How Usage Reports Work

Available for Administrator users only. Learn how to use data from SeekOut's Usage Reports feature to improve your recruiting strategy.

This feature is available for users with Essential, Professional, or Enterprise licenses.

What are Usage Reports?  

Usage Reports are a reporting feature that provide quantitative insights into how your recruiting team uses SeekOut as a whole and on an individual user level.  

This feature replaces a previous version of Usage Reports. It’s now self-serve and provides broader insights into account usage with additional data points.   

How Usage Reports benefit your recruiting efforts 

Usage Reports equips you with:  

  • Data-driven insights: Get a bird's-eye view of your team’s SeekOut usage to support your data-driven talent strategy.  

  • Easier-to-digest format. Understand usage changes from the previous month with mouseover capabilities.  

  • Enhanced agility to recruitment processes. Real-time data lets you proactively adjust recruitment processes to improve responsiveness to candidate needs.  

  • Increased ROI to recruitment strategies. Gain visibility into your recruiting organization’s performance to strengthen decisions around strategy. 

How to access Usage Reports 

You'll receive an automated email on the first business day of every month with a direct link to your report as a friendly reminder to view your data. However, you can access the report anytime from your SeekOut dashboard.  

Note: You'll need an Administrator account to access Usage Reports. Please reach out to our Customer Support team if you'd like Administrator access.  

A screenshot that shows users where to navigate to find Team Admin Usage Reports
  • Click on your profile in the lower left corner of your dashboard.  

  • Click on Team Administration  

  • Navigate to the Usage Reports tab  

  • Click on the button “Click here to load the report” to generate your report.  

  • Toggle between the two tabs to view your reports (The following section explains the data points featured in each of these tabs.):  

    • Dashboard – Data Analyzer: See details of your entire team’s usage over time.  

    • Dashboard – Recruiters: See an overview of each team member’s usage  

  • To download either report:  

    • Scroll to the top of the page, and click on the square icon with the arrow pointing down. You’ll see the text “Choose a format to download” when you hover over it. 

    • Select the format you’d like to download your reports.  

Data explained: Data Analyzer and Recruiters tabs 

Usage Reports offers more data points than the previous version. You’ll now see multiple tables with additional columns in the Data Analyzer tab and added data in the Recruiters tab. Adjust the date range for either tab to see data from a specific time frame.  

Note: Your data refreshes every day at 4 a.m. Pacific Time.  

Data Analyzer tab 

Usage Adoption table

  • Users with Login: Total number of users who had at least one session.  

  • Days with Logins: The total number of “Active Days” across all users. An “Active Day” is a calendar day that has at least one session.  

  • Days with Activity: The total number of days across all users, that include at least one activity (i.e., a search, profile view, etc.) that is not a Session (see below for definition of a Session). 

  • Total Searches: The total number of unique searches. 

  • Sessions: Total count of Sessions. A Session is counted if a user inactive for more than 30 minutes or the user has been active for more than 24 hours. 

Outreach Metrics Table 

  • Emails Sent: Total number of emails sent via SeekOut Outreach 

  • Emails Opened: Total number of emails opened that were sent via SeekOut Outreach 

  • Emails Replied: Total number of replies to emails sent via SeekOut Outreach that have been received 

Search Behaviors table 

  • Profile Views: The number of profiles viewed by clicking on a profile link.  

  • Diversity Search: The number of searches that involved at least one Diversity tag. 

  • Power Filters: The number of searches that involved at least one Power Filter. 

The following data points are not available for all accounts (those who don’t have access to this data will see zeros in these columns):  

  • Security Clearances: The number of searches that included the use of at least one Security Clearance Power Filter. 

  • Healthcare Searches: The number of searches run in the Healthcare index.  

  • Nursing Searches: The number of searches run in the Nursing index. 

  • ATS Searches: The number of searches run in the Your ATS / Talent Rediscovery index. 

  • Internal Searches: The number of searches run in the Internal Talent index. 

  • Insights Count: The number of People Insight reports viewed. 

Actioned Profiles table 

  • Added to Projects Candidates: The number of candidates that were added to a project. 

  • Contact Request: The number of requests for Email or Phone contact info that were made. 

  • Export Count: The number of profiles that were exported. 

  • LinkedIn Profiles Viewed: The number of times a LinkedIn Profile was viewed by clicking on the LinkedIn icon in a SeekOut profile. 

  • Actioned Profiles: The number of profiles that were “Actioned”. An “Actioned Profile” is one for which at least one of the following actions was performed: Add to Project, View Profile, Get Contact Info, Export. 

Recruiters tab 

You’ll see some of the same data points from the Data Analyzer tab just geared toward individual Recruiter use.  

On the left side of the table, you’ll see:  

  • Email: The email address / login of the user 

  • Name: The user's name 

  • Team Name: If applicable, the user’s team name 

  • License: The SeekOut license type allocated to this user 

  • Last Login Date: A timestamp representing the last time this user logged into SeekOut. 

On the right side of the table, you can scroll through the following:  

  • Sessions. Total count of Sessions. A Session is counted if a user inactive for more than 30 minutes or the user has been active for more than 24 hours. 

  • Days with Activity. The total number of days across all users, that include at least one activity (i.e., a search, profile view, etc.) that is not a Session (see below for definition of a Session). 

  • Total Searches. The total number of unique searches. 

  • Search Results Count 

  • Power Filter Searches New. The number of searches that involved at least one new Power Filter. 

  • Insights Count. The number of People Insight reports viewed (not available for all accounts). 

  • Added to Project Candidates. The number of candidates that were added to a project. 

  • Contact Request. The number of requests for Email or Phone contact info that were made. 

  • Export Count. The number of profiles that were exported. 

  • View Profile. The number of profiles viewed by clicking on a profile link. 

  • Diversity Search. The number of searches that involved at least one Diversity tag. 

Frequently asked questions

Can I modify the data in my reports?  

No. However, you can adjust the date range, drop down to filter by team, and all the columns can be sorted.  

Can I still access my historical data?  

Yes. Adjust the date range to view data from any time period.  

Can I share the direct link from the automated email with another team member? 

Only if they are also an Org Admin, but you can download and share the file otherwise.