ZipRecruiter Reviews: 4.8/5 — Highly Rated

Very quick interaction and got the answer I was needing. I also received additional support from Tana, Live Chat Specialist, unsolicited that would improve the performance of one of my job posts.

Nothing in regards to the interaction with Tana from Live Chat. However, when viewing a candidate, in the Notes and Activity section, all times are in Pacific. I know now this is because of the location of the server, but it would be helpful to show the times in my Time Zone.

I am trying to receiver more qualified candidates for 2-3 positions that have historical difficult to fill.

User friendly, attractive to jobseekers, proactive service

Sometimes a lack of qualified candidates, expensive/costly

Recruiting for open positions

Ease of use, distribution of jobs, the ability to have multiple brands under one account and how they build their own talent community

Customer support and pricing model. Every year they raise prices significantly and are not flexible.

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We have the Pro Team Plan. It fits our need for multiple brands (hiring companies), resume searches, job postings and it feels just like an ATS.

My criticism is on the resume search side. I'd like to see more filters to narrow my search and more ways to sort though results.

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Was easy to narrow pool of candidates and find who we were looking for

Was not able to easily figure out how to auto renew our services

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The best part was that I could email and text applicants and track them along with pulling details into spreadsheets

It is a bit costly so you want to be creative with your job ads

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That candidates can apply easily, with just one click

Wish there was more screening questions and more qualified applciants

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The number of candidates and ease of tracking the candidates.

It is expensive. Less expensive than the big job boards, but too high for small businesses. I wish they had some smaller packages.

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It's easy to sort through the applicants

They don't show their full resume automatically , Can be hard to navigate. Option to share link to job postings not avaliable

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Stylized resumes allow me to find information quickly. Prequalification questions for submission excellent.

Resume database search needs several more options for filtering for resume search - salary, geographic flexibility, etc.

Talent acquisition is my particular and unique function for my company

I love how easy it is to post. It takes about 2 minutes to post a job. If you don't have an Applicant Tracking System this would be a great tool as well, but I use a separate ATS.

At first, I selected "allow people to apply without resumes" and that was a mistake. I got a ton of people that just submitted a name and phone number. I did not expect that many applicants looking for a role would do that.

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You could set it up to have new resumes that had been posted to ZipRecuiter emailed right to you, so you didn't have to sort through lots of resumes that weren't what you were looking for. It made recruiting much easier.

I didn't like the sales calls we would get occasionally always trying to get our company to upgrade our product.

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With one posting, you can get your jobs out on over a hundred job boards, including SimplyHired, Glassdoor and the ZipRecruiter job board (which is becoming a decent board itself). To be fair, many of the 100+ job boards ZipRecruiter touts are small, niche and you've probably never heard of them, but the few big boards make it worth the price of admission. The resume database is a great tool as well, allowing you to instantly view resumes and contact information for candidates (though the new search functionality makes it a bit annoying for boolean users). The backend and administration are intuitive and it takes no time to get up and running. Another one of our favorite features is the Job Widget. The Job Widget allows you to just copy and paste a snippet of code on to your website to display all of your ZipRecruiter positions, if you're looking for a quick and easy way to get your job listings on your website, it doesn't get any quicker or easier than the Job Widget.

Once upon a time, ZipRecruiter counted Indeed among their arsenal of job boards. It was one of the factors that drew us to ZipRecruiter in the first place. However, a few years ago ZipRecruiter cut ties with Indeed. Immediately after, the quantity and quality of candidates decreased. Indeed is the largest job board/aggregator out there, so it was a huge loss. Fortunately for ZipRecruiter their service is enough of a bargain that it was worth staying on. I will say that the account managers at ZipRecruiter will constantly try and push their "TrafficBoosts" on you, which are in no way worth the asking price.

Job postings on multiple job boards, displaying open positions on our website, searching for candidates in the resume database.

Zip recruiters helps to streamline the process of finding a job by connecting the employee in need of employment or looking for potential job options a great place to look for high quality employers as well as, many different type of job opportunities.

Zip recruiters employee a platform that allows for streamlining the process of finding a job; however, some of the help wanted ads are large recruiting companies looking to build up list of potential employees without there really being any open positions. Emails with potential jobs filled with ads, making it hard to read.

The problem solved is the easy a which a employee is able to look for work in multiple fields, offer new insight into the jobs available in the market.

The best thing about ZipRecruiter is the invite to apply on job ads. It jump-starts your ability to reach candidates you think might be qualified based on a limited amount of information provided. I also like being able to add prescreening questions and being able to message candidates on the platform.

With the newest changes to ZipRecruiter, it is becoming increasingly expensive to place ads for the response rates reveived. There are repetitive sales calls and demands for follow-up calls pushing you to purchase more add ons like boosts and bigger ad packages. Now they are changing their service again and have begun charging for the invite to apply. They are making their service even more expensive for people in order actually to attract candidates. To me, they are quickly moving to a point where the value in their basic general ads and resume database is not worth the expense. Also, you get tons of candidates nowhere near qualified for the ad you placed in both applicants and suggested applicants to invite to apply. So, in summary, you now need to purchase a package (averaging over $100-$125/per job slot per month) then pay for invites to apply, job boosts ($120-$220 per job and are limited to 100 or 200 extra candidates), and additional resume database if needed over the basic amount that comes with your package.

I use ZipRecruiter because it does reach a broader audience than other job boards, but because of the negatives listed, I am looking for alternatives.

The boost feature was very helpful. I was able to find an employee with ease.

I dislike the many additional charges in each post.

I have been able to find a reliable employee to work for me.

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I like how easy you can Zip. It is very well made and built. It moves fast and yields great results.

What I dislike is how hard it is to search for a candidate. If i saw resume and for some reason moved on and now i want to go back, i look by name and i get candidates with completely different names. Their search engine could be improved.

Zip has resulted in great candidates for me to place. It is very convenient and offers multiple methods for contact.

The pricing. I like that it has a set dollar amount for each ad every month. Indeed's click method gets ridiculously expensive.

Not much. The pop ups asking me about the reasons I thumbed down a candidate gets annoying, but I like that I can turn that off.

Employee needs! We're able to fill some of our positions advertising on ziprecruiter. I like that I am able to rate each candidate and make notes so I dont have to review them multiple times to remember who is who.

I like that we are able to review candidates resumes and rate them. This allows for the flow of more qualified applicants. I think this would be ideal for companies or employers that are seeking to find applicants with certain qualifications and experience. I loved the ease of posting a job...It was super easy!

I do find that ZipRecruiter wasn't the best at finding people in remote areas but this may also not be ziprecruiters fault. I do not think Zip is the most cost efficient way to recruit for what I needed. For my company, we were looking for seasonal part time workers that don't need very niche experiences.

We are able to find few applicants in areas that we had no applicants in other job search engines such as Indeed or Craigslist. I do see that ZipRecruiter would be beneficial when we are searching for a manager or upper level positions that we have available.

As a recruiter, I find zipRecruiter easy to use and make the hiring process seamless. It is easier to organize your resumes and rate the resumes as well.

May be the pricing could be better. Pricing packages seems to be ideal for more job postings, however on certain occasions when we just have 1-2 positions open, the price hike is noticeable.

Ziprecruiter has been extremely helpful in resolving all my queries and I have no problems so far. We have been successful at closing some low-mid level positions with ziprecruiter.

Find good work with Good salary and good place for my family

Not respect and late salary ..no insurance

More easy find work

I found that the recommendations where's spot on comparatively speaking to other job sites.

There were quite a few gimmicks and bogus job posting

I haven't experienced any problems so far

It has good jobs in a wide area.its application process is easy to use once you get it set up.

Some jobs that aren't pertinent show up. Some jobs that are too far away show up.

I haven't found a job yet.

I like the ease of navagating the site. It is very user friendly and easy to understand. I also like that you only pay as you need the services you can pay for a month and then you can stop until you have open position again.

I didn't like that there is only one user login name and password per company. Which means if the admissions has an opening and financial aid has opening as well they both are using the same login information to view potential candidates.

Ability to cut time in finding right person for the position. This cuts down on having to go through many applicants that are just not qualified for position. Saves time and ability to hire much quicker

The 1-Click option to apply for a job is a great feature of ZipRecruiter. It always for the resume on credentials on file to be directed to the hiring company. Ease of use.

No sorting or filtering out commission only jobs, it is a frustrating experience, even if you filter full time jobs, the commission only jobs sneak in and thus a feature that I dislike.

It has helped both on the job seeking side and also for one or two job postings that we have considered with ZipRecruiter. The process of adding a new posting is fairly easy.

The ATS system and recommendations were great when we used this site to hire our graphic designer and customer service rep. We were able to quickly narrow down who was qualified and weed out the candidates that were not. The ability to view everything within the same screen was great!

For positions that were out of the box, we had no luck what so ever. We were looking for a repair artist and the only recommendations we received were graphic designers. 99% of the applicants were also graphic designers, I'm not sure if that was because of their end user recommendations to apply.

It sped up the application review process tenfold!

Easy to use. Has a lot of resumes, Pushes out well

They have increased their costs, biggly. It has gotten too expensive

We need a resume database to search and need multiple postings

The ability to have other managers thumb up or down candidates. This made it easy to tell what the next step was for the candidate.

Sometimes it does not send out the email that allows the candidate to reply back. Our Account Manager suggested we put our email address after our signature to fix this issue.

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The job postings that are posted on the site have high quality.

I did not like the ability to hear from live representatives to schedule interviews

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