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Indeed
What Is Indeed?
Indeed is the #1 job site worldwide, with over 200 million unique visitors per month. Since 2004, Indeed has given job seekers free access to millions of jobs from thousands of company websites and job boards.
As the leading pay-for-performance recruitment advertising network, Indeed drives millions of targeted applicants to jobs in every field and is the most cost-effective source of candidates for thousands of companies.
Who Uses Indeed?
Indeed for employers is an easy to use, cost-effective way for companies to reach qualified applicants in more than 60 countries and 28 languages.
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Reviews of Indeed
Great candidate search tool!
Comments: Indeed has been amazing at saving me time in sorting through potential candidates and the functionality has allowed me to be very specific in searching for candidate skill sets.
Pros:
My experience has been that I’m able to find a deep and varied talent pool from which to seek candidates. I suspect some of this is due to the name recognition and broad use.
Cons:
Although not my own experience, I’ve heard other users complain that the free version has limited access to details.
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Comments: If your company does not have a lot of job openings on a regular basis, Indeed can be a very cost effective recruiting tool in lieu of hiring a full time staff member. The more time and money you are willing to invest in the application, the more beneficial it can be for your recruiting efforts. It is definitely a solid platform for reaching a larger pool of applicants for your position opening.
Pros:
When posting job openings, Indeed allows you to be very specific about your minimum criteria for the position. It then gives you a breakdown of how each candidate matches against the criteria, which can save you some time sorting through various resumes. Indeed also allows you to be very specific about your monthly spend, which is important as you are charged a base fee for each candidate who applies for the position. One you reach your maximum spend for the month, Indeed automatically pauses your posting so that you do not go over budget. Its email and scheduling capabilities make it easy to set up interviews with candidates you feel are qualified for your open position.
Cons:
Indeed has a large variety of options and filters available when posting a new position, which means you will probably spend a lot of time both setting up and maintaining your job posting. If you choose not to thoroughly set up your posting, you will receive a lot of applicants who are not specifically qualified for your open position, which means additional time sorting through resumes and communicating with applicants. While many of the process are automated, Indeed still requires someone to invest a significant amount sorting through resumes and cover letters.
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Not Price Effective
Comments: Indeed used to be great! However Indeed has just turned into a big bidding war, it seems you have to be willing to pay more and more each time for per click to get to the top of the list, which is unfortunate for small business's with limited budgets. Your job ads can not say plural words in the tile and body of the position descriptions, when all other applicant sites we use allow plural words/rates/locations in the description and title. This is frustrating and it seems like Indeed is hiking up it's prices left and right, and Indeed has just become to competitive price wise for our business to use it anymore. Indeed used to be our #1 site to go to, now we can not afford to use Indeed which is a bummer, because it did bring in a lot of traffic for us!
Pros:
Indeed brought us lots of resume traffic, it definitely beat out other competitor sites as far as results and getting resumes and applicants though the door! Indeed is a well known name and the site is very easy to navigate!
Cons:
Indeed was not easy to keep track of resumes that had been submitted, and I did not like that Indeed has so many restrictions on your job posts.
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Comments: It was good. I myself got few opportunities through indeed.
Pros:
I like the job options indeed have, and the alert they provide via mail of new opening vacancies.
Cons:
Sometimes filter doesn't work well And the job alerts provided in mail doenot go according to the searches made.
Great sourcing page!
Comments: Great experience overall. I have been using Indeed for the past 5 years and its been a great experience!!
Pros:
I like the pool that indeed has! Im able to find, source, and select good quality of candidates!
Cons:
customer service is not that fast. I wish they had live agents like other softwares!
