I've been using Gem for about 8 months now, mostly for sourcing engineering and technical roles for our automotive clients. The talent rediscovery feature is useful in my opinion. The upsides are, like scheduling is made easy, the AI ranking actually works, the chrome extension is useful. he learning of this tool took time but it was worth it.

I like how Gem has all my application data in one spot which makes recruiting easier for me. I really appreciate the database of candidate profiles because it's invaluable in saving me a lot of time, and it streamlines emails and interviews. I also enjoy the easy and clean user interface, and found the initial setup of Gem to be very easy.

Gem was mostly used by me during the recruiting process, where centralizing candidate sourcing activities, tracking communication, and organizing pipelines were the key concerns. My daily routine mostly consisted of analyzing the candidates' profile, following the sequence of outreach activities, and tracking follow-ups within my various hiring pipelines. One of the operational conveniences of using Gem was getting the ability to see all of my candidates' communications history and their stage within outreach without having to track those manually through email chains and spreadsheets. While on hiring streaks, I would constantly check response activities, recruitment notes, and candidate pipeline stages to organize my follow-ups and prevent duplicate communications. Additionally, I used Gem while coordinating sourcing activity on multiple hiring campaigns concurrently.