Indeed.com

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.

Job posting feature is easy

For basic jobs you get a good amount of applicants

It is all about the jobs

They could have a better pool of candidates

Many of the applicants are from other countries

The cost for the resume search products is not worth it

No return on investment

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In my experience, customer service is terrible!

In my opinion, they need to vet their candidates better.

cost

ease

speed

too many irrelevant resumes

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.

Cost effective.

Delivers many candidates.

Provides a private message system.

Not flagging similar posts.

Easier set up.

Virtual recruiter.

Quick response to questions.

Helped me better understand searching criteria, for a better experience.

Cost for value is very good.

Add an FAQ on searching, using quotes and boolean (AND/OR) logic that is available.

ignore

stonewall

make excuses

shirk responsibility

Give phones to the secret department that you say cannot be reached via telephone

Up-to-date candidate selection.

Timely notifications.

Ease of use.

I liked the old "dashboard" better.

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

Unique job posting capabilities to explore additional services to source and pre-screen applicants to job postings!

You can search the resume and read the entire resume before messaging the candidate!

Ability to source using the job descriptions are a unique technique!

More flexibility for employers to see more contact information from applicants, i.e. make sure they provide phone numbers and eMail addresses when responding to job postings!

Screen candidates better for ones that are posted by staff augmentation organizations!

I love how easy it is to recruit new human talent for our organization's openings.

Indeed provides a user-friendly and navigable platform where we can easily post job requisitions and review applications.

It's amazing how easy it is for us as employers to search for the human talent we need and generate employment opportunities.

I consider that the prices for getting the services and posting job offers on this platform are a bit high.

Sends resumes to whomever will be reviewing them

Advertising

Requisition records

The number of steps to post a job

Multi-office organization

Filtering skill level

Filtering job level

Duplicating job posts

Refreshing job posts instead of completing redoing and reposting

Adding filters to existing job posts

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

Process automation

Easy to use

Great layout

Can post free of charge

Missing functionality - maybe activity report, how many clicks per position per week?

The best free job advertising platform out there that is easy to use and integrates with our ATS Greenhouse

ATS (Greenhouse) automatically posts every job to Indeed and requires zero effort

Formatting of the the jobs from my ATS look good when "pulled" over to Indeed

Able to integrate questions with rules that allow you to shortlist candidates in a more timely fashion

Sponsoring portal has change a couple times. I do not love the new format as of 5/2021 but it is not bad.

They allow you to use a credit card for sponsoring which linkedin will not

Sponsoring criteria is good and has many options

Sponsoring the jobs through my ATS is possible but it is much more effective going directly to the indeed platform. It should be the same and same experience, but it is not

I had issues Linking our indeed page to the proper company page etc...

New job sponsoring platform can be confusing

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.

Indeed.com is well known; thus has a very large pool of candidates.

With the web site being around longer than most of the other competitors, we can count on most of the features being mature and usable.

Standard listings are free so it allows us to casually look for someone without any expenditure.

They have a great desktop/mobile job alerts function which gets our jobs out to more candidates.

Indeed.com tends to have a lot of fake listings or listings which overstate a role and that drives some users away from using the service.

Indeed.com's aesthetics are a bit dated so although the web sites functions are mature they also are a bit bland....if that matters to someone.

They seem to try and push the sponsor (cost to you) job lists a bit strong.

Set of resumes.

Texting to candidate.

Predefined templates and packages.

Phone screen tends to land in applicants spam folder.

UI needs improvement.

Compare job postings

Submit application

Search for jobs

Submit resume as a PDF

Track job applications

Better search engines

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

Gets job applicants.

Sorting tools for applicants.

Notifications of new applicants.

Need more ways to label applicants.

More sorting options when reviewing 50+ applicants.

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.

Easy to use format

Rep calls you to make sure you're maximizing your dollars.

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