How does Indeed jobs website work?

[Frimley111R]

Its a bloody awful site. I posted a job on there but i don't know if its free to us or we pay somehow and the site is as useful as a chocolate fire guard for finding out!

[TotalControl]

I find it the first place of call when looking for jobs now (Junior PM roles, sigh). It's not that bad once you get used to applying on it. It does take you to external job sites requesting you to sign up most of the time though.

[bga]

Indeed are a bunch of goons. They scraped our website and advertised a graduate job that we had put up months earlier. The only problem is that job closed and the page was archived weeks previously. 100-odd grads went to the effort of writing covering letters (we had specific requirements so general CL's wouldn't apply). We had a lot of very peed off applicants!

[Frimley111R]

Ok thanks. We're an employer, I think I'll give it a week and then ditch it. had one applicant already but it seems a free service, you only pay to go near the top of the listings.

[Origin Unknown]

The only thing useful about that site is searching CV's using the keyword st to see the number of st cooks, st managers and people looking for st work.

[Frimley111R]

Quick update, we had lots of CVs form Indeed but in the end only picked one from there and two from referrals, one of which we selected. TBH our job and company are something people like a lot (climbing frame systems and treehouses) and I entitled the job, slightly tongue-in-cheek "Sales Administrator of Fun.' which helped make it stand out amongst all the other similar jobs.