Today we cover SeekOut, an AI-powered search engine built for recruiters and sourcers.
Their mission…
“Providing customers a competitive edge in recruiting hard-to-find and diverse talent for Digital Transformation”
SeekOut’s story…
“We built SeekOut after feeling the pain of trying to hire passive candidates in a competitive market. After experiencing the clunky tools, expensive licenses and terrible response rates, we knew we could do better. Our background working in search, messaging, machine learning/AI and natural language processing gives us a unique perspective in the space. SeekOut was built for sourcers, not to replace them, and we’re confident you’ll find it the most recruiter-friendly tool on the market.”
Listen in on what our panelists have to say.
This event is part of the “Let’s Talk Recruiting” series where a panel of recruiting practitioners get together online and have a conversation on a variety of topics related to corporate recruiting.
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Our Panelists…
| Name & LinkedIn Profile | Group | Title | Company |
| Eric Jaquith | Recruiting Phoenix | Enterprise Sales | SeekOut |
We asked our attendees, “Besides LinkedIn, what is a favorite tool of yours that you like to use in the recruiting process?”
Here are their answers:
- a modern and high tech ATS
- Anything that helps source candidates!
- Applicant Tracking Systems
- Ats
- ATS - campaigns
- Beamery
- Bullhorn CRM
- Calendly!
- CareerPlug
- CRM Tool
- Crystal Knows
- Dice (for Techies)
- Dice, Jobscore
- do not have one unfortunately - desperately need one
- Employee Referral programs and Meet up groups
- Entello
- Entelo
- Entelo
- Entelo
- entelo
- Entelo
- free sites and referral bonus tools
- Gem, skill survey 360, Entelo, eightfold
- Google, The Telephone
- Handshake and Yello
- Handshake, Indeed and Glassdoor
- Hiretual
- Hiretual
- I only have Linkedin, I do cold call, but been on some trials - NEXXT and tried Seekout briefly
- I'm not familiar with many others and would like to learn more about sourcing
- Indeed auto searches
- Internet Research (Boolean)
- Leader
- Meetup
- networking
- networking! 🙂
- OneNote
- OneNote
- Outlook Calendar
- Referrals, ATS, Dice, Google Search
- SeekOut
- SeekOut
- SeekOut
- SourceHub
- standard google boolean searches. sometimes it can be difficult, but is a good passive search tactic i like.
- Text Recruit
- Text Recruit
- textrecruit
- VidCruiter, but would like an AI tool to help with sourcing/matching candidates to jobs
- Workday Filters
- zoominfo
Chat Messages from the Session…
10:02:55 >> David Marr : Eric is top notch and works for top notch orgs like Zap Info previously
10:03:07 >> David Marr : Agreed
10:04:21 >> David Marr : Does Seek Out have Licensing for Individuals? Or only Enterprise?
10:05:38 >> David Marr : Thank you
10:05:48 >> David Marr : Its worth it if you have the budget 🙂
10:06:28 >> David Marr : Definitely show off the Diversity Searching capabilities of SeekOut
10:09:02 >> Sean Rehder : just fyi..i’m recording this and will post.
10:10:47 >> Priyanka Tolia to All panelists : So the number of candidates viewed on Linkedin via Seekout don’t count against our allowed number of candidates viewed directly on Linkedin?
10:11:00 >> Angelo Deleon to All panelists : Eric did you say $3500 a month?
10:11:35 >> Daniella McDonald : Is this tool for technical searching only?
10:12:19 >> David Marr : NO Daniella
10:12:27 >> Daniella McDonald : Thank you.
10:12:33 >> David Marr : It works for technical, business, administrative etc
10:12:44 >> Jane Knaus to All panelists : What if I pay 11K a year for a LinkedIn Recruiter License with access to all profiles, what would be the benefit?
10:12:57 >> David Marr : Its a really cool tool if you have a budget. Definitely worth checking out
10:13:06 >> Catherine Hansen to All panelists : Thanks Eric for describing Linked In’s tiered prices/filters. Are you saying the SeekOut offers the max # of filters available on LI, regardless of seat/permissions?
10:13:18 >> David Marr : Even the trial to check it out to see if it works for you
10:13:37 >> Daniella McDonald : I have been hearing the name a lot lately.
10:13:55 >> David Marr : Because its a top tier 1 tool that’s game changing
10:14:43 >> Jane Knaus to All panelists : Fair enough
10:15:09 >> David Marr : Use a “Clown” as the example Search
10:17:31 >> Angelo Deleon to All panelists : nice!
10:19:25 >> David Marr : I think you can edit the URL and change the Zip code mile radius search
10:23:38 >> Christina Lust to All panelists : Can you create folders or projects in Seekout with profiles if you’re using LinkedIn free?
10:25:16 >> Danyell Howell : I signed up for 10 free credits per month through a chrome extension but haven’t used it yet….is this the same as what you are showing us?
10:40:20 >> David Marr : Great Freemium tool Eric for us who don’t have budget
10:40:22 >> David Marr : 🙂
10:48:30 >> Catherine Hansen to All panelists : Index is the same as export?
10:49:40 >> Daniella McDonald : What does the integration offer with the ATS? Exporting profiles?
10:55:35 >> Annette Rushin to All panelists : that is a compliance issue, they need to apply for OFCCP
10:55:53 >> Annette Rushin : that is a compliance issue, they need to apply for OFCCP
10:58:00 >> Annette Rushin : thank you, great presentation
Some of the attendees…
| Name & LinkedIn Profile | Group | Title | Company |
| Scott Stevenson | Vice President Talent Acquisition | USAA | |
| Kevin Oram | Director, Talent Acquisition Operations | Hivemind Careers LLC | |
| Saundra Ramsey | Recruiting Atlanta | Talent Acquisition Business Partner hiring all levels of Technology | Wahoo Fitness |
| Steven Rosenblum | Recruiting Chicago | Talent Acquisition and HR Operations Leader | Level 5 Partners |
| Katie Stevens | Recruiting Chicago | Talent Acquisition Leader | GE Healthcare |
| Justine Mullen | Recruiting Chicago | Business Process Lead - Global Recruiting Programs & Operations | Meta |
| Jason Coffey | Recruiting Chicago | Professional Recruiter | Core & Main |
| Danyell Howell | Recruiting DCBmore | Regional Healthcare Recruiter | Seasons Hospice and Palliative Care |
| Justin Zapol | Recruiting Denver | Sr. Talent Acquisition Business Partner | KBR, Inc. |
| Delaina Silva | Recruiting Denver | Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant | SDL plc |
| Shilpa Farmer | Recruiting Houston | Sr Technical Sourcing Recruiter | Electronic Arts |
| Deanna Berry | Recruiting LA | Human Resources Manager | CASA of Los Angeles |
| Nancy Boyd | Recruiting LA | Senior Talent Acquisition Research Consultant - Management Recruiting | The Capital Group Companies, Inc. |
| Gary Gangi | Recruiting LA | Manager, Technology Recruiting | ServiceTitan |
| Katherine Amato | Recruiting LA | Senior Corporate Recruiter | Guitar Center |
| Lance Hunsicker | Recruiting LA | Executive Recruiter | Parsons Corporation |
| Manuel Santiago | Recruiting LA | Head of Talent Acquisition | SADA Systems |
| Kristine Nemeth | Recruiting NYC | Talent Engagement Manager | Diageo |
| Le Nguyen | Recruiting Phoenix | Talent Acquisition | Travelers |
| Thom Macfarlane | Recruiting Seattle | Sourcing Recruiter | F5 |
| Jake Erickson | Recruiting Seattle | Talent Acquisition Manager | Slalom |
| Christina Lust | Recruiting Seattle | Recruiting Senior Manager | Moss Adams LLP |
| Raji Barani | Recruiting SFBA | Senior Talent Acquisition Consultant | Ruckus Networks |
| Catherine Hansen | Recruiting SFBA | Senior Manager, Recruiting | Hippo Insurance |
| Annette Rushin | TA Leaders | Director, Recruiting | Advanced Decision Vectors (ADV) |
| Daniella McDonald | TA Leaders | Manager, Talent Acquisition | WorkCare, Inc. |
| Nicola McGarry | TA Leaders | Senior Director, Talent Acquisition | Armanino LLP |
| Christian Juan | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | DirectDefense |
| Malia Jorgensen | TA Leaders | Director of Talent Acquisition | Sonos, Inc. |
| Kelley Clark | TA Leaders | Executive Director, Firmwide Diversity Campus Sourcing Lead | JP Morgan Chase |
| Dan Shortall | TA Leaders | Sr. Director of Strategic Staffing | Global Conductor |
| Nancee Martin | TA Leaders | Managing Director Corporate Recruiting | AvAirPros |
