I would like to find a better job, better pay, better hours, better benefits… you get the idea.
When I look on indeed.com, I find companies that are looking for people. But, when I investigate these positions, I get results that make more questions. Like I visit the companies’ careers web page and I cannot find a job opening that matches the position I found on indeed. What is indeed up to?
Indeed is one of a number of sites where recruitment agencies post job openings. You can’t see the vacancy on the employer’s own site because they have contracted exclusivity with the recruitment agency.
Also, some jobs on there aren’t real. They are generic role that agencies use to fish for candidates for their books.
I use Indeed pretty much daily since I’m unemployed. It’s legit, as I’ve gotten interviews from applications submitted through it before. Just be sure to have it sort by date, as that’s not the default setting. It’s on the left of the screen. And watch out for any job that says ‘sponsored’ underneath. I avoid those. Otherwise, just make an account on Indeed and many companies will allow you to submit your resume to them via the site, instead of having to go to their’s.
I have long suspected that there were companies phishing for information. Alas, I may have given some of them my info. anyway. I am going to make a new indeed account and be more careful what I put on it. Thanks for the 411, guys.
imho … i would stay away from such web-sites … preferring to mail out resumes the old-fashioned way. one can never tell if such websites are in your best interests or the website owners interests. heck, they might even farm out personal information.
so, in case you have second thoughts … go back into that account and replace accurate data with somethin’ not-so-accurate … and then close the account.
I would recommend not posting your resume on Indeed to he seen by everyone. I did that once and have gotten lots of calls from useless and clueless recruiters. I wonder how many of them were trying to pull a scam. Shortly after a large company near me laid off hundreds of workers, these recruiters would call and offer me a job there. When I asked about the layoffs, they always claimed to not know anything about them, despite the fact that they were all over the news.
This isn’t true of all Indeed job postings. I’ve been using Indeed. Sometimes I can find the same posting on Indeed and on the companies website. Sometimes when you try to apply for a job posted on Indeed, it actually redirects you to the companies website, to submit a resume.
True, I guess the extent probably varies by locality and sector. I’m finding that maybe 10% of roles that fall within my search scope either identify the employer or go direct to the employer’s recruitment portal. 70% go to recruitment agencies (and only describe the employer in generic terms) and 20% are not real jobs (not scams, but either adverts that exist to build the candidate pool for recruiters, or sometimes, recruiters trying to muscle in on some other recruiter’s exclusivity)
I’m finding 20% lead to an employer’s recruitment portal, 70% are applying to the employer through Indeed, and 10% are from a recruiter.