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OPINION: Google Hire departing the market somewhat abruptly has left a lot of customers looking for a replacement ATS service.<\/h3>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve made the difficult decision to sunset Hire by Google on September 1, 2020.\u201d\u00a0Google Announcement.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot of competition in the US for HR and Recruitment software. Google Hire departing the market unexpectedly suggests that best of breed software requires continual investment \u2013 something Google didn\u2019t seem willing to provide.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Google Hire integrates into clients\u2019 G Suite (Gmail, Calendar, Docs etc) to simplify and streamline the recruitment process for Hiring Agencies and small\/medium organizations. It launched quietly (without an official announcement from Google) to invited organisations for Beta testing and it certainly is a cost-effective ATS that is well received in the market. The sudden announcement to close it down left many Google Hire customers disappointed and searching for another affordable ATS system. Google has provided a grace period until September 2020 for organizations to find a new provider however it\u2019s still frustrated a lot of people.\u00a0 Why did such a global giant with multiple resources and funds depart from the recruitment software marketplace?<\/p>\n

There are several possibilities:<\/p>\n

In 2018 Google Cloud earnt $4 billion which doubled in 2019 to\u00a0more than $8 billion in revenue<\/a>. Their plan for 2019 was to triple their salesforce. However, the budget for Google Hire was fairly low, their pricing averaged $200-500 USD and it targeted the small to medium enterprise market which provided a lower profit overall.<\/p>\n

Google acquired BeBop in 2015 for approx. $380 million from Diane Greene \u2013 Founder of BeBop and VMWare. Two years later they launched Google Hire utilizing aspects of BeBop within its platform and error messages even prompted users to\u00a0contact the Bebop team<\/a>. \u00a0It has been suggested that Google acquired BeBop to bring in Diane Greene as CEO of Google\u2019s Cloud Division, she certainly proved her worth during her tenure. So some\u00a0people in the business sector<\/a>\u00a0believe that her departure from Google in 2019 precipitated the end of Google Hire.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey still had to show stakeholders that they didn\u2019t waste the acquisition\u2026but never really did anything with it.\u201d Holger Mueller, Vice President and Principal Analyst for Constellation Research.<\/p>\n

Other potential factors for Google\u2019s decision to sunset Hire:<\/p>\n