Indeed Employer Dashboard
The Indeed Employer Dashboard is your all-in-one command center for hiring. From the dashboard, you can manage job posts, view messages, schedule interviews and review billing information.
Complete transparency into hiring
Your Employer Dashboard does not just give you information about your jobs. You also get insight into the hiring process. You can view the number of active candidates, your job post’s status (whether it is open, paused or closed), manage its budget, sponsor a job post and make any edits.
When you first submit your job post, it will have a Processing status until Indeed’s quality assurance team reviews it to make sure it meets our standards. This typically between 24-48 hours. This helps prevent fraud and improves the quality of job posts on Indeed.
Edit and optimise your Indeed job posting
To make sure your job is set up for success, start by reviewing your job details. Decide which screener questions you want to use, and whether you want to sponsor the job for extra visibility. Then double-check your application and communication settings by clicking the Actions drop-down in your Employer Dashboard and selecting Edit job.
Job details
Choosing the right job title
Choosing a job title is an important first step in attracting quality candidates. Capitalise the first letters of your job title and avoid using all caps (for example, “Executive Assistant” is preferable to “EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT”). Use a clear, commonly used title that matches what jobseekers actually search for. If you are hiring a Marketing Manager, for instance, avoid titles like “Marketing Guru”, as candidates looking for Marketing Manager roles are unlikely to search for those terms and may never see your job ad.
Edit your job post from the Employer Dashboard by clicking on the job title and selecting Edit job.
Writing a great job description
After you enter a Job title, you will be asked about the role’s location. In this section, you can enter a specific address, hide the address or indicate that the job can be performed remotely. You can also select “On the road” for positions that require travel, or specify multiple locations for jobs that are performed at multiple sites. Most jobseekers want to know an exact location so they can decide if the commute will work for them.
Jobseekers use keywords and search terms in their job search. Job descriptions that contain these common keywords and search terms can appear more attractive to jobseekers.
Make sure to include these essentials in your job description:
- Company name
- Responsibilities
- Technical, professional or educational requirements
- Benefits
- Pay
Indicate how many positions you need to fill, and the required levels of experience for each of them.
Application qualifications
Filter applicants with Indeed’s screening tools. Select specific questions to help you find potential employees who are best suited for the position, and set your qualifications as preferred or required. If applicants do not meet your requirements, they will be automatically placed in the Rejected tab, where you can review them at any time.
Sponsor your Indeed job posting
Sponsoring your job gives it better visibility on Indeed, which can help more relevant jobseekers see it when they search. This can be especially useful when you need to hire quickly or are recruiting for a competitive or hard-to-fill role, because a Sponsored Job is shown more often in search results and can give you faster access to quality candidates you can invite to apply.
Add a hiring budget for your job post on the Sponsor a job page. Your daily ad budget corresponds with the number of weeks you would like to keep your job sponsored. When you specify the amount you would like to spend for each sponsored job, you will receive an estimated number of applications.
Remember: you are only paying for the performance of your Sponsored Job. We will work with you to set your maximum budget based on your job title and location. We do not have long-term contracts, and you can start, stop, or pause your job at any time.
We focus on potential candidates based on their location, search behaviour and qualifications. When your applications start rolling in, review them as soon as possible. If you do not receive the quantity or quality of applications you expected, it may make sense to increase your ad budget, refine your job details or add qualifying criteria.
Application and communications settings
You can always manage how you receive applications, whether by email, phone or in person. Applicants receive notifications from you via an encrypted email address that comes from Indeed, not your personal email address. If you want to share your personal email with a candidate, you can email them directly. Indeed does not share your personal email address with jobseekers.
Under Communication Settings, you can choose how often you want to be notified about new applications so you stay up to date without being overwhelmed by emails. You can also add colleagues’ email addresses so they can review potential candidates, and set the level of access and permissions each colleague has, depending on how closely they need to be involved in the hiring process.
Tracking and managing applications
Easily manage applications
Indeed’s Employer Dashboard makes tracking and managing job applications easy. In the Candidates tab of your Employer Dashboard, you can see all of your active candidates, those reviewed or awaiting review, and applicants who have been contacted or hired. You can also message candidates, schedule interviews and make notes on their application for others to review.
Quick candidate review
As people apply, quickly review and respond in the Candidates section of your Employer Dashboard. You can change the statuses of applications to awaiting review, reviewed, contacting, hired, or declined. You can also add statuses to each applicant (yes – √, maybe – ?, or no – X), to move them to the Reviewed status. When you review a candidate, anyone with whom you have shared job review permissions will receive a notification.
In a competitive market, it might be faster to connect with quality candidates via text message or phone call. But keep your post open until you have a confirmed hire for your position.
Accessing billing information
Your charges and payment information can be found under Billing Information in your Employer Dashboard. Indeed charges your credit card on file after the first ₹2000 in ad spending to ensure the information on file is accurate.
After that, we will only charge you when someone engages with your job post, a number we calculate at the end of every month. For example: If you pause your job on June 5, we will only only charge you for any engagement accrued from June 1 through the moment you paused your job on June 5, but you will not receive that bill until June 30.
We also charge your card on file after you have spent ₹4000 on any Sponsored Job.
Tracking your Indeed job posting’s performance
Anyone with administrative access to your Indeed account can access the Analytics section. From here, you can review important information that can help to maximise your ad budget with Indeed. Data can tell you a lot, but it is also important to consider the quality of applications you are receiving, and your ability to connect with promising candidates. All these factors combined can help you better understand how your job search is actually going.
To access your Analytics, click on the tab in the Dashboard navigation.
The total impressions, clickthrough rate and total clicks metrics are available for jobs you post on Indeed.
Indeed’s analytics allow you to compare your performance over time. Use this information to determine what works best for your company.
Contacting Customer Success
Need help navigating Indeed’s features? Not sure where to find something for your account? Need to contact Customer Success? Check out the Help Center.
Login to your account, and click on Help Center in the menu at the top of the page.
A pop-up menu will appear at the bottom of the page. You can search commonly asked questions or enter your own in the search bar.
Email
Choose Send message to submit your question into the form.
Chat
Click Contact us and then Chat with us to begin a chat session from the pop up directly in product.
Call
To speak to a client success specialist, call 1-800-102-0984. We are available Monday–Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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