Gem Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

We use Gem for sourcing, research, and to be better organized within the recruiting process.

Gem is a functional tool for the recruiting process. It helps us streamline the process and be organized at the same time.

Gem is used for two primary purposes at Handshake. One is for sourcing candidates through email sequences and nurturing prospects for future roles. The other is for analytics - Gem Pipeline Analytics gives us insight into how our pipeline is performing including how fast we're hiring, what our conversion rates look like from stage to stage, and how many interviews are taking place.

It is well suited for recruiting teams who are looking for a CRM where the scheduling of emails is intuitive, well structured, and if you're interested in the insights associated with the outreach. It's not as appropriate if you're invested heavily in your own ATS as your CRM because this will likely be duplicative work.

I have been using Gem for prospecting at my current organization for the last 2 years now. Overall, we like the product and it has contributed immensely to our efforts of building a global remote team. We would recommend Gem to other companies as well. Pros: Options to create specific projects for hires/positions. Custom sequences with a lot of options to personalize, create drips, and custom sending time. Tracking for opens, clicks, replies, advanced reporting. Ability to parse emails from LinkedIn URLs. Cons: Inability to parse emails from the complete lists. Doesn't give many results in certain geographies. Lack of features for creating different dashboards for reporting. You can't edit a sequence mid-way after the first email is sent.

Parsing emails: We rely on a lot of outbound for hiring activity and Gem has made it easier by parsing emails of the profiles we shortlist on a daily basis to add them to a custom sequence. Tracking: Gem has also solved the issue of tracking email opens, clicks, replies, and also tagging the replies as not interested, interested, or follow up for future outreach.

Here we use Gem to reach out and have control of candidates contacted by each source and recruiter, we have it separated by projects of each client and positions so it helps us to have a great order in our reach outs and all the feedbacks of the candidates contacted.

It is very helpful for situations when you need to contact a high amount of candidates for big projects because you can create sequences of emails to reach out to candidates and follow up those who don't reply to the emails automatically, Also with Gem you can find the contact info of the candidates easier.

The gem helps me to create talent pipelines and reach out to multiple candidates in one go. I also love the analysis and reports I can build within Gem.

I absolutely love the number of replies I get when I send the sequences. Sometimes candidates reply to a 3rd or 4th email and I appreciate the ability to send those sequences.