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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    AkkenCloud

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AAkkenCloud is a cloud-based ATS developed by Akken Inc in New Hampshire. This product offers the full suite of features typical of applicant tracking systems: A user-friendly interface and mobile device integration Batch or mass communication with potential candidates via multiple channels such as email or by leveraging its integration with social networking sites (e.g. LinkedIn) Instantaneous posting to multiple job boards Job alerts and category sorted…N/A

    Jobvite

    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    Jobvite is a full recruiting platform. It provides features across the recruiting funnel - from sourcing and managing candidates via CRM and managing workflows to communicating with hiring managers and reporting through custom dashboards and reports.N/A
    Pricing
    AkkenCloudJobvite
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    AkkenCloudJobvite
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    AkkenCloudJobvite
    Considered Both Products
    AkkenCloud
    No answer on this topic
    Employ, Inc.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    71%
    Would buy again
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    90%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    92%
    Delivers good value for the price
    22 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
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    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    26 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    19 Answers
    Features
    AkkenCloudJobvite
    Recruiting / ATS
    Comparison of Recruiting / ATS features of AkkenCloud and Jobvite
    Feature
    AkkenCloud
    7.7
    8 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Jobvite
    8.6
    63 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Job Requisition Management6.18 Ratings8.660 Ratings
    Company Website Posting8.67 Ratings8.07 Ratings
    Publish to Social Media8.65 Ratings9.762 Ratings
    Job Search Site Posting8.75 Ratings9.760 Ratings
    Resume Management9.47 Ratings8.561 Ratings
    Duplicate Candidate Prevention9.28 Ratings5.957 Ratings
    Candidate Search4.08 Ratings7.962 Ratings
    Applicant Tracking7.58 Ratings9.562 Ratings
    Collaboration4.88 Ratings8.057 Ratings
    Task Creation and Delegation8.27 Ratings6.549 Ratings
    Email Templates8.05 Ratings9.660 Ratings
    User Permissions9.05 Ratings9.961 Ratings
    Notifications and Alerts7.05 Ratings9.960 Ratings
    Reporting8.06 Ratings7.658 Ratings
    Customized Application Form00 Ratings9.060 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    AkkenCloudJobvite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (13 ratings)
    7.7
    (90 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.6
    (5 ratings)
    8.9
    (22 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    2.0
    (3 ratings)
    6.8
    (49 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    AkkenCloudJobvite
    Likelihood to Recommend
    AkkenCloud
    I don't know many other scenarios, as I have been with this company for 13 years and in this industry for roughly 25 years. It is a tool that is well suited for our company and this industry in general. As a staffing company, you can accomplish nearly everything imaginable with this tool. The only area I have seen that might not be ideal is if you wanted to run all kinds of metrics. You can run a variety of reports in Akken, the data fields are limited sometimes and one would think that wouldn't need to be the case. You should be able to put whatever data you want in any field to create the report you need.
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    Employ, Inc.
    Jobvite was very useful when used to onboard our new hires. Being a Human capital management company, we hire many individuals on a weekly basis so it helps us keep all of the paperwork organized and prevent any accidents when managing all of the data. Sometimes it does pose a problem for those who are not technologically savvy.
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    Pros
    AkkenCloud
    • Automatically keeps a record of activities such as email conversations related to a candidate.
    • Time and date stamp on events logged to a candidate and customer is a great resource.
    • Completing full company profiles with all contacts is very helpful for later efficiency.
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    • Workflow- I love that you can immediately see where in the process a candidate is.
    • Dashboard- The customization and overall feel of the site.
    • Feed- The fact that you can see the feed from the candidates other applications is a plus.
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    Cons
    AkkenCloud
    • This is the worst ATS I've ever used. It's hard to find what you need. It's not set up in a coherent manner and things are all over the place.
    • I have to download a resume just to view it.
    • The parse function only works in Internet Explorer and it works poorly then. Makes it impossible to tell if its actually a duplicate because it flags everything.
    • No section for meaningful notes. Notes are all just reports of action.
    • No way to make it efficient for direct hires. All geared towards staffing so it makes you fill out non-sense information that will be inaccurate and irrelevant just to satisfy field requirements.
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    Employ, Inc.
    • Custom fields--custom fields do not follow the candidate from hire to onboarding. This is problematic because we then have to recreate on the onboarding side to then import into our HRIS.
    • Onboarding picklists are time-consuming to populate. We have to enter options one at a time, rather than being able to do an import. Also, field mapping on Hire is a lot easier than having to set up tags on option sets in onboarding.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    AkkenCloud
    There is no reason for us to make a switch. Everybody in the office is familiar with it and it allows us to get our work done faster. There are no pressing issues that would warrant a change at this point
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    Employ, Inc.
    If I were to become an internal recruiter again, I would almost definitely use Jobvite. I liked the fact that we could set up any job application link on our company web site to connect directly to Jobvite. I also liked that Jobvite made employee referral easy to submit, as employee referrals tend to be the highest quality candidates. Jobvite really has all the tools a recruiter needs to get a candidate through a recruiting process quickly without anything slipping through the cracks. Even though there are a lot of features I feel can be greatly improved, I don't think there is anything on the market today that is better than Jobvite
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    Usability
    AkkenCloud
    Akken is quite easy to use however there are a few more complex functions or multi steps to go through to run reports and find historic information.
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    Employ, Inc.
    After using varios ATS's in the past, I have found most comfort and ease using jobvite. This tool has made the hiring process so easy to manage and just the fact that it is not complicated to use, makes it even better
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    Reliability and Availability
    AkkenCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Employ, Inc.
    No issues (especially compared to ADP).
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    Performance
    AkkenCloud
    It's an average tool. The calendar function isn't great, email is slow, and there always seem to be day-to-day issues. The functionality is mostly there for a staffing firm, but there are plenty of areas of improvement still needed
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    Employ, Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    AkkenCloud
    The best support we have received has been from sales. Customer success is pretty much a joke. We have been yelled at by customer success reps; been told to take a screenshot of something we are not seeing; been told there are no issues on there in when Akken hadn't been working for hours, only to have it magically fixed shortly after we reported the problem; and been told engineering was working on a problem for weeks without resolution. If you are going to be working with IT Staffing companies, you have to understand that we have a modicum of knowledge in IT, and you can't BS us. Honesty will get you a lot farther than stringing us along with BS.
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    Employ, Inc.
    Support used to be better. In the last few years, though, I feel like there has been significantly less investment in customer service. We used to have account managers who were very visible and always checking in. Also, there used to be a phone number to get around-the-clock support. I am not sure that that exists at the quality it used to
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    Online Training
    AkkenCloud
    No answers on this topic
    Employ, Inc.
    Had phone training. Lots of webinars. Generally pretty good. Not enough time to learn. User community exists, but haven’t used.
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    Implementation Rating
    AkkenCloud
    Encourage your team to watch the training videos available.
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    Employ, Inc.
    It forces you to evaluate your own business process.

    The software lets you re-engineer things
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    Alternatives Considered
    AkkenCloud
    We preferred the ability to go with Mac computers. That was the number one selling point for us. Besides that we liked the ease of the product. The email interface looked exactly like Outlook. The calendar the same. The price was also a big selling point. It came in slightly cheaper than Bullhorn and other systems and in our opinion a better product.
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    Employ, Inc.
    Before implementing Jobvite, we had iCIMS and Kronos Workforce Ready. Neither of these products got us where we wanted to be with metrics, candidate experience, or technology. I'm sure since we left them they have updated, but we are much happier with Jobvite than others. In the process of searching for a new ATS, we attended demonstrations of 9 other applicant tracking systems and were most impressed with Jobvite.
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    Return on Investment
    AkkenCloud
    • Sometimes the system is slow and the process of hiring someone is lengthy so it takes a long time to complete it so it takes away from other things I could be working on
    • It’s easy and quick to manage candidates to show what process they’re in
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    Employ, Inc.
    • Reporting - we had none before other than manually tracking things in excel documents, now we have a full suite of reports and dashboards we can customize.
    • Interview Scheduling - With the candidate self-scheduling feature, we can now schedule interviews in a matter of seconds while also automating the candidate confirmation email and the calendar invites.
    • More detailed source tracking than I have seen in any other product allowing full visibility on who we hire, where they came from and we can now analyze our sources.
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    ScreenShots

    Jobvite Screenshots

    Screenshot of the Jobvite interface to automate tedious, manual processes, with real-time analytics.Screenshot of the interface to build talent pools, nurture them with campaigns, and increase referrals within the CRM and Recruitment Marketing tools.Screenshot of where Jobvite centralizes onboarding activity, to standardize processes and seamlessly transition candidates, with the goal of providing them the best experience.Screenshot of Jobvite Intelligent Messaging, which helps to to make a good first impression by meeting candidates where they are – on the phone that’s always in their pocket.Screenshot of the relevant, targeted content and job search appearing on a Jobvite career site, that helps to attract job seekers and make compelling first impressions.