Crelate Reviews & Product Details

Serving more than 25,000 professionals, Crelate is the AI-powered Living Platform™ for modern recruiting. Built for high-performing teams across executive search, direct placement, and in-house talent teams, Crelate combines a powerful ATS, robust Recruiting CRM, and intelligent sourcing in a single, flexible platform. With agentic AI, customizable workflows, and real-time insights, Crelate helps teams activate their proprietary data, reduce tool sprawl, and solve strategic recruiting challenges at scale. Since 2012, our mission has been to grow lasting prosperity for all by empowering entrepreneurship and employment.

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Aaron Elder (CEO / Co-founder at Crelate. Fast and flexible recruiting software for professional recruitering.)

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$85.00

1 Per user/month, paid annually Per Month

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Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/24/2022

"Crelate is an efficient ATS, but I do wish there was a better way to search candidates by location."

4/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

It is easy to add candidates to orders and to make sure you are not duplicating people in the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

I wish we could search for candidates by area rather than just job order or job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Construction

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/13/2021

"Crelate is easy to use but has some issues"

3/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

The fact that it is cloud-based and the users can easily manipulate the system to suit their workflow. It is easy to train on, and it is easy to track the activity reqs are receiving so we can prioritize our efforts. We can quickly and easily add candidates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

Parsing is very unreliable. We sometimes get incorrect names, phone numbers are usually accurate, but the biggest problem is parsing position and location. The titles and companies are often incorrect, and the locations are super unreliable. It makes it almost impossible to search for candidates with specific titles in specific locations, which makes the database far less useful. When searching our database, we often need to rely on keywords alone, and this does not give us the precision results we are looking for. The sales functions are not very useful, it is not intuitive for tracking potential clients throughout the sales cycle. Also, the mobile app is difficult to use and we can't view everything we can in the online version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/11/2021

"Better Choices"

0/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

The speed of the program, moving from one item to another is quick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

Everything else; found the OMNI version very confusing; support was slow to respond to questions or did not respond at all. Crelate is in the works, in other words they are still catching up, adding new features, etc. They are expensive compared to others. My experience was negative and would certainly never recommend Crelate at this time. Mobile app errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/23/2022

"Gets the job done for the most part, has some flaws that could be fixed"

4/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

The different stages that contacts can be placed in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

The lack of an efficient sales flow process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jessica B.

Senior Talent Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/9/2021

"Solid platform"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

I like the clean layout and the fact that the individual candidate cards change color the longer they stay in a particular stage. Makes it easy to see at a glance which candidates should get a follow-up. It's also easy to pull candidate information quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

The platform is great for high volume recruiting, which is what my organization uses the platform for; however, I'm sure it would be the best tool to use when running executive-level searches due to the sophistication of the recruiting cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Wilson Attebery of Crelate

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I appreciate that you took the time to write this review and to give us a look at how you use the program. I absolutely agree about the awesomeness of the filtering and tagging. Both of those features save me countless amount of time on a daily basis.

Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/9/2021

"Crelate is a solid ATS for our staffing agency"

4/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

We make significant use of the concept of "Activities" in Crelate, which was someone new to us when we switched to Crelate from our previous ATS. By logging specific occurrences with candidates and clients as separate "Activities," it creates the ability to produce very powerful, highly-detailed reports in order to determine what has/hasn't occurred. As well, when working on a job order for a specific client and position, the use of Stage Changes within the job's Dashboard is a very useful feature; including the fact that, by moving a candidate to a specific stage, an Activity can be created automatically (as opposed to each Activity needing to be manually created). One can even perform Stage Changes for numerous candidates in bulk, which makes Activity creation even more efficient.

There is one new feature coming out now that we're excited about trying: the ability to send questionnaires to candidates and clients. Hoping thing will vastly improve our ability to collect crucial data, without necessarily having to call each person just to find out the basics which determine whether or not the candidate/client is viable, and worth a follow-up conversation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

When creating a job order, and then adding select candidates to that job dashboard so that one may then contact them and track them through the process, one can only add 300 candidates to the job at a time. Oftentimes, we are linking 1,500+ candidates to a particular job, meaning we have to perform 5 or more linkings of 300 apiece. This takes time; and, it's something that occurs multiple times every single day. It would be nice if one could link more than 300 candidates at a time.

In addition, moving 1,500+ candidates through a Stage Change take rather a long time. I mean, the system does it for you; but, one has to wait a few minutes for it to occur. So, it's best to just occupy oneself with another task while waiting for the stage change to execute. It would just be nice if it happened more quickly...again, we're talking several minutes here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Crelate:

In order to get the most out of Crelate, you must learn and understand how it works. If you don't, then you're not tapping its full potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Again, the ability for management to be able to use Activities as a means to quickly and easily determine what work is/isn't being produced has allowed us great visibility into our workforce's productivity, or lack thereof. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Wilson Attebery of Crelate

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Thank you for your review. I agree about the value of the activities. They took me a bit of time to adopt, but now I have an entire page of reports devoted to activities and I am better for it.

It is wonderful to hear your excitement for the new product feature. I think you will be pleased with how it works, and some other goodies we have coming soon.

The developers are going to be interested in your comments about the time it takes to move large volumes of candidates through a stage change. Given that they are always looking for ways to optimize the process and make things faster, I am sure they will start using this variable in their testing.

Steve L.

Dir of recruiting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/24/2020

"Great product, exceptional customer service"

5/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

The product is very user-friendly. It is a product that is deep, robust and scalable but thought of from the client side NOT the technology side which heavily benefits the end user... very rare in any technology today. Customer service is also top-notch. Unlike others ATS's I've used and compared Crelate focuses assuring they are solving problems not "closing sales" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

I can't think of anything at the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Crelate:

Try and compare, most ATS's won't allow either a trial or if they do it is a watered-down version.. why?!?! If their product is that good why not let you try out the full version? the answer is that they want you to commit before they commit. Most are very good and pretty similar, they vary greatly in how user friendly (in the end this might be the most important item) they are, how well they are supported in terms of proper training/"best practices", and pricing. I have worked closely with MaxHire (liked it a lot), Bullhorn (more focused on hard-selling then on customer service, also almost twice the price of Crelate), PC Recruiter (good but hardly user-friendly), and Zoho (seemed decent, low cost, not as robust or suited towards executive recruiting) but can't tell as they don't allow a full trial version) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

having an ATS that is user friendly- if it isn't easy my team and myself will shy away from usage therefore failing clients/candidates. We needed something that is easy to use, easy to customize, keeps excellent track of the recruiting processes as well as simple tracking of all communication. Lastly anything that could best "reduce clicks".. .be this in daily activities, email campaigns, integration with other apps/programs, or mundane tasks like simple note taking/viewing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Wilson Attebery of Crelate

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Thank you for this review. Your guidance of considering the entire user experience, and not just features, is some great advice when shopping for an ATS (or any software really).

Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/24/2021

"Simple and Cheap!"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

It's super cheap for an ATS compared to other ATS programs out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

it can lag for a long time, and get's stuck on a page! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kristina H.

Principal

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/10/2020

"This is the perfect tool for an independent recruiter"

5/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

Being new to the recruiting industry, and having never used any Applicant Tracking Software, my choice of software packages was an interesting one. After extensive research, I opted to go with Crelate given its value, excellent support and ease of use and I have never regretted this decision. This program has been crucial to my success thus far and I have already recommended it to several others in the industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

My main issue is that I haven't fully explore all of the features of the program, although honestly I feel that Crelate has been excellent in their efforts to educate me on their improvements and their support is truly great. Actually my one main issue is that as a Canadian user, when I enter an address, it automatically defaults to input US cities of the same name which creates unnecessary steps for me in entering candidates. There is no way to override this feature or have it default to Canadian cities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Wilson Attebery of Crelate

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“…having never used any Applicant Tracking Software, my choice of software packages was an interesting one.” This made me laugh. Not only is Crelate the first ATS I used, but your statement reminded me of when I was first researching Applicant Tracking Software. If I am to be honest, "interesting" is a much nicer word than I used.

I hear your pain point about not being able to set Canadian cities as the default. I will make sure to pass this feature request along to both our development team and our support team. They use customer feedback to greatly influence product development planning.

Linn A.

CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/9/2021

"Very happy with Crelate"

5/5

What do you like best about Crelate?

We changed to Crelate about a year ago and could not have been happier! It helps us staying organized and make more hires. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Crelate?

We have been generally happy. One thing that could get improved is the map function. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Wilson Attebery of Crelate

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“…staying organized and make more hires”. I may steal that for the marketing team.

Thank you for sharing your experience with us and for letting Crelate be part of your success this last year.

I will share your recommendation about the map function. If you would like to provide more suggestions, or insights, on how you would like to see it function please use the help button in the app to contact support. They will make sure the necessary details are shared across all teams.