Thrive

Owned by Angelina Playter (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jan 23, 2019 by Jakub Mormul (Unlicensed)
4 min read

This tool has solely been researched by the WilsonHCG Innovation team.

Summary

The Thrive team draws on decades of success in the recruiting and information technology fields to deliver powerful solutions with high-touch service.


Hire the Right Talent. Faster.

Thrive is a software company that develops cutting-edge applications that help recruiters and talent executives make better hiring decisions. Our collaborative, easy-to-use features allow you to spend less time managing a database and more time advising the hiring team.

Additional Resources

Technology Demo Notes

11.16.2017 Call Notes

Craig Dougherty

I think it seemed pretty solid. I have seen in-depth Invenias, Cluen Encore and FileFinder and this is clearly the most modern and complete system. It sort of breaks from the traditional electronic rolodex feel in favor of something that's more like a proper recruiting system. I have evaluated exec search systems in the past on a handful of core functions: Resume Parsing, LinkedIn Integration, Work History storage/searching, Org Charts/Hierarchy capabilities, Reporting, and of course the ability to track candidates against assignments/searches. It seemed to do most of these just fine. The only area it really doesn't work is the Org Chart capabilities. They actually don't have this yet, but it's under development for Q1 2018 supposedly. So for now, you wouldn't be able to configure org charts within companies. When it comes out, they will be calling it "Succession Plannning".

It seems to have a solid Google calendar and mail integration allowing you to schedule reminders (tasks) and interviews as well as email candidates from within the application and record your emails as activities within Thrive from your mail app. I also liked the "Tagging" functionality that allows you to tag contacts in any way you'd like for grouping and searching later on. They also have what they call "Networks", which equates to what older systems might have called "Folders" that allows you to group contacts together to organize your searches or prepare for future searches.

Angelina Playter
The Thrive dashboard shows you activity across anything your name is correlated on. You can see recent activity through statements, graphics, and counts. You can add and remove candidates directly from the dashboard.
Contacts & Searches
  • You can add a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" candidates.
  • Lists can be sorted by dates, location, company, etc.
  • Search Details - Job Description, statuses via a graphic
  • You can invite as many clients in your search as you want. When they are invited in - they can see the same view, with limited info
    • Can view: Contact info, Social Media, Resume, Quick report, Career highlights, Experience & Education (comes from resume or LI), comments, view previously scheduled interviews
    • Cannot: Move stages, Schedule interviews
  • In the contacts tab, you have the whole database, you can search by name, title, company, keywords. You can then add a number of filters
  • Rating system for skills on contacts - you can add several here
  • Button to see a list of contacts you have added in but not finished setting up
Generate Summary Report
  • This is a PDF in which you can define contents: CN Info, Stages, Rej Details, Recipients. 
  • This can be emailed to yourself OR directly to the client. 
  • WHCG logo can be added to top of report.
  • Report can include active links to social media
  • Clean report - Sleek look
You can create contacts from here while locating contacts on linkedin
  • Create new contact
  • Picture, name, email (if connected)
  • You can enter connection/Referral information (dropdown menus customizable)
  • You dont have to add companies to companies record - can still locate it in an advanced search, education parsed in, save
  • Can add contacts to searches OR networks (similar to folders, talent pools)
  • You can add tags in replacement of a custom field
Org Charts/Heirachy
  • Developing a talent pool/succession planning tool on this
  • ETA end of 2017
  • Succession Planning
  • You can add in reports in to here and add talent pools under "leaders"
  • People do not have to work for company - its a way for you to add people who do and do not work at the company to build out the team. 
Datawarehouse feeds? Manually by CSV download and manually add into data warehouse

Strengths:

Integrated scheduling with Google calendar 
Integrated emails with Google mail
Linkedin Parsing via Chrome extension
Quick Implementation: Creation of logins

Opportunities:

API feeds
Further customization in reporting
Ability to create customized fields in the candidate profile - Would need to get product involved to expand fields (open to the idea - they can be flexible if needed)