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ZipRecruiter

Score7.5 out of 10

216 Reviews and Ratings

What is ZipRecruiter?

ZipRecruiter (www.ziprecruiter.com) is an online employment marketplace that actively connects people to their next opportunity. ZipRecruiter’s matching technology improves the job search experience for job seekers and helps businesses of all sizes find and hire the right candidates quickly.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Employer Branding Tools

    The ability to create an employer persona to better engage with candidates and applicants

    Category average: 8

  • Active Recruitment Advertising

    The ability to promote jobs directly to candidates by email, text, or direct messages

    Category average: 7.8

  • Passive Recruitment Advertising

    The ability to post or promote recruitment efforts or specific jobs on social media or other sites

    Category average: 7.1

Areas for Improvement

ZipRecruiter Review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am a senior recruiter for my organization and I use ZipRecruiter (and ZipIntro) for most of my Industrial related positions. We pay a premium to advertise our jobs on the platform. We also use it to search for resumes and host virtual interviews. This biggest issues we face are searches not working property and candidates who are not qualified for the job coming up in searches. We also see a lot of un completed resumes and duplicate resumes for the same jobs. Our main business problem is the lack of skilled candidates.

Pros

  • Posting job slots
  • Providing resumes for certain states
  • Connecting people for ZipIntro sessions

Cons

  • Actually connecting jobs with qualified candidates
  • Sending completed resumes
  • Having a better candidate pool

Return on Investment

  • Increased rates but not providing better results
  • Providing more options to recruit from
  • Needing to improve candidate resumes

Alternatives Considered

Indeed Ads (Sponsored Jobs) and Indeed Resume

Other Software Used

Indeed.com, LinkedIn Recruiter, Monster.com

Web developer applicant using ZipRecruiter

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use ZipRecruiter for myself to help me search for more job opportunities. I think that ZipRecruiter has pretty good resources and a user-friendly website that easy to use and simple enough to understand.

Pros

  • Easy to use
  • Quick to apply for jobs
  • Good job resource

Cons

  • If possible give more recommendations

Return on Investment

  • It helped me to reduce the application time

Alternatives Considered

Indeed Hiring Platform, Glassdoor.com and LinkedIn Jobs

Fantastic Candidate Sourcing Tool

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

ZipRecruiter is our 2nd leading candidate sourcing tool. We heavily source for viable candidates in the warehouse, technology, administrative and engineering industries and ZipRecruiter has an amazing database of relative , suitable candidates. We have 200 agents and we post 50-100 jobs per month as well as use the db system for engaging/networking with the community for any open positions we have

Pros

  • Visual Asthetics
  • Ease if use
  • Communication tool
  • Job builder wizard
  • Job posting dashboard
  • Analytics

Cons

  • Additional filtering fields

Return on Investment

  • 20% increase in hiring more suitable candidates

Expensive but worth it if you have the money

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm a freelance startup recruiter. I use ZipRecruiter and linkedin as part of my recruiting process. A lot of founders struggle with hiring because they can't find the right personality or the person with the right fit. ZipRecruiter helps me find a bulk of potential clients that we normally go through together until they find the right fit. Then of course we interview.

Pros

  • Strong visibility
  • Bulk applications
  • Smooth applicant to interview process

Cons

  • Free job listings. - allow smaller companies cheaper or free options for job postings
  • Automatic resume filter- automatically reject applicants that are clearly not suited for the role/ stop random applicants from applying

Return on Investment

  • Sourcing bulks of applicants faster
  • More brand visibility
  • Quicker hiring time/ higher investment

Alternatives Considered

LinkedIn Jobs and Reddit for Business

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Premium Business, Reddit for Business

The best Recruiting agency

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have only used ZipRecruiter for searching jobs around the area I reside. It offers you good insights on the Job market and helps you obtain information for the organization you’re interested in. Moreover, its easy user interface makes it easy to navigate through the platform. I like how ZipRecruiter helps me keep updated with the jobs that are even slightly my match, makes it much easier to click and apply. On the other hand, it’s good for recruiters to find a suitable candidate for position they wanna fill. Being a new business owner, i find ZipRecruiter a good platform to start with when I want to expand and hire more people.

Pros

  • It helps you navigate the jobs in your city.
  • It keeps its users updated on the new jobs.
  • It recommends you good matches.

Cons

  • It can improve the design of the website and app. It looks very white and less entertaining. But it’s just my opinion
  • It can improve its search visibility for jobs that are hard to find but open.
  • It can improve it’s user functionality by adopting new up to date features like AI tools

Alternatives Considered

Indeed.com and LinkedIn Jobs

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Jobs, Indeed.com, ZipRecruiter