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Verified User in Computer Software
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

the Analytics Summary feature is top-notch. It provides incredible insights in a single pane, allowing you to view all relevant information and make a relevant decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

the UX feels at times to be bit cluttered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

primarily with onboarding and offboarding. it provides a singular view for all the purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rival Overview

What is Rival?

Rival, formerly SilkRoad Technology, transforms HR processes with AI-powered solutions that simplify talent acquisition, modernize HR workflows, and accelerate workforce productivity, all in one box. Rival Recruit: Rival Recruit is an all-in-one platform that helps empowers organizations to analyze, source, recruit and hire the best talent to their organization. With rich embedded analytics, over 700M passive candidate profiles, deep AI-powered functionality across every step of candidate management and hiring, Rival Recruit is your go to partner across the entire talent acquisition lifecycle. Rival Engage Rival Engage allows you to retain your current ATS experience while leveraging state of the art AI-powered sourcing and recruitment marketing capabilities to add precision to your strategy and hire the best talent. Rival Onboard: Rival Onboard is the engine powering tailored experiences from source to hire to retire with agility and scale. Onboard streamlines and integrates data, workflows and systems into a unified experience to empower people to work better. It includes journeys, engagement, integrations and compliance for the key elements of the employee lifecycle, including new hire onboarding, crossboarding and offboarding Rival Learn: Transform the employee experience by aligning learning to organizational strategy and individual development needs. The solution provides flexibility to enable you to deliver personalized curriculum on any device to drive engagement and retention. Rival Learn is a robust solution that drives compliance across your workforce at scale. Rival Perform: Rival Perform accommodates multiple strategies across the performance management spectrum. Go beyond traditional approaches to employee performance management with a more agile, flexible solution. Deliver real-time, actionable feedback that employees crave. Empower your managers, identify and prepare talent for their next role and deliver a more engaging, continuous performance experience across the employee lifecycle.

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Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified)
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Product Description

Rival, formerly SilkRoad Technology, is the intelligent Talent Acquisition engine powering stable agility for Human Resources teams. The company’s suite of recruiting, onboarding, learning, and performance products is architected for agility, optimized with automation, and designed to scale and adapt to evolving needs. As an end-to-end solution or with a single product plugged into an existing stack, the flexibility of Rival enables change agility while maintaining business stability. With Rival, teams proactively drive talent strategies with precision and speed for maximum impact. From mid-market to Fortune 100 companies, Rival is the ideal partner in stable agility.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

We’re the only onboarding solution provider which can deliver strategic onboarding and workforce transformation at a global, enterprise scale. Be careful of single-suite, all-in-one onboarding solutions, which are forms automation and management tools, not talent engagement and retention tools. Often these "free" one-size-fits-all solutions require more than out of the box functionality as every global enterprise is different. This requires customized services by third parties as most large HCM vendors lack talent onboarding expertise. We invented this space, we've been working with the largest organizations in the world to design the personalized, intentional new hire journeys that keep people on board.


Seller Details
Seller
Rival
Company Website
Year Founded
2003
HQ Location
Chicago, IL
Twitter
@_RivalHR
7,986 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
401 employees on LinkedIn®
Phone
1 (866) 329 3363
Description

Rival is a human resources technology vendor that specializes in providing innovative solutions to streamline HR processes. Their offerings include tools for employee engagement, performance management, and data analytics, aimed at enhancing workforce productivity and organizational efficiency. With a focus on user-friendly design and integration capabilities, Rival empowers businesses to optimize their HR functions and improve overall workplace culture. For more information, visit their website at https://rival-hr.com/.


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4.0 out of 5
"Awesome Analytics Summary feature"
the Analytics Summary feature is top-notch. It provides incredible insights in a single pane, allowing you to view all relevant information and mak...
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Vishwajeet S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Best CRM and market analysis software for maximum ROI and virtual conferences"
Market analysis at it's best, Level up the recruitment flow with awesome features.
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Jatinder G.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Short review on Rival"
The best thing about Rival is the ease of use which makes very easy to customize the dashboard. Also the implementation is easy making us taken ver...
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JK
HR Systems Supervisor
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

I love being able to customize tasks, who they go to, and the types of forms or notifications I can send to them. Rival really helps us to have a superior onboarding that helps employees, managers and internal stakeholders feel supported. Using Rival onboarding has eliminated a ton of manual processes and saved us a lot of time. I also love that as an administrator I can make almost all changes I need to the set ups, add or remove tasks in real-time without needing to contact support or pay for a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

There are so many places you can make changes. It is great, but it can be a lot to remember when you have to make changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Automation of onboarding. We can have tasks staggered to keep in touch with folks as they onboard without having to remember or set a million reminders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Project Manager
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

The best thing about Rival is the ease of use which makes very easy to customize the dashboard. Also the implementation is easy making us taken very less time to implement it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

The analytical tools lags some times making it little difficult. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Rival has solved the problem of having the proper insights about the performance. Its tools has helped us to gather the information. Also the offboarding tool has made the exit smooth for employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JP
Human Resources
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

I love the expanded Analytics section of their recent updates to the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

The only dislike I have for Rival is the interconnectivity with our current systems. This is more of an issue with the combination of systems we use rather than Rival's product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The features for analytics allow us to do more internal reporting rather than spending money on other softwares to complete such reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manoj T.
MT
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Rival?

Enhanced collaboration tools and mobile accessibility improve team interaction and candidate engagement.Its Robust Analytics provide data driven insights, enabling informed decision making, Flexible Scalable, Rival can be complete solution or integrated into exixting HR Systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

Rival's extensive range of features, while incredibly powerful, can be overwhelming for smaller businesses or teams with simpler needs, it may require significant initial investment and efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Rival automates job postings, candidate sourcing, and resume parsing,this reduces manual effort, speeds up the hiring process, and improves the quality of hires by streamlining candidate management and communication.it provides automated onboarding workflows, employee portals, and task management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Business Development Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

Market analysis at it's best, Level up the recruitment flow with awesome features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

Nothing to dislike, can he color coded as per organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Learning management system for internal data sharing., smooth onboarding of the new recruits. Application tracking system for the applicants. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

Helps to track individual performance and consolidate all reviews and feedback at one place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

Other integrations and front end could be better Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Helps to track individual performance through rival perform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
TC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

Acquires the best talent out there and is very good human resourcing company Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

Nothing so far it's doing great and the people are polite and approachable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Providing the best talent as per requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Human Resources
AH
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

Able to use and see employee information easily - a lot of information in one location. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

Many glitches where you would lose your information because you couldn't save and would need to start over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Currently, we are not using this system for new hires, only for retaining information for those active and onboarded in that system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Rival?

I like that we are able to connect the systems on the backend. We have an integration with our HRIS and that connects to the Onboarding system which shares the same backend with the performance system. We make changes in our HRIS and it's automatically updated in the SilkRoad programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

We had issues using the scheduling features, but they have recently launched an update with it, so I'm hoping this will resolve those issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rival:

I highly recommend these products. They are easy to use and solve the majority of our problems. I also like the integration between the systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are saving time and being more consistent. We are printing less documents and saving money on mailing new hire paperwork to our new hires. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CM
Project manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: G2 invite
Incentivized Review
What do you like best about Rival?

What is most helpful about Silk Road Technology is that it allows my company to scale compliance training to all employees quickly and efficiently. It is also nice that the software can send email reminders when trainings are due, when they are incomplete and when they are completed. It helps us keep a running record of employee compliance as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rival?

The least helpful thing about Silk Road Technology is that it the interfaced, in my opinion, isn't updated and modern looking when working through the training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rival:

Consider using Silk Road Technology to ensure your staff/employees stay up-to-date with all pieces of training needed for successful work! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Silk Road Technology helps ensure that everyone at our organization is compliant with all legally and non-legally required training. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.