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Crelate

Score9.2 out of 10

23 Reviews and Ratings

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What is Crelate?

Crelate is a recruitment platform built for executive search, direct placement, and in-house talent teams. The Crelate platform combines an ATS, a Recruiting CRM, and intelligent sourcing.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

the in-app calling notes feature.
a dashboard view,
the resume parsing tool.
a view of the dashboard.
custom reporting.
the resume parsing tool.
the candidate timeline.
the search function.
in-app communication.
a branded client portal.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Crelate has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 23 ratings of Crelate's features
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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

  • Resume Management

    Software allows resumes to be uploaded in bulk, and for contact information to be parsed

    Category average: 8.2

  • Candidate Search

    Search capabilities allows candidates with certain attributes to be located

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Duplicate Candidate Prevention

    Duplicate candidate prevention prevents candidates already in the system from being added

    Category average: 7.5

  • Company Website Posting

    Software allows postings to be displayed on the company website

    Category average: 8.6

  • Publish to Social Media

    Software provides ability to publish postings to social media sites

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about Crelate.
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Great resource for applicant tracking, recruiting CRM, and talent relationship management!

Incentivized
Michael DiGregorio
Managing Director - Recruiter in Human Resources at Altius Search Group (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Very good resource to track and organize client business development
  • Very customizable to allow you to modify the activities to you preference
  • Great training and support to help you customize your processes

Cons

  • Would love the option to add profile pictures

Return on Investment

  • Crelate has allowed me to customize my recruiting process for business development. This will be a great ROI moving forward.
  • Crelate links all candidates to the company that they work for. This is extremely important to quickly identify profiles in the database with the companies that they work for. Sounds simple but very important!
  • Quickly interfaces with LinkedIn to important candidates. This makes importing candidates quick and easy!

Alternatives Considered

Recruitee, Big Biller and PCRecruiter

Other Software Used

Linkedin Recruiter, Interseller

Easy to use! Designed for the recruiter.

Incentivized
Verified User
Consultant in Sales (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Drag and Drop - easy to move candidates through the recruitment process.
  • Intuitive- easy to learn and manage.
  • Interfaces well with emailing and texting.
  • Built in support for MS Word.
  • Knowledgeable support.
  • Supports telephone click-to-dial.
  • Easy to cross reference contact records using "@" symbol - very nice feature.
  • Easy to import resumes and contacts through multiple solutions.

Cons

  • Would be better to incorporate texting feature directly to my existing phone number, rather than use a separate system.
  • Sending calendar invites is a little hard to remember how to do - could be a bit more intuitive.
  • Need faster support - online chat would be great.
  • Click to dial works well, but would be nice to "record" the event in the contact record.

Return on Investment

  • Saves a lot of time with email templates
  • Candidate duplication prevention and removal is great!
  • Drag and drop saves me countless hours during the year
  • Searches across all mediums - database, emails, resumes
  • Interfaces well with email!

Alternatives Considered

PCRecruiter and Zoho Recruit

Other Software Used

QuickBooks Self-Employed

An Excellent Engagement Platform

Incentivized
James RodriguezView profile
Talent Engagement Associate at Strategic Employment Partners (SEP) (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Crelate has a very useful SMS system where you can engage with candidates via text and receive quick responses
  • Crelate has generally useful widgets such as bookmarks, engagement activities, and ad response tracking

Cons

  • The Crelate ad response can be pretty touch and go. Crelate should be able to identify similar emails and phone numbers and replace them into the stage they were in.
  • Crelate needs to have better interface with job board sites such as Indeed, Glassdoor, LinkedIn, etc.

Return on Investment

  • Crelate has helped me become more focused on multitasking and being able to manage multiple individuals.
  • Crelate has helped me become more time effective with their scheduling and notification features.

Crelate: Good for Basics

Rachel Segal-SklarView profile
Recruiting Associate in Human Resources at Parity - Partners (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • The way that all the information about a candidate is readily available at the top of their profile is great and very helpful
  • The amount of filters you can use to sort through candidates is really useful
  • The Crelate team is really responsive to inquiries and suggestions

Cons

  • Interface isn't great - there's a lot of clicking around required that I wish was streamlined
  • This isn't a self-explanatory platform - you have to dig around a while before you figure out how to use some features, like the filtering of contacts, for example. There's a place that you'd think you filter, but that actually changes the contacts list instead.
  • It often crashes and you have to sign out and sign back in for it to work again.

Return on Investment

  • Can more easily organize our candidates and we have a lot of info at our fingertips - this translates to quicker processes which is positive
  • We keep all our notes on Crelate - very useful for the whole team to see
  • We have multiple team members scheduling so it really helps to see all the emails that have gone out, to ensure there's no overlap

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Clearbit, Honey

Crelate - a great basic

Incentivized
Jannah BabasaView profile
Associate in Human Resources at Parity - Partners (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Customizability - I like being able to have control over what fields I can have and the order that they appear in. Crelate allows me to implement a system / logic that makes sense with my process.
  • Extension - Absolutely love the Chrome extension as it's able to effectively parse most of the information I need.
  • Customer Service - The support staff is incredible and are always willing to onboard new users / hop on a call to walk through any new issues or updates.

Cons

  • Aesthetics - Although it works, I think there's definitely room in the future to explore how they could improve optics.
  • Search - There's many different ways in which you can search through all of the contacts on Crelate, but it's not too intuitive (especially for new users).
  • Integration - I'd love to see Crelate integrate with other tools I use (e.g., Mixmax) as it would greatly improve productivity.

Return on Investment

  • Better, more organized tracking of candidate progress and any communications
  • Ability to see productivity/output for certain time frames
  • Works well enough to be used as an overall database of connections

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Clearbit, Microsoft Office 365

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