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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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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.
  • Hiring process took less than a week, saving us time
  • Speedy hiring process also leads to less money spent
  • Communication worked for both the applicant and us as a company- which was a positive experience
LinkedIn Jobs have the advantage of applicants being able to see a company in detail before they apply by looking at the company profile, employees profile, and links to company websites/accomplishments. I think this has an advantage over Indeed from the applicant's point of view. From a potential employer's perspective, Indeed has the upper hand. You can easily filter the experience and traits you need in an applicant. There is no confusion with communication and it saves time by providing a large applicant pool from the very beginning.
  • overall aesthetics of prompts is cohesive and pleasing to the eye
  • Scheduling and tracking interviews is simplistic and helpful
  • The pool of applicants reached is very broad compared to other hiring platforms, allowing for an easier way to create an applicant pool for more niche jobs
  • At the same time, having a big applicant pool for a more "generic" type of job can be a huge pain. Filtering in this scenario is not as smooth or intuitive as Linkedin
  • I've heard of some applicants getting confused about how to apply and schedule. I am unsure what the platform looks like on their end, but perhaps an issue to investigate
Yes, but I don't use it
Overall usability is very good, for our company it's been helpful for us to be able to navigate a large applicant pool. We've also found the prompts and icons to be very intuitive and aesthetic. Issues have mostly been on the applicant end and the interview option, while helpful, has also had some minor usability issues in the past.
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.
  • Using Indeed has reduced the time to hire by 50%.
  • Hiring qualified candidates has reduced turnover rates by 30%.
  • Reduced frustration between hiring managers and team leaders.
20
Most of the users are plant managers who are hiring direct for operations. We are in a somewhat specialized industry, so Indeed helps them cast a wider net. I represent the finance side of the business, so I have a relatively easier time to find qualified candidates for our open positions.
3
The first point of contact starts with the HR department. They are the administrators of the platform within our company. I work closely with their team to schedule in-person interviews. I think having a dedicated team to support the hiring process has been essential to help me keep focused on my role while also getting new employees hired quickly.
  • Advertising open positions to a wide audience.
  • Using the database to invite quality candidates to apply for open positions.
  • Built-in communication tools to contact candidates and schedule interviews.
  • Enable the HR department to screen candidates for the hiring managers.
  • Directly contact applicants through the platform for scheduling interviews.
  • Screening candidates with skill based tests.
  • Using Instant Match to find qualified candidates quickly.
  • Create sponsored job postings.
  • Expand on screener questions.
I've found Indeed to be an excellent product that delivered on most of my needs as a hiring manager. The Instant Match feature gives me an excellent list on candidates immediately at the beginning of our job search. They are constantly improving the service and adding new features. It fulfills my needs.
Not Sure
  • Price
  • Product Features
  • Product Usability
  • Product Reputation
Indeed is a top-of-mind product for individuals who are looking for employment. Our organization is spread across 14 locations in 8 states, so we wanted a product that would be usable across all locations. The platform has been simple to use and implement across the business. The standardized process has been helpful overall.
Withe the current feedback from users within our organization, we aren't looking to change anytime soon. At this point, I would reach out to hiring managers to see if they have any pain points and then evaluate if Indeed has any potential feature we have not implemented. If needed, I would start researching what other options are available on the market.
  • Don't know
  • I was not part of the implementation team.
  • No issues ro my knowledge.
I was not part of the implementation team.
As an end user, I have never needed to contact support.
We have purchased the Indeed Hiring Platform, which has commission based fees. The additional features that come with the entire platform has helped streamline the hiring process for our managers. Some of our roles are very time sensitive due to seasonality, so having the additional support benefits the company as a whole.
No
I haven't had to reach out to the support team directly, so I don't have an experience to share.
  • Using Instant Match to find high quality candidates.
  • Tracking and screening candidates.
  • Email notifications for new applicants.
  • Some resumes can come through clunky.
  • Disappointment when a strong candidate match is found only for them to not be available.
Yes, but I don't use it
I have personally found the Indeed platform to be easy and intuitive to use. I have had minimal training from our HR department but I can quickly review candidate's applications. I really like the 3 buttons available when screening, the check, question mark, and X symbols are a quick way to evaluate the candidates and adds a filter for easily sorting everyone.
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.
  • Not having to commit $1000 - $5000 dollars upfront to post our needs for the year is great.
  • Getting A LOT of (mostly qualified) candidates/applicants makes Indeed's cost seem worthwhile and again, you only pay when you post.
  • We have to spend a little more effort using the questionnaire to help filter the applicants/candidates that apply.
  • With the "new" default applicant per post pricing model with the 72 hour window to reject and replace candidates vs flat dollar amount posting, you have to be more aware, active, proactive in working candidate submissions /applicants.
DICE requires upfront costs for a specific set of postings for the whole year. The pricing is not flexible and our experience is that IT consultants aren't using DICE as much as they used to. We only used LinkedIn a little, but the costs and pricing flexibility also do not seem as good as Indeed.
3
We are a very small company so it is our operations resources that use this tool when we have resource requests for current and new clients.
2
Again as a very small company the resources that use Indeed play multiple roles, but basically anyone with a project manager, analyst, operations, and HR background can easily support this platform. The available Indeed support resources (email and phone) are pretty good. The help library is okay, but not great.
  • Staffing new job requests
  • Staffing backfill job requests
  • Researching potential candidate pool for potential future opportunities
  • This is available to everyone who uses the Indeed Hiring Platform, but the concept behind their "newish" 72 hour reject and replace solution is definitely innovative compared to the traditional model of receiving whatever # of applicants for a flat fee.
  • This is available to everyone who uses the Indeed Hiring Platform...although their default experience questionnaire format is limited due to the character limit, they do offer a lot more screening standard category/options than the traditional model.
  • This is available to everyone who uses the Indeed Hiring Platform...capturing and managing all messaging to the candidate in their portal is nice in that it is all centralized. And they have a bunch of automated ways to interact with the candidate like interview scheduling...although we have not wanted to take advantage of many of them as it would seemingly result in less control and more overhead in having to respond to candidates that we might not yet want to given where we are in the process and compared to other candidates who have applied.
  • Automated interview scheduling
  • Automated correspondence with candidates
  • Integration with our ATS
Indeed is great because it seems like a lot of IT consultants and IT resources use it to find new opportunities. The platform is continuously innovating and the price can be reasonable if managed actively and properly when setting up the job posting. I don't give it a 10 because the method of promoting your posting and their cost per applicant value is NOT transparent at all. It is dynamic according to market conditions which we have to assume is in the favor of the company making money and NOT serving us as customers. But maybe we are being too cynical? We say this because their search feature to find our posting and our company information from the candidate's side is suprisingly not very good. Why does only exact match searches work vs returning posts or company information if the candidate does NOT have the exact matching words. That is not how most search tools/engines work. They return the most relevant first and everything else afterward, but Indeed does not seemingly do this from our experience. If we do not enter exact key word matching our job postings and company information is not returned from the candidate search perspective.
Yes
We replaced DICE with Indeed because the number and quality of candidates coming from DICE seemed to drop off quite dramatically.
  • Price
  • Product Reputation
  • Other
For us the bottom line was getting more qualified candidates at a lower cost. DICE has an annual fixed costs which does have its benefits, but if they do not provide good candidates, it doesn't matter. Indeed overtook DICE with IT job seekers. We don't 100% know yet if Indeed's continuous innovation will lead to better performance overtime, but so far we are seeing better, more qualified candidates for our job posting.
We probably wouldn't have changed anything, but as we learned in the last year, we need to pay better attention to/spend more time to fully understand/learn about the changes in Indeed pricing model (new cost per applicant model vs old set campaign price model), if and when they occur, so that when we post we have better cost control.
  • Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
We had to learn how about price per applicant model with Indeed vs flat rate pricing with DICE. It was suprisingly confusing to us initially, but once we talked to support we got it. But we will have to continue to use it to dial it in so we can stick with a budget and still get quality candidates.
  • Working with new questionnaire model
  • Working with new pricing model
  • Working with new candidate reject and replace model
Probably best to talk to a support/sales person upfront to get all your questions answered vs just putting a post out there and reading some help FAQs like we did. :-)
They are responsive whenever we have questions, but sometimes the support resources do not have all the information/knowledge. Our guess is that it is because they are innovating so quickly their support team is not always up-to-date on the latest information. But eventually they can find the information so I guess that is all that matters.
We do NOT have any premium support. I honestly didn't know or think they had such a thing, but if they do, I don't think we would ever need it since our organization is pretty small and we are using default functionality which overall seems to work well enough for our needs.
Yes
It is ongoing. The candidate side search feature does not work as we would expect, but not sure if that is actually a bug or purposeful since their model promotes jobs vs a traditional candidate search model...at least that is our observation/conclusion so far.
I'm not sure if I would call this exceptional, but when we had a billing/cost issue/question that required an interactive MS Teams meeting they were available near immediately.
  • Reusing an existing job posting as a template for a new posting
  • Messaging with candidate
  • Reviewing job applicants by status
  • Setting up questionnaires...simply does NOT allow enough words
  • Understanding pricing for your job posting....since it is dynamic, you never know until you post...and at least from my perspective, they purposely do NOT make it clear that you are on the pricing page....like this should be the last page like a checkout page on Amazon or some retailer, but it is in the middle of the job posting.
  • There is NO clear, dedicatd draft area for job postings. You sort of go along in their wizard and at some point your posting has enough information that it will just go live even if you don't finish it...which is strange. And once you cross this threshold there is no delete option for this post that you do not want to keep, you have to close it. I'm sure this is because technically job posts can be 100% free on the platform, but being able to create draft posts should be a basic default function.
No
Overall it works great. The continuous innovation is nice, but also a pain as it sometimes feels like they add new features that you may not want or need, but you have to navigate through it to post you job. And then they move the sequence of the job posting process and it is not clear why or when it happened. I guess it is truly a SaaS and DevOps world nowadays! :-)
Haley Wilbourn | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the hiring platform to search resumes and get in contact with potential candidates. It is very useful because we can review the resume before reaching out to them. It helps us find perfect candidates and ween out the ones that don't have relevent experience. We have gained so many awesome employees using Indeed. We are a non medical home health company. [...]
  • Gives us candidates that have relevent experience.
  • Makes it super easy to communicate with candidates.
  • Shows the difference between applicants or people from resume search.
  • Shows us why they are not interested in the job.
  • Giving us access to add interview to our calander.
  • Able to reply via email
  • Giving us only candidates within a certain mile radius and actually doing that.
Indeed is well suited for us because it lets us look through resumes and pick which ones are best for the job and who's not. As well as giving us feedback as to why they are not interested.
  • Speeding the hiring process
  • Making it easy to access applicaints
  • Getting feedback
I selected this because we have the option to search and find people who fit our criteria
Hireology, Facebook Business Manager (formerly Pages Manager)
  • Resume Search
  • Talk to candidates
  • Specific search
Yes, but I don't use it
Because of how easy it is to use
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