Jobvite

Jobvite ranks your applicants and explains each match, but check the AI contract terms

Who Jobvite’s AI suits

Where Jobvite’s AI and its contract stop

Employ publishes AI bias audit results for Jobvite. They come from Holistic AI and relate to New York City’s bias audit rule. Ask Employ which AI feature the audit covers.

How Jobvite is priced and what happens to your data when you leave

Jobvite tailors its price to your hiring needs. You start with the core Jobvite applicant tracking system and add parts that Jobvite calls modules. AI-Powered Candidate Matching is among the features of the software. Ask whether it sits in the core system or in a paid module. Ask for the price in writing.

Under Employ’s AI terms, AI features may be available by default. The AI does not process your customer data until you enable it. Ask for each AI feature to be listed on the order form with its own price.

Jobvite’s standard service level agreement commits to 99.5% platform uptime. Lever’s commits to 99.9%. If uptime matters to you, ask Employ whether a Jobvite customer can get a higher figure in the contract.

When a contract ends, deletion from the live system starts 30 days later. It is complete after 45 days. Backup copies are gone by 200 days. Under Employ’s data protection addendum, Employ gives you a copy of your data after termination or expiry, then deletes it. The addendum puts the job of retrieving the data on you unless the agreement says otherwise. Ask for the export to happen before the 30 days start.

Nine questions to put to Jobvite

1. Is AI-Powered Candidate Matching in the core Jobvite price, or is it an add-on? Good answer: A written price with a line that names the feature and gives its cost.
2. Jobvite’s AI helps qualify or disqualify candidates automatically. Can we switch that off, and who can change the setting? Good answer: Off unless we turn it on, with one named administrator and a record of each change.
3. Which AI features run in Jobvite today, and which are planned? Good answer: A written list, with a date next to every planned feature.
4. Do the AI Screening Companion and AI Screening by VONQ run in Jobvite today? If not, when, and at what price? Good answer: A yes or a date, and a price, both in the order form.
5. Which outside companies handle our candidates’ data for each AI feature, and in which countries? Good answer: A named list for each feature, with a country beside every name.
6. Can you confirm in writing that we have not consented to training on our data, and do not by signing? Good answer: Yes, written into the order form.
7. Does the published bias audit cover Talent Fit, and roles like ours? Good answer: The full report for Talent Fit, with results for each group.
8. Employ named a new chief executive in February 2026. Who owns the Jobvite AI plan now, and is it in writing? Good answer: A named owner and the AI plan for Jobvite written into the order form.
9. How do we take our data with us when we leave, and in what format? Good answer: A named file format and a date that falls before the deletion starts.

Alternatives to Jobvite

The alternatives are Greenhouse, Lever and Workable, or buying nothing.

Greenhouse Voice AI interviews applicants by voice. It works with Jobvite, and Greenhouse sells it on its own to teams on other hiring systems. A Jobvite customer can therefore add Voice AI without moving. Greenhouse also builds AI into its hiring system. Its Real Talent add-on includes Talent Matching. Talent Matching sorts applicants into Strong, Good, Partial and Limited groups, plus a group for manual review. Real Talent also checks for fraud. Greenhouse shows categories with explanations instead of a single score.

Lever belongs to Employ too. Lever’s core platform includes AI-powered screening with matching, insights and signals. AI Screening by VONQ is an add-on that holds chat and voice conversations with candidates as soon as they apply.

Workable sells its AI by usage. Workable Agent runs sourcing, screening and a shortlist from inside its hiring system. It searches a database of more than 400 million profiles and scores each candidate out of 100. You add it to any plan and pay in prepaid usage units called AI credits. Evaluating a candidate costs 1 credit and finding a passive candidate costs 2. A bundle of 5,000 credits costs $600.

Buying nothing means no new AI contract terms on candidate data. Our guide to AI sourcing and screening covers what the rest of the market offers.