Customer results: teams that chose hireEZ over Gem
Healthcare technology company
A healthcare technology company replaced Gem and tripled its offers and hires through hireEZ in one quarter
The talent team replaced Gem with hireEZ and runs sourcing, campaigns, and rediscovery for its engineering roles in one platform. In a single quarter, offers and hires from candidates the team found or engaged in hireEZ tripled to 27, and 22 of them came from underrepresented groups. Recruiters qualified 5,483 diverse candidates in the same quarter, and three-step campaigns outperformed two-step campaigns 13 to 1.
3x
more offers and hires in one quarter
5,483
diverse candidates qualified
13x
better results from three-step campaigns
Consumer technology company
Left Gem for hireEZ
Put 1.8 million past candidates back to work with enriched rediscovery and runs a 42% team reply rate.
Professional services firm
Replaced Gem
Runs a 12% campaign reply rate, and its rediscovered candidates reply at twice the rate of net-new talent.
Semiconductor company
Chose hireEZ over Gem
Now makes 60% of all its hires through hireEZ, including 55 in a single quarter.
Global IT services company
Chose hireEZ over Gem
Cut LinkedIn Recruiter spend by more than 50% globally, with hireEZ sourcing across 45+ platforms.
Across 2.7M+ recruiting emails sent through hireEZ
15.2%
Average reply rate
58.3%
Average open rate
17.6%
Reply rate on AI-assisted emails
Source: hireEZ 2025 Email Outreach Benchmark Report, campaigns sent January to June 2025.
hireEZ is the agent-native talent acquisition platform that runs on top of your ATS, with more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms compared with Gem's 800M+.
A healthcare technology company that replaced Gem tripled its offers and hires through hireEZ in one quarter, and a consumer technology company that left Gem put 1.8 million past candidates back to work.
A global IT services company chose hireEZ over Gem and cut LinkedIn Recruiter spend by more than half.
EZ Agent sources, screens, runs outreach, and schedules interviews, with recruiters approving every step.
G2 reviewers rate hireEZ easier to set up (9.4 vs. 9.2) and easier to administer (9.3 vs. 9.1) than Gem.
Why talent teams choose hireEZ over Gem
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Agents across the whole req
EZ Agent runs research, sourcing, outreach, nurture, screening, and scheduling, in hybrid autonomy for professional roles or full autonomy for high-volume hiring.
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A bigger pool from more places
EZ Agent searches more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms, plus your ATS and CRM. Gem publishes 800M+ profiles.
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Talent market data to plan with
hireEZ Insights shows talent supply, competitor talent pools, and hiring trends for any role or location, with board-ready reports.
04
Easier to set up and run
As of September 2026, G2 reviewers rate hireEZ easier to set up (9.4 vs. 9.2) and easier to administer (9.3 vs. 9.1) than Gem.
Who hireEZ is built for
Talent teams that want a bigger candidate pool than a single profile index.
Teams that want to cut LinkedIn Recruiter spend by sourcing the open web with verified contact data.
Teams that want talent market data alongside sourcing to plan every search.
G2 reviewers rate hireEZ easier to set up and easier to run than Gem.
Ease of setup
9.4vs. 9.2
hireEZ vs. Gem on G2
Ease of admin
9.3vs. 9.1
hireEZ vs. Gem on G2
Source: G2, Gem vs hireEZ (g2.com/compare/gem-vs-hireez), September 2026.
The new EZ Agent
One agent, from job req open to job filled
Filling a role takes eight steps. On hireEZ, six of them run on EZ Agent today, the interview is shared, and the offer stays with your team. Every step runs in one platform, on top of the ATS you already own.
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Research
Map the market and the talent pool
02
Source
Surface and rank matching candidates
03
Outreach
Run personalized multichannel sequences
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Nurture
Keep warm candidates engaged over time
05
Screen
Qualify against the requirements
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Schedule
Book interviews across every calendar
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Interview
EZ Agent preps, your team runs it
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Offer and hire
Your recruiter makes the call
Runs on EZ Agent todayAgent-assistedYour team's call
Hybrid autonomy · professional and specialized hiring
EZ Agent works alongside your recruiters
Your recruiters direct the work instead of doing it. They brief EZ Agent on a role, approve the plan and every shortlist, and what your best recruiter knows runs on every req, for every recruiter, including the one who joined last month.
Full autonomy · high-volume hiring
EZ Agent runs the req, your team sets the guardrails
For high-volume, high-repetition roles, hiring managers and candidates work with EZ Agent by phone and SMS. Recruiters become operators: they steer, approve, and handle the exceptions.
Workflow
End-to-end recruiting rails from research through interview. Every stage, sequence, and approval bends to how your team actually hires.
Data
More than a billion candidate profiles, recruiter behavior signals, and outreach conversion data in one record, so EZ Agent gets sharper with every req.
Integrations
Your ATS, HRIS, job boards, communication channels, and calendars stay. EZ Agent works across the stack you already run.
What EZ Agent runs for you
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Sourcing on command
Brief EZ Agent like a sourcer. It searches a billion-plus profiles across 45+ platforms and comes back with qualified candidates and the reason behind every match.
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Career sites and landing pages
Every open role gets its own branded, candidate-ready page, built in one conversation and feeding applicants straight into your pipeline.
03
Talent CRM and ATS enrichment
Every profile in your ATS stays current and every relationship stays warm. Teams fill 20 to 30% of roles from talent they already own.
04
Applicant review
EZ Agent reads every application the moment it lands, ranks it, and explains the ranking. Nothing is rejected without your recruiter.
05
Conversational AI screening
Every candidate gets a real screening conversation by voice or chat, with your questions and your bar, and your team decides who moves forward.
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AI interview scheduler
When a candidate says yes, EZ Agent books it: calendars, panels, and reschedules, inside the rules you set.
07
Hiring intelligence
Plain-language answers on full-funnel hiring metrics, plus market data on rising skills, talent flows, and competitor pay.
Trusted by 70+ Fortune 500 companies, including Zoom, Visa, Fidelity, and Hilton.
What talent leaders say
"The new agentic platform has significantly raised the bar for ICP optimization and alignment, resulting in significantly improved candidate fit. The UI of the platform allows me to work across multiple searches in parallel with a high level of search iteration, making it much more efficient for me to multi-task across my workspace."
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Mauricio Hurtado, Global Talent Sourcing Lead, Americas, Zoom
"All of the talent acquisition details you need are in one platform. It's an amazing one-stop shop CRM where we're able to see the output of our sourcing, the output of our engagement, and report on all of the data and insights in one place."
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Angie Verros, Global Head of Talent Sourcing, Shield AI
"Before switching to hireEZ's CRM, we were juggling multiple platforms. Now it's all in one place. That saves time, and the team gets more time doing what they love: finding and engaging qualified talent."
CM
Chris Murdock, Founder and Chief Sourcing Officer, IQTalent
"I just think hireEZ is a better tool and it can do everything."
Talent Acquisition Operations Leader, global medical device company
hireEZ is built on agents from the ground up. Your recruiters direct the work, EZ Agent does it, and your whole team runs hiring from one command center on top of the ATS you already own.
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1B+ profiles across 45+ platforms, plus your ATS
EZ Agent searches more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms, resurfaces the talent already in your ATS and CRM, and ranks every candidate by fit, surfacing 7x more qualified candidates with the reason behind each name. Recruiters reach engineers, clinicians, and specialists wherever they show up online, which is how teams reduce what they spend on LinkedIn Recruiter.
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Rediscovery that refreshes every profile
hireEZ enriches every past candidate with current contact and career data from a network of data partners, then resurfaces the right ones for each new req, so the candidates you already paid to find keep producing hires.
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Agents that carry the whole req
Brief EZ Agent on a role the way you'd brief a colleague. It comes back with a plan, your recruiter sharpens and approves it, and the agents source, screen, run outreach, and schedule interviews across every open req at once. Recruiters approve every strategy and shortlist, and every agent action is logged and explainable.
Senior product designer, Seattle or remote. Fintech background a plus. Need a shortlist by Friday.
Here's my plan
1Source 45+ platforms and your ATS
2Screen for portfolio and fintech experience
3Six-step email and InMail sequence
4Book interviews on the hiring manager's calendar
EditApprove plan
Plan approved by Dana K. · logged 10:42 AM
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Market data to plan every search
hireEZ Insights shows talent supply, competitor talent pools, and hiring trends for any role or location, with board-ready reports your leaders can act on.
hireEZ is the agent-native talent acquisition platform that runs on top of your ATS, combining a talent CRM, sourcing across more than a billion profiles on 45+ platforms, and EZ Agent in one system. Teams that chose hireEZ over Gem make up to 60% of their hires through hireEZ, cut LinkedIn Recruiter spend by more than half, and run reply rates as high as 42%.
Yes. Talent teams evaluating Gem alternatives choose hireEZ for EZ Agent, which runs research, sourcing, outreach, nurture, screening, and scheduling on top of the ATS you already own, and for a candidate pool of more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms. hireEZ syncs two ways with 50+ ATS platforms and serves 70+ Fortune 500 companies.
EZ Agent is the AI agent at the center of hireEZ. Filling a role takes eight steps, and six of them run on EZ Agent today: research, sourcing, outreach, nurture, screening, and scheduling. EZ Agent preps the interview and your team runs it, and the offer stays with your recruiter. It runs in hybrid autonomy for professional and specialized hiring and full autonomy for high-volume hiring.
hireEZ searches more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms, compared with Gem's 800M+ profile database. EZ Agent runs sourcing, screening, outreach, and interview scheduling under recruiter direction, and hireEZ Insights adds talent market data for every search.
hireEZ searches more than a billion profiles across 45+ platforms, compared with the 800M+ profiles Gem publishes on gem.com.
A healthcare technology company that replaced Gem tripled its offers and hires through hireEZ in one quarter, to 27. A consumer technology company that left Gem put 1.8 million past candidates back to work and runs a 42% team reply rate, and a professional services firm that replaced Gem sees rediscovered candidates reply at twice the rate of net-new talent.
Yes. hireEZ includes talent pools, nurture campaigns, AI rediscovery, and CRM reporting, and enterprise teams have moved their CRM from Gem to hireEZ.
Yes. hireEZ's implementation team brings your candidate database over and enriches each profile with current contact and career data so it's ready for rediscovery.
EZ Agent searches more than a billion candidate profiles across 45+ platforms, together with the candidates already in a team's ATS and CRM.
Yes. hireEZ sources across 45+ platforms and provides contact data for candidates, so teams reduce how many LinkedIn Recruiter seats they need. One global IT services company cut its LinkedIn Recruiter spend by more than half after choosing hireEZ.
EZ Agent runs the hiring pipeline under recruiter direction. Recruiters brief it on a role, approve the plan, and EZ Agent sources, screens, runs outreach, and schedules interviews across every open req. Recruiters approve every strategy and shortlist, and every agent action is logged and explainable.
hireEZ syncs two ways with 50+ ATS platforms, including Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS, and SAP SuccessFactors, plus Outlook and Gmail.
G2 reviewers rate hireEZ easier to set up (9.4 vs. 9.2) and easier to administer (9.3 vs. 9.1) than Gem.
Yes. hireEZ Insights shows talent supply, competitor talent pools, and hiring trends for any role or location, with board-ready reports.
Yes. hireEZ is the AI-native recruiting platform formerly known as Hiretual, built by HireTeamMate, Inc.
hireEZ is built for enterprise and mid-market talent acquisition teams that source outbound, want their candidate database working on every req, and want AI agents running the pipeline. Customers include more than 70 Fortune 500 companies, along with leading staffing and recruiting firms, healthcare systems, and technology companies.
Yes. Teams can start a free trial of hireEZ and run it on live reqs.
hireEZ complies with GDPR and CCPA, is certified under SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, and ISO 27701, participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and supports SAML 2.0 single sign-on.
Using Gem today? See the difference on your own roles.
Bring two or three open reqs. We'll source them live in hireEZ across 45+ platforms and rediscover candidates from your own database, so you can compare talent, contact data, and reply rates side by side.
¹ Sources: hireEZ customer business reviews, Salesforce account records and win notes, and recorded customer calls, 2024 to September 2026. Cost per hire is annual hireEZ contract value divided by hires with hireEZ activity, as reported in customer business reviews. Reply rates are campaign reply rates reported in customer business reviews. Hires through hireEZ are hires the team found, reviewed, or engaged in hireEZ before they were hired. Customer stories are anonymized by industry. Gem capability descriptions come from Gem's public product pages as of September 2026. Gem is a trademark of its respective owner, and hireEZ operates independently of Gem. Platform capability claims (1B+ profiles, 45+ platforms, 7x more qualified candidates, 20 to 30% of roles filled from owned talent, 75% faster hiring) come from hireez.com as of October 2026.
