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Recruitment marketing and career sites for small business buyers

Asked as “recruitment marketing platform”, and as “career site builder”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 44 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, twelve models each.
Standing
100Hires
Contested
20% of first choices, contested.
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By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small business100Hires20%ContestedThis pageMid-marketTeamtailor16%ContestedStanding →EnterprisePhenom41%Clear leaderStanding →

01The standing

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all twelve models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrant
01100Hires20%0%24accepted challenger
02Manatal14%8%26accepted challenger
03Teamtailor11%0%24accepted challenger
04Breezy HR11%0%19accepted challenger
05JazzHR7%6%31accepted challenger
06Zoho Recruit7%0%14accepted challenger
07TalentLyft5%6%18accepted challenger
08Wizehire5%0%10accepted challenger
Show the eight products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
16Phenom0%95%21criticized challenger
15Beamery0%86%14criticized challenger
14Symphony Talent0%82%11criticized challenger
13Joveo0%73%11criticized challenger
12Greenhouse0%27%15criticized challenger
11Lever0%23%13accepted challenger
10LinkedIn Talent Solutions0%19%16accepted challenger
09Workable0%13%31accepted challenger
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its vendor page.
Head to head
Teamtailor vs WorkableTeamtailor vs JobviteWorkable vs Jobvite

Recommended versus criticized

Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.

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01100Hires20%
02Manatal14%
03Teamtailor11%
04Breezy HR11%
05JazzHR7%
06Zoho Recruit7%
07TalentLyft5%
08Wizehire5%
09Workable0%
10LinkedIn Talent Solutions0%
11Lever0%
12Greenhouse0%
13Joveo0%
14Symphony Talent0%
15Beamery0%
16Phenom0%

02What they warned about

One of twelve models held their first choice under the paraphrase. GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Perplexity Sonar, Grok 4.1 Fast, Mistral Small, DeepSeek V4 Flash, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen 3.7 Flash, Kimi K2, GLM 4.7 FlashX and MiniMax M2.5 changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Phenom
95%
20 of 21 labels negative · 10 of 12 models · 9 hard negative
“Tools like SmashFly/Symphony Talent and Phenom are built for large organizations with significant budgets... Skip these” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Symphony Talent
82%
9 of 11 labels negative · 8 of 12 models · 4 hard negative
“Tools like SmashFly/Symphony Talent and Phenom are built for large organizations... Skip these if you lack the budget or dedicated recruitment resources.” Mistral Small, negative prompt
Beamery
86%
12 of 14 labels negative · 6 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“steer clear of enterprise-grade recruitment marketing platforms (RMPs) like Phenom, Beamery, or Joveo” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt
Joveo
73%
8 of 11 labels negative · 5 of 12 models · 3 hard negative
“steer clear of enterprise-grade recruitment marketing platforms (RMPs) like Phenom, Beamery, or Joveo” Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt

03What they cite

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list: twelve of the twelve in this edition, and all six flagship models on the expanded tier.

Sites the answers cite

66 of 72 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 12 of 12 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 6 of those lists are Google grounding redirects that name no site and are left out of the counts. 849 links across 197 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page.

g2.com
47 answers · 95 citations · 11 models
learn.g2.com
42 answers · 46 citations · 10 models
selectsoftwarereviews.com
vendor site · Select Software Reviews41 answers · 52 citations · 11 models
recruitcompare.io
32 answers · 35 citations · 10 models
joveo.com
vendor site · Joveo28 answers · 29 citations · 10 models
getapp.com
27 answers · 33 citations · 9 models
jugglehire.com
vendor site · JuggleHire17 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
peoplemanagingpeople.com
vendor site · People Managing People16 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
mokahr.io
vendor site · MokaHR15 answers · 20 citations · 10 models
hiretruffle.com
11 answers · 11 citations · 5 models
forbes.com
10 answers · 12 citations · 6 models
sourcrlab.com
10 answers · 12 citations · 7 models

Pages the answers cite

The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.

learn.g2.com/best-recruitment-marketing-platforms
42 answers · 10 models
selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/recruitment-marketing-software
39 answers · 11 models
g2.com/categories/recruitment-marketing/small-business
37 answers · 11 models
recruitcompare.io/best/best-recruitment-marketing-platforms
32 answers · 10 models
getapp.com/all-software/recruitment-marketing-platforms/org/small-business
24 answers · 8 models
g2.com/categories/recruitment-marketing
19 answers · 10 models
joveo.com/blog/top-recruitment-marketing-platforms
19 answers · 9 models
jugglehire.com/blog/recruitment-software/recruitment-marketing-software
14 answers · 9 models
peoplemanagingpeople.com/tools/best-recruitment-marketing-software
12 answers · 8 models
hire.page/blog/best-career-page-builders-2026
9 answers · 9 models

04How they answered

Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ModelDirect“What is the best recruitment marketing platform for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which career site builder would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top recruitment marketing platforms for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best recruitment marketing platform for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating a recruitment marketing platform. What should we look at?”Negative“Which recruitment marketing platforms should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5no first choiceno first choiceHeldManatal
Five alternativesBreezy HR, Personio, TalentRecruit, Teamtailor, hireEZ
against: Eightfold AI, MokaHR, Symphony TalentManatal
Three alternativesLoxo, Teamtailor, Zoho Recruit
no first choiceagainst: Joveo, Qandle
GPT-5.4 miniTeamtailor
Two alternativesJazzHR, Zoho Recruit
CareerPlugChanged
Three alternativesGreenhouse, Lever, Teamtailor
Teamtailor
Five alternativesCrelate, JazzHR, TalentLyft, Workable, Zoho Recruit
against: NAS, Radancy, SmartRecruitersBreezy HR, Zoho Recruitagainst: LinkedIn Talent Solutionsno first choiceagainst: Joveo, Recruit CRM, iCIMS
Gemini 3.5 FlashGem
Four alternativesAshby, Breezy HR, Lever, Workable
against: Beamery, PhenomTeamtailorChanged
Two alternativesSubPage, Workable
Teamtailor
Three alternativesBreezy HR, Gem, Workable
against: Avature, Beamery, PhenomTalentLyft
Four alternativesBreezy HR, HiredAI, Manatal, RocketReach
against: Beamery, Joveo, LinkedIn Recruiter, PhenomTeamtailor
Three alternativesBreezy HR, Homerun, Workable
against: Beamery, Joveo, Phenomagainst: Appcast, Beamery, Eightfold AI, Joveo, Oracle Taleo, PandoLogic, Phenom, Radancy, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday Recruiting
Perplexity SonarManatal
Three alternatives100Hires, TalentLyft, Teamtailor
Breezy HRChanged
One alternativeTeamtailor
JazzHR
Five alternativesLoxo, Manatal, TalentLyft, Teamtailor, Workable
JazzHR, Zoho Recruit
Two alternatives100Hires, Manatal
against: TalentLyftno first choiceagainst: Avature, Beamery, Joveo, LinkedIn Talent Solutions, Phenom, SmartRecruiters, Symphony Talent
Grok 4.1 Fast100Hires
Two alternativesTalentLyft, Teamtailor
against: Beamery, JazzHR, Phenom, WorkableBreezy HRChanged
Two alternativesHomerun, Workable
100Hires, Manatal, TalentLyft
Two alternativesJazzHR, Wizehire
against: Beamery, PhenomManatal
Two alternatives100Hires, Zoho Recruit
Teamtailor
Three alternatives100Hires, Bullhorn, Greenhouse
against: Beamery, Phenomagainst: Appcast, Employment Hero, LinkedIn Recruiter, Phenom, Symphony Talent, ZipRecruiter
Mistral Small100Hires, JazzHR
Two alternativesLinkedIn Talent Solutions, Manatal
TalentNestChangedJazzHR, TalentLyft, Workable
One alternativeJoveo
against: Beamery, Phenom, Symphony Talent100Hires
One alternativeLinkedIn Talent Solutions
no first choiceagainst: Phenom, Symphony Talent
DeepSeek V4 FlashTeamtailor
Three alternatives100Hires, JazzHR, Workable
hire.pageChanged
One alternativeBreezy HR
against: Greenhouse, Lever, WorkableWorkable
Five alternativesBreezy HR, Manatal, Recruit CRM, Recruiterflow, Teamtailor
against: JazzHRManatal, Zoho Recruit
Two alternatives100Hires, JazzHR
against: CareerArc, Workableno first choiceagainst: Greenhouseagainst: LinkedIn Recruiter, LinkedIn Talent Solutions, Phenom, Symphony Talent, ZipRecruiter
Llama 4 Maverick100Hires, Wizehireno first choiceChangedJazzHR
Two alternativesTalentLyft, Workable
100Hires
One alternativeRally
no first choiceagainst: Phenom, Symphony Talent
Qwen 3.7 Flash100Hires
Three alternativesJazzHR, Teamtailor, Zoho Recruit
against: Bullhorn, Joveo, PhenomTalentNestChanged
Six alternativesGreenhouse, HireVue, Lever, Serena, Teamdash, WordPress + Job Board Plugin
100Hires
Four alternativesJazzHR, LinkedIn Talent Solutions, TalentLyft, Teamtailor
Manatal
Two alternativesLinkedIn Talent Solutions, Zoho Recruit
against: Joveo, Phenomno first choice
Three alternativesJopster, Revature, Revelation
against: Jobviteagainst: Manatal, Phenom, SAP SuccessFactors, SmartDreamers, Workday Recruiting
Kimi K2Manatal, TalentLyft
Three alternativesBreezy HR, Wizehire, Workable
Breezy HRChanged
Two alternativesTeamtailor, Workable
JazzHR, Manatal
Two alternativesBambooHR Recruiting, Workable
against: Lever100Hires
Four alternativesIndeed, JazzHR, LinkedIn Free Resources, Rally
no first choice
Five alternativesJazzHR, Recruitee, TalentLyft, Teamtailor, Workable
against: Indeed, LinkedIn Recruiter, Phenom, Radancy
GLM 4.7 FlashX100Hires, JazzHR
Four alternativesTeamtailor, Workable, Zoho Recruit, iSmartRecruit
hire.pageChanged
Two alternativesBreezy HR, JobsPage
Manatal
Three alternativesFreshteam, JazzHR, Workable
against: Appcast, RecruiticsBreezy HR, Pin
Five alternativesATZ CRM, Manatal, Recruitee, TalentLyft, Workable
no first choiceagainst: Beamery, CareerBuilder, CareerBuilder Talent Network, Greenhouse, Indeed, Lever, Manatal, Monster, Phenom, Recruit CRM, Recruitee, SmartRecruiters, Symphony Talent, Workable, Workday Recruiting, ZipRecruiter
MiniMax M2.5100Hires
Three alternativesManatal, Wizehire, Workable
hire.pageChanged
One alternativeTalentNest
JazzHR
Two alternativesManatal, TalentLyft
against: GreenhouseRally, Wizehire
Two alternativesIndeed, LinkedIn Talent Solutions
no first choiceagainst: Avature, Beamery, LinkedIn Recruiter, Phenom, Symphony Talent
Bold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against

05The record

One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency. Full answer text is in the free responses file. Download the record
Seventy-two rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
PromptModelVersion stringTime (UTC)SearchedSourcesLatency
Direct recommendationClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 21:16no04 s
Direct recommendationGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 18:39yes36 s
Direct recommendationGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:46yes1822 s
Direct recommendationPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:41yes206 s
Direct recommendationGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:49yes2921 s
Direct recommendationMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 17:55yes76 s
Direct recommendationDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra2026-09-17 20:07yes2037 s
Direct recommendationLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:19yes53 s
Direct recommendationQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:44yes727 s
Direct recommendationKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:09yes919 s
Direct recommendationGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:54yes927 s
Direct recommendationMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:40yes725 s
ParaphraseClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 17:58no05 s
ParaphraseGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:43yes45 s
ParaphraseGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:37yes1124 s
ParaphrasePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:02yes185 s
ParaphraseGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 18:35yes2312 s
ParaphraseMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:31yes53 s
ParaphraseDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:00yes2238 s
ParaphraseLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:04yes52 s
ParaphraseQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 18:01yes740 s
ParaphraseKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:17yes1926 s
ParaphraseGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 21:11yes2272 s
ParaphraseMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 19:40yes937 s
ComparativeClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:14yes1211 s
ComparativeGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 19:52yes79 s
ComparativeGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 19:09yes2125 s
ComparativePerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:56yes206 s
ComparativeGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:55yes4419 s
ComparativeMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 20:17yes56 s
ComparativeDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:54yes2129 s
ComparativeLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:37yes53 s
ComparativeQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:53yes2553 s
ComparativeKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 21:30yes1529 s
ComparativeGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 20:23yes2942 s
ComparativeMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:50yes2238 s
Budget constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:04yes98 s
Budget constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:28yes35 s
Budget constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 22:01yes1341 s
Budget constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 19:52yes176 s
Budget constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 21:40yes3718 s
Budget constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 19:04yes54 s
Budget constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:45yes1215 s
Budget constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 21:12yes53 s
Budget constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 19:06yes523 s
Budget constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:15yes1621 s
Budget constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 18:44yes944 s
Budget constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 18:28yes57 s
Scale constrainedClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 20:25no05 s
Scale constrainedGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 21:17no06 s
Scale constrainedGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:37yes823 s
Scale constrainedPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 18:06yes207 s
Scale constrainedGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 19:22yes1612 s
Scale constrainedMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:57no07 s
Scale constrainedDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 20:48yes1415 s
Scale constrainedLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 19:22yes53 s
Scale constrainedQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 20:34no028 s
Scale constrainedKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 18:56yes1328 s
Scale constrainedGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:51yes13155 s
Scale constrainedMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 20:06yes513 s
Negative framingClaude Haiku 4.5claude-haiku-4-5-202510012026-09-17 18:23yes2414 s
Negative framingGPT-5.4 minigpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-172026-09-17 20:43yes36 s
Negative framingGemini 3.5 Flashgemini-3.5-flash2026-09-17 18:29yes1525 s
Negative framingPerplexity Sonarsonar2026-09-17 21:34yes206 s
Negative framingGrok 4.1 Fastspacexai/grok-4.1-fast-non-reasoning via vertex2026-09-17 20:43yes3817 s
Negative framingMistral Smallmistral/mistral-small via mistral2026-09-17 18:56yes55 s
Negative framingDeepSeek V4 Flashdeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via fireworks2026-09-17 21:39yes2035 s
Negative framingLlama 4 Maverickmeta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock2026-09-17 20:56yes53 s
Negative framingQwen 3.7 Flashalibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba2026-09-17 21:27yes931 s
Negative framingKimi K2moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita2026-09-17 19:18yes2432 s
Negative framingGLM 4.7 FlashXzai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai2026-09-17 19:57yes2758 s
Negative framingMiniMax M2.5minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax2026-09-17 21:19yes1054 s

Normalization in this category

Every judgment call made between the raw labels and the numbers above, listed so it is visible and reversible.

Category-scoped readings
BambooHR read as BambooHR Recruiting
Breezy read as Breezy HR
Eightfold read as Eightfold AI
LinkedIn read as LinkedIn Talent Solutions
SuccessFactors read as SAP SuccessFactors
Workday read as Workday Recruiting
Unresolved, counted raw
CareerBuilder Talent Network
Crelate
Indeed/Glassdoor Employer Pages
JobBoardWP
JobsPage
JoinOurTeam
Jopster
LinkedIn Free Resources
LinkedIn Recruiter/Talent Solutions
NAS
Pazcare
Qandle
Revelation
Serena
SubPage (Careers Module)
Tribepad
Venn Digital
WP Job Manager
WordPress + Job Board Plugin
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.

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