# FlashRecruit Reviews **Vendor:** FlashRecruit **Category:** [Other Recruiting Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-recruiting) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 19 ## About FlashRecruit FlashRecruit is a Recruitment Live Messaging Platform that takes the pain out the job search while creating a new channel of communication for recruiters. ## FlashRecruit Reviews ### 1. Poorly targeted recruiting **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2020 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I've not ever actually used them, because their recruiting is so off the mark. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** I have to say that the recruitment emails I've seen from FlashRecruit are all over the map. I mean, one individual was recruited for "Shift Lead at a Restaurant" and "Ab Initio Developer" and "Digital Product Strategist" and "Product Support Lead". I would have to say I have little faith in the ability of a recruiter who can't target candidates any better than that. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** None really ### 2. Makes recruiter way easier in my busy day **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Madison A. | Coordinator of Disability Services, Health, Wellness and Fitness, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 09, 2018 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** Easy to use, professional, diverse populations of recruitment choices **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** Customer support was difficult to reach when i had questions **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** N/a **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use this software whenever we need to quickly recruit. Solves employment jobs ### 3. FlashRecruit- A Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gary F. | Recruiter/Operations Associate, Staffing and Recruiting, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2017 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** FlashRecruit makes it very easy to connect with potential candidates, all without having to schedule out emails/phone calls, etc. You can get the info you need instantly, which ultimately speeds up the hiring process. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** The candidates who use the chat feature are often not suitable for many of the roles they respond to. Flashrecruit's internal algorithm doesn't do the best job of sorting through viable candidates. **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** If your firm has many jobs to fill, FlashRecruit can be an excellent tool for acquiring new talent. However, for smaller size firms, those with only a few jobs, the candidate pool is not as rich or suitable. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Most importantly, FlashRecruit saves a ton of time having to connect a potential candidate. Also, with each chat alert, is another opportunity to build a growing candidate database. ### 4. FlashRecruit Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2017 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** It opens up a new way to communicate with candidates. I think it makes them feel more comfortable. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** There are times when i don't get answers back. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem of candidates not feeling comfortable over the phone. This gives them another way to reach out. ### 5. Great Way of Connecting Quickly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danielle H. | Branch Manager, Staffing and Recruiting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** The best part is the quick turn around. You put your chat link out there on the internet and within hours you have instant connections with viable associates. It is also nice because you can track your candidates by classifying them when you end the chat **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** I wish there was an app to chat with the applicants. it would be nice to be able to connect with applicants that work the 9-5 who aren't able to get away during the day to contact a recruiter **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** Give it time to work and make sure to get your chat links out there in every place possible **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are reaching out to associates that we wouldn't have been able to connect with. We are providing the next generation with the instant feedback and next level technology they so much crave ### 6. Excellent Tool for Recruiters! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jenna H. | Vice President of Development, Marketing and Advertising, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I love that our candidates are able to connect with a real person instantly. It's really helpful for our candidates to ask us real-time questions and for our recruiting team to be in contact when it matters the most. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** What I dislike doesn't have to do with the tool, but rather the attention span of the some of people that chat us. It's not often, but sometimes, someone will want to chat and if we're not available right then, they're gone. The great thing with the tool though is that it will give us their email and phone number so we can call them to answer their question. **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** If you use it, which I recommend, put the chat link on as many things as you can so that people from all over can have access to the information and connection the seek. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're solving the problem of correct and relevant information to those who need it in an easy and convenient way for them to receive it. Not only that but I think it adds to our culture of transparency and accessability. ### 7. Excellent tool for Recruiters looking to improve their business! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samantha B. | Staffing Recruiter, Staffing and Recruiting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I have been using FlashRecruit for a couple months now and seeing great results! I have even found and placed candidates from use of this tool. It is very helpful in the sourcing processing as well as screening candidates. It adds an additional touch to my business that other companies don't have. Candidates can interact with me anytime and on a simple way. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** I wish there was a way to alert me when the candidate responds to me rather than just the initial notification of the conversation. As I do tend to work on other things while chatting, I do miss responding in a timely manner since I don't realize they have typed their response. **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** Make sure that you put the link on every posting, every social media post anywhere you can. It will help. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps screening process tremendously, allowing candidates to ask you questions about the position as well as you to ask them qualifying questions. It also allows candidates who don't want to put their resume on the internet to contact a recruiter about a position with out letting fearing that their resume will be found by their current company. **Official Response from Thomas Dolan:** > Great news, we just pushed a new update that enables the notifications to work exactly as you had hoped - thank you for the feedback! ### 8. Traction in Hard Markets! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 11, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I am able to get candidates in tougher markets. Some of them are ok but there are a lot that are great! I love that FlashRecruit helps me cover all my basis when searching for candidates! **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** There are a lot of unqualified candidates coming through but that is to be expected; the great thing is that you can mark each chat and go back to see if any of the candidates might be a good fit for future roles! **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** I would recommend to post up jobs with all the required skills needed for the role. That way you are more likely to get talent that is qualified for the role at hand or future roles that are similar. I also recommend to keep a general inquiry chat open for candidates who want to chat about their options! **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I definitely like that my link allows people that aren't searchable (on LinkedIn on our system) to reach out. The talent that has been reaching out so far has been new to our company. ### 9. Awesome tool for candidates to get in touch with us on the fly! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Megan M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I love that our team can share a profile and view candidates, as well as collect their email information. If we miss someone on the chat (aka they chat us at 10PM on a Saturday night) we have their email on hand to get back to them quickly! **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** Nothing to truly dislike. Really enjoy that it sends us screen pop-ups, email notifications and notifications for someone else who claimed ownership of the candidate. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wider spread of contact information is the largest benefit so far. This tool is amazing for pre-screening, and takes place of the usual phone call where we may not always be able to reach the candidate if they are currently working. ### 10. Great Experience with the new softwear **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Teresa A. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 01, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** It was great being able to chat in real time with potential candidates. I allowed me to answer quick questions and set up appointments. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** Flash Recruit's new software cleared up any concerns that I had previously **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** Give this software a trial run, as we found out, you will find it to be a useful tool. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Since so much is done through email and on-line applications, the reality is that candidates enjoy being able to chat using this type of application rather than call. I believe this opens up more opportunities to increase our candidate pools. ### 11. Allows you to connect with the scarce talent in a non-threatening way immediately! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I love the real-time connect-ability that FlashRecruit offers! We've heard from our candidates that without this great technology that they would not have reached out to us otherwise. In addition, the FlashRecruit does a great job of responding to questions, suggestions, and they proactively keep us updated on new features and changes. LOVE! **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** Honestly, I can't think of anything at all. **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** Absolutely give it a shot! Even if you have questions/concerns in any features, I've found the team incredibly responsive and innovative. A great value compared to similar platforms as well. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have gotten more people out to work with it. We are solving the candidate scarcity problem ### 12. FLashRecruit Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danielle B. | Travel Associate Recruiter, Staffing and Recruiting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** It is a different way to communicate with candidates. Not everyone likes calling or emailing, but live chats make everything easier. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** I don't like that it ONLY notifies you when a chat has started but it does not notify when someone has replied. So once you start a chat, you have to stay on the screen, you cannot multitask while waiting for someone to reply which sometimes take a while to do. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I benefit from getting a wider range of candidate who do not prefer calling or emailing. Also chatting with candidate that I have already screened who chat with me to ask general questions. **Official Response from Thomas Dolan:** > Danielle, thanks so much for the review! Good news - we just rolled out an update that makes the notifications occur as exactly as you had hoped for! Thank you for the partnership! ### 13. Recruitment communication made simple. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** Ease of use. The tool is simple to get off the ground and requires virtually no maintenance throughout the month to drive continuous results. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** Our branch uses the tool a bit different than it was designed to be used so there are a few hiccups with getting the settings and messaging consistent across all users so the communication is consistent. The FlashRecruit team has been great to work with to make sure we make the appropriate tweaks quickly. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping candidates engaged. Our talent market is extremely tight right now so acting fast on every candidate that shows interest in our opportunities is key. We aren't able to get into specifics about our opportunities in our marketing so making sure we address any questions upfront is critical to keeping engaged right out of the gate is huge. ### 14. Great Concept of outreach and Availability! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John A. | Account Coordinator, Staffing and Recruiting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I love the chat interface options that Flashrecruit brings to the recruiting side. Being able to multi task and reach more potential candidates is always a strong winner in this field. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** There are still some layout issues with how the chat screen works, but in Flash recruits defense on that, they are continually making improvements and use real time feed back to better the service. **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** Definitely try it out. I think it has greatly improved our outreach and Customer Service expectations. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to connect with candidates anywhere, anytime, on a neutral medium is absolutely amazing. ### 15. Recruiter Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** Flash Recruit is very easy to use and implement into your organization. I also receive ongoing great customer service and support. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** I love data and would like to see an option for running reports. **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** When using FlashRecuit I would recommend posting your links everywhere, on job postings, company website, email signature and LinkedIn profile. The more you advertise your link should drive more traffic. I also like that this tools is mobile device friendly. . **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Like most businesses today it is a challenge to find available and quality talent. Flash Recruit is another option to engage passive job seekers. During our 90 day pilot we made 3 job offers which converted into 2 hires. The job seekers shared they also liked the tool and had not seen this before in their job searches. ### 16. Convenient and extremely helpful! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** My name is Hayley and I'm a recruiter for a nation-wide staffing firm. I've been using FlashRecruit for about a month now, and I find that it is very helpful when prequalifying candidates! It's very easy to use and it eliminates wasted time on the phone. I have qualified many candidates and was able to fill many orders as a direct result from this program. I am so glad our company was introduced to this!! **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** I honestly do not have anything negative to say about this program. It truly is exactly what we needed to utilize our time more effectively! **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** This program has allowed us to effectively prequalify candidates for upcoming job opportunities! ### 17. Excellent tool for screening candidates **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Warehousing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2017 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** Very easy to use! Also, easy to screen candidates **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** It would just have to be about it not being mobile as of yet. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** Recruiting is easier when vetting with the flash recruit live chat! ### 18. Amazing Tool! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jessica G. | Associate Recruiter, Staffing and Recruiting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 19, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I like that Flashrecruit is straight to the point. Also, most candidates I screen are qualified. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** I don't have any complaints about Flashrecruit. **Recommendations to others considering FlashRecruit:** Love everything about it! **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** I believe each recruiter should get candidate chats by the region they are located in. **Official Response from Thomas Dolan:** > Jessica - thanks for the review! We just added location capability for recruiters and candidates which will help out with your last comment - initial feedback on this new functionality has been great! Thanks again! ### 19. FlashRecruit chat is fantastic **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2016 **What do you like best about FlashRecruit?** I like that candidates can reach us immediately if they have a question about an opening or need guidance on who to contact to follow up. **What do you dislike about FlashRecruit?** Not being automatically logged out when you close the computer. **What problems is FlashRecruit solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to give a best in class recruiting experience to potential applicants with Silverado. 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