Swoop Review - why 3.9 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Aug 13, 2019

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What is Swoop?

Swoop is an applicant sourcing software that can help users to find the best possible candidates from multiple sources. Users can source talent from tens of millions of profiles using this software. It can also work on user’s data, add them and do the research for users by using their algorithms.

SwoopTalent, the company behind this applicant sourcing software, was founded back in 2011. The company offers over 150,000,000 talent profiles ready to integrate and is known as one of the most scalable and accurate social sourcing platform in the industry. Their solutions can be used by companies of all sizes.

Who is it best for?

Swoop is perfect for staffing and recruiting agency of all sizes. Starting from individual power recruiters to teams and organizations of all sizes, everyone can use this solution. Intuit is a customer of this applicant sourcing solution.

Main features and functionalities

Swoop comes with over hundred million records of people ready for users to search and look for talent. All their profiles are complete and it’s really difficult to find duplicated people profiles there. People can search for candidates by keyword, skill and job title. It can be also integrated to user’s existing ATS for automatically finding their preferred candidates when they are focusing on other tasks. Sites like Stackoverflow, Meetup, Dribbble are included in Swoop and users can also include their site in Swoop.

The sophisticated algorithm system of Swoop can help users to find the right candidate for you by ranking, matching and stacking candidates for a specific job. The match score users can help users to understand how well the candidate matches for a user’s need by checking a number of factors – reputation, experience, peer reviews and quality of work. Once you find a good candidate, you can easily contact them as Swoop offers a wide range of contact details and even full resumes if available. Other notable features are: free social job promotion tool, embedded analytics, social network integration and more.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $349 per user/month. ITQlick pricing score is 7 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for Swoop.

Pros

• Swoop is perfect for staffing and recruiting organizations of all sizes, starting from individual recruiters to teams and organizations
• Swoop comes with over hundred million records of people ready to integrate unlike other similar tools
• The algorithm included in Swoop works better than other similar recruiting tools
• The Team Edition of this recruitment software can help users to keep the whole team connected
• The recruitment software can be easily integrated to your existing ATS system

Cons

• Swoop doesn’t offer any mobile dedicated app for iOS and Android users
• Swoop doesn’t offer much customer relationship management system and only works as a social talent finder
• The Solo plan of Swoop doesn’t offer unlimited searches and monthly profile views features
• Integration and API features of this recruitment software is not available for Solo users
• Social profiles for CRM and ATS tools feature is only available for Enterprise plan users

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of Swoop vs alternative software solutions.

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