Migrate your Rival Recruit data
AI-powered talent acquisition suite with sourcing across 750M+ candidate profiles, ATS, onboarding workflows, and analytics. Built on a 20-year-old HR platform pedigree, now rebranded from SilkRoad.
In its favor
Why people choose Rival Recruit
The signal that keeps Rival Recruit on the shortlist. Sourced from G2, Capterra, and customer scoping calls.
Large candidate sourcing pool—access to 750M+ passive candidate profiles via ROSI AI means teams do not start from zero when building pipelines.
Full talent lifecycle coverage—recruiting, onboarding, and performance modules share a unified data layer so new hire data flows automatically from offer to day one.
Branded career site and job distribution—candidates land on a branded portal with job postings pushed across 50+ job boards without manual re-entry.
Reporting and analytics—built-in dashboards surface time-to-productivity, onboarding process metrics, and pipeline conversion rates in one view.
Modular deployment—organizations can license Rival Recruit standalone or combine it with Rival Workflow, Rival Learn, and Rival Perform as a full suite.
Complex initial setup—multiple reviews cite a steep learning curve during onboarding with significant time required to configure workflows and pipelines to match existing processes.
Reporting limitations—users describe the built-in reporting as non-intuitive and lacking the depth needed for executive-level recruiting analytics.
Resume formatting issues—CV formatting does not always translate cleanly from external sources into Rival Recruit, making resume review difficult in-platform.
Support responsiveness—customers report that the support center and customer service responsiveness have room for improvement, particularly for non-enterprise tiers.
Contract and cost concerns—some customers cite pricing as a factor when switching, particularly mid-sized organizations re-evaluating their ATS spend.
Reasons to switch
Why people leave Rival Recruit
The recurring reasons buyers give for replacing Rival Recruit. Presented as facts, not knocks.
Platform scorecard
Strengths, weaknesses, and where Rival Recruit fits
Grades across six dimensions, plus a SWOT-style view of where the platform shines and where it falls short.
SWOT — strengths, weaknesses, and use-case fit
Strengths
Weaknesses
Where it works
Where it struggles
Pricing tiers
Rival Recruit pricing overview
Rival Recruit pricing is sales-led with no public rate card. Capterra lists a starting figure of $3.00/month, but this is a marketplace baseline and not representative of typical enterprise contracts; real deployments scope per user, candidate volume, sourcing module, and integrations. The product can be deployed as a full ATS or as a sourcing add-on layered onto an existing ATS — pricing varies accordingly.
Custom (sales-led)
Tier 1 of 1
Not publicly disclosed; Capterra references $3.00/month entry (not representative)
What's included
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What gets migrated
Rival Recruit object support
Object-by-object support for Rival Recruit migrations. Per-pair details surface during scoping.
Candidates
Fully supportedRival Recruit stores candidate profiles with contact info, work history, resume attachments, source attribution, and stage status. We map candidate records 1:1 including all standard properties. Custom candidate fields are flagged for explicit mapping before import into the destination ATS.
Positions
Fully supportedJob requisitions with title, department, location, hiring manager, open/closed status, and associated pipeline stages. We preserve the full position hierarchy and any configured approval workflows during migration.
Career Sites
Mapping requiredBranded career site content, job board distributions, and employee testimonial pages are configurable assets rather than transactional records. We export the site configuration and content blocks but destination systems will require re-styling.
Onboarding Records
Mapping requiredRival Workflow manages onboarding journeys tied to new hires. The onboarding Web Service Guide (v2020.2.1) documents API methods for employee setup. We map active onboarding journeys and flag any that span multiple steps to ensure no step is orphaned during cutover.
Documents
Mapping requiredUploaded resumes, cover letters, offer letters, and compliance documents are stored against candidate and employee records. We extract binary attachments separately from metadata and remap them to destination record IDs after import.
Employees
Fully supportedEmployee records include personal info, job title, department, manager, start date, and employment status. Effective-dated employment changes are preserved with their historical timestamps.
Workflows
Mapping requiredConfigured HR workflows (onboarding, offboarding, internal mobility) define journeys with steps, assignees, and conditions. We export workflow definitions as JSON blueprints and remap step owners to destination user IDs.
Interview Schedules
Mapping requiredInterview events with date, time, interviewer, candidate, and position are stored in Rival Recruit's scheduling module. We preserve the calendar relationships and note that interview scorecards require separate extraction.
Custom Fields
Mapping requiredBoth candidates and positions support custom fields that vary by customer configuration. We discover all active custom fields via the API schema before migration and generate explicit mapping tables for each one.
Users
Fully supportedRival platform users with name, email, role, and team assignment. We map user records to destination user accounts and handle the Owner assignment on candidate and position records during import.
Tags
Mapping requiredTags applied to candidates for segmentation and sourcing campaigns. We extract tag assignments as a flat lookup table and reapply them as native tags or custom properties in the destination system.
| Object | Support | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Candidates | Fully supported | Rival Recruit stores candidate profiles with contact info, work history, resume attachments, source attribution, and stage status. We map candidate records 1:1 including all standard properties. Custom candidate fields are flagged for explicit mapping before import into the destination ATS. |
| Positions | Fully supported | Job requisitions with title, department, location, hiring manager, open/closed status, and associated pipeline stages. We preserve the full position hierarchy and any configured approval workflows during migration. |
| Career Sites | Mapping required | Branded career site content, job board distributions, and employee testimonial pages are configurable assets rather than transactional records. We export the site configuration and content blocks but destination systems will require re-styling. |
| Onboarding Records | Mapping required | Rival Workflow manages onboarding journeys tied to new hires. The onboarding Web Service Guide (v2020.2.1) documents API methods for employee setup. We map active onboarding journeys and flag any that span multiple steps to ensure no step is orphaned during cutover. |
| Documents | Mapping required | Uploaded resumes, cover letters, offer letters, and compliance documents are stored against candidate and employee records. We extract binary attachments separately from metadata and remap them to destination record IDs after import. |
| Employees | Fully supported | Employee records include personal info, job title, department, manager, start date, and employment status. Effective-dated employment changes are preserved with their historical timestamps. |
| Workflows | Mapping required | Configured HR workflows (onboarding, offboarding, internal mobility) define journeys with steps, assignees, and conditions. We export workflow definitions as JSON blueprints and remap step owners to destination user IDs. |
| Interview Schedules | Mapping required | Interview events with date, time, interviewer, candidate, and position are stored in Rival Recruit's scheduling module. We preserve the calendar relationships and note that interview scorecards require separate extraction. |
| Custom Fields | Mapping required | Both candidates and positions support custom fields that vary by customer configuration. We discover all active custom fields via the API schema before migration and generate explicit mapping tables for each one. |
| Users | Fully supported | Rival platform users with name, email, role, and team assignment. We map user records to destination user accounts and handle the Owner assignment on candidate and position records during import. |
| Tags | Mapping required | Tags applied to candidates for segmentation and sourcing campaigns. We extract tag assignments as a flat lookup table and reapply them as native tags or custom properties in the destination system. |
Gotchas
What to watch for in Rival Recruit migrations
Issues we've hit on past Rival Recruit migrations, tagged by severity. FlitStack AI handles every one — surfacing them up front because buyer engineering teams want to know.
SilkRoad to Rival rebrand affects legacy data continuity
Onboarding API documentation lags behind current product
Delta data during migration window causes pipeline drift
Custom fields vary by customer and require discovery before mapping
| Severity | Issue |
|---|---|
| Medium | SilkRoad to Rival rebrand affects legacy data continuity |
| Medium | Onboarding API documentation lags behind current product |
| High | Delta data during migration window causes pipeline drift |
| Medium | Custom fields vary by customer and require discovery before mapping |
Leaving Rival Recruit?
Where Rival Recruit customers move next
5 destinations Rival Recruit can migrate to.
How a Rival Recruit migration works
Four steps, Rival Recruit-specific
Connect
No public API per the Rival product family — integrations delivered via prebuilt connectors into Rival Recruit. Scopes limited to read-only on the data we move.
Map
We translate Rival Recruit-specific structures (custom fields, objects, value lists) to the destination's model.
Sample
Test with a 50–200 record subset to validate Rival Recruit quirks before production.
Migrate
Full migration with Rival Recruit rate-limit handling. Rollback available throughout.
FAQ
Rival Recruit migration FAQ
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