What are Indeed Hiring Events?

Indeed Hiring Events allows you to host all-in-one hiring events with built-in talent attraction and recruitment automation. Choose between an in-person or virtual hiring event and manage the entire process on Indeed — from attracting talent to using event analytics to track your return on investment (ROI). Indeed Hiring Events can be a great option if you’d like to hire for multiple roles at once or if you have high-volume hiring needs. You can think of it as a virtual or in-person job fair, but for your company only. 

With built-in advertising and automated recruiting tasks, Indeed Hiring Events frees up time for recruiters to spend on the highest value activities: connecting with candidates. 

How do Indeed Hiring Events work?

First, determine the roles you’d like to hire for. These jobs may already be on Indeed, in which case you can just add them to Indeed Hiring Events or create a new job using the Indeed Hiring Events prompts. Either way, we can help you reach candidates across Indeed, Glassdoor, and our Trusted Media Network and you can bring additional candidates from your ATS. Indeed integrates with your ATS so you can collect applications while your event is advertised so you don’t miss out on quality candidates.

Next, select the dates and times for your interviews, including interview time slots and whether you’d like to cap attendance. Then, add team members who will be interviewing candidates so they can stay in the loop leading up to the interview.

If you’d like, you can add simple screening criteria to determine things like shift availability,  pre-configured assessments or customizable Advanced Screening to check each candidate’s qualifications, certifications, and licenses. 

We use this objective screening criteria to ensure that all job candidates who successfully complete the screens and match your needs are invited to interview for the role. Not only does this benefit you, it also benefits job seekers by ensuring they’re not waiting for weeks to hear back from the employer. 

After candidates successfully pass the screening you’ve set up for your hiring event, they can then schedule an interview slot. Once they select a time, they automatically receive a calendar invite for the time they chose. 

Leading up to the interview, Indeed automates communications to candidates by sending calendar invites, reminder messages, and interview prep materials, boosting the likelihood that candidates show up to the interview.

Benefits of hosting hiring events on Indeed

Hiring events offer several benefits for employers, especially if you have high-volume hiring needs. Here are some of the key benefits of hosting your next hiring event with Indeed:

Host events in-person or virtually

You have the flexibility to host your recruiting event in-person at a location of your choice or 100% remotely. Virtual interviews can be hosted on Indeed Interview, our integrated video-conferencing tool, or using your own preferred video-conferencing software. Indeed Interview has features that are specifically designed and built for job interviewing. For example, there is a virtual lobby for candidates where recruiters can make announcements if needed, and candidates are greeted with a welcome message when interviewing. Learn more about Indeed Interview.

Spend more time connecting with candidates

Once it’s time for the interview, your recruiting teams get to do what they do best. Because we’ve helped you attract talent and automated recruiting tasks, recruiters and hiring managers now have the time and energy to focus on the interview and connect on a deeper level with candidates. Ahead of your Hiring Event, you can review resumes and manage candidate information directly from your Indeed Dashboard. 

During in-person recruiting events, Indeed automatically pulls in event-specific candidate information so you can prepare and quickly check-in interviewees. Automating these steps gives you time to establish a personal connection with candidates, discuss company culture, and offer real-time feedback. You can then track disposition on-site in order to make quick hiring decisions.

Conduct multiple interviews simultaneously

You have the option to download a candidate’s resume while on the call and collaborate with hiring managers moving candidates to the next round. With the ability to host multiple interviews at the same time, you can continue to screen candidates while hiring managers conduct final interviews.

Easily measure the success of your event

Because Indeed Hiring Events is an all-in-one hiring solution — with talent attraction, screening, scheduling, communications, and interviewing all in the same place — we’re able to more easily access measurable results, which can then be used to evaluate your recruiting funnel and boost your hiring performance.

Once your interviews are completed, we’ll send you a comprehensive summary snapshot including metrics such as RSVPs, checked-in candidates, interviewed candidates, and other candidate information to give you a better overall picture of your hiring. With performance analytics across the funnel from event RSVPs to completed interviews, we help you keep track of your ROI.

Make your recruitment potentially more cost-effective

 Hosting a hiring event allows employers to concentrate their recruitment efforts on a specific day or period. This focused approach can reduce the time and resources spent on prolonged recruitment campaigns and scattered hiring activities. Hiring events can also often lead to faster hiring timelines, saving on the costs associated with long-term job vacancies.

In Conclusion

Indeed Hiring Events are a comprehensive and simple solution to replace the many tools an average enterprise Recruiter uses to hire. With the vast majority of US online job seekers visiting Indeed or Glassdoor,^[3]  Indeed Hiring Events delivers interviews, getting you to your next hire quickly. 

With this solution from the #1 job site in the world,^[4]   you’ll be able to hire quickly at scale, creating positive experiences for both you and job seekers. Ultimately, our vision is to make the experience of getting a job as easy as pushing a button — and Indeed Hiring Events gets us one step closer to this goal. 

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