ZipRecruiter Reviews & Product Details

The 1-Click option to apply for a job is a great feature of ZipRecruiter. It always for the resume on credentials on file to be directed to the hiring company. Ease of use.

No sorting or filtering out commission only jobs, it is a frustrating experience, even if you filter full time jobs, the commission only jobs sneak in and thus a feature that I dislike.

For job applicants take advantage of the 1-Click application and also ensure you check if the job is commission-based or not... if looking for a regular job.

It has helped both on the job seeking side and also for one or two job postings that we have considered with ZipRecruiter. The process of adding a new posting is fairly easy.

The ATS system and recommendations were great when we used this site to hire our graphic designer and customer service rep. We were able to quickly narrow down who was qualified and weed out the candidates that were not. The ability to view everything within the same screen was great!

For positions that were out of the box, we had no luck what so ever. We were looking for a repair artist and the only recommendations we received were graphic designers. 99% of the applicants were also graphic designers, I'm not sure if that was because of their end user recommendations to apply.

Use only if you have a basic standard position to fill.

It sped up the application review process tenfold!

I found that Zip Recruiter had a wealth of jobseekers with the necessary qualifications. I liked that you would look at these candidates and contact them thru the Zip Recruiter news portal.

Don't get me started on the preliminary questions which are a god send which save lots of time sorting throug unnecessary candidates and come in notifications.

This information is available whether you are by using the website or the mobile app ZipRecruiter. I use the Android version of the app and the ZipRecruiter notifications are notifications that I look forward to.

In our last job opening, we not only received the desired candidates with a standard offer, and when we paid the higher price for even more publicity, we received better candidates. You are not sure about the difference between where the posts are published with a standard entry or an upgraded entry.

Try it! They have a free trial that gives a good idea of what you are i nfor.

ZipRecruiter provides you with jobs and employment options based on your career preferences. But the ability to enter information and software that produces potential job matches for you is a great resource and makes the process easier to manage and more efficient.

When I am seeking new jobs, Zip Recruiter makes it very easy to find them and weed through them quickly. I like to results that I receive through this service better than others such as Monster.com and Indeed.com. You can sign up to have jobs sent to you when they become available. It's not overwhelming, like some of the others.

I haven't found anything to dislike yet, except some of the jobs are very low-paying minimum wage jobs that just happen to have some search terms in common with the technical jobs that I am searching for.

Definitely give it a try! I understand it is perfect for small and mid-size businesses to post jobs on to attract the best applicants. For job seekers, it can't be beat.

I liked that ZipRecruiter weeded out a lot of the spam applicants and I was able to search for specific qualifications in the positions I was recruiting for. This cut down on a lot of time having to skin through resumes of under-qualified applicants.

I did not see a large number of applicants in general. ZipRecruiter markets itself on providing employers top job seekers with a streamline way to filter through applicants. However I don't think ZipRecruiter is enough of a household name to warrant paying for the service. Most people I have talked to have never heard of the company and the most common answers were Indeed and Monster.

Compare pricing with other recruiting websites that are more popular. You might have to pay more but it may be worth it in the long run to have an account with sites that are more well known.

I like that it's easy to use and that it really does most of the work for you. In comparison to free tools we were not having to do much.

Their sales staff call constantly trying to upsell and promote. It got to the point where I called a sales manager and requested the calls to stop. I get it, they are running a business but it really is obnoxious.

When calling in or emailing for first time. Explicitly ask for no phone calls unless you want them to. Otherwise you'll never get a break from their sales staff.

I love how easy it is to post. It takes about 2 minutes to post a job. If you don't have an Applicant Tracking System this would be a great tool as well, but I use a separate ATS.

At first, I selected "allow people to apply without resumes" and that was a mistake. I got a ton of people that just submitted a name and phone number. I did not expect that many applicants looking for a role would do that.

If you are recruiting in the Northeast or Midwest I have seen great applicants in those areas. The Southeast has not been as successful.

The customer service was excellent. My rep helped me post the position and gave me a quick impromptu tutorial without making me go through a product demo.

When posting the position I was asked a few times to post the salary range. My company does not post our salary ranges online, its just our practice, but I was told over and over that I probably would not get good candidates unless I posted the salary range. It was a little discouraging.

Again, great customer service

The best part was that I could email and text applicants and track them along with pulling details into spreadsheets

It is a bit costly so you want to be creative with your job ads

When you have an employer account you will be given a direct account rep and you need them to make any changes to your account. Sometimes it was difficult to get in touch or an answer from our rep.

Zip recruiter is great when it works properly. It can save time with finding resume but I do have a lot of problems with it

It really bothers me that there is not a flip view to view resumes, it takes a lot of time to open the resume and then click back to search results for the next resume. Also I do not like that I can't paste my whole booleen search because at lot of the candidates that come up in my search are not retentive. I also don't like that I can't copy and paste the resume into Bullhorn but I have to download it first and save it. It just wastes more time.

Zip can be helpful but for me it is more of a last restore when I have run out of places to look

At this time I feel like zip waste's more time than it actually helps but if they changed a few things it could be more useful

I like the ZipRecruiter app. I find the push notifications very helpful. I also like that I can build my network of colleagues to provide references on my behalf.

I appreciate all of the resume and job search features

I have my profile and resume in ZipRecruiter just in case the right job comes along, they can reach out to me

I like the daily email updates re: new applicants, the ability to email templates directly from the application, and how you can collaborate with other users.

Runs a little slowly sometimes, and it is easy to get lost when scrolling through candidate pages.

It's a pretty standard/basic product for managing your candidate pipeline.

Generating good applicants.

It's easy to use interface, it's very easy to edit current jobs, and have them posted live automatically. I like the amount of people this tool reaches out to, and mostly qualified candidates respond.

I do like the thumbs up, thumbs down feature (thumbs to the side too!). It's an easy way of saying yes or no to a candidate.

The way it makes you look through every candidate, and how they don't disappear after you've rejected them, in the view candidate tool. I also don't like that there are work arounds to the mandatory questions you ask.

Another suggestion, in the thumbs up, thumbs down, the thumbs down should reject the candidate (and take them off the view candidates area for good). It'd be great if it automatically rejected the candidates too.

We are responsible for helping large organizations find creative, digital, and marketing talent, so more access helps our business and theirs, while helping people find jobs.

Zip makes it easy to manage the job posting process.

I get Job alerts just about everyday, and I get Jobs that actually match my skill set and not Jobs that I don't have any interest in or that I am just not qualified for. And last of all, my Suggested Jobs that Zip Recruiter saved automatically, are perfect, and all of in my field of interest, which is Customer Service.

I don't have anything bad to say, except, I wish I would have known about ZipRecruiter years ago.

Received several candidates through this source

The experience and educational level of the candidates was very entry level.

I used the free demo, and I continue to receive marketing materials to try ZipRecruiter for free, but when I go in to sign up, it won't allow me another trial period because my email address has already been used. I completely understand not to allow multiple trials, but why send me additional promotional materials with the free trial information included.

Stylized resumes allow me to find information quickly. Prequalification questions for submission excellent.

Resume database search needs several more options for filtering for resume search - salary, geographic flexibility, etc.

Talent acquisition is my particular and unique function for my company

I like how well this product works for you while you are not actively sourcing. We have an extremely small recruiting team here and we are starting to grow very rapidly. Given that, ZipRecruiter is an incredibly useful & easy tool to have in your toolbox!

Not much, really. The only thing I had trouble with was customizing each req. However, after speaking with our rep Daniel, it was easy to fix.

Small recruiting team and little to no time to do any sort of outbound sourcing. This is great for solving that problem.

With one posting, you can get your jobs out on over a hundred job boards, including SimplyHired, Glassdoor and the ZipRecruiter job board (which is becoming a decent board itself). To be fair, many of the 100+ job boards ZipRecruiter touts are small, niche and you've probably never heard of them, but the few big boards make it worth the price of admission. The resume database is a great tool as well, allowing you to instantly view resumes and contact information for candidates (though the new search functionality makes it a bit annoying for boolean users). The backend and administration are intuitive and it takes no time to get up and running.

Another one of our favorite features is the Job Widget. The Job Widget allows you to just copy and paste a snippet of code on to your website to display all of your ZipRecruiter positions, if you're looking for a quick and easy way to get your job listings on your website, it doesn't get any quicker or easier than the Job Widget.

Once upon a time, ZipRecruiter counted Indeed among their arsenal of job boards. It was one of the factors that drew us to ZipRecruiter in the first place. However, a few years ago ZipRecruiter cut ties with Indeed. Immediately after, the quantity and quality of candidates decreased. Indeed is the largest job board/aggregator out there, so it was a huge loss. Fortunately for ZipRecruiter their service is enough of a bargain that it was worth staying on.

I will say that the account managers at ZipRecruiter will constantly try and push their "TrafficBoosts" on you, which are in no way worth the asking price.

Do a free trial and see what your results look like. Also look into posting on Indeed (free or sponsored) and compare the results.

Job postings on multiple job boards, displaying open positions on our website, searching for candidates in the resume database.

Ziprecruiter is, to me, one more job board. It has yet to differentiate itself in any way from indeed, monster, etc. It performs its basic functions well, but I don't know why it's used over anything else. It's automatically linked with our ATS, so we log in and will post there automatically.

As I said - I don't see any difference between ZipRecruiter and any other job board site. They need to do some real work on what makes them different and how they stand out in a huge crowd of job sites. I don't think I ever thought to go to ZipRecruiter on my own, without being linked for some other reason.

Figure out what it is that makes them special, or push them to find out for themselves.

We are working in a hyper-growth business bubble right now. Our business is skyrocketing and we are trying to hire an enormous amount of people at once, while also ensuring that they are the right fit for the team and for the organization.

We have the Pro Team Plan. It fits our need for multiple brands (hiring companies), resume searches, job postings and it feels just like an ATS.

My criticism is on the resume search side. I'd like to see more filters to narrow my search and more ways to sort though results.

The amount of exposure to job boards is good.

Too many pop ups for help hints. Emailing applicants is a labored process.

Great to use for beginners.

Love the candidate rating feature because you can see how other people in your organization rated them.

We only pay for 25 resume out of the database bank a month so that’s abummer sometimes.

Great tool to use. Easy to use with multiple recruiters and good applicants

I like being able to get on the site, make a posting, and get off the site within 30 mins. It is extremely easy to navigate the site, and make a posting if you are prepared with your job description.

There could be more options for after the job description field that are customizable. For common lower end jobs it would be helpful for canned job descriptions to be available, either for free or for purchase. Also the ability to customize those job descriptions for actual job posting. The site overall doesn't need improvements they have done a good job with the easy with using the site.

You could set it up to have new resumes that had been posted to ZipRecuiter emailed right to you, so you didn't have to sort through lots of resumes that weren't what you were looking for. It made recruiting much easier.

I didn't like the sales calls we would get occasionally always trying to get our company to upgrade our product.

The ease of posting jobs is great, definitely gets to every single job board.

Your posting goes to every single job board; which in turn, doesn't give you the most qualified candidates. Most of the applicants, I sifted through and passed on without a screening.

Time saver getting the word out about opening!

Price point is very high for a small business.. seems like they should have pay per applicant or something different in the model.

Very fast.. pricing is hidden and tricky.. not a big fan of price structure.

Getting applicants.. Had 5 in 1 week so that was awesome.

What I love about ZipRecruiter is the ease of using the platfrom especially the app version.

there is not one thing i dislike about ziprecruiter

i would definitely give it a try you have nothing to lose and everything to gain with the tools that they offer.

Ziprecruiter helps us find the talented people we need to hire for our company

It is very user friendly and not difficult to manage the program.

I have found that zip recruiter is not very effective as an ATS or recruiting software. Not enough candidates have an account or post their resumes there.

Zip recruiter needs more marketing to get their name out there and to be able to compete with other resume databases/applicant tracking systems.

N/a/ No longer using zip recruiter.

It's easy to sort through the applicants

They don't show their full resume automatically , Can be hard to navigate. Option to share link to job postings not avaliable

i like the ease of use with the software and the customer service is amazing.

still new to the software but everything seems good so far.

Ease of access and the ability to add multiple administrators!

How information is compiled and that you can only choose one type of job board to post to rather than choose multiple for your ad.

The job postings that are posted on the site have high quality.

I did not like the ability to hear from live representatives to schedule interviews

I loved how easy it was to upload my resume and how many different jobs I found on ZipRecruiter versus other sites.

The look could be somewhat more minimalistic to update the design of the site, but overall it's great.

ZipRecruiter works with companies that you won't find on other sites and they protect your information well.

I like it because not all my colleagues use it and i am able to find candidates that other recruiters cant

I don't like that there is no flip view.. makes it very difficult to shuffle through candidates timely

it takes time and patience.... so you have to be in the right mind set

i am solving finding candidates noone else gets - good people apply as well

The ability to have other managers thumb up or down candidates. This made it easy to tell what the next step was for the candidate.

Sometimes it does not send out the email that allows the candidate to reply back. Our Account Manager suggested we put our email address after our signature to fix this issue.

I like being able to make 1000 contacts a month

Not being able to directly invite them to apply to a job on Zip

Be ready to cold call or send out massive emails with no replies.

I have gotten a few decent candidates from Zip

Nothing they have been useless. No one hired using them

Their model is crap, they wont let you cancel it is a sham

It's very easy to use and navigate, and it's also very organized.

We don't seem to get bang for our buck. We tend to get more candidates from free postings from indeed than from ziprecuiter.

Look into other options before paying for it. It's good, but there are better options out there.

I loved the ability from the applicant side to see how I was being considered. It also gave me an opportunity to connect with a recruiter personally if I needed additional help.

I actually really liked the product, although there were a lot of emails notifying me of updates. Overall, no complaints

The best thing about zip recruiter is that you don’t need fo fill the application each and every time. Just upload your resume and apply jobs with One click

There is nothing I dislike about the service provided by zip recruiter

Ease of use, distribution of jobs, the ability to have multiple brands under one account and how they build their own talent community

Customer support and pricing model. Every year they raise prices significantly and are not flexible.

job posting

Easy to use. Has a lot of resumes, Pushes out well

They have increased their costs, biggly. It has gotten too expensive

We need a resume database to search and need multiple postings

Nothing, i posted multiple jobs everything from retail to administration positions and not one response.

Everything i posted multiple jobs everything from retail to administration positions and not one response.

I have not used this system since the free trial and won't ever use it again.

The platform was clean and easy to use.

I have used many recruiting tools and this was by far the worst at giving me any results. I think I maybe got two page views for the ad I posted.

I don't recommend trying it unless you have a free trial.

Recruiting

Receiving a large number of qualified applicants almost instantly. It has exposed us to a larger number of applicants that we might never have reached.

That not all applicants seem to pay attention to location but that's not a ZipRecruiter issue.