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CareerPlug

Score8.1 out of 10

12 Reviews and Ratings

What is CareerPlug?

CareerPlug is a software company that helps companies across the U.S. and Canada to attract and hire the right people. Their hiring software works for non-HR people so every owner, operator, and hiring manager can make the right hires for their team.

Headquartered in Austin, CareerPlug provides a playbook on How to Hire, making it easier to access best practices, and automating the process so users can focus on making the right hire.

Media

Additional Job Sharing
Dashboard
Job Distribution
Job Index
Job Posting
Text Messaging

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Top Performing Features

  • Job Requisition Management

    Job Requisition Management – Job requisition management is the ability to create jobs quickly and easily

    Category average: 8.6

  • Job Search Site Posting

    Software provides ability to publish postings to top job search sites

    Category average: 8.2

  • Candidate Search

    Search capabilities allows candidates with certain attributes to be located

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Customized Application Form

    Application form for applicants allowing capture of required information

    Category average: 8

  • User Permissions

    User permissions allow you to decide which information is viewable or editable by others

    Category average: 8.5

  • Publish to Social Media

    Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites

    Category average: 7.7

Keeping it simple and effective.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Having the landing page is a nice touch, the templates have been helpful, assessments, and many features have made the process of posting positions much easier. The support staff has been incredibly insightful on how to best use CareerPlug for better results for our company.

Pros

  • Simple process
  • Effective feedback
  • Reduces worry about how to get started

Return on Investment

  • just getting started

Improved Employee Recruiting

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CareerPlug has provided us an increased volume of qualified candidates to interview. Our success rate of hiring qualified candidates has increased greatly. The ability of candidates to schedule interviews electronically after they have been screened by our Directors has saved our management staff a tremendous amount of time. The overall cost is extremely competitive to other recruiting platforms we had previously used.

Pros

  • Interview scheduling ease
  • competitive cost
  • increased volume of qualified candidates

Return on Investment

  • Increased quality candidates by 100%
  • Reduced monthly recruiting cost by 75%

Alternatives Considered

Indeed Hiring Platform

Great way to keep all your employees information at your fingertip!

Pros

  • Custom Forms
  • Keeping employees info together
  • Allowing employees to apply on our website

Cons

  • change templates they have inserted

Return on Investment

  • positive impacts of not needing more employees to collect required information

CareerPlug was a huge win for our team!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

CareerPlug helped us to hire 3 new incredible team

members! The team at CareerPlug is top notch and they are readily available to

help get you set up and make sure you have the best experience. Kevin made

everything so easy for us and was always willing to help us improve our site

and listings to ensure we maximized the most that we could from CareerPlug.

Thank you so much, CareerPlug!

Pros

  • they're support team is incredible
  • the interface of the website is easy to navigate
  • the automation is very helpful!

Cons

  • the assessments portion took a while for us to really figure out...

Return on Investment

  • we have hired 3 team members from CareerPlug!

Alternatives Considered

Indeed Ads (Sponsored Jobs)

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Indeed Ads (Sponsored Jobs)

CareerPlug: An easy to use Applicant Tracking System and overall great value!

Pros

  • Posting jobs to multiple job boards
  • Sending candidate communications through the interviewing/hiring process
  • Saving and managing job templates
  • Customizing the interview/hiring process
  • Providing reporting and data

Cons

  • Easier use of editing message templates
  • Option to send mass text message communications
  • Better functionality to view account data across a franchise system for admin users

Return on Investment

  • Faster hiring process (from application to hire)
  • Overall increase in applicants

Alternatives Considered

iCIMS Talent Cloud and SmartRecruiters