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Alongside Reviews & Product Details

Alongside is a hiring software designed to improve the way people and companies discover each other. By leveraging big data insights, job advertising, employer branding, and social recruiting, you can attract more qualified candidates into their talent pipeline. With Alongside, employers can improve candidate engagement and fully optimize their recruiting process. Alongside works with amazing customers across North America, in a vast array of industries and company sizes. Brands like Property Guys, Audiobooks.com, Moosehead, Resson Aerospace, AmpMe, and CareGuide all use Alongside to build their teams. Alongside’s pricing is designed to match your hiring needs, based on the level of service and the number of jobs you plan on posting. Alongside’s software has some incredibly powerful features such as, robust job distribution to get in front of the right candidates; smart candidate filtering to easily manage your candidates; interview and meeting scheduling; team collaboration with sharing, voting, tagging, and commenting functionality; bulk messaging to candidates with templates; custom careers pages to elevate your employer brand; trackable social sharing; marketing-rich job postings; and fantastic candidate experiences. Alongside is fully committed to offering reliable customer support that goes above and beyond expectations. Both companies and candidates love using Alongside with 95% of candidates stating that they prefer applying via Alongside over other options.

Seller

Alongside

Languages Supported

English, French

Product Description

Alongside is a hiring software designed to improve the way people and companies discover each other.

Overview by

Emily Brennan (Marketing Manager at Alongside)

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

<1 month

Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Alongside Media

Smart Dashboard

Easily Manage Candidates

Marketing-Rich Careers Page

Quick Apply With Great Experience

Attractive Job Posting

Simple Job Creation

Alongside Reviews (35)

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Matt S.

VP Engineering

Information Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2017

"Outsource your recruiting tech"

5/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

Centralized management of all recruiting activity -- managing multiple job sites is a huge pain and it's nice to have all prospect information centrally available. Previously I was storing all resumes in a shared folder that was hard to search and almost impossible to classify properly. Building your own careers page is just another software asset to maintain and buying third party software is yet another thing to manage. It's nice to offload a piece of non-core business technology and focus on the stuff that matters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

It's hard to type a forty character version of 'nothing'. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alongside solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Don't need to buy/build and manage our own internal careers app

- Easy collaboration with other team members on the recruiting/hiring process - easy hand-off of recruiting activities due to status being tracked in the application.

- Flexible recruiting pipeline - easy to match internal practice with features available in the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Brennan of Alongside

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Thank you for the great review, Matt!

Tera W.

Happiness Manager

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2017

"Great multi-functional application for finding great candidates"

5/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

Alongside is very user-friendly. It is easy for someone who is mildly tech-savvy to hop on and understand where to go to find the information they need. It is wonderful for teams to be able to all review candidates and leaves notes in order to proceed to the next step. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

Not a dislike but it would be great to be able to customize what information is pulled on the candidate screen. For example to see highlights instead of last job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Alongside:

Worth the effort of learning how to use. Will save you time in the long run! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alongside solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving the hassle of advertising for multiple jobs across multiple platforms. It is fantastic to have one hub to check for this process and have this hub also allow us to screen, make notes, and track along the hiring process. It saves time. That is huge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Brennan of Alongside

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Thanks Tera for the nice review!

Nick G.

Head Of Customer Support

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2017

"Make your next hire the easy way. "

5/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

The help docs were excellent in helping me think about and plan out how I would go about the hiring process. The email reminders and updates about applications were helpful i staying on top of processing incoming candidates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

I don't remember anything that I didn't like. I didn't encounter any bugs or confusions. Great user interface. Setup was easy and painless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Alongside:

They're a great company run by professional people obsessed with HR. Send them a message and let them show you what they can do! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alongside solving and how is that benefiting you?

I felt and now feel, a lot more confident in my hiring practices. They helped give a structure to what can sometimes be a bit of a chaotic process. They had great email and job description templates that easily saved me hours of work setting those up. And they were easy to customize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Brennan of Alongside

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Thank you Nick!

Kolton G.

Chief Technology Officer

Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/25/2018

"Alongside ATS Review"

4/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

I love how simple Alongside makes the process of creating a job posting, generating application questions and posting it on job boards! This makes any HR experts life a lot easier by having one simple platform to control all your hiring needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

I dislike that there is limited job board to post on and that there are no coding question templates available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Alongside:

I would recommend trying the free trial and seeing yourself how easy they make hiring! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alongside solving and how is that benefiting you?

The business problem that is solved with Alongside it having a single platform for all your hiring needs. The benefits are simplicity, time savings and organization! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Renewables & Environment

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2017

"Alongside is our go-to decision making tool"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

We love that we can get an understanding of our full pipeline of candidates in one, transparent place. No matter what platform we post our jobs ads on, we have the ability to use this as a decision-making tool at all levels of the business, and easily have different department managers make selections and suggestions right in Alongside. It has been extremely helpful in streamlining our hiring process, especially as a startup where we didn't always have an HR manager at hand to organize candidates themselves! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

The only reason I wouldn't recommend this is if a startup didn't have any initial cash-flow to purchase this and were only in need of one-off type hiring posts. There definitely needs to be a bit of volume you are dealing with to use the tool to its full potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Alongside:

Keep being your awesome selves! One thing we have realized as we grow is that we are really lacking in policies, moving forward from a scrappy startup to our growth stage. If there was a templates section where we could see existing hiring policy type documents to increase our professionalism as we move forward, that would be super helpful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alongside solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have realized that our C-level team can hop in an out of this whenever they have time and make their suggestions and recommendations in the app as they see fit. This is then recorded in Alongside so that when the other team members have time, they can jump in there themselves and compare their suggestions to the rest of their team. While it gives the flexibility of doing this when you can on your own time, we still find that the tool is keeping everyone on the same page in a more real-time way than having the hiring at a more manual process level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Brennan of Alongside

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Thank you for the review!

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/26/2018

"Best platform out there for finding the perfect hire!"

5/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

Ease of creating job postings, great support, access to multiple job boards, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

Can't say there is anything I dislike about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matt C.

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/2/2018

"Amazingly Simple"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

The simplicity of Alongside really makes it a must use tool for any growing team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

There really isn't a lot that we don't like about Alongside. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Alongside:

Us Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alongside solving and how is that benefiting you?

When hiring, the process of getting a standardized job posting created that makes it easy for applicants to apply is a must. Alongside helps structure the postings and makes the communication with the applicants so easy. We also love how much time it saves promoting our openings. Couple clicks and you're done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Brennan of Alongside

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Thanks for the review, Matt!

Nathan S.

Growth & Marketing Manager

Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/14/2017

"Great way to find great candidates and bring them in the company"

4/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

I liked the multiple integrations with job sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

Ease of notifying all candidates of results Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Alongside solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Alongside to do some of our first non-referral hiring... Alongside has helped us build a couple of teams in the company and increase our talent base. I liked the ability to get jobs postings out on multiple job sites and collaboration features with the team. Helps increase collaboration with hiring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Brennan of Alongside

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Thanks for the review, Nathan!

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/19/2017

"I use it as a hiring manager for a start up company in Halifax"

4/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

What I like the most is being able to see all my applicants at a glance and having the whole hiring process more or less in one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

Being able to opt in and out I have found difficult at times. Being a startup who's hiring process has severe ebbs and flows at times so being able to put a subscription on pause being easier would be nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Brennan of Alongside

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Thanks for the review!

Michelle D.

Human Resources Manager

Human Resources

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/14/2017

"feedback"

5/5

What do you like best about Alongside?

All applicants are in the same place. Easy to search for applicants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Alongside?

The new dashboard doesn't provide me with information that I need. I just have to click more to get to the info I want. Also, dislike that the "create job" button is a small + sign. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Emily Brennan of Alongside

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Thanks for the review and feedback, Michelle! :)