If you are looking for an effective and efficient talent sourcing tool to power your outbound recruitment, you may have heard of hireEZ. However, an equally powerful and more recent AI-powered sourcing tool, Scout, is making waves in Asia. With its affordability, easy-to-use features, and strong, quality talent sourcing, how does Scout match up to older tools like hireEZ?
Talent Search: Quality, Industry and Geographic Concentration
Almost all users care about the quality of candidates in a talent sourcing tool, and both Scout and HireEZ excel in that. Scout and hireEZ are AI-powered sourcing tools that go beyond sourcing on popular job boards by making use of rich social data to find talent for users.
Sourcing Quality: Scout vs hireEZ
Both solutions offer a broad-based search of potential candidates’ social data and digital footprint to return a list of candidates, easing organisations’ time and labour-intensive sourcing efforts. The sourcing mediums that hireEZ and Scout cover are quite similar: job boards like LinkedIn, as well as candidate’s profiles on GitHub, Stack Overflow, Kaggle, and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
However, not much information is available on how robust is hireEZ’s AI algorithm. For Scout, the sourcing tool goes beyond merely surface-level keyword matching. Instead, Scout’s quality sourcing includes a qualitative and holistic assessment of a candidate’s actual skillset and abilities, providing greater depth when evaluating a candidate’s fit for the job description provided by the user. On the other hand, some reviewers find hireEZ’s sourcing function to be not as robust as other sourcing tools in the market.
Besides generating a list of quality candidates, Scout also goes the extra mile to rank these candidates according to how suitable they are for the job: Highly Recommended, Recommended, and Considered.
This saves organisations even more time as the most qualified and strongest candidates are ranked at the top of the list, removing the hassle of manually sorting through another list.
Geographic Focus: Scout vs hireEZ
Depending on the hiring needs of an organisation, as well as the industry and locale in which they are hiring, hireEZ and Scout have strengths in different areas.
hireEZ’s focus appears to be in providing talent sourcing solutions in the EU and the US (California in particular) evident in their compliance with data and privacy laws in those regions and the bulk of their users being US-based corporations.
However, if you are hiring in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, which also includes the burgeoning Southeast Asian (SEA) and India markets, a solution like hireEZ may not be tailored enough for your demands.
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If you’re looking for talent in the APAC region, Scout provides the most relevant candidates.
Scout’s strength lies in its localisation and emphasis on the APAC labour markets. Beyond covering popular job boards and social networks, Scout’s search covers platforms that are used in APAC such as Naukri, a major employment website native to India. This gives companies richer, more detailed, and expansive candidate searches especially if they are sourcing and hiring talent in the region.
While hireEZ boasts a large pool of candidate profiles, and it has helped companies in the US meet their hiring needs, there have been some reviews pointing out its limitations in the accuracy of contact details for global candidates.
Thus, if you are looking to build up an impressive team in Asia, you may be better off opting for Scout, a tool that has a greater focus in this region which can return more precise and up-to-date candidate profiles.
Industry Focus: Scout vs hireEZ
hireEZ also hires for a breadth of industries. Besides IT, the tool works for roles in the healthcare/medical and non-profit sectors.
Scout, on the other hand, is laser-focused on helping organisations find and hire the best talent for tech and IT roles. It is with this emphasis on the tech industry that enables Scout’s users to reap the benefits of pinpoint talent sourcing for tech and IT roles.
If breadth is what you need, or if you are hiring for non-technical roles, hireEZ would be a good option. However, reviewers are usually satisfied with the tool but have experienced the issue of highlighting profiles that do not match their search criteria. This issue is likely to be a by-product of the sourcing tool being attuned to multiple industries, as well as for both technical and non-technical roles. Even after having amassed an extensive network of profiles, the range of candidate profiles that it sources through leads to issues of candidate irrelevancy.
But if you are serious about sourcing and hiring the best talent for tech roles and want to ensure you can generate a shortlist of the most qualified and relevant candidates in under 60 seconds, Scout is your best bet.
For hireEZ, due to its focus on a breadth of roles and industries, some users have shared that they would prefer more detailed reporting in its candidate sourcing. Depending on an organisation’s needs, opting for a more specialised sourcing tool like Scout can save them the headache of running into this problem.
Engagement and Outreach: Contacting Candidates
Both HireEZ and Scout provide users with easy and accessible ways to contact suitable candidates through the software. Along with the candidate profile, the two solutions also include an email and mobile number for easy outreach. With hireEZ’s email sequences, as well as Scout’s automated email outreach templates, both tools offer organisations with a handy and scalable way to engage talent.
Contacting candidates directly through WhatsApp is one of Scout’s major strengths.
The key difference is that while both tools offer a candidate’s email and mobile number, Scout enables users to take candidate outreach one step further and reach out to candidates via WhatsApp. With top candidates often getting a barrage of emails from multiple recruiters, companies can stand out and hire even faster by sending WhatsApp messages directly to them, especially since WhatsApp messages see 98% open rate and are read in the first two hours (this is five times more than emails an SMS!).
Additionally, with WhatsApp’s video and voice calling functionality, recruiters can go from sourcing, to sending an introductory WhatsApp message, to the first call with a candidate seamlessly, allowing organisations to move candidates through their recruitment pipeline quickly.
The lack of more casual messaging platform integrations on HireEZ has been a limitation for a user in Asia who shares about the wasted opportunity of not being able to reach out to Chinese audiences directly via WeChat. While Scout also does not have WeChat integration yet, WhatsApp is the most used messaging app in Asia, giving recruiters the unmatched ability to be plugged in directly to their top candidates in the region.
Price: Scout vs hireEZ — Which is More Affordable?
Scout offers users two different packages to choose from. The first is a Free account, which gives users unlimited searches for an unlimited number of roles.
The Premium plan is priced at USD$200 monthly per seat, which offers all the good stuff in a free account as well as automated email outreach, in-built email templates, access to candidates’ full contact details, and more.
Scout has all the top features in one simple and affordable price
While hireEZ’s pricing is not publicly available, it would be reasonable to expect to pay multiple times more than Scout’s rate for the same features, given the number of large MNCs that they serve.
HireEZ also does not offer free accounts nor a free trial. With Scout, you can try it before you buy it with its 14-day FREE premium trial.
Final Thoughts
Any organisation that makes the choice of leveraging AI sourcing tools to make their sourcing process more efficient can benefit from either Scout or hireEZ, both of which are great sourcing tools that come equipped with quality sourcing and automated candidate outreach.
However, depending on the hiring needs of an organisation, the roles they are hiring for, the industry they are in, as well as the country and markets in which they are hiring, these areas are where differences between Scout and HireEZ become more apparent.
While HireEZ can be great for hiring across non-technical and technical roles in the EU or the US, Scout’s sourcing is highly specialised in technical roles and has strong sourcing and candidate outreach features that are localised to the APAC region. Not only that, but it has also been proven to cut down on recruiters’ sourcing time by half.
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