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Honest, standardized reviews of recruiting tools. By two recruiters with 60 years of experience who actually use this stuff every day. Watch the demos free. Get our real take with coaching.
The Problem
Every vendor says they're the best.
Most of them are stretching.
There are over 300 ATS platforms on the market. Dozens of sourcing tools. AI products launching every week. Every demo you sit through is a sales pitch disguised as a product tour. Every comparison blog you find was written by someone who’s never placed a candidate in their life.
You don’t need another sales pitch. You need someone you trust to pop the hood, look at what’s actually in there, and tell you straight. That’s what we do.
How It Works
Three things. No games.
01
Watch the demos.
Every vendor records a standardized demo following our format. Same workflows. Same categories. No cherry-picking. They’re all right here on the site. Watch them all. Take your time.
Free for everyone
02
Hear what we think.
Rich Rosen and Tricia Tamkin watch every demo and record their honest, unfiltered take. What’s good. What’s not. What matters for your business. What’s just noise.
With coaching membership
03
Learn how to evaluate.
Get a full training program on vendor selection, a personalized scorecard, and the framework to evaluate any recruiting tool for your specific situation. Built by Tricia Tamkin and Jason Thibeault.
With coaching membership
Reviews
What we cover.
ATS Systems
The system that runs your desk. Side-by-side comparisons of the platforms that matter for independent recruiters and staffing firms.
- Live
Training & Coaching
Recruiting Revolution with Rich Rosen. The Complete Library. AI4 Recruiters. eSourcing eSSentials. Yes, our own products are in the lineup. Evaluate us the same way you’d evaluate anyone else.
- Live
Data Enrichment
Contact data, company intel, candidate info. Some of these tools actually deliver. Some sell you garbage and call it enrichment.
Coming Soon
Artificial Intelligence
Every tool says “AI-powered” now. Very few explain what that means. We’ll show you which ones are real and which are a chatbot with a logo.
Coming Soon
Automation
Workflow automation, sequence builders, trigger-based tools. The stuff that’s supposed to save you time. Some of it does. Some of it doesn’t.
Coming Soon
Sourcing Tools
LinkedIn alternatives, Chrome extensions, candidate discovery platforms. This is where recruiters spend serious money and often have no idea if it’s worth it.
Coming Soon
Transparency
How we make money. And how we don't.
Affiliate relationships.
We have affiliate deals with some of the vendors we review. Not all of them. If you sign up through a link on this site, we might earn a referral fee. Affiliate status has zero effect on our assessments. We’ve torn apart products we have affiliates with. We’ve praised products we don’t.
No pay to play.
No vendor pays to participate. No vendor gets editorial control. No vendor sees our review before you do. If their product isn’t good, we say so. Every vendor knows this going in. If that scares them off, they probably had something to hide.
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We bundled the reviews with coaching on purpose. Tools don’t make you money. How you use them does. Rich Rosen coaches recruiters on the whole business. Try it for a month. If the coaching isn’t for you, cancel. No hard feelings. We’re betting you’ll stay.