Brightmove Reviews & Insights

Score8 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Brightmove are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Intuitive and Easy-to-Learn User Interface: Multiple users have found Brightmove's user interface intuitive and easy to learn, allowing for efficient navigation through the various features. This positive sentiment was expressed by several reviewers.

Drag and Drop Feature with Quick Activity Tracking: The drag and drop feature in Brightmove has been appreciated by users as it enables them to easily move candidates through each stage of the hiring process. Additionally, the quick activity tracking feature has also received praise from multiple reviewers.

Visual Workflow for Clear Overview: Users have liked Brightmove's visual workflow, which provides a clear overview of all open jobs and the status of candidates in the hiring process. This aspect has been positively mentioned by several customers.

Reviews

11 Reviews

Brightmove - A great ATS & Resume Database...but other options available with more flexible pricing.

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

May 24, 2022

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Brightmove primarily as a company-wide resume database/repository. We obtained resumes from many sources throughout the year and need a central location to easily store them and search for particular skills and experiences when we have new position openings/requirements from our clients. Brightmove provides a very easy-to-use solution to load and parse resumes which then become very easy to categorize/classify and then search. Brightmove has a lot of functionality like Applicant Tracking and posting to industry job boards, which we have done a few times in the past, but we primarily use it for the resume database/repository features/functions.

Pros

Parse and store resumes.
Resume Classification/Categorization.
Resume Search.
Resume history and version control.

Cons

The biggest issue we have now with Brightmove is the cost structure. For the narrow solution, we are looking for and using, their pricing tiers are not very flexible and increased somewhat dramatically recently.
The general UI is a bit dated.
The iOS app is pretty basic and at one point had issues keeping up with iOS updates.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want a full-service ATS and will use the tool to post jobs and track candidates, Brightmove is a very solid tool. They are adding functionality and making it more robust. In our case, we ended up just using it for resume repository and management and so the solution essentially outgrew us such that the price structure and options are no longer competitive or make as much sense as when we first started using the tool.

Austin Lin

IT Operations Lead in Corporate at Providence Technology Group, Inc. (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

Less Expensive, Great Support for your ATS

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 13, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Brightmove as our main applicant tracking system (ATS) across our recruiting and management personnel. It is our main source for job postings to our corporate website, and dissemination to other RSS job feed sites. It groups together our offers, correspondence and details of all of our candidates and tracks them through the onboarding process.

Pros

Power search is a great tool to search through the resumes in the ATS.
It's one of the least expensive ATS options.

Cons

GUI is not the best, but certainly not the worst either.

Likelihood to Recommend

Very well suited for small business, as it is one of the least expensive options to properly track candidates. Serves all of my needs for candidate sourcing within our resume database and pushes our jobs out to RSS job feeds such as Indeed and Simply Hired.

Chris Ammann

Exec. Vice President in Corporate at Legato, LLC (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

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Brightmove is a MUST use for your ATS

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 6, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightmove is being utilized as an applicant tracking system for our recruiting team for our recruiting organization. It solves the problem of job application candidate management, job pipeline management, sending candidate communications and tracking their movement throughout the hiring process.

Pros

Ease of use is great. Drag and drop, quick activity tracking and more!
Visual workflow which is easy to see all open jobs and where candidates are in the process.
Data analytics dashboard is top notch.

Cons

Development cost for add-on features.
Implement email automation.
More intuitive exchange email integration.

Likelihood to Recommend

Brightmove is hands down the best applicant tracking system we have worked with at our recruiting firm. It combines excellent ease of use with an in-depth, user-friendly workflow that makes it easy for our staff to do their jobs but also maintain complete accountability.

Verified User

Manager in Marketing (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Great, affordable software with lots of customization options and job board included.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 16, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our organization uses Brightmove across the company. It helps us keep our Candidates, Clients, and Orders organized.

Pros

Great resume parser. Never had a problem parsing a file.
Great job board included.
Almost all fields are customizable. Many of the processes are customizable also (reordering, adding, deleting, etc.)
Very easy to learn.

Cons

It's great that almost all fields are customizable. However, if you are very analytical it can be easy to spend too much time customizing.

Likelihood to Recommend

Great ATS and CRM. Helps us stay organized and spend time on conversations with Candidates and Clients rather than on admin tasks.

June Burchfield - LION

Talent Director in Human Resources at KMA Talent (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Can't work without Brightmove. Use it every day!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 22, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We currently use BrightMove for the entire recruiting cycle which includes posting a job announcement, screening and sourcing resumes, making appointments, and engaging candidates. The most beneficial use is for maintaining an organized approach to hiring and staffing positions for our vast network of clients across many different fields.

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.

Cons

I don't have any recommendations as BrightMove is constantly releasing updates and fixes which shows how committed they are to making the improvements that matter.

Likelihood to Recommend

It's well suited for recruitment for large and small firms.

Verified User

Employee in Human Resources (1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Easy-to-use, effective ATS

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

February 15, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightmove is currently only used by half of our staffing group who initially used it at Incepture. It addresses our need for an applicant tracking system to document all applicants through the hiring process.

Pros

Easy to move candidates through each stage of the hiring process.
Each user's dashboard is customizable so they can view the windows they prefer to look regarding open jobs, saved searches, candidate pipeline, etc.

Cons

From the candidate pipeline screen you can't click on a certain stage to see all the candidates in each stage. It would be helpful to be able to click one place where I can see everyone in interview status, for example.

Likelihood to Recommend

It seems to be better suited for a staffing company and less for corporate staffing.

Verified User

Team Lead in Human Resources (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Brightmove, strong ATS with ease of use and strong support team.

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

February 27, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightmove is extremely user friendly and provides great tools during the tracking of early recruitment. Brightmove was utilized be our entire recruitment team to track candidates across the USA.

Pros

Applicant knock-out questions and percentage of match to jobs
Accuracy of tracking and communication tracking

Cons

Better tracking of pre-employment testing progress

Likelihood to Recommend

Brightmove works very well for small to mid size companies.

Christie McPherson

Operations & Recruiting Manager in Human Resources at Intertek (201-500 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

MEET THAT SLA!!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

February 27, 2015

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Brightmove on a daily basis for recruiting purposes. We post all of our jobs with Brightmove and track all applicants through Brightmove.

Pros

Brightmove is user friendly.
You can have a live chat with Brightmove if you have any problems. They are fast to respond.
You can customize your dashboard which is helpful to work off of on a daily basis.

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Brightmove needs to offer more of a customized software for each client to fit their needs.

Verified User

Employee in Human Resources (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Brightmove is a great product but their Info Tech team is small and slow

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

August 24, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightmove is used by our recruiting department. There are about 50 recruiters who support recruiting across the nation. Brightmove is used to hire about 4000 people per year. It is used to manage incoming resumes, and houses information on hiring managers. It also has an interface to our background check services.

Pros

Brightmove is intuitive and easy to learn and to use. It interfaces well with social media.
Brightmove has good capabilities to build interfaces to other systems, such as a background checking system.
In addition, Brightmove has a good record of being available.

Cons

Brightmove could use a better interface to Outlook
When Brightmove released a new version of its product, it had a new look and feel. My company was taken by surprise. We didn't realize that it was coming and had not trained for the changes. They did send an email, but we missed it. A phone call or two would have been a smart way to go.
There is a "shopping cart" for candidates; however, when you close Brightmove the cart goes away. There should be a warning message.

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.

Verified User

Consultant (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Use for Staffing!

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

August 23, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Brightmove is being used for all job postings and the job board is implemented into our website. It is our sole Applicant Tracking System(ATS).

Pros

Tracking Candidates
Posting to Free Boards
Tracking activity

Cons

Focused on Staffing, find better solutions for Corporate recruiting
Allow Managers to have multiple offices
Improve visuals of job portals

Likelihood to Recommend

Brightmove is great for staffing companies. It needs improvement on the corporate side. Be sure to ask about its capabilities if you have more than one location. Currently a manager can be assigned to only one location. So you end up creating duplicate managers for each location. Brightmove is great for posting jobs in one place. The portal makes it easy.

Patrick Scally

Human Resource Generalist in Human Resources at Fisher/Unitech (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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