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Refreshed: Recruiting benchmarks for 2026
We analyzed over 165 million applications and 1.2 million hires to show you how recruiting has fundamentally changed.
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“Gem seems to have been built intentionally for recruiters to not only become more efficient and optimize their top-of-funnel workflow, but also to leverage data and make smarter decisions.”

Joe Gillespie | Robinhood
Joe GillespieHead of Tech Recruiting
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“Gem is a backbone to how we run the recruiting team. We love Gem. Gem is the best. I’ll forever be an advocate.” 

Brie Bastidas
Brie BastidasGlobal Director of Technical Talent
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“Gem allows them [my recruiters] to authentically engage, nurture, connect with candidates, just stand out from the crowd from every other message that was out there.”

JR Rettig | Pendo
JR RettigSVP of Talent
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We're huge fans of Gem at Pave. Can't imagine how archaic and painful recruiting would be without Gem.

Matt Schulman | Pave
Matt SchulmanCEO, Founder at Pave
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“Gem seems to have been built intentionally for recruiters to not only become more efficient and optimize their top-of-funnel workflow, but also to leverage data and make smarter decisions.”

Joe Gillespie | Robinhood
Joe GillespieHead of Tech Recruiting
Robinhood | Customer Logo
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“Gem is a backbone to how we run the recruiting team. We love Gem. Gem is the best. I’ll forever be an advocate.” 

Brie Bastidas
Brie BastidasGlobal Director of Technical Talent
Scale | Customer Logo

“Gem allows them [my recruiters] to authentically engage, nurture, connect with candidates, just stand out from the crowd from every other message that was out there.”

JR Rettig | Pendo
JR RettigSVP of Talent
Pendo | Customer Logo

We're huge fans of Gem at Pave. Can't imagine how archaic and painful recruiting would be without Gem.

Matt Schulman | Pave
Matt SchulmanCEO, Founder at Pave
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