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What is Indeed.com?

Indeed is a job board and job search engine, available globally.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Indeed.com has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 164 ratings of Indeed.com's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Passive Recruitment Advertising

    The ability to post or promote recruitment efforts or specific jobs on social media or other sites

    Category average: 7

  • Employer Branding Tools

    The ability to create an employer persona to better engage with candidates and applicants

    Category average: 7.3

  • Active Recruitment Advertising

    The ability to promote jobs directly to candidates by email, text, or direct messages

    Category average: 7.9

Areas for Improvement

Reviews

What users are saying about Indeed.com.
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Indeed is needed for every Sourcing person as a recruiter.

Incentivized
Hari haranView profile
US IT recruiter in Human Resources at Exaways Corporation (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Indeed extensively for sourcing resumes and job postings. We use Indeed for job postings for a maximum of time, and sourcing using filters is an added advantage for us. Since we are a staffing agency, we always use these job boards for sourcing and job postings.

Pros

  • Job posting is the best thing we use particularly for maximum of our professional.
  • Sourcing and screening of profile is best one.
  • Internal communication to the candidate or chat internally is easy way.

Cons

  • I don't feel any improvement in Indeed, as it's good in this aspect, and the location filter may be optimized.
  • Some old profile which has mismatch information could be review.

Return on Investment

  • Posting of job and receive profile is the best and easy way for a sourcing person.
  • Sourcing of resume in portal using various keywords is best.
  • Internal communication is best to the resume.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Monster.com, Prohire, Dice.com and CareerBuilder.com

Best tools for the Niche roles

Verified User
Employee in Professional Services (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I used Indeed.com for sourcing and posting the job form the client or manager. I usually get the IT as well as Non-IT requirements. It is useful for me to source both IT and Non-IT requirements which is the only portal for both needs. Specifically for Non-IT, no other tools can perform well when compared to Indeed.com

Pros

  • Best job posting for IT and Non-IT roles
  • Shows more details about the profiles and candidate
  • Very good filters
  • Call functionality

Cons

  • Need to improve their user Interface
  • Dashboard improvement needed

Return on Investment

  • Great value for money
  • Easy to understand the UI and their features which helps to give training easily
  • We can get the profiles in TOT

Alternatives Considered

Dice.com, Monster.com and Linkedin Recruiter

Other Software Used

Linkedin Recruiter, Dice.com, CareerBuilder.com

One Stop solution for your sourcing

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Professional Services (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I'm using Indeed.com for Job positing and sourcing the profiles which helps me to source the relevant profiles in a quick time. Most of the other portals doesn't meet my expectation for sourcing the Non-IT requirements where Indeed.com plays the key role here. We have closed several positions by using the Indeed.com postings.

Pros

  • Fetching the relevant profiles
  • Interactive user interface
  • Applicant Tracking
  • Live Video Interview

Cons

  • Need Alerts and Notification
  • Need to have some different interface

Return on Investment

  • We usually schedule the interview with other apps but Indeed.com has Live video Interview option to make easier
  • Its is better tools in terms of cost effective and work
  • Statistics report helps in many ways

Alternatives Considered

Dice.com

Other Software Used

Dice.com, Monster.com, Naukri.com

Indeed major short-comings for Recruiters/ Employers

Incentivized
Henry FaustView profile
Mgr of Recruitment in Information Technology at Corporate Systems Assoc. Inc (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Indeed.com to recruit for IT Client openings such as developers, managers, etc. We use the candidates search tools and post all our openings.

Pros

  • Has a very simple process for candidates to post their resume
  • Search database has many candidates who do not use other job boards
  • Offer free job postings

Cons

  • No way of searching applicants resumes to bring up the most qualified. I have suggested that employers should be able to apply a boolean search string to the hundreds that apply, so they can narrow down & follow up with those who have the required skills. Without this, it is not practical to go through the time-consuming effort to notify rejected candidates. That frustrates candidates who never hear back, and employers who cannot click on and review the excessive number of folks who apply. Bad for everyone.
  • They do a terrible job in screening vendors who misuse the site and post fake resumes, duplicated under many names and locations. I have been reporting them for years, but those profiles remain.
  • Applicant dashboard does not list even the most basic information like their current job title, city is hit or miss, years of experience, if they can work on W-2, if they are willing to relocate, or what type of work authorization/ visa they need to work under. With only supplying the name, it is not enough information to decide who is worth clicking on to review or pursue.
  • The database search function does not allow selecting those who are applying themselves vs. those who are posted by some third party vendor. This is very important to know when you are emailing them vs. someone else.
  • Indeed.com has the potential to be a world-class job board to employers and job seekers, but is not making improvements/ tweaks in the most vital areas, and instead offers new features that are far less critical.

Most Important Features

  • Effectively and efficiently search job applicants resume so we can reach out the most qualified job seekers
  • Effectively and efficiently search resume database so we can reach out the most qualified job seekers
  • Once we email a candidate through Indeed.com, Indeed.com should automatically follow up for a reply quickly! We usually look to submit our candidates to our direct clients in 24-48 hrs. so hearing beck from a job seeker a week later is not practical.
  • Since the job boards have a large percentage of job seekers who need to work through an employer who might sponsor their visa, employers need to know that before wasting time on those who do not meet employer/ client requirements. Other job boards like CareerBuilder and Dice offer this distinction.

Return on Investment

  • Resume search database has a positive effect on business based on lower cost, but just because you find a posting for a great candidate, does not mean they will ever reply, or meet the job criteria for payrate, work authorization, location, etc.
  • Applicant screening is in-effective compared to highly positive ROI from sites like DICE

Not As Good As It Seems

Michelle MelendezView profile
HR Manager in Human Resources at The Sourcing Group (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Indeed.com for recruiting for our company. We are a small company and do not have a budget for recruiting nor a recruiter to assistance when position come up. Managers across the company use it as well as HR when trying to fill a position for any department when one becomes open.

Pros

  • cost
  • ease
  • speed

Cons

  • too many irrelevant resumes

Most Important Features

  • free recruitment
  • posting variety of positions
  • ease of use

Return on Investment

  • were able to hire one or two folks with no cost
  • got a large amount of resumes will little effort

Alternatives Considered

ZipRecruiter

Other Software Used

ZipRecruiter, Monster.com, LinkedIn Jobs