Brightmove Reviews & Insights

Score8 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

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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.

Brightmove Reviews

6 Reviews

Small Businesses (1-50 employees)

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. (Information Technology & Services, 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 (Computer & Network Security, 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 (Sports company, 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 (Staffing and Recruiting, 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 (Human Resources company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

4 years of experience

Brightmove isn't the brightest option.

Rating: 2 out of 10

Incentivized

August 12, 2014

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Brightmove within the recruiting department. It was used for tracking candidates through the recruiting and hiring process. In some situations the clients we were working with had access to certain areas of Brightmove so they could remain informed about positions we were working on for them.

Pros

Posting open positions to the web.
Tracking candidates who apply to positions on their own from links online.

Cons

Uploading resumes in bulk batches seldom works properly. Often times resumes will be missing from an uploaded batch. When this happens, time is lost figuring out which resumes were uploaded and which ones were not.
Attaching uploaded resumes to specific open jobs sometimes does not work correctly.
Searching for candidates in Brightmove is a challenge since the search functions within Brightmove are not very strong. True boolean search is not supported.
Emails sent to hiring managers from within Brightmove often suffer from unacceptable formatting. Because of this we would email hiring managers from our own email system rather than use the functions offered through Brightmove.

Likelihood to Recommend

I cannot think of scenarios where I would elect to utilize Brightmove. There are simply other tools available that are stronger and more reliable.

Verified User

Team Lead in Human Resources (Human Resources company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

6 years of experience

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