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Carmen C.
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Director of Talent
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Gem?

Love the ease of candidate tracking, the sequencing option in bulk is such a time saver, and reporting/dashboarding has done wonders for the ability to report to HM's and execs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

Data integrity can be tough through the ATS integration and reporting should be a little more simplified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ineffiencies where ATS isn't suffient for reporting and dashboards. Also, the sequencing and email contact info. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Gem Overview

What is Gem?

Gem is the AI-powered recruiting platform TA teams love. It helps you maximize productivity, hire faster, and save money – all while giving recruiters a solution they find easy to use. Use Gem as your all-in-one recruiting platform or enhance your existing ATS with integrated products for CRM, sourcing, scheduling, analytics, career sites, events, and more. Over 1,000 companies – from startups to industry leaders like Wayfair, Cintas, Carmax, Doordash, and Zillow – trust Gem to hire with speed and ease. See why Gem is the recruiting industry’s most beloved solution, with a 4.8/5 rating on G2.

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Your source of truth for every candidate relationship. Track each touchpoint and drive better decisions with predictive analytics.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

With Gem, you can:

• Attract, engage, and hire talent faster: Build talent pipelines across all channels through sourcing, nurture, events, career sites, inbound, and more.

• Maximize recruiter productivity: Use AI and automation to save time on routine tasks like reviewing applications, scheduling interviews, and managing follow-ups. Recruiters using Gem can review twice as many applications, schedule twice as many interviews, and engage four times as many candidates as before.

• Unlock data-driven recruiting: Get analytics that everyone can use. Debug your funnel, monitor pipelines, forecast hiring, and demonstrate impact, all without complex BI tools.

• Simplify your tech stack and cut costs: Consolidate multiple tools into one platform and reduce your spend on recruiting technology, external sourcing, and job boards by up to 50%. Save on standalone solutions with Gem’s end-to-end bundle and take advantage of past candidate relationships to reduce your reliance on sourcing new talent.


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Gem
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Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
San Francisco, California
Twitter
@Gem_Software
796 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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397 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Gem is an all-in-one recruiting platform that enables talent acquisition teams to find, engage, and nurture top talent. It works alongside LinkedIn and other places that you source, while integrating with Gmail, Outlook, and your ATS. Recruiters use Gem to build lists of people to reach out to, find email addresses, and automate follow-ups. Gem saves time, doubles response rates, and gives visibility into what’s working.


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Gem Demo - Gem Overview
Use Gem as your all-in-one recruiting platform or enhance your existing ATS with integrated products for CRM, sourcing, scheduling, analytics, career sites, events, and more.
Gem Demo - AI Recruiting
Use Gem AI to source and rank candidates with trustworthy results. With unified candidate data in your CRM, Gem AI surfaces results with historical context in mind – who’s in your talent community, attended your events, applied to other roles, etc.
Gem Demo - Full-Funnel Analytics
Get analytics that everyone can use. Debug your funnel, monitor pipelines, forecast hiring, and demonstrate impact, all without complex BI tools. With Gem, TA teams use data to position themselves as strategic partners to the business.
Gem Demo - Scheduling
Gem automatically optimizes scheduling and interviewer training while creating a seamless experience for both candidates and hiring teams.
Gem Demo - Recruiting CRM
Gem CRM unifies touch points across your ATS, LinkedIn, email, and more to help teams discover talent, visualize the entire relationship history, and create deep talent pools.
Gem Demo - Talent Marketing
Gem offers a complete suite to help TA teams run a strategic recruitment marketing strategy: from career sites and landing pages to events management, talent communities, and branded nurture campaigns.
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Andrea C.
AC
Head of Global Recruitment
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Gem?

I’ve been using Gem since 2018 across two very different recruitment environments, and I absolutely love their platform. Their product team is always open to conversations around improvement and consistently stays on the cutting edge of technology through early adoption of AI tools in recruitment and sourcing.

Utilizing their dashboards has been a game-changer, enabling me to eliminate spend on heavier analytics tools like Looker, which were too complex and high-maintenance for the needs of my Talent Acquisition teams. Gem’s intuitive design and powerful features make it an indispensable tool for modern recruitment teams. Highly recommend!

Andrea Clarkson

Head of Global Recruitment Helix Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

Product is GREAT! The team is also greta but since they have taken on new customers for ATS rollouts their resonse time hasdropped significantly. I know times are lean for us all but they seem understaffed at the moment. Otherwise VERY happy! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gem streamlines my analytics, recruitment coordination, and sourcing processes, making it an indispensable tool for modern recruitment teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Robyn W.
RW
Manager, Talent Operations
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Gem?

Gem is intuitive to navigate and user-friendly from the get-go. I've now used both Gem and Ashby and can say Gem takes the crown. The top-of-funnel reporting, email retrival rate, and outreach automation stand out as features my team desires now that we've moved to Ashby. From a reporting standpoint, Gem was easier to manipulate and filter providing insightful dashboards leaders can trust. While Ashby has a plethora of advanced filters, its not intuative which leads to issues with realiability in building reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

There's no perfect tool, so you'll undoubtedly run into hiccups with various features. I know the company had downsized quite a bit which resulted in a number of system feature requests getting stagnant on the roadmap. However, the commitment they show in meeting customer needs is truly unmatched with any other tool in our tech stack. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sourcing is a key component of our talent acquisition strategy. Gem has been a key tool in automating outreach and even re-discovering viable candidates that had been lost in our ATS. The Reporting component helps us forecast hires, identify bottlenecks in the process, and show leadership our results in a diagestable form. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education
UP
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Thank You page
What do you like best about Gem?

1. Sourcing automation and efficiency. Chrome extension that makes it easy to add candidates.

2. Pipeline analytics and visibility: Detailed tracking of outreach performance and response rates. Very clear visibility into the entire candidate pipeline.

3. Team collaboration features: Shared candidate pools and projects. Ability to see other team members' activities and communications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

1. User interface challenges: The UI can feel clunky and unintuitive in places. Navigation between different features sometimes requires too many clicks

2. Reporting limitations: Some key metrics are difficult to track or require manual calculation. There is not a great visualization tool for reports.

4. Integration problems:

Integration with LinkedIn and Greenhouse isn't always smooth.

5. Email sequence constraints: Email formatting options are basic with limited ability to personalize sequences at scale. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

Automation/ efficiency Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashley W.
AW
Recruiter
Internet
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Gem?

Gem's sourcing and data analytics products are very user friendly - we can get new hires ramped up using them within a day or two, and don't have to lean on an external analytics team to surface important data & metrics. They also are great about taking feedback and making improvements to their product quickly! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

Their new AI tooling is pretty expensive - I hope that as it scales the pricing becomes more accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gem's candidate management makes outreach to candidates very easy, and their automation helps increase our results. Their reporting and dashboard are incredible impactful in presenting our work and trends within the Recruiting space to our hiring partners and executives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simone B.
SB
​​Research & Sourcing Lead + Sales Recruiter
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Gem?

Gem has significantly enhanced our recruiting efficiency and effectiveness. The platform's intuitive interface and comprehensive training resources facilitated a smooth onboarding experience, allowing our team to quickly leverage its functionalities.

The seamless integration with Workday streamlined our workflow, and the pre-built dashboards provide valuable insights into key recruiting metrics, which we can readily share with our executive team for data-driven decision-making. Gem has become an indispensable tool in our daily operations.

Furthermore, their customer support has been exceptional. While our initial Account Manager wasn't the ideal fit, Gem was responsive to our feedback and promptly assigned us a highly experienced Account Executive who has provided outstanding support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

The pricing is high and only makes sense for a mid-size to larger organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us with candidate scheduling, sorting through resumes faster and being able to have reliable and easily accessible metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lela W.
LW
Technical Recruiter
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Gem?

Sequences, they are insanely helpful and can make your life so much easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

i wish there was a candidate centric dashboard verus a job centric dashboard Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

Candidate engagaement and reaching out Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shensi D.
SD
Co-Founder
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Gem?

Gem is probably one of the products that has made the biggest difference for my company. We believe in hiring the best people, and so we source a ton of candidates and try to share with the broader tech community what Merge does. If we had to manually do this, it would be really difficult for us to have scaled to the team we have today.

Gem is also extremely easy to use, and the ability to quickly see what is going on with each project is super helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

Nothing tbh -- it has been a great experience for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

We do a lot of sourcing, and Gem makes it really easy to do so while project managing certain roles. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Gem?

I use Gem daily and appreciate its growing functionality. It’s incredibly helpful to track how various touchpoints influence our hiring decisions and outcomes. I leverage campaigns and forms for event management and lead engagement, including our talent community. Every talent acquisition team should have a CRM to manage pipelines effectively. Gem’s integration capabilities make it easy to connect with our ATS and other tools in our workflow. Another standout is their support team; they’re hands-on, receptive to feature requests, and quick to provide workarounds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

While Gem is a incredibly valuable tool, there are some performance issues from time to time. Certain features could be improved to make analytics more effective and enable easy tracing of hiring sources and influencers, like including campaign activities in the contact activity section or providing better analytics for campaign performance as part of the talent pipeline. The way rows constantly resize and repopulate in projects and prospect searches can also make it harder to view relevant information efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gem helps streamline the recruitment process by centralizing all candidate interactions in one place, making it easier to track engagement across multiple touchpoints. This visibility allows me to see which efforts—whether outreach or events—are driving the most progress in our talent pipeline. The campaigns and forms feature has also simplified event management and lead engagement, particularly for nurturing our talent community. With Gem’s CRM, we’re able to maintain a more organized and effective hiring process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Catherine M.
CM
Senior Executive Research & Recruitment | Global Executive Talent
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Gem?

The sequences and data you can gather from your outreach. It's so nice having one platform to referenece for pipeline and data management. We also use Gem jobs which allows us to track candidate activity prior to being added to the WD ATS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

I wish there was a way for Gem to create business facing reports to easily share with hiring managers so we do not have to copy and paste data and candidate details into Google Slides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gem allows us to referenec all the candidates we've messaged for roles

Gem allows us to track candidate activity and easily report out the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sajo E.
SE
Recruiter
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Gem?

Project, Talent Pipling, Search within Gem... all these gives enough room to find active & passive talent in your database Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Gem?

Integration feature with external sourcing channel apart from LinkedIn Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Gem solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Easy to add to our ATS through LinkedIn

- Can Create specific diverse project

- Can search within company Pipeline for immediate & repetative requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.