SeekOut

Score5.7 out of 10

370 Reviews and Ratings

What is SeekOut?

SeekOut is a people-first platform that helps organizations hire, grow, and retain great talent. They aim to empower companies with a clear picture of their current and future talent by combining internal and external data backed by actionable analytics.

Categories & Use Cases

ATS Integrations
Quality of integrations with your existing ATS and recruitment systems
Category average: 8.2
Existing Skills Mapping/Lanscaping
How effectively and easily does the product identify and map existing skills pools within the organization’s talent and candidate pools
Category average: 8.1
Diversity Reporting
Quality of built-in and customizable reporting on talent and candidate diversity
Category average: 8.2

Internal Mobility Recommendations
Ability for the product to identify existing talent for new positions/advancements
Category average: 7.3
At-Risk Talent Scoring
Identify and score talent at risk of turnover
Category average: 7
Automated Candidate Evaluation/Scoring
Quality of candidate evaluation and scoring by the product
Category average: 6.9

james fairley

Software Engineer in Information Technology at Sage Solutions (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SeekOut provides an updated database of various talents worldwide.This enables us to avoid the same candidates' visible profile again and again. You can get the necessary information of candidates such as skills, qualifications and achievement. Worldwide access is available. It saves your time by avoiding scrolling through every candidate's profile.

Pros

It is customized with boolean search and allows users to merge the keywords with advanced features to get best results.
With complex keywords, it searches till best possible outcomes by utilizing powerful filters.
It’s basic features is to find the best capable candidates, it sends users personalized messages through email.

Cons

I have checked and found, sometimes filters are not the best and it shows profiles that you are not looking for.
Sometimes I find candidates I have reviewed disappear from the pipeline.
Gathering contact information like email or phone number.

Return on Investment

It has fantastic features to help recruiters find any specific needs they are searching for to find the perfect candidate.
The tool is straightforward to use and find the necessary information.
I like that I can sort and search within the tool for additional skills as well as the talent insights.

Alternatives Considered

hireEZ

Other Software Used

Lucidchart, Scorebuddy, TestGorilla

Victor Hodges View profile

Senior Talent Researcher in Human Resources at Nike (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use SeekOut in my talent research on a daily basis to help inform our hiring partners and senior leaders of talent availability in our target markets, domestic and abroad. SeekOut data, including locational, diversity, skills, and affinity groups are of particular interest as we seek to understand the talent market.

Pros

The amalgamation of diversity data across a talent pool.
The ability to save projects and profiles in real time, but allow them to be customizable and malleable allowing me to respond to information as I receive it.
The ability to develop sophisticated search strings using a seemingly limitless amount of keywords as well as wildcards to capture a wider amount of profiles.

Cons

We find that profiles are often times well out of date, sometimes up to 6 months.
The system at times seems overwhelmed by the complexity of the search that I build. It will return a number of profiles that do not at fit the search and shouldn't have made the list.
We used to be able to exclude industries, skills, etc. They took away that function for those fields, which was actually very useful.

Return on Investment

SeekOut has improved my ability to influence partners and leaders with comprehensive data, which in turn influences present and future hiring decisions and strategies.
SeekOut has helped us gain a better understanding of the talent marketplace from a locale and demographic perspective. We better understand where and how to target talent as a result of this data.
SeekOut has been a great resource in developing talent pipelines for hard-to-fill roles that we anticipate opening in the short- and medium-term future.

Gloria Ristaino View profile

Senior Talent Acqudition in Human Resources at Microsoft + Nuance Communications (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SeekOut is an easy to use platform that helps me source candidates in a new and different way. As a Talent Acquisition Partner, I use SeekOut to source for difficult to fill roles, and to build passive talent pools (for difficult to fill roles). While other tools and job boards can be used for current job openings, Seekout is a quick way to find candidates who possess sought after skills, and to keep those candidates engaged directly. SeekOut helps to form relationships with prospective candidates even before they are job searching!

Pros

Skill Matching is spot on precise
SeekOut gives me more than one way to contact a candidate
SeekOut helps to foster a discussion before your competion does

Cons

I would like to see more phone numbers (work and mobile)
I think a more robust referral piece would be great on the platform
A more flexible license model

Return on Investment

Reduced time to hire
reduced cost of licenses for other (more expensive platforms)
Overall increase in candidate experience and engagement

Alternatives Considered

Linkedin Recruiter

Other Software Used

Linkedin Recruiter, Zoho Recruit, Entelo

Megan Barcevac View profile

Senior Recruiter in Human Resources at Salesforce (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SeekOut to find and nurture candidates, as well as to source and maintain our candidate pipeline on the recruiting side of the business.

Pros

Search Filters.
Projects
Insights

Cons

Contact Info.
Integration with Linkedin,
Customization,

Return on Investment

Improved top of the funnel pipeline.
Bridged the linkedin gap.
Hard to message candidates.

Alternatives Considered

Linkedin Recruiter

Other Software Used

Beamery, Linkedin Recruiter

Andrew Leverton

Talent Acquisition Specialist in Human Resources at Medtronic (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SeekOut is used for sourcing talent and as a resource for us in Talent Acquisition. Similar to other search tools I have used in the past, SeekOut allows you to filter out a lot of candidates based on specific criteria such as location, employers, previous experience, etc., but where I have seen the most use is targeting specific markets when trying to increase representation from a diversity standpoint. Unlike other platforms, SeekOut is much more detailed and allows you to filter out folks who might not be the type of candidate you are looking for if you are trying to recruit diverse folks in a specific market.

Pros

Candidate Search - allows you to access many many candidates, even beyond the traditional social channels like LinkedIn
Ability to filter by Diversity - helps support corporate D&I recruiting strategy
Ability to get a candidates resume or contact information directly

Cons

Easier integration with Taleo or other Applicant Tracking Systems
More contacts a month
Trainings on other/advanced functionality of SeekOut

Return on Investment

Reduced time to hire
Improved recruiter experience
Increase D&I representation

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Diversity Reporting

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Automated Candidate Evaluation/Scoring

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