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Recruit faster and more efficiently by using Indeed Smart Sourcing to source and manage candidates all in one place. Combining Indeed Resume with Indeed’s candidate matching technology, Smart Sourcing provides a powerful way for employers to take advantage of the more than 29.5 crore resumes on Indeed.

A recent survey from Indeed and The Harris Poll found that 63% of hiring managers have reached out to candidates who are not a good fit for a variety of avoidable reasons, and that sourcing quality candidates takes an average of 13 hours.

Enabling collaboration within your hiring team and contacting candidates from a single platform can help eliminate your team’s need to use multiple platforms, which can leave your work disjointed and disorganised. 

Smart Sourcing brings your recruitment efforts to a new level of efficiency and effectiveness. 

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The benefits of Smart Sourcing

In a recent survey, Indeed found that 92% of employers are interested in hiring platforms designed to improve efficiency and help save time in the hiring process.

Instantly match with quality candidates

Smart Sourcing users automatically receive a shortlist of candidates who match job criteria across a variety of industries, skills and educational backgrounds, eliminating the need for you to manually search for candidates. Matching is based on information collected from the jobseeker such as skills, experience and preferences. 

Matched candidates you invite to apply are 15X more likely to apply to your job than jobseekers who only see it in search.

Quickly connect with responsive candidates

Indeed facilitates an average of 65K successful connections between employers and jobseekers each day. You can instantly create AI-assisted messaging that draws from a candidate’s resume and the job description, which could help increase candidate responsiveness and engagement. 

Within this functionality, you can create customised content templates and personalised messaging for total control over your candidate communications. Recruiters can also monitor candidates’ responses to their outreach and send automated follow-ups to unresponsive candidates.

Seamlessly works across teams

Smart Sourcing’s collaboration features allow you to team up to provide feedback on candidates by adding and sharing notes, enabling a streamlined evaluation process and greater transparency. 89% of users agree that Smart Sourcing’s collaboration features help their hiring teams save time.

With Smart Sourcing you will have the ability to manage and add new team members, assign subscriptions, and monitor activity from one centralised administrative dashboard. You can also streamline account creation and skip verification when you use Indeed Single Sign-On

Smart Sourcing subscription options

Smart Sourcing provides you with flexible options to meet your organisation’s changing hiring demands. You can choose between our Standard or Professional subscription plan.

Standard: Best for occasional hiring 

With the Standard Smart Sourcing plan, you get access to Matched Candidates, AI-powered candidate highlights and built-in outreach tools, saving you time and helping you find candidates with the experience you need. Key features of Indeed Resume are now part of Smart Sourcing, including unlimited search, the ability to save searches and tools to organise candidates into projects.

You automatically get a shortlist of matched candidates from Indeed’s talent database for each job. Matched candidates are available for all jobs on Indeed, including indexed roles (those not originally posted on Indeed) as well as free-to-post jobs. Smart Sourcing also helps you find talent for hard-to-fill roles by using Boolean search (for example, AND and OR) and filters to narrow or broaden your results.

Smart Sourcing takes full advantage of AI to help you evaluate and communicate with jobseekers. You receive candidate summaries that show how each resume aligns with your job requirements. You can also use AI-assisted messaging to craft customised outreach that captures candidates’ attention and engages them in a more personalised way. In addition, you can stay in touch with candidates from anywhere using the Indeed Connect for Employers app.

Professional: Best for continual hiring

Smart Sourcing’s Professional subscription will include even more capabilities to maximise your time in your search for quality candidates. Professional features that help you work efficiently across your hiring team and optimise your outreach efforts include: collaboration features, template analytics and customisable subject lines and reminders. 

With the Professional subscription, you will be able to customise subject lines and reminders within Smart Sourcing’s AI-powered messaging feature, adding flexibility to your candidate outreach. You can also bulk-message candidates you find through keyword searches and filters. These features can help you connect with candidates quickly, right where they are. 

You will receive performance metrics for templates to improve outreach effectiveness and refine communications strategy. These insights can help you get more responses from candidates, improve candidate engagement over the hiring journey and help you see your ROI. 

Those with Professional subscriptions get 100 contacts per month that roll over for six months, plus unlimited contacts available for purchase. Teams also have the ability to pool and share contacts across global Professional subscription, as needed so your team can take full advantage of Smart Sourcing.

Start using Smart Sourcing now

Smart Sourcing can streamline your hiring process and reduce your time to hire, improving your hiring team’s productivity and satisfaction at work. In fact, 91% of users agree that Smart Sourcing provides the best value for them to discover and manage quality talent.

For those with continual or high-volume hiring, a Smart Sourcing Professional subscription will be your best option, providing more collaboration features so you can work seamlessly across your team and make hiring decisions faster. 

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