Handshake Talent Engagement Suite vs. RippleMatch

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
Score 8.1 out of 10
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Handshake Talent Engagement Suite (TES) helps employers source, engage, manage, and build their brand with early talent at scale. Tell an impactful story and build a strong employer brand using rich media, candidate reviews, employee testimonials, and more.N/A
RippleMatch
Score 10.0 out of 10
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RippleMatch is a campus recruiting solution for full-time positions and internships that allows college student applicants to upload their resumes, and then uses algorithms to match candidates to roles, based on employer requirements. For employers, the vendor's value proposition is that Ripple can reduce time to hire by only surfacing relevant candidates, extend reach to schools across the country, and increase applicant quality.N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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Offerings
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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
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Recruitment Marketing
Comparison of Recruitment Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
8.0
Ratings
12% above category average
RippleMatch
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Ratings
Passive Recruitment Advertising8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Active Recruitment Advertising8.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Employer Branding Tools7.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Talent Intelligence
Comparison of Talent Intelligence features of Product A and Product B
Handshake Talent Engagement Suite
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RippleMatch
9.4
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24% above category average
Existing Skills Mapping/Lanscaping00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Bias-Mitigating Algorithms00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Diversity Reporting00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
AI-Based Role Definition00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Candidate Modelling00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Talent Rediscovery00 Ratings9.80 Ratings
Automated Candidate Evaluation/Scoring00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Internal Mobility Recommendations00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
At-Risk Talent Scoring00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
ATS Integrations00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
User Ratings
Handshake Talent Engagement SuiteRippleMatch
Likelihood to Recommend
8.6
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10.0
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
10.0
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Support Rating
9.6
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Implementation Rating
10.0
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User Testimonials
Handshake Talent Engagement SuiteRippleMatch
Likelihood to Recommend
Compared to bulk messaging students who are listed as 'matches' on the job listing page, the segments & campaigns I created were so helpful in identifying leads & helping to convert those leads to applicants without me having to continually follow-up with students (thank you- follow-up email feature!) For roles that require a lot of applicant flow, or for positions that require a large cohort of hires at one time, these features are perfect.
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The tool is extremely efficient, all features are simple and practical. For us, the only detail that could be improved would be to include a trial plan with limited resources and/or improve the price for small companies with few resources that can also take advantage of this great tool.
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Pros
  • Connects us with our target audience (current college students and recent graduates).
  • Connects us with a variety of career services offices, building trust in our organization.
  • It provides capacity to our recruiters while also allowing us to balance volume and personalization in recruitment.
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  • D&I.
  • Customer Service.
  • Adapting based on customer need.
  • Data to back up ideas.
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Cons
  • I would love if there were a better way to filter by experience. Currently, it's based on graduation date but a lot of my talent segments pick up people with 10+ years of experience that recently started or completed another degree. This is frustrating for the candidate who receives a bunch of misplaced messages and for recruiters who have to explain why they received a message about an internship they are clearly overqualified for. Can we separate grad year from years of experience in the segmentation somehow?
  • I wish there were an easier way to "blacklist" candidates who were rude or expressed a sentiment of never wanting to hear from me or my company again. These are people that I don't want to accidentally include in a campaign message 6 months later.
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  • It would be great if they had greater talent post-grad part of their platform.
  • Integration into ATS.
  • Ability to host events through portal and receive information of attendees.
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Likelihood to Renew
It works and has been a valuable tool for recruitment and talent engagement
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Usability
It is intuitive
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Support Rating
Becca always responds very quickly to my questions. We had an issue where I couldn't register for a fair because another division of my company had already registered and this problem was fixed the next day. I feel like the team at Handshake Talent Engagement Suite actually cares about my experience. Not all companies do once the contract is signed! They definitely treat their customers well. I literally feel like I am their only customer.
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Implementation Rating
It is a great product and valuable tool for recruitment and sourcing of talent
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Alternatives Considered
Handshake and Untapped both have their pros and cons. The campaign features in Handshake are really unparalleled and allow you to reach a relevant and diverse set of students quickly and efficiently. Untapped has the ability to go through the profiles of individual students to really source specific people (which Handshake doesn't allow), but the filtering features needed work and it was tougher to reach a lot of students at once.
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Return on Investment
  • Handshake has definitely positively impacted our business objectives. Handshake pulled some data for us and we found out that 39% of our hired interns & new grads thus far followed up with us, received a message, or RSVP'd to an event on Handshake so far this year.
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  • Finding candidates and even future collaborators have greatly aided inefficient delivery and this significantly evolves our ROI.
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