle, Workday and SAP than other similar systems. …
Chose iCIMS
iCIMS Talent Cloud provided a better fit into an organization like ours and fewer implementation efforts. Also back in the day, iCIMS Talent Cloud had most of the features we were looking for out of the box. Additionally, it offered better integration possibilities with our …
Chose iCIMS
We previously used monster/HR Smart as our talent solution. They did not enable us to brand different divisions within the same platform, so we had to purchase separate ATS systems for each division. This was less than ideal and prompted us to look for another provider. …
Chose iCIMS
iCIMS provided a basic recruitment platform for the organization with a lower cost than Workday recruitment.
Chose iCIMS
We sought out other options 18 months ago because we were dissatisfied with the limitations of iCIMS. We opted for Phenom and have been pretty happy. It is definitely a significant upgrade to iCIMS alone.
Chose iCIMS
iCIMS Talent Cloud is easy to navigate when it comes to candidate and reporting search.
Chose iCIMS
As it was 6 years ago I don't remember all of the vendors we looked at, but iCIMS Talent Cloud stood out related to ease of use, reporting, and the Onboarding product.
Chose iCIMS
Lever is more user friendly, more visual, and less reporting issues. iCIMS Talent Cloud is more configurable and able to grow more candidates in a faster fashion. Lever has better support than iCIMS, which is an overall win for anyone using it. Lever is also growing their …
Chose iCIMS
Overall, iCIMS offered a greater variety of features, integration options, and configurability than the competition, and offered greater value and cost savings.
Chose iCIMS
TimeTrade is a better experience for candidate self-scheduling.
Chose iCIMS
We have used BrassRing in the past and I have used ADP Recruiting in the past. Both are limited in their configuration. Mostly because they do not allow company admins to adjust what we need. Everything was built as is or not available to us for access.
Chose iCIMS
It has been way more efficient for high-volume recruiting. Fewer steps to get to the same stage as the other applications.
Chose iCIMS
In my past job, I used PeopleSoft as both our ATS and HRIS. At my current employer, we use PeopleSoft as the HRIS and iCIMS Talent Cloud as the ATS. I greatly prefer the application management features of iCIMS Talent Cloud as well as the increased level of customization. …
Chose iCIMS
iCIMS Talent Cloud is the only ATS I have used. I have seen demos of some other systems in the past, and they seemed to be set up in a more archaic manner. From the demos I have seen, I do think iCIMS is the most user-friendly system. It is just a stand-alone ATS system. It …
Chose iCIMS
iCIMS functionality is superior to that of either the Kronos or Ulti-Pro systems.
LinkedIn Recruiter
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter provides best features as compared to competitors. Pool of candidates is more as compared to others. Recommendation features help gauge genuine candidates.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn is one part community, and one part sourcing tool. Other tools are are more strictly a resume database of job seekers. LinkedIn Recruiter allows us to reach candidates not necessarily looking for a job which is valuable.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter provides a large pool of candidates across all these job boards and a vast number of filters that you can use to find specific talent. Features like Inmails do wonders in connecting with candidates. With the help of LinkedIn Recruiter, we are able to identify …
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
it is major used portal where we can connect with candidate directly without any personal touch. the professional skill, job role and past experience of the candidate is very genuine.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is globally used common platform for the Job positing, searching and sourcing. It is more valuable than other tools
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
To be honest, they are both two different beasts. I think LinkedIn Recruiter is more practical. I think the UI is cleaner and everything is easier to navigate. However, ZoomInfo provides far more information about the company someone works for by giving me insight into their …
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
SeekOut has a diversity filter, which I like. They also list some candidates that are not on LinkedIn, but ultimately SeekOut routes me to LinkedIn. So technically SeekOut allows me to screen for filters that LinkedIn does not, but I actually end up using LinkedIn Recruiter to …
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter has the largest reach globally. I mean, if you're not on LinkedIn, do you even exist? ;) It is the only real game in town for one-stop-shopping for candidates. The service is premium, and so is the price. However, there is nothing that I'm aware of in the …
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn is the #1 source of profiles. It has the most, and a lot of other sourcing sites are based around the frameworks of LinkedIn, or bring you directly to their profiles.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
I use both LinkedIn Recruiter and SeekOut. I start my candidate search with LinkedIn Recruiter due to its ease of use, high candidate yield, and integration with Linkedin for the sake of contacting candidates.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
SeekOut's boolean filters are better but SeekOut primarily runs as a support to LinkedIn Recruiter. Meaning that even if I find someone on SeekOut I still use LinkedIn Recruiter to outreach and track that candidate.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter provides a very actualized database of candidates, always providing information about their current status on Linkedin. You can source, recruit, communicate with candidates, and document the interactions in this platform, which makes it easier.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is better than Indeed when hiring high level professionals. It gives a lot more qualified candidates and more access to profiles. It allows you to seek out candidates, where Indeed does not unless you pay an extensive amount and even when you do, you are …
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
There was not much difference between the Indeed Hiring Platform and LinkedIn Recruiter, both of them offered more or less the similar services and feature sets. Why LinkedIn Recruiter was chosen was due to its global reach and ease of having a complete view into the candidate …
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
No comparison - it is the best when recruiting high caliber talent. There is still room for niche roles (i.e., Dice) but this tool is critical.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
It's not even close, Recruiter is the far superior product.
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter is better than Dice because it has passive and active candidates. Dice only has candidates that are posting their resumes so those candidates are being contacted by tons of recruiters at once. Dice has become worse and worse in terms of the quality of …
Chose LinkedIn Recruiter
I love the LinkedIn Inmail system because I can target candidates who would be open to a conversation. I think this is a winning feature. I love that ZoomInfo has an automation platform and provides work phone, cell phone, business email and personal email addresses for most …
Features
iCIMS Talent CloudLinkedIn Recruiter
Recruiting / ATS
Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of Product A and Product B
iCIMS Talent Cloud
8.4
Ratings
5% above category average
LinkedIn Recruiter
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Ratings
Job Requisition Management8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
Company Website Posting9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Publish to Social Media7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Job Search Site Posting9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Customized Application Form7.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Resume Management9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Duplicate Candidate Prevention5.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Candidate Search9.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Applicant Tracking9.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration9.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Task Creation and Delegation7.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Email Templates8.80 Ratings00 Ratings
User Permissions9.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Notifications and Alerts7.50 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting7.30 Ratings00 Ratings
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Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.1 out of 10
Lever
Lever
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
iCIMS Talent CloudLinkedIn Recruiter
Likelihood to Recommend
8.1
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9.5
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Likelihood to Renew
7.8
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Usability
8.8
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9.3
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Availability
9.1
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Performance
8.2
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Support Rating
6.0
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Online Training
7.9
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Implementation Rating
6.3
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Configurability
5.0
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Ease of integration
5.0
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Product Scalability
7.8
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Vendor post-sale
10.0
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Vendor pre-sale
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Integrates well with other HR systems like Oracle, SAP, and Workday. The profile creation process is very generic meaning it doesn't work well with all systems. It would be nice if they had a custom setting depending on the target HR system and the ability to save partial data entered and provision to complete at a later time. Follow up emails on workflows. Customer support is great.
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I can manage candidates from the search to moving them to projects to messaging in one place, which makes it a more streamlined and efficient process. If a candidate does not respond to an outreach message from my LinkedIn Recruiter mailbox, I can then send a connection request and a message directing them, to the recruiter message.
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Pros
  • Configuration - we are able to configure it to meet our business needs.
  • User friendly - I feel it is easy to use and we are able to roll it out with minimal training for our field
  • System availability - we have limited to almost no issues with the system being slow or not available during business hours.
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  • The scheduler is my most favorite part of Recruiter. Super easy and organized to use.
  • It also can integrate with my applicant tracking system when and if I hire from LinkedIn Recruiter.
  • The fact that you can see an applicants full profile gives more information than just a resume when selecting candidates to interview.
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Cons
  • Support model - there has been a decrease in the service, we already addressed it and hopefully, it will improve
  • Configuration flexibility - there are minor things that we could easily change but for some reason, it is available only for vendor
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  • For some reason, whenever I click "View in Recruiter" it takes me to the project summary screen instead of that candidate's profile in Recruiter
  • It would be nice if candidates got automatically moved to the appropriate stage when an action is taken (ie "Contacted" after sending them a message)
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Likelihood to Renew
I would say that we are very likely to renew with iCIMS. They seem to continuously be improving their product based on the feedback from their clients. In addition, the thought have having to go through another implementation of this level is daunting and as long as the software continues to meet the business needs of the company and provides the appropriate level of support we will most likely stay. Costs regarding future renewals will also impact this decision and if necessary we will go to market to evaluate other options.
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Usability
We just love iCIMS. Our hiring managers love iCIMS. I give it a 9 because some hiring managers do not have to use it as regularly and need reminders on what to do. It really improved our experience with our ATS overall and I wouldn't want to work in any other system in my job.
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This portals helps to source the profile directly from the LinkedIn where I don't need to check the resume and LinkedIn separately every time. LinkedIn Recruiter is the best platform for posting the job effortlessly. It requires only few details and we can get response quicker.
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Reliability and Availability
There is always ample advance notice before the software goes down for maintenance and this is usually done at off-peak hours. As for system failures - I can't think of any that have effected us in over two years od use.
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Performance
We can think of no dissatisfaction with our daily use of iCims, involving its response time to commands or incompatibility with any other software we presently use.
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Support Rating
Let me begin by saying the implementation phase was PHENOMENAL! Katie was our support manager and she was outstanding. The process was cumbersome and time-consuming, but she was outstanding and knowledgeable. That process gets a 9/10 for sure. However, between multiple account manager changes (and no notification) and being promised functionality that doesn't exist, and not hearing back when we reach out to support or open a ticket, the process has been really disappointing since implementation. We do have a new rep who has reached out to introduce himself, and we are optimistic that our experience will improve considerably after that meeting.
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Online Training
I would say I believe iCims online training is very good. It's informative, visually appealing, and simple in explaining all the different aspects of iCims. I also really like the new candidate onboarding, and all the other training curricula you have up to be able to inform or send out to the candidate. I like you can attach a URL link for videos as well so you can really customize the training. I feel that overall, I would like to see more. Perhaps, more robust options with the training, if that's something iCims is expanding on in the future.
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Implementation Rating
Things went smoothly
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Alternatives Considered
The difference between iCIMS Talent Cloud and Salesforce is night and day. We were stuck in the stone age of applicant tracking and metrics. iCIMS has given us the freedom to do with our data as we see useful for us. We are also able to integrate to current HCM/HRIS very easily and effectively.
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LinkedIn Recruiter provides a large pool of candidates across all these job boards and a vast number of filters that you can use to find specific talent. Features like Inmails do wonders in connecting with candidates. With the help of LinkedIn Recruiter, we are able to identify fake candidates or profiles.
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Scalability
iCims is currently pretty good and the best TAS for us at our stage of growth - but further improvement and enhancements will only help make it even better.
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Return on Investment
  • It makes it so much easier to keep the recruit engaged and informed about what is going on in the process.
  • I can speak to multiple people at one time which saves me time in the long run
  • I can keep a record of every time I have had a conversation with a recruit and what was said in those conversations.
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  • It's a must have for reaching passive candidates.
  • Love being able to identify candidates we may need in the future and saving them in a project.
  • It's difficult to cut through the noise using Inmails since everyone is using the tool.
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