• The ability to manage collaborative hiring with ease. This has reduced the need for email communications, and Slack messages with constant back and forth.
• The Lever UI is quite user-friendly, it is easy to use which makes it easy to introduce the platform to hiring managers and new recruiters with minimum training.
• The ability to integrate your calendar and availability of interviewers into Lever has allowed us to save a lot of time and effort in scheduling interviews with applicants. This reduces the efforts needed to schedule multiple rounds of interviews and also helps us with candidate communications which was a concern in the past.
• We are also able to get data driven reports which help us understand how we are doing on each job and make any updates as needed to ensure we are using processes which are effective.

Our team was growing and we were in a situation where we had to automate our recruitment process within the organization. We had many jobs open and various hiring managers, so managing it with spreadsheets and documents was getting difficult. The organization's time to close roles was too long as well.

After reviewing many ATS, we decided on Lever. We chose Lever because it had many customizations that would be useful to make sure we were able to make the ATS customized to the needs of our hiring managers, our collaborators, and our applicants.

We also felt that integrations Lever offers such as Zoom and Slack were an advantage as our organization was already using these applications within the organizations. We can use Zoom to schedule interviews and we use Slack to collaborate with candidates as well which is terrific. Personally, I have been using personally for over 3 years.

• While Lever has a great UI, sometimes for users who never have used an ATS, it can take a little time to learn how to use it, and the training available to us was pretty much online only.
• Support can be limited and slow on occasion, where we need to wait for a response via email which can sometimes cause delays
• The cost of the ATS is good only for larger teams, I think for small businesses the price of Lever may be higher than the benefits it brings especially if working with smaller budgets.

Lever's level of customization with workflows is better than many ATS that I have used in the past like Jazz and Bamboo which has helped us customize the platform to our organization's needs.

Lever's scheduling system with integrated calendars and the ability to send calendar invites is a huge plus which many ats do not have.

Lever's level of candidate communications is similar to most ATS, but I do like how quickly an email or message can be sent to a candidate.

One of the areas some alternatives are better is not having an App, when on the move, or working remotely an app can be a plus

I think the pricing is important for all organizations, determining your needs from how many open jobs you anticipate per year will help determine the cost incurred for each hire when using an ATS.

It is important to ensure the features your organization needs are provided by the ATS you chose. For instance, some companies may not want all workflows automated only a few. A basic

I believe they do have constant updates to their UI, and workflow options, and increase integrations as they come available.

One of the notable changes has been the diversity, equity, and inclusion section that they have included which has been beneficial in hiring in line with new talent acquisition policies of the organization which aim to reduce biases when hiring.

The Lever ATS can be a good fit for organizations of various sizes and industries, but I think it is well suited for teams with strong hiring collaboration, teams seeking data driven hiring results and lastly looking for an ATS that can handle scalability. With Lever, it is very easy to involve many team members in a single hiring process which makes it easy for us to work together. Reporting is essential for each organization, with Lever it is easier. Lever provides valuable insights with reports which can help find areas that need focus and improvement quickly. Lastly, with Lever, you can manage to scale with market fluctuations, economic changes, and updates to hiring needs where you can scale up or down as needed.

• The UI is user-friendly, easy to navigate, and very candidate-centric.
• The system is so systematic that we can track where the applicant is in which interview stage at one glance.
• The features help to make faster & better decisions with good quality hires.

My organization wanted to switch to another ATS from the current one for a better recruiting experience, hence, we bought the Lever tool. My organization wanted to bring out a structured way of interviewing candidates and get an easy overview to understand which stage the candidate is in and the progress of the interview process. We have used it for 4 years and we’re happy with how it helped both our org and the potential candidates with an elevated experience of hiring. The UI of the tool is also very good with easy navigation.

• Many times Lever cannot detect duplicate candidates, which is annoying.
• The initial setup on Lever is hard.
• The tool is a little pricey compared to its competitors in the market.

Yes I have used Zoho ATS in the past and Zoho is also a very good all-in-one tool. Lever can be integrated with other tools as well. It has great reporting & analytics features which sets it apart.

People should keep in mind that Lever is an effective tool for candidate experience while applying and also for recruiters to track candidates, capture feedback and create structured interviews and enhance the experiences of users.

Lever now has an additional CRM tool feature which adds another feather to the advantage cap. The candidate surveys and dashboards have also been improvised.

Lever is good to use for organizations with a large employee base where too many stages of interviews are there and a large pool of candidates need to be evaluated, filtered, and shortlisted.