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Indeed Hiring Platform

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What is Indeed Hiring Platform?

A hiring platform that delivers the interviews needed to reach and understanding of job seekers with recruiting automation technology in one solution.

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What is Indeed Hiring Platform?

Indeed Hiring Platform helps fast-track virtual recruiting at scale. It helps users automate time-consuming recruiting tasks such as screening, scheduling, and messaging with candidates to accelerate hiring, so users can spend more time on the highest-value activities.

Indeed Hiring Platform Features

  • Supported: Automated screening: Help automate screening with hiring criteria and screener questions
  • Supported: Automated interview scheduling: Help automate scheduling with jobseekers that meet the employer's hiring criteria
  • Supported: Virtual Interviews: Indeed’s virtual interview platform provides options including, virtual or phone, candidate resume preview, chat functionality and custom welcome messaging.
  • Supported: Automated candidate communications: Help automate communications and provide helpful hints to keep candidates engaged throughout the process
  • Supported: Talent attraction options: Bring your own candidates, use free listings or pay to use Indeed Sponsored Jobs or Targeted Ads.

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Indeed Hiring Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUS, CA, UK, IE, FR, DE, IT, BE, NL

Frequently Asked Questions

A hiring platform that delivers the interviews needed to reach and understanding of job seekers with recruiting automation technology in one solution.

Paradox Conversational ATS, HireVue, and Yello are common alternatives for Indeed Hiring Platform.

Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of Indeed Hiring Platform are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Job posting
  • Search criteria
  • Niche Skills search
  • Better UI
  • bETTER pool
  • More posting options.
Niche skills like Blue yonder and such where you won't find talent, indeed will help you in such hiring and reaching 1000 of talent from posting. Posting has greater scope in indeed and can reach to many people in time. I have experience great talent pool coming from indeed posting and were unique and got the job right away.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Marketing listings to the public
  • Easy to use templates
  • Suggestions for success
  • pricing
  • continuous upselling when not needed
  • reporting
Again, Indeed is the leader when it comes to hourly and salary staffing. From all the positions at our dealerships, Indeed helps us staff most of the positions we need to fulfill. Overall, they offer a great product and at a competitive rate. It is worth trying to see if it will work for your company.
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reaching a broad network
  • Promoting the job listings.
  • Able to upload documents
  • Have hiring questions
I have used much better hiring platforms. I think that indeed is lacking in most of those functions. There are no interview questions. No pre-screens. You cannot upload documents through it. You are unable to text or email in Indeed. I just feel for the cost you're better off going elsewhere.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Interface was user friendly
  • An orientation for training on how to use the platform was helpful
  • Check in's from the Indeed rep occurred
  • Allowing access to candidate resumes ahead of time
I liked the accessibility of the virtual interviewing rooms. We would have preferred to review candidate resumes ahead of time.
February 17, 2023

Virtual Interviews

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Updates when interviews are scheduled
  • Training
  • Advertising
  • More detail in the email updates regarding times of interviews
  • Collection of resumes
Indeed hiring platform did a great job training and providing information to the employees who would be using the platform.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provided easy to use links for advertising outside the platform.
  • Sent daily sign up updates.
  • Periodic check-ins from the Indeed team to make sure everything was working correctly.
  • Allow users to make manual updates to attendance after the event.
  • Have a more robust system to allow users to link more than one event together in one project.
I don't know where it is less appropriate. The platform works well for hourly production/labor and skilled labor (like welders).
November 14, 2022

Speed is key!

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company has trialed the Indeed Hiring Platform a handful of times over the past year for a handful of different clients. This platform has helped us shorten our hiring process, which was particularly helpful with clients where we had a small hiring window. This also allowed us to attract candidates who were interested in a quicker hiring process.
  • Advertise to candidates
  • Efficient process for interviewers
  • Easy tracking of how interviews went
  • More editing capabilities after creating the event for time frames
  • Ability to auto-upload candidates to ATS (It is my understanding that this may be coming soon)
This platform is very useful if candidates are needing to be hired in a very quick manner. Being able to offer candidates an automatic interview, along with pre-screening questions offered can really expedite the hiring process. The platform may not be as useful if you are needing to conduct a very thorough interview. Knowing other candidates are waiting can make it very hard to spend too much time with a single candidate.
Laura Samoisette, LEED AP, WELL AP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Indeed Hiring Platform is used by our HR department in order to assess candidates for specific open roles within the company. It has helped us to quickly assess candidates and set up interviews and next steps. The platform decreases the applicant pool and has been of assistance to our HR team when speedy replacements are necessary.
  • Filtering by experience/qualities needed
  • Providing a large pool of applicants
  • Speeds up the hiring process
  • Would be nice to have a feature where you can respond to applicants through email instead of through the platform
  • For roles that need multiple interview sessions or a very large pool to choose from the features of this platform are not super accomodating
  • Candidate quality is sometimes subpar, even after filters are used
Indeed is well suited to smaller firms that are looking to fill key roles fast and need an instant pool of candidates. The filtering feature helps to weed out those who are not the best fit. Our HR team saved a lot of time using the platform to find a new office manager compared to word of mouth or Linkedin. The additional features offered don't seem very accommodating to bigger firms with an extensive interview process, especially if they are trying to track and make profiles of candidates. If you want something that fills immediate roles you can definitely find a suitable candidate within the large applicant pool the platform holds.
Paul Glasier | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Indeed to search while utilizing the project's platform and use the platform for virtual and in-person job fairs.
  • Promotes job fairs well and tracks RSVPs.
  • Easy search capabilities.
  • Strong customer service.
  • It would be nice to get the profile of the candidates with the RSVP for job.
  • Allow a few more contacts with passive candidates.
The virtual job fair was a bust. Very few candidates showed to mine, more to the Lowell one. Again, our rep, Andrew Becker is top-notch, very responsive, and is very prompt in his replies. The onsite ones work much better. We get almost a 50% turnout which is good these days.
Devin Rowley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Indeed Hiring Platform is used across our entire organization. As a user, our hiring manager gave me access to review candidates that applied for open positions within our department. I have quick access to the resumes and job history of all our applicants. But my favorite feature was the Invites that Indeed would let us send out to potential candidates. We had a great batch of people to select from.
  • Simple user interface. It is well organized by open jobs and filters down to the best candidates.
  • Access to Indeed's database of individuals who can be invited to apply to an open position.
  • Effective communication system between employer and job candidates.
  • Sometimes the resume formatting is different from the attached resumes.
I think all people should use Indeed and keep their resumes updated on the platform. The algorithms in the database really work well to match candidates the postings within our team for all the roles within our organization. We had an employee who was retiring, so we wanted to get in a new hire quickly. We sent out invites to 10 people and selected one of them for the position. It was quick and seamless.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are in constant need of applicants. We specifically use this platform to fill RN roles, and applicants from the hiring event are more likely to get hired versus applicants that apply to job posts who do or don't pick up the phone.
  • Travel Nurses
  • More applicants for specific jobs
  • Technical issues that users and applicants experience
Indeed Hiring Platform is well suited for travel nurses but doesn't meet expectations when we're looking to fill specific roles.
Ray Fisher | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are an employment agency and we use indeed to reach out to potential candidates for our open positions. Indeed allows us to target job-specific candidates so that our recruiters can have better time management. This allows us to streamline and find the best fit for our job openings in a timely manner.
  • Customer service is very timely.
  • Their platform is very user friendly
  • They give you the ability to adjust the budget on your job postings.
  • Some candidates phone numbers do not show up.
  • Job postings and reposting jobs could be streamlined to save time.
  • The annual price increased with the merge with GlassDoor but we have not noticed an increase in the number of applicants.
Indeed is well suited in helping our recruiters streamline the hiring process by allowing us to post for job-specific positions and also allows us to have knockout questions to eliminate candidates that do not qualify for our specific job postings. It would be nice to have the ability to see if a candidate applied to multiple job postings on our job board.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have utilized the Indeed Hiring Platform this last year to tap into the potential passive seeking job seekers or those who would not have applied with our company previously and we have found great success in this aspect. This platform has also allowed us to find a middle ground in these post-pandemic times to still establish a more personal connection with each candidate, while also appealing to the ease and convenience that candidates are seeking during these times.

I was personally responsible for the set-up of the events as well as managing the overall execution, and I can attest that from start to finish, this process was smooth and seamless. The feedback from my team as well as Hiring Manager who was conducting interviews was extremely positive.
  • The set-up of the event asks for important details to maximize the effectiveness of the event, but is also very simple.
  • The opportunity for you to create more personal connections with each candidate, while also providing a virtual hiring experience.
  • The actual hiring event platform that is utilized during the execution of the event is simple, user-friendly, and aesthetically pleasing.
  • There are times when multiple people would enter the same interviewing room at the same time, which would create an awkward experience for the candidate/hiring managers. Perhaps if there was a function that said "Hiring Manager 1 is already in this room, are you sure you would like to proceed in entering at this time?" would alleviate that issue.
I think that this platform is versatile in the sense that it could be used to recruit for a number of different roles, however, I could see this being less effective for senior leadership to executive-level roles.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the Indeed Hiring Platform to find qualified, experienced IT consultants for IT Services projects. We obtain requests or find opportunities from private and public organizations that require a specialized set of experienced IT resources to deliver their portfolio of IT projects. Often times our clients' requirements have a very short turnaround time so we need to have access to a large pool of qualified talent to eventually find the right person or people. From our experience, the Indeed Hiring Platform meets this need nicely. We have received a solid number of applicants for each of our postings and the quality of those applicants have been at least as good as other tools we used in the past.
  • Provides a large pool of applicants that mostly meets our needs.
  • Easy to post new openings. The new posting "wizard" is simple and quick to use.
  • Pricing is flexible and very reasonable. We don't want to commit to a # of positions or costs for a whole year as our needs can ebb and flow. We like the ability to post and pay as needed.
  • The qualifying questionnaire that we can use to help screen candidates is not very flexible.
  • The virtual assistant can add questions or provide filters to the application for the candidate that we don't actually want or need.
  • Surprisingly, the candidate/applicant list view is not very flexible. It should be a simple, one-click step to get from a filtered list to an all candidate view, but it takes a couple of extra clicks...I think this is because of the virtual assistant being turned on. I can always get to what I need or want eventually, but it just seems like I have to make a few extra, unnecessary clicks to get the view I want.
  • As of 01/01/2022, Indeed has changed their default pricing model to Pay by Applicant which uses an algorithm to determine the cost per applicant which can vary and it replaces the default campaign price cap. As we learned the hard way this can get expensive very quickly if you do not set an applicant maximum and you do not reject applicants you do not want or don't think are a fit for your posting.
  • Strangely and unfortunately, your posted/live job is not by default easy to find and view/review to confirm on the live/candidate side of the platform. The search bar does NOT work like Google in returning the most relevant and then everything else.
  • Your company also does not by default show up under the Find Jobs section if you do not have a live post (although searching by Company is an option in this search field) and if you do have a live post...again like Google it does not do a good job of returning all results...from our informal testing, it seems like you need an exact match not just on job name, but your location...even if you use Remote as the location. Even under the Company Reviews search (which does NOT seem to require a live job to return a result, the search engine lacks. Our company name is made up of 4 words. You cannot just search by the first word of our company name and see our company listed....we would have expected it to at least show up, even if it was at the bottom of the search. It takes the first two words of our company name entered into the Company review search to return our company name.
  • The flip side to constant innovation is that Indeed's platform can/will introduce new features and options when posting a job that you may not fully understand or may not even fully work as expected when you are ready to post your next job listing. This can be a pain since you are ready to go and then you have to step back and learn/relearn some part of the solution which, at least, recently has impacted us in overall costs.
If your company does not have a predictable hiring schedule or a set # of positions a month or year, Indeed is great because there is no upfront cost commitment required. Post and pay whenever you have a need, with reasonable pricing. If you want to have a lot of applicants/candidates, Indeed works great. It seems that a lot of IT consultants use Indeed...seemingly more so than the legacy providers like Monster and DICE. If your company likes to use questionnaires to help filter candidates (like we do), Indeed's questionnaire tool is not all that flexible. It works overall, but it seems to be set up for simple qualification filtering. For example, there is a surprisingly small word/character limit when creating questions.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Nielsen uses Indeed to host Virtual Hiring events to supply our Call Center with a high volume of candidates. Given that we are needing to hire a high volume of people, the Indeed hiring event advertises our available job opening out to a large number of people.
  • Provide a virtual experience to interview candidates from around the USA.
  • Screens applicants with our choice of screening questions before they can sign up for the event.
  • Make attaching a resume a requirement.
  • Have ability to share audio as well when sharing screen.
Given Indeed's popularity, we are able to pull in a lot of candidates for our hiring events. This is essential for high-volume recruiting. Scenarios, when Indeed had technical difficulties, tarnished the name for Nielsen as well.
October 18, 2022

#Indeedhiringplatform

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Indeed for mid-career professional outreach. We've recently found resume search the more effective portion of the platform.
  • Resume search
  • Indexing of jobs from our ATS
  • candidate communications, candidates don't always check their Indeed email
  • use candidate personal email address, not Indeed email
Less appropriate for sales roles.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Indeed Hiring Platform is currently used for our hiring needs. We use it to post open job for individuals to apply for. Because we are a relatively small employer, we essentially use Indeed as our de facto ATS system. We use Indeed to communicate back and forth with candidates on interview times.
  • Ease of use
  • Cost effective
  • Able to reach out to a wide array of candidates.
  • Customer service is lacking.
  • Don't see a ton of value in additional services.
  • Constant issues with system being down.
As a relatively small employer, Indeed Hiring Platform does a good job of getting our jobs out there for individuals to apply for. We essentially use Indeed to monitor candidates applying, and it is well-suited to getting the jobs published and out there. Their communication tools with candidates are set up well. If we were a larger employer with our own jobs page, I don't see Indeed as a great fit.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I mainly used indeed for hiring purposes. Whenever we got the requirement from the our client we will posted over the indeed. We can get the good number of submission and we will shortlist as per requirement and submit
  • Hiring
  • Interviewing
  • Job application
  • Resume parsing system for shortlisting
  • Low price resume database
  • Local candidates availability
I strongly recommend indeed for recruitment companies where they have a good number of hiring. Indeed has a good platform to shortlist the resume accordingly.
October 03, 2022

Indeed Candidates

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are constantly in need of qualified new employees for various positions. This platform reaches to places I couldn't on my own. The amount of hits we get when an ad is placed is fantastic. They also weed out employees based on their qualifications. We will continue to use Indeed for years to come.
  • pre qualification questions
  • reaching more potential employees
  • more resumes
  • The amount charged
  • I get same applicants for several positions and am charges each time
  • Ad boosting
The area that Indeed can reach. Sometimes there are even out of state qualified applicants. There is a constant flow of resumes coming in. Once boosted the ad has an even better turnout. We are always hiring. We need several positions filled currently.
☁️Justin (JD) Iiams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The biggest problem was people finding the website to apply for jobs. We became proactive in our search for candidates and with Indeed Hiring Platform's robust selection of candidates, we were able to source, interview, and hire someone within 2 weeks. The ability to conduct video interviews within Indeed's own platform made it easier to connect with people during the pandemic and get to know people before we even met face-to-face. The ability to sort through and invite people to apply gave us the option to go very fast and very wide with candidates, then narrow them down from those who applied. It's not the least expensive option, but it does make the hiring process take up a lot less time and energy.
  • HUGE selection of candidates
  • Video meeting tool within the platform
  • Suggesting the right people
  • Being more hyper-specific for candidates
  • Ability to search for people in narrower industries
  • Ability to merge Indeed with the company's website for listings
The biggest drawback to Indeed Hiring Platform is that when hiring, IT IS a full-time job in and of itself. Otherwise, candidates who apply, if not rejected within a certain amount of time, still get billed. It's not easy to juggle a business AND hiring at the same time.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Hospitality Company with 3 Restaurants experiencing staffing needs: We were experiencing staffing challenges, particularly with our Food and Beverage positions. We had posted the positions on multiple job boards and recruiting platforms and were not having very much luck filling our many open positions. We hosted an Indeed hiring event targeting specifically our need to fill Food and Beverage positions. We had 234 RSVPs and had 51 people show up which was pretty good results. Of the 51 that showed, we offered positions to 8 people which will have a huge positive impact on our operation. We also post our positions individually on Indeed but the hiring event really helped us get a large amount of people hired in a short amount of time.
  • advertisement
  • RSVP tracking
  • ease of downloading contact information for RSVPs
  • I'd like the option to have multiple personalized emails to follow up with candidates who RSVP'd
  • ability to set RSVP limits for specific interview times so that if 1 time is getting too many you can close it while still keeping the other interview times open
  • we advertised for multiple properties, it would be nice to be able to specify which property each position was at
It worked very well when we were in a tough spot and had a lot of positions to fill in a short amount of time. I don't know if it would be worth the cost for smaller hiring needs.
August 31, 2022

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Shannon Hall | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Indeed in all areas of our recruiting/hiring. It is a great platform to get our jobs out in front of 10's of thousands of job seekers for little to no cost to the company. I have two recruiters under me that currently rely solely on Indeed to fill our call center agent positions, as well as myself for our high-level executive and tech jobs.
  • No cost.
  • Gets your jobs in front of a Large audience.
  • Offers in account messaging.
  • Pausing or Vetoing jobs without our knowledge.
  • The Indeed Recruiter is not a success, it doesn't work well in my opinion.
Indeed is perfect for a low recruiting budget. It was the only platform we had had for a very long time, and it served us well. We are a very large company with Sites all over the US and Canada, with each of our 31 offices having their own Indeed accounts, so sometimes it is hard to get my new recruiters set up with an account, as they think it is fraudulent, and I often have to get on the phone with them to verify the user as our Corporate office is in PA., but we are largely remote, so we have people from around the country.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Hiring Platform was easy to use and to learn quickly. This was also an easy tool to show and involve our team into at Hire Partnership. Getting to experience the platform in action during an event gave us a better understanding of its functions and benefits. Going forward, we were unsure why individuals were stuck in a waiting room, but after further evaluation with Indeed, we were informed it might be individuals who did not complete the process of entering an interviewing room. The only issue with this is if a team member contacted that waiting list individual, there was no way to take them off that list or add a note. Other than that, there were no other issues using the platform technically. A possible great idea is if there was an easier way for us to mass email individuals who did not show up for their interviews so we can invite them back into the event or coordinate separately outside of sifting through an excel sheet after the event.
  • Trained on the use of the platform.
  • Making it easily accessible to start an interview.
  • Notes section is easy to locate and view.
  • The stats were clear and concise.
  • No way to remove individuals from waiting list.
  • No way to know if someone contacted a person from waiting list.
This was an easy and functional way for us to better screen candidates before officially inviting them to an onsite interview for the position. It let us get to know them as if there were in person, and it seemed to be easy to use for the candidates as well.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I used the platform to interview candidates for a client.
  • option to let candidates into the interview
  • video quality
  • option to call candidates if there is no video
  • background options other than blur
During deadlines of when candidates are needed for a position.
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