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Whether you’re familiar with the platform or considering it for the first time, this article covers 10 key benefits of using Indeed to attract candidates, hire efficiently and strengthen your recruitment strategy.
Indeed is the world’s #1 job site,[1] trusted by millions of job seekers and over 3.3 million companies worldwide. This reach allows you to connect with people across industries and experience levels who are ready to apply. In fact, 27 hires are made on Indeed every minute.[2]
Beyond its reach, Indeed also brings helpful hiring tools together into one place. You can post and sponsor jobs, search resumes, communicate with candidates and track results in a single platform. Built-in AI and analytics show how your jobs perform and help you fine-tune postings to attract the right talent.
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From connecting with top talent to streamlining your recruiting workflow, these 10 benefits highlight how Indeed can help make hiring faster, easier and more effective.
Indeed’s extensive reach gives you access to a global candidate database of 345M searchable Job Seeker Profiles.[3] This wide range of skills, experiences and backgrounds can help improve your chances of finding the right candidate quickly.
Indeed also allows you to source talent for roles that require specialized expertise, hard-to-find skills or a variety of perspectives.
Indeed helps you manage every stage of hiring from a single, easy-to-use dashboard. You can post jobs, review applicants, schedule interviews and communicate with candidates without switching between tools.
Here are some of the built-in features that can streamline your process:
Indeed helps you deliver an enhanced candidate experience that keeps applicants engaged and strengthens your employer brand.
With Indeed Apply, job seekers submit applications using their Indeed profile, making for a mobile-friendly, easy application process without redirects or extra logins. Employers using Indeed Apply receive 5x more completed applications,[4] which can potentially help increase the number of quality candidates in your pipeline.
Indeed tools also support a positive candidate experience after the application. Prompt communication through your dashboard and automated status updates show respect for candidates’ time. This can earn you a Responsive Employer Badge, which can signal to job seekers that you’re highly responsive.
Indeed provides robust analytics and insights so you can base your hiring decisions on clear data. The employer dashboard displays application rates, candidate quality and hiring outcomes, helping you refine job postings and your recruiting strategy.
You can use Indeed Analytics to evaluate your job post performance by viewing how many candidates saw your job in search results, clicked on the post and started or completed an application. It also tracks spend, cost per click and cost per application so you can manage your budget more efficiently.
For a broader view of the market, Hiring Insights provides on-demand reports drawn from Indeed’s job seeker profiles and resumes. These reports surface trends like job seeker demand, competition scores and average salaries, helping you set expectations and adjust your recruiting strategy for specific roles and locations.
Together, these tools support data-driven hiring decisions by revealing performance patterns and market trends that can help you improve results.
Whether you’re just getting started or managing hundreds of openings, Indeed adapts to your hiring process. Post jobs directly on Indeed if you don’t use an ATS, or streamline high-volume hiring with an Indeed ATS integration to automate job postings and help maintain compliance.
Using Indeed with your ATS helps you keep candidate information current across both systems and can speed up your hiring process.
With Indeed’s large candidate pool and tools to streamline the process, you can fill roles faster.
If you need to hire urgently on Indeed, these features may help:
On Indeed, you can post jobs for free* or sponsor them for extra visibility. Free postings, which may help you save on job posting costs, appear in relevant search results but naturally fall back as new jobs are added. Sponsored Jobs stay prominent as long as you set a budget and can be paused or closed anytime.
Sponsoring jobs on Indeed can be especially helpful when you need to hire quickly, hire hard-to-fill roles or reach candidates in a competitive market. Standard Sponsored Jobs typically receive more impressions and applications than free listings, giving your openings a stronger reach and a steadier flow of applicants.
A Premium Sponsored Job can add even more advantages. With it, you get advanced candidate and location targeting, proactive matching that surfaces quality candidates you can invite to apply, and the Urgently Hiring label that signals you’re hiring fast.
With a Premium Sponsored job, you also gain options like company branding and visuals that can help make your posting stand out.
*Terms, conditions, quality standards and usage limits apply.
With Indeed, you can also easily showcase your employer brand by strengthening your presence on Indeed Company Pages and the Employer Branding Hub. Together, they give candidates a clear sense of your workplace and help you attract top talent.
Data shows that employers who invest in the Employer Branding Hub see a 28% lift in brand impressions across Indeed and Glassdoor.[5]
When you use Indeed tools to highlight your company culture and values, you may:
Indeed’s use of AI is guided by clear, responsible AI principles. These principles keep fairness, transparency and human oversight at the center, so hiring remains a human-led process.
Indeed’s use of AI-powered tools may benefit your hiring by:
Indeed also offers Talent Scout, a conversational AI agent that helps you build shortlists, connect with hard-to-find talent and optimize job postings, all through a simple back-and-forth chat. It’s designed to save you time on sourcing so you can focus on interviews and final decisions.
Indeed’s reach and technology can help employers stand out and connect with candidates quickly. Its scale means your postings are potentially seen by more job seekers, which may result in shorter time-to-hire than other hiring sites.
Here’s how the data supports that advantage:
These numbers show how Indeed’s audience and tools give you greater visibility, helping you compete for talent in any market.
Indeed pairs broad reach with tools that simplify every stage of hiring. Its large audience, easy application process and built-in analytics help you connect with quality candidates quickly and present your employer brand with confidence.
Ready to hire? Post a job on Indeed and start reaching the talent you need.
This article is based on product information available at the time of writing, which may change at any time. Indeed does not guarantee that this information is always up-to-date. Please seek out your CS/Sales rep for the latest on this topic.
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