Indeed major short-comings for Recruiters/ Employers
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October 12, 2023
Indeed major short-comings for Recruiters/ Employers
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.
- 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
- 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.
April 25, 2022
Has some issues, but still the best Job Board available!
We currently utilize Indeed.com to recruit for 100 skilled nursing facilities. I currently manage the Indeed.com subscription, and my recruiting team has full access to post jobs. Our facility HR has limited access, and they can contact candidates via email, but cannot post on their subscriptions.
- Solid candidate flow.
- Great customer service - they always make us aware of new offerings as soon as they are available.
- Allows you to be very specific with what you are looking for by a variety of employment screening questions you can fill out.
- The job posting process has become very tedious with additional information that is required I fill out and it is not even posted on the job posting itself.
- Indeed.com assumes a salary range, which is posted on the job unless you go in and delete the range. Not once has their assumed salary range been anywhere close to accurate.
- There is sometimes a considerable lag time between an applicant applying and an email being sent to my inbox notifying me of the applicant.
November 05, 2021
Why you should choose Indeed!
Score 10 out of 10
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Indeed is being used by our organization to hire people for different positions throughout the company. Indeed is used in that specific way for example, you post an open position putting a full description of the position so that people looking for jobs can read and simply apply if they like the position right through the application Indeed.
- Saves your resume so you could apply for jobs with one click
- Finds the best most related jobs for person applying
- Has full description of jobs and spot on contact information with fast replies
- Indeed can improve by making sure all posted jobs are being updated continuously
- They honestly have everything flowing and do everything great
May 21, 2021
Indeed review - Fantastic
Our Staffing Dept. uses indeed to post openings with in our area both temp and permanent. One Staffer from each department/office uses indeed.com. It allows us to reach a large range of job seekers.
- Reaches a larger audience of job seekers
- Very user friendly for both hiring agent and job seeker
- Attracts a large variety of people
- An option for more detailed searches
- Forcing renewing resumes after 30-60 days or erasing them
- Only showing for job seeker with specific trades
April 25, 2021
Indeed is great for LARGE SCALE Hires!!!!
Indeed is used to post jobs consistently.
- Indeed is fantastic when hiring across state lines and for large-scale hiring.
- Indeed has such broad reach due to how well known it is and ease of use for the employees who are applying for positions.
- Indeed is free to post jobs, and we can promote the jobs for comparably a good deal to other job posting sites.
- A lot of the same applicants apply over and over to the same job postings despite being rejected due to being unqualified for the position. This is particularly a problem when doing large-scale hires in one specific location.
- Indeed has poor filtering and search capabilities for employers. As an employer on Indeed you deal with huge QUANTITY of applicants - which can be great but when looking for specific skillsets, it can be difficult to find the right applicants in such a large pool. For executive level positions, Indeed is not my preferred job positing site.
April 23, 2021
Indeed.com review
Indeed.com is a worldwide employment related search engine for job listings that provides service including job search, job trends, resume upload, storage and search, industry trends, salary search, job competition index and website forums. At our organization, we use it to post only the job postings related to United States.
- Set of resumes.
- Texting to candidate.
- Predefined templates and packages.
- Phone screen tends to land in applicants spam folder.
- UI needs improvement.
We use [Indeed.com] for all our new hiring. As a startup, we do not have an internal HR department or use a third party recruiting service. [Indeed.com] allows us to post jobs at a relatively affordable cost, have several algorithms that help weed out unqualified candidates, and it is well-known and one of the job boards of choice among the industry in the local area.
- Quality of the candidate pool
- Easy management of applicants
- Screener questions and assessment testing
- Screener questions don't automatically cut out unqualified candidates
- Requires specific uses of words in title to show up on searches
- Resume doesn't always automatically show up or require additional download
Indeed.com is the best place to put our job listings. It usually has the most job applicants for job postings. In the past we have hired candidates that come from Indeed because they have such a large user base.
- Large amount of traffic.
- Lots of job postings.
- Simple layout and easy to navigate.
- Great emails for job notifications.
- Indeed.com isn't great for recruiting.
- The cost to advertise jobs can get pricey.
- There are some not so legit jobs posted that get in the way of real jobs.
April 21, 2021
Best Job Board Out There
[Indeed.com] is the primary platform our company uses to recruit and hire new team members.
- Reputation as the top hiring platform
- Easy to use job posting system
- Their sales team can be too persistent
- Their quizzing and custom profiling options could be improved
- Recruiting recommendations aren't always good fits
April 20, 2021
Indeed is great indeed
My manager and I both use it to post jobs for the whole organization. It is very helpful when we run out of referrals to restock our resume options.
- Being able to alter already posted jobs make it easy to post new positions
- Ease of using the website
- Pulls a lot of good talent for us
- We are able to post jobs in certain locations
- Customize each job posting for what we need
- The only downside I have experienced is it being down for maintenance on a week day when needed
April 20, 2021
Great for Business Expansion
As our business has begun expanding over the last year, it's been a great opportunity for us to consolidate our work applications. We can then easily communicate with applicants and schedule interviews. We really like the personalized questions we can ask for each new position.
- Application management.
- Location and Job Title specification.
- On a user side, it would be nice to add more images into our job offers.
October 16, 2020
Hire your best employees with Indeed
Our organization uses Indeed to hire in-house employees for all departments. We also use Indeed to hire remote employees in other parts of the country. We screen potential applicants based on qualifiers that we specify then narrow them down with some of the different testing and communication features that Indeed currently offers.
- Organizes applicants
- Allows for multiple job postings at once.
- Has a built-in scheduler for setting up interviews.
- Can save templates for communication.
- More flexibility in the interview scheduler other than 30 minute increments.
- Make it easier to keep unqualified applicants from applying to positions.
- Require applicants to provide key info on resumes.
- Have a reminders feature to check listing and correspondence.
April 23, 2020
Great Product. Customer Service not so great
We are using Indeed.com company-wide at 13 locations and are able to get good traffic of candidates. Indeed.com has helped us in sorting out good candidates and reduces the time spent going through each resume.
- Easy to use and manage
- Reduces time consumption
- Customer Service
- Billing
March 22, 2020
We Do Indeed Recommend Indeed
We've used Indeed to help us find the right candidates to meet our team-building needs. The good thing that Indeed does is it provides us with a great database of potential candidates and we are able to find qualified candidates pretty quickly. In a fast-moving business environment these days it really helps to have a job-filling partner that we can rely on.
- Indeed provides us with qualified candidates without having to do a lot of digging or wasting time.
- The interface for setting up job postings is super easy to set up and use.
- It's getting competitive in the job posting market and we are constantly getting pushed by other online job posting companies. I'd like to see more benefits of why we should work with Indeed over their competition.
- I would like to see more updates to the platform on a more regular basis to stay ahead of the competition.