ClearCo is a unified talent platform that connects all the key aspects of the employee lifecycle—hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, learning, engagement, and payroll. This comprehensive system ensures everyone understands their goals, equips managers to provide effective support, and gives leadership a clear, real-time view of the entire organization.
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PROS
- ClearCo offers a host of talent solutions that work well with one another. You can choose the solution you need or combine them all to have a comprehensive talent management platform in your stack.
- The majority of users find ClearCo’s interface to be quite intuitive and easy to navigate.
- Many users have highly rated ClearCo’s support team for speed and quality of response. Several users have also reported a smooth implementation experience.
CONS
- ClearCo’s pricing is not readily available on their website. You also can’t create a trial account on your own from the website and have to go through the sales team for more info.
- Some users felt that the reporting feature is limited in customizations.
- According to a few users, the candidate search function doesn’t always bring up the correct candidate(s) and could use some improvement.
- ClearCo doesn’t currently have a mobile app, but the platform is well optimized for mobile use both for hiring managers and candidates.
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ClearCo delivers a unified talent platform that helps organizations hire, engage, develop, and retain employees across the full talent lifecycle. Companies can purchase solutions individually or combine them into a connected platform spanning recruiting, onboarding, performance, learning, engagement, compensation, and talent planning.
Within the Hire stage, ClearCo’s Recruiting Experience supports candidate attraction, AI-powered sourcing and matching, career sites, interview management, background checks, offer management, and onboarding. The platform is designed to streamline hiring workflows while improving recruiter and candidate experiences.
To support employee growth and organizational performance, ClearCo provides continuous performance management, goal alignment, employee engagement surveys, recognition, learning management, compensation planning, and workforce analytics. Built-in Talent AI and People Analytics help organizations gain deeper workforce insights, improve decision-making, and drive stronger business outcomes.
Overall, ClearCo is designed for mid-market and enterprise organizations looking for a flexible, AI-powered alternative to disconnected point solutions or rigid HCM suites, delivering a more connected talent experience from hiring through employee growth and retention.
I use ClearCo daily to review applicants for open positions, manage position requisitions, performance reviews, and as an administrator manage the users. I also use the system to add recruiters (vendors) so they can add their applicants directly to the requisition. The system provides me with a great deal of data that I didn't have before so I can now determine what recruiters are working best for us. I also use it to conduct surveys throughout the year.
- The flexibility of the system; it can be tailored to suit your needs.
- The customer service is awesome; they help you get the most out of the system.
- Provides a number of processes all in one spot.
We purchased ClearCo February of 2023. As an HR department of one, I needed a system that could help me with recruiting, scheduling interviews, onboarding, performance reviews, goal setting and recognition. This system does it all. It takes a great deal of work from me and allows the managers to take charge of reviewing their applicants in one place, without me having to email everyone, and schedule their own interviews. It even provides a way to schedule a panel review which is our process for hiring key positions. I have been using it since we purchased and still making enhancements to ensure our processes are automated.
I would like to be able to print out the performance reviews as opposed to view them in preview mode. This would help me when designing them and comparing them to others in the system.
This system is easy to use and easy to set up. I prefer it in comparison to other systems I've used because of the user interface and how well it was received in my organization.
What processes do you need? This system has recruiting, onboarding, performance management, surveys (templates and you can create your own), dashboards, and employee recognition.
How much are you willing to pay? The price is great when you consider what you are getting.
In the short time I've been using the system, it has added new features that provide even more flexibility to the system.
Midsize to large companies. Industry doesn't matter.
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If you’re a small company that doesn’t hire often and has a tight budget, you won't really be getting much ROI with ClearCo.
ExxonMobil, Mitsubishi Electric, Yates Construction, JC Penney, and Lake Charles Memorial Health System.
- Candidate sourcing: Post and promote jobs on multiple job boards, create custom-branded career sites that feature your open roles, enable Linkedin easy-apply, text-to-apply, and mobile-apply options for applicants, and build a talent pool of qualified candidates that you might consider for future roles.
- Candidate screening: Automate interview scheduling, contact recorded video interviews or live interviews with third-party video conferencing integrations, and use interview scorecards to collect feedback in a consistent format.
- Offer management: Create offer letters and share them with successful candidates. You can also collect electronic signatures within the platform.
- Onboarding: A branded self-service portal for new hires that helps you keep track of all the devices and equipment you assign them, ensure compliance with automated I-9, W-4, state tax, and other forms, facilitate team member introductions, assign tasks with deadlines, and more.
- Performance management: Pre-built review templates, quarterly/bi-annual/annual performance reviews, competency and roles-based reviews, peer reviews, automated reminders, goal planning, and alignment tools.
- Employee engagement: Recognize employees with celebrations and shoutouts, and make their voices heard by collecting their feedback through engagement, e-NPS, onboarding, DEI, emotional wellbeing, and other surveys.
- ClearInsights analytics: Unified people analytics and reporting that deliver actionable workforce insights across hiring, onboarding, performance, learning, engagement, and compensation. Includes talent metrics, headcount visibility, configurable dashboards, data visualization, and AI-powered insights to support smarter business and talent decisions.
ClearCo integrates with all the leading payroll providers and HRIS/ERP systems including ADP, UKG, Paychex, Paylocity, and Proliant.
ClearCo customers can choose between Modular Access, i.e. purchase certain modules individually, or they can purchase Platform Access to be able to use all modules and solutions within ClearCo’s suite.
The pricing of ClearCo's modules isn't detailed on their site. Their sales team will work out a deal for you based on your company size and the modules you’re interested in.
ClearCo is best suited for medium and large-sized businesses.
With ClearCo, you'll get a customized project plan depending on the modules you need, company size, and the deadline that would be ideal for you.
ClearCo is a unified talent platform that helps organizations hire, engage, develop, and retain talent across the entire employee lifecycle. Purpose-built for mid-market and enterprise organizations, ClearCo combines recruiting, onboarding, performance management, employee engagement, learning, compensation, analytics, and AI-powered talent capabilities into one connected platform.
The platform is organized around the Hire, Succeed, and Grow stages of the talent lifecycle, helping organizations create more aligned, data-driven talent strategies while reducing complexity across disconnected HR systems. With embedded Talent AI, ClearInsights analytics, flexible integrations, and configurable workflows, ClearCo empowers organizations to improve hiring outcomes, strengthen employee performance and engagement, and support long-term workforce growth and retention.
Founded in 2004, ClearCo serves organizations across a wide range of industries with a modern, flexible approach to talent management.
Company HQ
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Number of Employees
240+
Year Founded
2004
Amount Raised
$63.5M
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