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Index › Vendors › Phenom · September 2026 Edition

7 categories · Ranked

Phenom

282Judge labels

26First choices

88Negative labels

12 of 12Models named it

7Categories

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.1, every buyer segment counted.

Best standing

41% in Recruitment marketing for enterprise buyers

Rank 6 of 81 in the mid-market standingaccepted challenger

2 of 12 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 20% of its 35 labels there were negative.

By buyer segmentAn enterprise product: leader at enterprise, not named at small business.

Small business90 of 90

criticized challenger

In recruitment marketing · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Phenom for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Recruitment marketing and career sites	Talent acquisition	4%	6 of 81	20%	35	accepted challenger
Internal talent marketplace	Performance and talent management	2%	9 of 129	14%	14	accepted challenger
Talent intelligence	Performance and talent management	2%	16 of 77	48%	23	criticized challenger
Skills intelligence	Performance and talent management	0%	62 of 162	20%	5	under 10 labels · led by TalentGuard at 19%
AI recruiting assistants	Talent acquisition	0%	46 of 84	0%	2	under 10 labels · led by GoPerfect at 19%
HR AI assistants	Onboarding and employee experience	0%	97 of 119	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Workativ Assistant at 12%
Recruiting CRM and sourcing	Talent acquisition	0%	77 of 88	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Lever at 20%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Phenom yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Phenom across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	1	2	6
GPT-5.4 mini	1	2	1	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	0	5	8
Perplexity Sonar	2	2	1	0	5
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	1	7	3	11
Mistral Small	0	4	1	2	7
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	6	3	2	11
Llama 4 Maverick	0	2	2	1	5
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	2	4
Kimi K2	1	1	3	3	8
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	1	4	2	7
MiniMax M2.5	1	2	2	0	5

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct56 labels9

Paraphrase40 labels13

Comparative83 labels11not counted in share

Budget-constrained32 labels4

Scale-constrained29 labelsNone

Negative42 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative282 labels in all, every segment counted; 26 of the 38 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“the strongest overall choice is usually Phenom if you want the most complete recruitment marketing and candidate experience platform” Perplexity Sonar · Recruitment marketing · direct prompt · first choice

“Choose Phenom if you want to elevate your global employer brand with modern, highly personalized candidate-facing career sites.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · first choice

“Best For: Large enterprises seeking a "full-lifecycle" solution.... holistic Talent Experience Management platform” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Recruitment marketing · comparative prompt · first choice

“Fuel50 or Phenom - ... These are more approachable than the enterprise-grade options for mid-sized teams.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Internal talent marketpl · paraphrase prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Why avoid? Phenom is also noted for being expensive, which may not justify the cost for smaller organizations” Mistral Small · Recruitment marketing · negative prompt · hard negative

“Avoid for your size: Eightfold/Phenom/Gloat\u2014enterprise-heavy, pricey ($100K+)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Talent intelligence · paraphrase prompt · hard negative

“What to Avoid in the Mid-Market - Enterprise suites (Beamery, Phenom, iCIMS AI):” Kimi K2 · Talent intelligence · direct prompt · hard negative

“avoid pure enterprises like Eightfold/Phenom (too pricey/complex, $100K+ ACV)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Skills intelligence · direct prompt · hard negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Phenom, over the 282 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Phenom was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Beamery168 of 2823Not in the top three

Eightfold AI155 of 28244Not in the top three

Gloat97 of 28219Not in the top three

Greenhouse61 of 2825Not in the top three

Fuel5050 of 2829Not in the top three

Symphony Talent50 of 2820Not in the top three

Joveo49 of 2826Not in the top three

Avature47 of 2822Not in the top three

SeekOut47 of 2822Not in the top three

iCIMS46 of 2821Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Phenom. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 246 of the 282 answers that named Phenom and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

g2.com110

learn.g2.com97

pin.com75

joveo.com72

selectsoftwarereviews.com69

guideflow.com61

phenom.comYour site57

hiretruffle.com55

bestrecruitingtools.com54

metaview.ai54

647 of the 704 domain citations in answers naming Phenom came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

learn.g2.com/best-recruitment-marketing-platforms59

selectsoftwarereviews.com/buyer-guide/recruitment-marketing-software50

joveo.com/blog/top-recruitment-marketing-platforms49

pin.com/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms42

gartner.com/reviews/market/internal-talent-marketplaces39

metaview.ai/resources/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms39

g2.com/categories/recruitment-marketing35

hiretruffle.com/blog/talent-intelligence-platforms35

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Phenom

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Phenom; a claim can dispute any of them.

Phenom Talent Marketplace 2Phenom (Phenom TXM) 1Phenom People 1Phenom/Gloat 1

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Phenom's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Phenom, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at phenom.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.