Build your network.
Know the candidates.
Fill more positions.
Your clients trust you to find the right people for their organization. We help you deliver great service at speed and at scale.
Whether you’re an executive search firm, RPO, MSP, a contingency-based agency, or a niche recruiter like those who place healthcare practitioners or gig workers, we have a solution to meet your unique needs.
Make right-fit placements with real data behind your decisions.

Reduce hiring bias and support compliance with EEOC and OFCCP

Build your talent brand, while gaining a source for top talent

Differentiate yourself from the competition
Online reference checking has allowed us to become more nimble and adds another tool that helps our team succeed.
As part of Nelson’s constant focus on optimizing our processes by using the most innovative tools, we began using SkillSurvey for online reference checks. We’ve been pleased with how SkillSurvey has allowed us to continue to streamline the automation of our reference checking process and expand our passive candidate pipeline
SkillSurvey Reference
Automated, cloud-based referencing that tells you what you need to know
Tailor the entire process
Easily configure and automate your reference checking process to meet your internal or client-specific needs. With hundreds of job-specific surveys to choose from, our scientific, data-driven Pre-Hire 360® workflow helps you evaluate and assess candidates’ soft skills and core competencies. Our customer configured workflow lets you to tailor how you reference check for each of your clients, different jobs and levels of employees to provide a best fit solution that matches your specific reference checking needs. With our fully managed reference checking option, recruiters can fully manage the reference checking process by adding references on behalf of a candidate.
Capture meaningful insights
Provide internal or client hiring managers with predictive analytics, data-driven reporting and interview guides to help them make more informed hiring decisions.
Integrate easily
Get more from your existing tech stack without disrupting processes. SkillSurvey Reference® integrates easily with your CRM or ATS.
Reach more references
Provide a seamless candidate experience and encourage faster responses by making it easy for references to respond wherever they are, on any device – even via text messaging.
Compare referencing methods
See how an online, automated solution differs from other reference checking methods. Try out our comparison tool
SkillSurvey Source®
Find a better way to build a warm talent pipeline and expand your hiring brand.
Grow your candidate pipeline and boost your talent brand
Create custom branded opt-in pages, links and forms to recruit not just references and referrals, but also visitors to your website and careers page.
Increase pipeline quality and decrease time to fill
Get a head start on newly opened positions with a powerful talent database at the ready – then use smart dashboards to visualize the up-to-date candidate information.
Automate candidate tracking, alerts and messaging
Get notified when new leads match precise skill or location needs, flag relevant talent for future consideration, and send targeted messages to individuals or groups to promote open positions.
Maximize you recruitment technology investment
Get more value from your existing technology. We integrate with your CRM or ATS so you can work in your system of record for greater consistency, efficiency and results.
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FAQ
What makes SkillSurvey Reference the industry-leading automated online reference-checking solution?
We’re not just automating the process of checking references, or moving online an inefficient, time-consuming, low-value, telephone process. Our patented solution is revolutionary, delivering feedback from references in a much quicker and more candid way that can be used earlier in the hiring process. The Pre-Hire 360 workflow has a growing library of hundreds of job-specific surveys designed to help the references rate the candidate on the specific behaviors that are relevant to a given job. Ratings have been validated to correlate with reduced first-year turnover for cause and better post-hire performance.
How long does the process take to get results on the candidate?
What makes SkillSurvey Source different from other online passive candidate sources?
How can members of my recruiting team benefit?
I already have another system to manage passive candidates. How can I get these passive candidates into that system?
- We can integrate with your system to automatically send over passive candidates as they opt-in to Source.
- You can download an Excel file of your passive candidates on a regular basis and upload them into your system.