# Searchlight.ai Reviews **Vendor:** Searchlight.ai **Category:** [Reference Check Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/reference-check) **Average Rating:** 4.7/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 38 ## About Searchlight.ai Searchlight is a people-centered Talent Intelligence solution that adds science to hiring so companies can confidently build and retain winning teams. Our comprehensive platform for Quality of Hire enables companies like Zapier, Talkdesk, and Udemy to hire up to 40% faster while improving retention by 45%. ## Searchlight.ai Reviews ### 1. Searchlight.ai - a valuable addition to our startup's success story. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy T. | Recruitment Team Lead, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight.ai helped us in selecting a high-quality founding team and simplifying the reference check process. It not only saved us time and resources, but also allowed us to focus on other key areas to drive business growth. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** We have only been impressed with the Searchlight.ai product and team as a whole. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searchlight.ai is addressing the challenge of efficient reference checks in the recruitment process by quickly and accurately vetting candidates. Their innovative approach has aided in our hiring decisions, ensuring a top-notch team. ### 2. Seamless experience for candidate and employer **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** It can be integrated into Greenhouse. Searchlight will trigger when it lands to the Searchlight phase. I like how you can download the report and share it easily with the team. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I get notified when the first Searchlight review has been completed. However, it doesn't notify me when all the references that have been submitted are complete. I need to check back on the platform to see how many references are done. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Many managers do not have the bandwidth to call a reference. It's nice that this reference check is in the form of an email. It will take referrals 10-15 minutes to complete. ### 3. Data based hiring & onboarding **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Heather W. | Operations Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Ease of use is a plus but the internal team and their desire to perfect their product is the best. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** With the recent updates, I don't have anything. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** The information generated from the reference feedback is helpful in the decision-making process and the additional reports assist with onboarding plus having Quality of Hire data to measure similarities and differences between new hires and managers. ### 4. Hiring smart talents with help of Ai **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marzieh H. | Project Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** SearchLight is so fast and agile for finding top talented candidates with right skills. Hiring a new staff is possible with the lowest cost and highest accuracy at shortest time. In-app filters have the ability for powerful search. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** It has no problems and helped us so much in reducing employment costs and staff selection that I think it is one of the best of its kind and has been perfect and good for me in every way. **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** If you have a company or you want to add new talents to your team, the best solution is to hire is SearchLight platform **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** SearchLight improve our process of hiring talents as well as selecting the best new person for the right role in the workplace and it has made it easy for us. It includes all the steps that have reduced costs and increased the speed of the hiring process. Also it has great reference check and talent intelligence features. ### 5. Searchlight.ai is just what the we needed! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon J. | Senior Technical Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** The intuitiveness of the application + the presentation of the data. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** There is nothing that I dislike at the moment. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Onboarding our new hires + communication of references from HR to Hiring Managers. ### 6. Searchlight is the best thing to happen to our reference check process! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Meaghan L. | Talent Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight has decreased the time it took for us to complete reference checks significantly! Searchlight's integration with Lever was a huge selling point when we looked to automate our process. It has not disappointed us yet. It integrates flawlessly and has cut out quite a few steps that we were doing manually before. I love that it automatically puts all the candidate information into searchlight as soon as we switch them to that stage in lever. No more inputting candidate information manually in a google form...yay!! We love how we can customize our assessments completely to get all the crucial information to make significant hiring decisions from references. The option to have different specialized assessments for different roles is excellent as well. The Reference Prospects is also an awesome function that we enjoy. It allows us to have the contact information for references that are interested in opportunities which cut down sourcing time for our team as well! The Searchlight team is also FANTASTIC and always available when we have a question, have a problem with integration, or need to make changes to our assessments. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** There honestly isn't anything we don't like about Searchlight! I think every scaling company should have it! **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searchlight has completely changed the game for us when it comes to getting references from our candidates. Before Searchlight, all of our reference checks were completed manually via Video call. This old process would take over a week or more to complete them for EACH candidate because we would have to find a time that works for both us and the reference to have that call. The process was not scalable AT ALL. Searchlight has decreased our average time for completed references from over a week to 2 DAYS! It has opened up so much more time for us to continue to improve our candidate closing process. ### 7. Application is user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kyara D. | Talent Acquisition Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** I like that it makes the referral process easy for candidates and employers alike. It allows us to get a good understanding of where the candidate is currently at and helps assess how we can help set them up for success, **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** There's nothing that comes to mind.The application works very well for the organization's need **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps us with understanding how we can set up our new employees for success ### 8. Recruiting Operations Specialist **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brenda C. | Recruiting Operations Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight does all the work for us VS us having to reach out to the referrals. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Long questionaire. Takes about 22mins to fill out on the candidate's side and Referral side. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making the survey/questionnaire shorter and less time to fill out. ### 9. Great service to spread the good words for your people! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** I appreciate the easy and efficient flow and options it allows your references to speak to your success and relationships! It is a very easy application to link to other ATS systems as well! **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Those candidates do not get to see the format that references will be filling out so they can help prep their references for how long it will take **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is solving the reference integration with ATS and allows the employee hiring process to be more efficient ### 10. Great product for helping scale a team! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin M. | Chief of Staff, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 07, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** We've used Searchlight.ai for the past couple of years at our startup, and it helped tremendously as I scaled my team from 5 to 15. By bringing reference checks earlier into the interview process, we were able to quickly get more data about prospective employees. It's also incredible to have all of the names, phone numbers, etc. of the references saved in one place, and to be able to look at candidates on a single dashboard. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I would love to see a simpler user interface for customizing the questions. Right now, we have to reach out to their team in order to update the template. It would be awesome if we could customize it in the future! **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** The team & product are great. I'd highly recommend using their product for reference checks of employees! **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** This product helps you hire exceptional talent! I'm able to spend less time & get better information about candidates using Searchlight.ai. Especially for any fast-growing company, I'd highly recommend this software! ### 11. Great Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Experience with the searchlight team has been great. They are thorough and want to ensure you understand the platform. They are also open to answering your questions and prompt to reply. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** from the candidate perspective, I recieved several reminder email to complete the referencne even after I had already completed the reference. Less reminders once the information has been provided. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Linking qualified candidates to the job that we have open. ### 12. Finding the right candidate and automating the interviewing process **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shima A. | Software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** We love the user interface because it is fast and responsive. This tool is very easy to use. We can store references information in one place and view candidates' information on one single dashboard. With Searchlight, our company can set golden customizations on what traits we are looking for per job description. We receive strong, continuing insights about our candidate and reference engagement. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I think this is an excellent hiring tool that makes the process more efficient and effective, by advancing artificial intelligence, selection processes are made very easy, relevant candidates are provided, and time is saved. **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** In place of analyzing candidate's emotions during interviews, we use Searchlight to determine the right match for technical abilities and soft skills. Highly recommended! **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Searchlight.ai to hire excellent talent! I'm able to save time & get better information about candidates when using this product. Searchlight has saved us a large amount of time in the reference process. I highly recommend it to companies that are growing fast! It is easy to use Searchlight. I don't have to play phone tag, track down people, or set aside time to speak. In short, I can continue with my day without wasting time. ### 13. Get the Better talent using Searchlight **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Intelligent Parsing allows you to extract the best information from the resume submitted by candidates, and has seen the the best performance across multiple formats and sets a new benchmark. The behavioral and predictive talent insights put the tools into the next level by using artificial intelligence and gathering insights that allow you to suit the job role to the best candidate and reduce any bias The filter of the tool allows you to sort out the perfect candidate and automate the interview process.The process of selecting a candidate is very easy with the help of predictive intelligence the toll offers. The tool allows you to onboard a candidate enabling them to easily fit into the organization with organised steps, including Complex tasks and this feature has been completely adapted to all the hires. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Certain best practices that our company used to perform before scheduling an interview has been lost however this did not potentially bring any kind of concern or cause to the organisation however we are planning to integrate the set of values that add using this best practices along side the tool **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** The hiring team is completely outsourced and had a difficult time to hire candidates that benefit the job description at the same time maintaining our culture and inclusion for our organization. We were able to solve the problem without putting additional resources into action and at the same time integrated with all the existing tools including workday and slack ### 14. Provides a deeper insight and understanding to who your candidates are! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katie L. | People Operations Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** The reporting insights for our candidate and reference engagement is strong and continuously improving. Searchlight enables our company to set our golden standards/customizations on what traits we are looking for per role. From there, we're able to see and measure the common strenghs of our candidates and utilize that information to understand how we can also customize proper career growth and development for when they come on board. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** It's difficult to identify a dislike since every product improvement and idea has been communicated in a transparent manner. Every point and idea we're interested in seeing on the platform eventually comes to fruition so I appreciate how Searchlight takes the time to execute product improvements that help us understand and read our reference data. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to cut down on time it takes to run reference checks! This is huge, as we previously ran traditional phone calls and could not drill those down as metrics. ### 15. Amazing product for values-based, data-driven references **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Supreet H. | Senior Technical Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** As a values-driven company, Searchlight has allowed us to ensure our reference checks reflect this. Managers and recruiters have found the platform both intuitive to use and valuable in providing helpful insight when making hiring decisions as well as when creating tailored onboarding plans for new hires. The founders are very data-driven and this shows in the product they've created as well. We're so impressed with functionality such as the performance reviews that they're releasing. Most importantly, Searchlight is an amazing partner that truly works with our team to understand your needs and build a product that meets them. They're responsive to feedback and overall, an amazing vendor to work with. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Transparently, Searchlight has actioned every feedback we have provided them so I don't have anything we dislike at this time. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** The reference check part of our hiring process now provides insight from former managers and peers that hiring managers find helpful for both making hiring decisions and successfully onboarding new hires. ### 16. Super easy and Full service hiring platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mina B. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** In every way, the recruitment process and the selection of the right personnel has been simplified for us, and all the steps have become a coherent automation. We are able to integrate earlier in the hiring process to reduce friction at the closing stage by providing greater insight into qualifications and resumes, so you can hire from underrepresented backgrounds with increased confidence. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Over the years, this platform has been updated and according to user reviews, it has always been updated and various features have been added to it, and in my opinion, it is a flawless platform. **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** A right choice for any HR and development team manager **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** This platform has helped us a lot in choosing the right person. We carry out all the steps of hiring and training the new workforce with it.‌ Careful selection, review of conditions and talent, and greater accuracy in resumes, as well as reducing the duration of interviews and reviews, have become easier due to the intelligent automation of this platform. ### 17. Fantastic Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Veronika N. | Analyst, Talent Systems and Insights, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight is user-friendly (from a candidate and recruiter perspective), automated in the right ways, the insights are easy to understand, and the Searchlight team has been so supportive throughout our implementation and entire partnership. They are open to feedback and have been super flexible with any product requests we may have had. We absolutely love working with them. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** This is tough because I think they are doing great things. I would say that a more robust integration with Greenhouse could be helpful to push and pull job information and "Intake" notes. That would make the end-to-end recruitment process seamless. **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** Don't wait any longer - Searchlight has been without a doubt a game changer to our recruitment process. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have saved so much time in our overall hiring process. We previously completed references over the phone, which was quite tedious, and the outcome was never as prosperous as the data we collect on Searchlight. The insights provided are fantastic, and the hiring teams love them. ### 18. Searchlight.ai.... Fantastic solution for hiring. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evelyn W. | Supervisor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 06, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight.ai has a smooth, responsive and clean UI. The insights are extremely easy learn and understand. Searchlight.ai helps us to clearly know who exactly fits into our company. It is easy and fast. I like the ability to gather references and share them with various companies at any given time. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Since i started using Searchlight.ai, i have never encountered any challenges. Nothing to dislike about it since it meets all our requirements. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searchlight.ai is simple and easy to use from the candidates and user perspective. It makes it faster to collect references and simple to analyze responses. Has a responsive and supportive customer support team. ### 19. A Fantastic Addition to Our Recruitment Process **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abidemi B. | Product Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** It works better than any human I have seen as its actions are logic-ruled. It helps our selection process by profiling the idea candidate who makes our job a lot easier. It is capable of utilizing your network to know whether or not you would fit in into a company. It is often very accurate **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** The obvious problem is the reduced reliance on human ideas and interventions. That in principle cannot be replaced **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** It offers talent intelligence like no other. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hiring and closing the best candidates is much better. We find ourselves hiring the best candidates for the role more often than not and it has helped us ### 20. Team Lead, Talent Acquisition **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dani E. | Team Lead, Talent Acquisition, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** My favorite features in Searchlight are creating a New Position Kickoff and requesting references via Searchlight. When I am assigned a new requisition, I can quickly create a New Position Kickoff document in Searchlight that both myself and the hiring manager are able to work off of the document simultaneously. Additionally, the integration Searchlight has with Greenhouse makes the reference process seamless. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Anything I have recommended as enhancements have already been done, so I do not have any dislikes. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searchlight has been a huge time saver during the reference process. ### 21. Automate your references, making it easy and straighforward! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight.ai makes the reference process move more quickly. References like it, as they complete a simple, direct survey. Candidates feel more comfortable that their process is handled in a consistent matter that feels fair. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Generally, there isn't anything we've been disappointed in regarding the service. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** It was taking significant time for our recruiters to schedule calls with references - time that could be better used at the top of the recruiting funnel, finding great candidates. With Searchlight.ai taking care of this for us, we were able to move quicker to close out the recruiting process. ### 22. Brings Relevancy back to References (previously meaningless foregone conclusions!) **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rich R. A. | Global Director of Recruiting, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Ease of use from the candidate and user perspective. Also, the fact that the timing of when we gather and have this information gives references more validity as employers can have extra data points to make hiring decisions before making the actual hiring decision! References of the past have been used as a formality after you want to move forward with a candidate anyways and most references tend to be positive. Searchlight adds so much depth of information for a reference that you can not only use this tool to make a hiring decision but also as a tool for the person's growth plan AFTER you've hired them! **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Grasping at straws to think of downsides here... **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** As mentioned earlier, it brings relevance back to references and gives you data points before a final interview is conducted. Also, the information is so deep that you can also use it for a growth plan for the employee if you end up hiring them. ### 23. References Done Easier **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin S. | Senior Talent Acquisition Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight's reference tool makes collecting references so much faster and analyzing the responses so much simpler. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** For me, their reference tool is terrific, so no complaints. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** With Searchlight, they save time and allow me to continue with my day. There is no need to play phone tag or track down people and set aside time to talk. ### 24. Searchlight is a great partner to work with, they listen well and genuinely ask for our feedback. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tisha W. | HR and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** The software provides valuable information and data to drive decision-making. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Nothing yet; we just need to use it more to build our data sets, experience and increase value. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** All information is valuable and Searchlight just gives us more insight to an individual! ### 25. Searchlight **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** It is an easy way to gather references and share them with various companies at any time. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I can see how it may be confusing to those filling out the references since it goes beyond the general "how do you feel about these individuals and their work". **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** None that I can think of. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** How candidates best align with the role they are applying for and how they can fit with the team. Also, areas that the team should be aware of beforehand. ### 26. Fantastic Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Geri M. | Senior People Business Partner, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Lever integration is smooth and automates the jobs/candidate/intake form link very well **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** not being able to set admin reminders - its manual checks as you gather the data but recent upgrades have helped **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Bringing alignment between hiring managers and recruiters - helps recruiters focus their search much earlier ### 27. Transforming hiring and the greater world **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rohit S. | Talent Acquisition Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Proprietary questionnaires about candidates and automated resume screening **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I was skeptical when I first used Searchlight but I have had great experiences **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** Instead of analyzing candidate's emotions during interviews, we use Searchlight to find the right match for technical abilities and soft skills **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Closing the right people for a role. Determining how well a candidate would fit into our company ### 28. Searchlight has helped us standardize and improve our reference checks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** The best part of Searchlight is that it requires very little time and work from your team to get tons of useful information about candidates. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** The part of the product experience that comes before collecting the references — setting up your roles, assigning a hiring manager, etc. — is still kind of rough. I expect that they'll improve this over time though! **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Conducting references on candidates paints a much fuller picture by producing information that would be very hard to generate through a traditional interview process. Conducting references takes time and effort though, so it's tempting to either skip references or keep them very short. With Searchlight, we're able to run references on every candidate that we're serious about hiring. ### 29. Critical addition to the process of hiring candidates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lobna A. | HR Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight presents candidate's information in an easily digestible format and straight forward manner **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I'm overjoyed by Searchlight and trying my best to bring everyone onboard **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** The Searchlight approach makes the recruitment process super easy **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searchlight is added confidence in the candidate selection process ### 30. Helps in better understanding and a useful product. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** 1) Hire a platform that removes bias in performance-driven hiring. 2) Provide insights for better understanding. 3) Collect and analyze responses easily and quickly. 4) Ability to streamline the aging analysis (30/60/90 days analysis). **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I haven't found any complaints about the product. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1) Reduction in time for reference checks. 2) Provide better insights. 3) Helps in finding well-educated talent for the work. ### 31. Clearly laid out interface and smooth operation **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Reference assessments to multiply onsite-to-close rate **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** We thought candidates had difficulty using the platform but they reported its super easy to use **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** Some of the information we would find later about a candidate is now available way sooner in Searchlight.ai **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** More information on candidates before beginning the hiring process to decide whether to proceed with them or not. ### 32. Amazing helpful tool for HR Professionals! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kat S. | Human Interest Manager **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Searchlight has the ability to streamline the 30/60/90 day process for a new hire which has been gamechanging for my organization **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I haven't found anything I have disliked thus far! **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving onboarding problems every day with Seachlight ### 33. Searchlight made us think about contrived technical screens **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Objective reference data and a more equitable hiring practice to counteract prestige bias **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Not like at the moment there's anything I dislike **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** An applicant from a SMB is weighed the same way as an applicant from a big tech firm **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searchlight gets the hiring team as many reference points as possible with little effort ### 34. Gold-standard software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Less serious applicants are filtered out to save HR time and money **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** Employee development features are to be leveraged in the near future **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** I'm convinced Searchlight.ai diversifies data sources to make less biased decisions about candidates **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Positive, non-biased way to assess candidates since people can easily judge soft skills during an interview ### 35. Manage your hiring process or Team with Searchlight **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 23, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** The best thing about is its graphical representation of your team member or candidates that you want to hire. **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** For new users demo version should be readily available. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a perfect solution to maximize your output from your team. You can track each one's performance during project implementation. ### 36. Useful, data-driven references that are seamless to implement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carl L. | Head of Ops **Reviewed Date:** June 03, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Simple and straightforward while frequently surfacing essential insights. Candidates and references are not intimidated by it, and we have great participation rates! **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** It's improved a lot, but the interface and filtering between candidate stages could still use some work. **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** The reference check part of our hiring process is now relatively painless, and we have a structured way to compare the data now too. ### 37. 3D picture of every candidate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Higher quality reference data and cuts manual phone calls out **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** The mobile view was fixed recently so no other con **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** The HR department conducts team-specific recruiting and stays on track with our recruiting goals **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** Understanding candidates better. Eliminates friction in crucial closing stages of the hiring process ### 38. Hiring Powerhouse **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Searchlight.ai?** Receiving references by a click of a button with no phone tag **What do you dislike about Searchlight.ai?** I couldn't like it more. I cannot just give it a dislike **Recommendations to others considering Searchlight.ai:** Surfaces the most promising candidates to identify top performers early **What problems is Searchlight.ai solving and how is that benefiting you?** De-risks, verifies and normalizes hiring and the reference process ## Searchlight.ai Discussions - [What is Searchlight.ai used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-searchlight-ai-used-for) - [View Searchlight.ai pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/searchlight-ai/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+16%3A49%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=39af99ea-253b-401a-8633-899a98e6d2e9&secure%5Btoken%5D=ca54d64f95a85e5318d926558da9bfd48b146a8942bad06ba3c00e6293983e4a&format=llm_user) ## Searchlight.ai Features **Platform Basics** - Interoperability - Performance - Self-service - Automation **Platform Content** - Templates - Automated - Reports **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Platform Data** - Platform Search - Dashboard - Alerts and Notifications - Analytics **Platform Basics** - Performance Benchmarking - Reporting & Dashboards - Interoperability **Platform Basics** - Optimization - Interoperability - Performance **Platform Content - Talent Assessment** - Candidate Screening - Content Library - Assessment - Portal - Emotional Intelligence - Logical Reasoning - Big Five - Psychometric **Platform Functionality** - Dashboard - Talent Management - Diversity - Add-on - Talent Acquisition - Proctoring - Assessments **Platform Content** - Employee Pulse Surveys - Survey Customization - Goal and Challenge Creation - Science-based templates **Platform Additional Functionality** - Integrations - Identity verification - Fraud detection - Custom branding **Platform Performance - Talent Assessment** - Uptime - Analytics - Monitoring **Platform Additional Functionality** - Employee Segmenting - Goal and Challenge Creation - Peer Recognition - Social Feedback Portal **Platform Data** - Visualization - Security and Compliance - Alerts and Notifications - GDPR Compliant **Platform Additional Functionality - Talent Assessment** - Mobility - Messaging - Payment - Integrations - Video Interview - Simulation **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Performance - Mobility - Reporting - Dashboards **Platform Basics - Talent Assessment** - Analytics - Interoperability - Automation **Agentic AI - Talent Intelligence** - Multi-step Planning - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making **AI Capabilities - Talent Assessment** - AI Personalization - AI Predictive Insights - AI Scoring - Assessment Generation - AI Bias Detection ## Top Searchlight.ai Alternatives - [Xref](https://www.g2.com/products/xref-xref/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (475 reviews) - [HiPeople](https://www.g2.com/products/hipeople/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (439 reviews) - [SeekOut](https://www.g2.com/products/seekout/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (750 reviews)