Gem ATS vs HireSocial by CareerArc

Gem ATS is an applicant tracking system for talent acquisition teams, covering applicant review, hiring workflows, and reporting. Its AI Application Review Agent scores and ranks applicants against hiring criteria, while an AI Fraud Detection Agent flags suspicious applications. After interviews, Gem turns interviewer feedback into structured scorecard summaries. Teams can manage a visual pipeline with SLA indicators, offers and approvals, built-in e-signatures, and workflow automations. Gem ATS can operate as a standalone product and shares data with Gem sourcing, scheduling, and analytics products; those products are available to add as a team grows. Gem lists integrations with Checkr, BrightHire, DocuSign, CodeSignal, and other tools. The company says it can migrate teams from Greenhouse or Lever, including data migration, integration setup, and onboarding. Gem states that data at rest is encrypted with AES-256 and data in transit with browser-based TLS. Its listed Startup Program plan costs $130 a year, with the page also showing $130 per month and $270. Other plans use custom pricing based on company FTE count.

HireSocial by CareerArc is a web-based social recruiting platform for talent acquisition teams creating branded job and employer-brand posts. It can sync an ATS and career site to generate captions and images for users to edit or approve, then schedule posts across connected company, recruiter, and employee profiles. Company profiles are supported on LinkedIn, Facebook, X, and Instagram; personal recruiter and employee profiles are supported on LinkedIn and X. A dashboard tracks total clicks, profile clicks, post clicks, time saved, and leaderboards. Growth and Enterprise include ATS/XML feed autosync and recruiter job sync; job scraping is an add-on when no XML feed is available. Starter costs $167 a year, billed annually, for up to 10 jobs, one user plus profile, and unlimited publishing. Growth costs $834 a year, billed annually, with unlimited jobs, profiles, and publishing. Enterprise has an annual commitment and lists advanced campaigns and analytics, an advanced content calendar, and a dedicated CSM, but no price. A 30-day trial is limited to 10 jobs, which can be swapped during the trial.