--- title: SeekOut Reviews meta_title: 'SeekOut Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 765 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how SeekOut works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 765 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-04' parent_category: name: Talent Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/talent-management --- # SeekOut Reviews **Vendor:** SeekOut **Category:** [Talent Intelligence Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/talent-intelligence) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 765 ## About SeekOut SeekOut helps thousands of organizations hire, grow, and retain great talent with its people-first talent optimization platform. In our digital age, organizations are overflowing with data—yet few deeply understand their employees because people data is siloed and disconnected. Your people are the real difference makers—and once you know their passions, experiences, and the opportunities that will get them to where they want to go, you can better align their skills, capabilities, and career paths to the needs of the business. SeekOut unifies talent acquisition, talent management, and talent analytics to help you grow the people you have and find the people you need. Six of the top 10 most valuable companies in the United States trust SeekOut as their single platform for managing and recruiting talent. SeekOut was recently ranked 26 out of 500 on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers, crowned GeekWire Startup of the year, ranked number two in the B2B category of The Information’s 50 Startups to Watch list, and was included on Madrona’s Intelligent Apps Top 40 list. Founded in 2017, SeekOut has raised $189 million in funding, is backed by Tiger Global Management, Madrona Venture Group, Mayfield, and Founders Circle Capital and is valued at $1.2 billion. For more information, visit www.seekout.com. ## SeekOut Reviews ### 1. SeekOut Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I like the filtering factor that's built-in for FAANG companies and minimizing candidates that I've already seen. I also like how you can search for candidates on start-ups. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I don't like how some searches are very sensitive when it comes to boolean searches. The toggle on the side for adding titles or removing companies is not user-friendly at times. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping find candidates for recruiting purposes. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Glad to hear we're helping you find new talent! ### 2. Great tool, challenges with integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Great tool, easy to use within the portal itself. Great search features, good reccomended candidates. All super helpful to be able to do a thorough job sourcing. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I am not sure if this is commonly an issue but I had challenges with integration with LinkedIn. I can often get people easier on LinkedIn than via email but I couldn't automate my messages from LinkedIn. So ended up taking some parts of software out of the system, would prefer they be all together. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sourcing and recruiting candidates for senior level executive roles within my organization. it's a small talent pool when you get to senior level so invaluable to help find those great candidates. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thank you for the positive review! We take your feedback to heart and value your support. ### 3. Seekout review by Simon **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simon W. | Consultant HCM - Goldman Sachs, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 23, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Easy to navigate the various requirements when looking for candidates. The use and creation of power filters have become my best friend! Also, sharing a project with a colleague helps to save time and re-visit as and when needed. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Sometimes using the Boolean search criteria, you have to play around with it to get where you need to be, but that's not a fault with SeekOut; it's more a user one! **Recommendations to others considering SeekOut:** If you are looking for software that takes away the pain of looking for candidates from LinkedIn and GitHub then this is the one for you. Excellent navigation, ease of use, and a great support team behind it. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am finding candidates that have relevant skillsets and experience. SeekOut is very fast in crunching numbers, and after reassurance from them that the diversity information is 95% correct (Uses AI/ML and not just data from LinkedIn), I have found that type of information advantageous. ### 4. Great Platform to Target Diverse Quality Talent **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Catherine P. | TA Partner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 25, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I like the option to filter by ethnicity. I'm always looking to increase diversity among our workforce, but often of specific ethnicities of whom we employ fewer than other ethnicities. SeekOut makes this easy! I also like the several different options to filter by skillset, amount of experience, etc. There are SO many skillset options, ranging from broad to very specific. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Not everyone is "open to work." When I find talent on Seek Out, I add them to the respective project in my LinkedIn Recruiter account. Unlike on LinkedIn, you cannot filter by "open to work" on SeekOut. So, sometimes when I reach out to someone, they aren't actually interested. This takes more time than just filtering by "open to work" on LI Recruiter and adding that talent to a project. However, LI doesn't give all the filtering options that SeekOut provides. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm increasing diversity across our organization. Not only does SeekOut provide diverse talent, SeekOut provides QUALITY diverse talent with skillsets relevant to several of my open roles. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Glad to hear you're having a positive experience with SeekOut - especially when it comes to finding Diverse and Under Represented people. Diversity is a core part of our mission and something we invest heavily in, both for our users and our own teams. Our Customer Success team can help with several strategies to find talent that's more likely to be open to a new role. If we can offer some advice and assistance, please reach out to your CSM or email me on epedini@seekout.com and we'd be delighted to help. ### 5. Helpful Resource **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I can find and source talent that I haven't been able to find on LinkedIn. If there is 100 candidates, maybe half I was unable to source in previous efforts. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** That I have to go out to seek out and communicate with them on LinkedIn. Almost every time I have sent an email thru seek out, I get no response at all and I am not sure if the email addresses given are current or not. I would like to use the credits we have in our accounts but I am unable to do so if I go out to LinkedIn to use it. it would be great if it was integrated with both programs. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** That I have to go out to seek out and communicate with them on LinkedIn. Almost every time I have sent an email thru seek out, I get no response at all and I am not sure if the email addresses given are current or not. I would like to use the credits we have in our accounts but I am unable to do so if I go out to LinkedIn to use it. it would be great if it was integrated with both programs. Or if the candidates can register an account with seek out so we can communicate with them. ### 6. Amazing filters in seekout **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Katherine Anne F. | Talent Sourcer EMEA **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 ### 7. Amazing way to find the best talent! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunnia N. | Sourcing Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I like how there are many different filters that we can use to seek the right candidate. The tools that I use are the diversity filters so I can make sure I source diverse candidates. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I dont like how we have to use credits inorder to obtain candidates phone #, e-mail, etc. What can make this better is if we dont need to use credits and dont need to be afraid of loosing or needing credits to obtain candidates contact info. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is nice to be able to have the candidates contact info. such as phone #, e-mail, etc. The benefit is that its easier to get in contact with the candidate right away! ### 8. SeekOut is a reliable source for recruiters! Super easy to navigate. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tamera G. | Software Engineer Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Boolean searches pull many results, without running into dead ends. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Some profiles do not have phone numbers or emails, and the linkedin profile is nonaccessible. I believe it should be madatory to at least enter your email address, and not just linkedin profile. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Meeting DE&I goals. ### 9. Best sourcing tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhay K. | Senior Technology Recruiter | R&D | Safe Vehicle Automation - Autonomous Driving and ADAS, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The best thing about Seekout is that it helps you go deeper into your search. The diversity filter is handown my favorite feature. Seekout helps you break your search in many different aspects that's quite impossible to achieve through LinkedIn Recruiter. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Having used LinkedIn for a very long time, it's Inmail feature is something you get used to. Probably that's what I miss on Seekout. Although, I don't think this is something necessarily bad. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me tremendously with our diversity initiatives. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thank you for sharing - we're thrilled that SeekOut is helping your diversity programs! ### 10. Your sourcing friend is SeekOut **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Syed S. | Senior Sourcing Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 29, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I personally like the Diversity filters, Boolean algorithms, advance seekout features based on title searches and more. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Sometimes I feel the contact information is outdated **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mainly senior level hiring needs and competitive sourcing. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > We appreciate you taking the time to share how SeekOut is helping you hire senior talent in such a competitive landscape! ### 11. Great experience with SeekOut **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 28, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** My favorite tools of SeekOut are the Power Filters, the diversity tags, and the ability to use advanced functions like field-based searches. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** The one drawback of SeekOut is that once you have viewed a profile and create a new search, the old profiles show up again. They are greyed out and minimized so it helps differentiate between viewed and new profiles. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am on a diversity, equality, and inclusion team so it is helping me find candidates of less represented diversity groups. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for taking the time to review SeekOut - helping organizations increase their Diversity is central to our missions, so we're thrilled to get this feedback! ### 12. Best Passive Candidate Pool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I think the most helpful aspect of Seekout is the access to literally thousands of candidate resumes and that SeekOut provides contact information for those candidates. I also really like that you can drill down your searches to find a really close match to the kind of candidates you are looking for. Also love the champaigns you can set up with timed email delivery to candidates. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I don't really have any dislikes at this time. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** The biggest benefit to using SeekOut is the ability to create candidate pipelines, even on passive candidates. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > We're glad to hear that SeekOut is helping you hire great people! ### 13. Great tool for finding Diversity Candidates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Arshdeep K. | Talent Acquisition/Recruitment Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The people insight section is the most helpful to me. Especially the use of graphics to indicate majority and minority. Diversity candidates are very easy to find. I have used LinkedIn Recruiter a lot but it is very hard to find diversity candidates there because there is no filter but seekout has that option. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I haven't used it enough to comment but it would have been great if there was an option to see the active candidates in the job market. Seekout directs you to the LinkedIn profile but it is hard to gauge if they are looking for work. Also, if the location can be distributed using provinces that would have been great. Sometimes we have roles in provinces with less talent but people find it easier to move between provinces. Than I use a province search to include all of the talent and screen from there **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** The people insight section is the most helpful to me. Especially the use of graphics to indicate majority and minority. Diversity candidates are very easy to find. ### 14. Impeccable customer service with SeekOut **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brooke J. | Senior Talent Sourcing Partner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Our team really values SeekOut for it's Diversity functionality. No other sourcing tool does it like SeekOut does. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** There is nothing that I dislike so far. Anything that I have questions about are answered promptly by our SeekOut rep. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** SeekOut is helping us to build diverse pipelines very quickly. The tool and its filters make it very easy to source quickly. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thank you so much for the kind words! Our Support and Success teams will be thrilled! ### 15. SeekOut helps me find high-quality, diverse candidates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kenzie S. | Technical Sourcing Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** SeekOut helps me quickly identify high-quality, diverse candidates who help us accomplish our companies diversity and inclusion hiring goals. It's the best tool I've used for identifying diverse talent. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I'd love more integration between SeekOut and LinkedIn, including a messaging/in mail integration, along with the ability to create projects that sync and pool candidates across both platforms. **Recommendations to others considering SeekOut:** This is an incredible tool if you are looking for new tools to help build your company's diversity talent pools. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can quickly identify diverse URI and female candidates by using power filters. It has completely alleviated my need to put together complicated, lengthy Boolean searches that potentially limit the candidate pool if I'm not using the perfect search keywords. ### 16. Head of Talent Acquisition **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cindy D. | Head of Talent Acquisition, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** SeekOut allows us to quickly create searches and identify diverse candidates who are extremely important to our hiring strategy. The tool itself is intuitive to the sourcing process and was very easy to use. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Nothing really! This tool has been very good! **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seekout is helping us to tap into talent pools which we might not usually be able to connect with on other platforms. We also appreciate that Seekout allows us to create blind profiles to ensure that candidates are being ranked equitably. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > We're thrilled to learn you're having such a positive experience with SeekOut - especially in terms of helping bring more diverse candidates into your recruiting process. ### 17. Good sourcing tool with useful filters **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monika R. | Technical Sourcing Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 23, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I like the pre designed filters which makes sourcing easy and gives accurate results. Also this gives great insight on the open source contributions the candidate has made, which is good to share with the hiring managers. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Sometimes I find candidates i reviewed disappear from the pipeline. Since I am new to the platform, I am still getting used to the features and see if the problem is solved. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most benefit I have seen is that I can create project for my hiring managers and share the link with them. Inspite of not having Seekout license, they get to access the pipeline. ### 18. Easy and Fast **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The filter panel is really user friendly and the options makes it extremely easy to put your search. There are all the relevant filters you can wish to find right set of candidates. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** The way I see it, most of the profiles don't have a resume database and it's mostly LinkedIn profiles which we need to connect with and start our communication. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's really helpful in finding passive candidates and also a one stop solution rather than searching on multiple databases and search engines. The uniqueness lies in its integration with other platforms **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for taking the time to share your feedback on SeekOut - glad to hear you're finding it easy to use, and we're helping you find great passive candidates. ### 19. Very Powerful Search **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Julie M. | Director of Talent Acquisition, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** SeekOut has by far the most robust search engine of any recruiting tool I've used. We integrated it with our applicant tracking system and use it in tandem with LinkedIn. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** It is a little difficult to easily see and keep track of who I have already messaged. **Recommendations to others considering SeekOut:** Start with your most technical recruiters - meaning recruiters who love to dig. You'll get great results. Figure out how to best utilize the nurturing portion before a team-wide rollout. We assessed the tool and then created a workflow that made sense for us and taught that to the entire talent acquisition team rather than letting them figure it out independently. Support is the best. Our success manager is an extended part of my team and helps train new recruiters - take advantage of that. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been able to access candidates that were not showing up on LinkedIn searches. Sometimes the email addresses are not up to date, but usually, one of the many emails SeekOut turns up is good. We even sometimes will source it via SeekOut and then contact via LinkedIn. We're able to access a much broader set of candidates. Also, using the GitHub search has been very powerful for us in searching for developers. ### 20. 4 Months Into Our SeekOut Partnership **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Sporting Goods | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 06, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Diversity filters are incredibly powerful and allow us to target underrepresented groups quickly and easily. The ability to run reports on markets or companies has also proved to be valuable when looking to gather key intel. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** The profiles do not always remain up to date and the sync's with the external profiles from the platforms it pulls from could be faster. It also appears to work better for US searches than Europe with regards to number of profiles found. **Recommendations to others considering SeekOut:** Make sure you are fully aware of the limitations of the product if you are based outside of the US **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's biggest use case for us is the ability to find diverse talent quickly and (tech only) build a broader view of what somebody can do outside of their Linkedin profile etc **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > We appreciate you taking the time to share your SeekOut experience with others! Sorry to hear you're run into some issues with profile freshness. We work hard to make sure our profiles are as complete and up-to-date as possible, and would be happy to dig a little further into your use case both for immediate help, and to give our Engineering and Data Teams the feedback that need to continuously improve. We have some major improvements made recently and more coming soon. If you'd like to share more, or find out how we're investing in this area, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager or email me directly on epedini@seekout.com ### 21. Great New Tool for TA Professionals **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Johnny C. | Lead Technical Recruiter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Seek out is very robust in that it allows users to filter candidates to specific regions, buzz words, candidate cloning, and other features. It also gives us the ability to screen for DEI space which is excellent. As I start to familiarize myself with this tool, it becomes an invaluable asset to myself and my team. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** does take a little bit to get used to, the training sessions help and does bring good information for me to fine-tune how I can run a search string. Overall, nothing i dislike but there is quite a bit of information and options to funnel thru, would hope it can be condensed into pods with a check box of some sort **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** DEI is the main issue we are looking to solve. Getting more diversity and gender equality is really important in my job. I believe seek out gives me the opportunity to help filter out hidden gems and talent and get them hired. ### 22. Very easy to use and intuitive **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle D. | Sr Principal Talent Advisor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Very easy to use and intuitive. Other similar job boards I needed training and with SeekOut I was able to jump right in and start using it. Has great features that other platforms do not have like downloading search results into an excel sheet. Very easy to navigate and the dashboard is very clean. There are many filters to choose from when searching for talent and you can customize them. The Diversity search option is very valuable and helps make my job easier. SeekOut is now my Go-To for searching for talent. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Nothing at the moment but if I had to be picky I would like there to be a US Security Clearance option in the search function. Alot of the roles I have need security clearances. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** SeekOut is helping me to find a high voume of prospects and being able to view LinkedIn profiles directly from the search results has saved me a lot of time. I've definitely had more success with SeekOut. ### 23. Accurate results & higher ROI than other talent searching platforms **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer M. | Technical Sourcer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I absolutely LOVE working with SeekOut. It's hard to choose the one thing I like best - but for me the accuracy of the results is what makes it a standout product for me. I've noticed that the results - when compared to the leading talent search platforms - are just far more accurate. Result: a much higher ROI for my time spent sourcing. Not once have I wondered "why has this profile come up in the results" which happens too often when using the leading talent search platform (same Boolean, same search)! I'm also loving the fact that it searches GitHub at the same time and presents the relevant information in an accessible user-friendly way. And of course, the Diversity Searching & bias reducing features are excellent! Power-filters are also brilliant. I'm a relatively new user so I've yet to use the AI matching, outreach capabilities, and ATS connecting features - but from what I've experienced so far this is the best sourcing tool I've used to date. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** There are a few minor things in terms of functionality - like not being able to set a timeline on hiding profiles already viewed BUT we've been told that this will be implemented in future releases. Their Product & Customer Success teams are super engaged and they constantly encourage user feedback! **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Increased ROI on my time spent sourcing. Finding a higher volume of relevant candidates faster! **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for sharing your detailed feedback on SeekOut - we're here to help you find better, and more diverse, candidates faster - so we're delighted to get this review. ### 24. Helpful tool **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christina C. | Recruiter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The ability to find candidates based on their entire online profile vs just one profile. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** The response rate of people who get back to you. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to find more qualified talent for engineering hires. Looking at demographics, work history and being able to tell the story to the business. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for sharing your feedback! ### 25. SeekOut: the best way out there to find the candidates you seek! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Staffing and Recruiting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I really enjoy how simple SeekOut's interface and search options are to understand and use. But it still accomplishes everything I need in the candidate search and still feels powerful. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** SeekOut does crash at very inopportune times. I know other candidate search sites do maintenance during down hours (late nights/weekends/etc) to avoid having these bugs and issues during the weekdays. **Recommendations to others considering SeekOut:** SeekOut is a great competitor for anyone in the staffing/recruitment field. I feel it is vital to any candidate search and shows a wide range of candidates that I don't find doing similar boolean searches on other sites. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use SeekOut as a recruiter in the professional services field. I use it to find diversity candidates, people from specific schools, areas, etc. I've realized that SeekOut's power filters are drastically stronger than anything competitors have. ### 26. One of the best tools out there **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kirsten B. | Senior Sourcer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The tools have many options and everything can be adjusted to one's needs. I had a few questions and there was help right away from Tony. Quick and easy help from the SeekOut support team which makes everything work effortless **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** There are some bugs here and there that needs to get fixed for example location. But nothing the SeekOut team couldn't support with. After noticing these "errors" we where able to get quick help and support for this **Recommendations to others considering SeekOut:** Keep using it and you will learn all the benefits it can give you. Its an extensive tool which can only be explored by doing so **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I found new candidates easily and the best feature is that in generates email adresses. That for me is the biggest benefit so far since I didn't find this with any other tool so far ### 27. SeekOut Key Product to help find valuable resources **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alicia S. | Talent Acquisition Partner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 17, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I utilize SeekOut to augment sourcing. The product has great filter features to easily refine your search, diversity AI, and insight metrics on other companies/resources. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I would like to be able to easily have my project and search as a drop-down, but have entered that as a suggestion. **Recommendations to others considering SeekOut:** If you are targeting a product that can produce results and has live support to ensure you get full ROI of the product - this is the one! **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Help with diversity hiring, emails to build campaigns, easy filtering and boolean. Chat team is EXCELLENT and super responsive! You don't get that with linkedin! ### 28. Attractive and Easily Navigable UI/UX Interface **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lauren F. | technical sourcer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** What I like most about SeekOut is the ease of searching for talent. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** What I feel might have some areas of improvement would be to have ease at compiling the email campaigns. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving a deeper more detective approach in finding top talent. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback! We're so glad to hear how SeekOut is helping you find top talent! ### 29. Great sourcing tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** SeekOut's sourcing capability are great! There is advanced Boolean which I prefer to use, and it shows candidate profiles across various social sites to give multiple avenues to contact. I also like that it tells you which keywords were a match for that profile. The power filters are helpful to narrow down the list, and there's even diversity filters. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I am cautious to use the diversity filters as we are always seeking the best qualified applicant, but want to look at diverse sources. Instead of the filters, it may be more helpful to include sourcing sites it is pulling from other diverse sources instead. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** SeekOut solves the sourcing problem - helping to source from additional avenues and expand the candidate pool with qualified talent. We are always looking for new placed to find talent. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for the positive review - we appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback with the community! In particular I'm glad to hear you're enjoying our powerful Boolean search. ### 30. Simple & effective **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The ability to see specific experiences such as front end engineer, backend engineer, full stack engineer, etc. The scores that display their proficiency with different programming languages is also great. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I feel like the location feature isn't always accurate and shows me locations that I haven't filtered out. I once sourced for candidates in the Atlanta GA area however it was displaying candidates from other states as well. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I love SeekOuts diversity feature. It helps us allow to find candidates with various backgrounds which gives us the opportunity to be all inclusive with our hiring process, **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thank you for the positive review! We take your feedback to heart and value your support ### 31. Great search functionality bringing up different options for talent searches. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** blake r. | S, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The upside would be the different diversity settings when starting a search. As well as the title boolean search functionality. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** The different position level categories are a little too broad. Would like more options. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I work in a hybrid research/market data and sourcing role. I primarily will conduct nationwide skill set assessments and deliver data to our hiring partners. ### 32. SeekOut Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lauren B. | Support Team Administrative Assistant, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 ### 33. SeekOut Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carolyn Z. **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 ### 34. It has it's ups and downs. A lot of bounced or no good emails. Broken LI links **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The campaign system. I like that I can start a whole messaging system that sends out email automatically **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** . A lot of bounced or no good emails. Broken LI links. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helping to find candidates for my open positions. It benefits me by helping me do my job. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thank you for sharing this feedback! We take customer input very seriously, and have shared your thoughts with the product team at SeekOut. ### 35. Seekout Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brooke B. | Recruiting Specialist - Randstad Sourceright supporting Google, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Seekout has some fantastic features to help recruiters find any specific needs they are searching for to find the perfect candidate. I have found Seekout to be very helpful and I think it could also help many other people! **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Honestly, I love everything Seekout has to offer and I am already extremely happy with it! **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps solve trying to find the correct candidates for specific opportunities. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > We're glad you're enjoying SeekOut, and that we're helping you find those perfect candidates! ### 36. Good customer service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The customer support team is solid. When I reach out to help from the other "Big Competitors" there is no service! SeekOut reps follow up and follow through **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** It is expensive - and doesn't scale down when we need it less **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting contact information for potential candidates **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks so much for taking the time to call our fantastic Support team out! We've invested in ensuring we have the very best Support and Success experience in the industry, and the team will be thrilled to hear this feedback. ### 37. SeekOut **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amanda N. | Recruiter, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** More comprehensive tool to find top talent. The power filters are incredible and the seek out team are bullion string experts! The insights page is also a great asset. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** UI can be better to be more to review candidate profiles **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sourcing for talent outside of just LinkedIn **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Appreciate the feedback, and glad to hear we're helping you find top talent! ### 38. Great alternative if you don't have an LinkedIn recruiter account **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 15, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** You can create a project and gather all the candidates that you sourced. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Gathering contact information like email or phone number **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** If you don't Linkedin Recruiter license, you can still group the candidates on a specific a project and you can share them to you colleagues **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Appreciate the feedback, and glad to hear we're helping you find great candidates! ### 39. Great Product for Sourcing Candidates for Targeted and Difficult to Fill Roles **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 29, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** SeekOut gives you the ability to pull profiles for very specific criteria, including, skill, experience, location, degree, etc. It is a good tool for advanced-level sourcers that have a deep understanding of boolean but also has features that provide sourcing guide rails for less experienced sourcers. It also enables users to easily review the talent pools' respective GitHub repos and other online profiles that may provide a more in-depth and/or holistic understanding of the talent pool's skills, experience and interests. You can source, collaborate with hiring partners, and directly message candidates all in one place. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** In general, I find SeekOut to be extremely helpful, however, there are a lot of functionalities and tools that are available to users that are not necessarily intuitive. I think the training seminars and documentation are useful but I don't think they are as effective as they could be. The way training info is shared and organized needs to be improved. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sourcing candidates of all different backgrounds, experience, and skills levels for a wide variety of roles. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for sharing your detailed review on SeekOut! I'm sorry to hear the training and documentation provided hasn't been as intuitive as possible. We'd be happy to hear your feedback about this in detail so that we can continue to improve, and/or organize for more specific 1:1 training to address your needs (which we provide at no cost). Please reach out to our Customer Success team, or me directly on epedini@seekout.com, and we'd be delighted to connect and help. ### 40. SeekOut Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Spencyre H. | Talent Acquistion Specialist (Americas), Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2022 ### 41. Not effective for outreach candidates **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Medical Devices | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** It has some good sourcing filters, some of them are similar to LinkedIn (still I don't see the benefits vs. LinkedIn as a user). **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** A lot of candidates have missing or inaccurate contact info so they can not be outreached, so the email campaigns are not as effective as InMails. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm not finding it very useful, to be honest. I'd like to do sourcing + outreach with the same tool. If SeekOut would be effective for outreach, it would be awesome. But you need to fix the candidates' contact info accuracy first. ### 42. Helpful for Quality Talent - Wish It Could Integrate w/Other Tools **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Very helpful for finding diverse talent, the filters allow me to search in ways that I can't via other platforms. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** It would be helpful to be able to integrate the SeekOut software with required internal tools. We have to ensure that a candidate is truly available and to do so we have to search them under our internal CRMs which is external to SeekOut. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Searching for diverse talent. Also, searching for specific skillsets and candidates who match with teams that are more unique than the standard profile that we look at. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Helping recruiters find Diverse talent is a huge part of our mission - thanks for sharing! We do actually integrate into most common CRM and ATS systems, which doesn't just make it easy to export prospects. You can also get details about candidate ownership right in SeekOut, screen inbound applications, and leverage SeekOut's powerful search to rediscover candidates from your ATS. Please reach out to our Success or Support teams to learn more, or email on epedini@seekout.com ### 43. SeekOut is the easiest and most intuitive sourcing product on the market today. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** SeekOut make the practice of sourcing seamless, you can source in the fashion that you have grown accustomed to, be it boolean or single word searching. This tool can handle it all and provide you with a deeper level of data than any other tool on the market. As a recruiter, the ability to create campaigns is of tremendous value and the data around candidate pools will wow any hiring manager! **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** There are literally zero downsides to this product. The enablement team is industry best, the interface is incredibly user-friendly and the search results are unmatched. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** In the competitive world of hiring today SeekOut will offer you the advantage of building out custom projects that will create strong pipeline and lead to top candidates. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > We're thrilled to learn about you positive experience with SeekOut - thanks for sharing this review with the community! ### 44. Excellent searching tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan O. | Head of Talent, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The amount of filters and parameters you can search with & being able to search via Github too. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Occasionally data isn't quite up to date but the majority is and I understand it's a constant work in progress. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Taking the power & cost away from LinkedIn & LinkedIn Recruiter. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for taking the time to share your review of SeekOut! ### 45. Increase the speed, accuracy and efficiency by using Seekout's Search Engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 05, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Power Filters, email campaigns and ability to search on multiple continents. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** There is nothing about SeekOut that I dislike. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Seekout allows me to be more efficient and targeted in my sourcing efforts. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > We're thrilled to hear how SeekOut is helping improve your Recruiting efficiency! ### 46. My favorite sourcing tool.. everrr!!!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ros G. | US Strategic Talent Sourcer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 17, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** The way you can use key words and the way you can exclude **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** To be honest, i like everything about SeekOut **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** SeekOut is helping me to find candidates with a better pottential profile **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thank you for your amazing review! We believe at SeekOut that great people create companies. We're glad our tool is helping you succeed in maximizing your talent. ### 47. It pulls everyone from Linkedin which is helpful when they are not in your network **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lori t. | Sr recruiter, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** It pulls everyone from Linkedin which is helpful when they are not in your network. The filters and cloning **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** not knowing for sure if someone is on the market, open to opportunites and currently available **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** finding more qualified candidates **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for taking the time to share you feedback - much appreciated! ### 48. This is my favorite sourcing tool! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sherry M. | Sr. Recruiter, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 02, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** I like its boolean sourcing capabilities and its ability to produce valid email addresses and telephone numbers. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** The numbers aren't validates; however, that is understandable. **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives me quick, accurate search results and telephone and email addresses that allow me to effectively do my job. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for sharing your feedback on SeekOut! ### 49. Great Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Seekout has helped us find talent we would not have otherwise had access too. The filters are super helpful and really changing the way we are able to source and interact. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** Nothing comes to mind, really love this tool! **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** Continuing to drive top of funnel interaction and created more diverse sourcing opportunities for us. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for the comments - we love that we're helping your organization hire great people! ### 50. Fantastic Tool that is Essential! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Adam R. | T, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 22, 2022 **What do you like best about SeekOut?** Their AI search methods are top-notch! Customer service is amazing and their boolean search string focus is the best! LinkedIn Recruiter. It is one of the best tools I have used. **What do you dislike about SeekOut?** I wish I could create a project and integrate that project with a LinkedIn Recruiter project to do mass emailing. Creating a project that i could mass email the candidates. **Recommendations to others considering SeekOut:** I highly recommend SeekOut for finding those unicorn candidates! You will not be sorry! **What problems is SeekOut solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are great at helping me create search strings for complex roles. No, I am not. Yes, I am more productive by using the tool. yes, it has helped me find great candidates. **Official Response from Ed Pedini:** > Thanks for sharing your SeekOut experience! I'm thrilled to hear our AI Search and Customer Service have exceeded your expectations. While we don't directly integrate with LinkedIn Recruiter Projects, we do have mass emailing functionality built into SeekOut and can integrate with many 3rd party tools to make the process as simple as possible. If you'd like help exploring and configuring these options please reach out to our team or email me directly on epedini@seekout.com and we'd be happy to help. ## SeekOut Discussions - [What other tools can I use with SeekOut?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/15039-what-other-tools-can-i-use-with-seekout) - 1 comment, 2 upvotes - [Will seekout include prospects with private profiles in LinkedIn](https://www.g2.com/discussions/50615-will-seekout-include-prospects-with-private-profiles-in-linkedin) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [Will there be a way for AI to conduct its own searches on its own searches?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/50433-will-there-be-a-way-for-ai-to-conduct-its-own-searches-on-its-own-searches) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Can yo make messaging more like Word format](https://www.g2.com/discussions/34477-can-yo-make-messaging-more-like-word-format) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How often is the data replenished?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/16085-how-often-is-the-data-replenished) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [View SeekOut pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/seekout/reviews?page=5&qs=pros-and-cons§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-04+11%3A37%3A43+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b4a819de-92bc-477e-a6e6-bddfafc5f0e9&secure%5Btoken%5D=4c5a1ab44a147e1348fa709dc1cd9bbf82753ad18c59a9b071e1351a8453d88a&format=llm_user) ## SeekOut Integrations - [Chrome Enterprise](https://www.g2.com/products/chrome-enterprise/reviews) ## SeekOut Features **Platform Basics** - Interoperability - Performance - Reporting **Platform Basics** - Interoperability - Performance - Self-service - Automation **Platform Functionality** - Sourcing and Candidate Identification - Interview Scheduling - Applicant Tracking **Career pathing** - Employee Profiles - Career Paths **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization **Platform Data** - Platform Search - Visualization **Platform Data** - Platform Search - Dashboard - Alerts and Notifications - Analytics **Opportunity matching** - Opportunity Database - Opportunity Matching **Agentic AI - Recruiting Automation** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Platform Content** - Automation - Content Library **Platform Functionality** - Dashboard - Talent Management - Diversity - Talent Acquisition **Analytics and integrations** - Skills Analytics - Reporting - Integrations **Platform Additional Functionality** - Sourcing and Candidate Identification - Applicant Tracking - Unbiased Sourcing **Platform** - Customization - Integration APIs - Internationalization - User, Role, and Access Management - Dashboards **Agentic AI - Talent Intelligence** - Multi-step Planning - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Decision Making ## Top SeekOut Alternatives - [Eightfold AI](https://www.g2.com/products/eightfold-ai/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (194 reviews) - [Gem](https://www.g2.com/products/gem/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (270 reviews) - [hireEZ](https://www.g2.com/products/hireez/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (254 reviews)