Indeed Reimagines Hiring, Using AI to Help Employers Find Quality Talent Faster

Imagine having access to a talent agent who understands your company inside out – and knows who, among millions of potential applicants, is the best fit for your role.

Enter: Indeed Talent Scout, it’s AI-powered hiring agent designed to transform how employers engage, find and hire the right talent. It is not just matching technology. It gives employers real-time proactive insights, recommendations to boost job-post performance and helps find the ideal candidate via an intuitive conversational interface.

‘[Talent Scout] takes care of time-consuming hiring steps – such as sourcing, matching and outreach – so that you can focus on making the right hire’, said Indeed CEO Hisayuki ‘Deko’ Idekoba at Indeed FutureWorks 2025 in New Orleans.

Talent Scout for employers and Indeed Career Scout for jobseekers – as well as other AI-powered tools such as Premium Sponsored Jobs and Indeed Connect – come at a time of immense change in hiring. 

‘At Indeed, we see this as a once-in-a-generation moment to reimagine hiring from the ground up – to make it simpler, faster and more human’, said Indeed Chief Marketing Officer James Whitemore at FutureWorks. ‘We believe that AI combined with human imagination can unlock that future’.

As Indeed Chief Revenue Officer Maggie Hulce explained in her keynote, this reality is shaped by two opposing views: Many news articles paint a dark picture of AI replacing jobs, while others predict the greatest unlocking of human productivity and creativity we have ever seen.

'The generative AI wave is different from past examples of tech innovation – both in scale and in speed’, said Hulce. ‘This is not a wave we have handled before, and the winners will be the ones who learn to surf it quickly’.

Indeed's Chief Revenue Officer Maggie Hulce introduced the new suite of products that fully use AI to help employers hire quality candidates and help jobseekers find better-quality jobs  - making the hiring process faster and easier.

The following excerpts from Hulce’s keynote have been edited for brevity and clarity.

Two-sided problems need two-sided solutions 

Even as software improves, employers struggle with too few strong candidates for some roles and too many unqualified candidates for others. And even as hiring software becomes more advanced, time to hire is actually getting worse, increasing the pressure on talent acquisition teams to do more with less.

Meanwhile, 88% of jobseekers want more details about jobs and companies upfront.¹ The lack of these details is a major reason for poor-fit applications. And still, almost 75% of jobseekers never hear back after applying. Out of frustration, they keep applying to more and more jobs, creating extra work for themselves as well as for employers. AI tools designed for mass applications are already making this problem worse!

This is a hard problem to solve because it is two-sided. Both sides feel frustrated for valid reasons. But it does not have to be this way, and we at Indeed are uniquely qualified to help. 

How? With Career Scout, Indeed’s personalised AI career coach for jobseekers, and Talent Scout, an intelligent, conversational hiring agent  that works like a member of the employer’s team. Together, they help both jobseekers and employers accelerate the hiring process. 

Career Scout gets to know jobseekers as individuals – much like a career coach. The AI-powered agent learns about their skills, commute preferences, schedule and salary – all going beyond a traditional resume. Indeed uses these insights to help jobseekers discover, prepare for, and secure the right jobs faster. 

For employers, Talent Scout offers the ability to ask questions in natural language to get real-time, proactive insights about their jobs. Talent Scout also helps boost the performance of jobs on Indeed by improving titles, location, description, benefits and pay. 

In addition, Talent Scout allows employers to refine and source candidates for their jobs on Indeed or directly within their applicant tracking system, such as Workday, Workable or isolved.

Together, Career Scout and Talent Scout reimagine the hiring experience to reduce friction, save time and connect people to opportunities. 

Early results show faster hires, better matches 

Career Scout has been rolling out over the past two months, and so far, Indeed’s internal data is showing some great results:

• 84% of jobseekers find Career Scout valuable.²
• It is 7x faster to find and apply to relevant jobs with Career Scout.³
• 38% of jobseekers are more likely to get hired with Career Scout.⁴

More than 1,000 employers have already started using Talent Scout – with some great results.

A clinical recruiter at BrightSpring Health Services achieved a 45% increase in hard-to-fill hires and saved eight hours per week with Talent Scout.

Career Scout and Talent Scout are just the beginning 

This year, Indeed has been rolling out a new version of Sponsored Jobs. Called Premium Sponsored Jobs, it blends branding, advertising and sourcing, and offers the best of Indeed’s matching and targeting – all in one.

Roughly 350,000 employers have tried it and experienced many of its benefits, including: 

• An Urgently Hiring label, which helps employers make hires five days faster 
• Candidate targeting, which uses Indeed’s understanding of skills, certifications and experience to ensure quality candidates see their jobs – across 300-plus occupations
• Location targeting to adjust employers’ desired radius, and to reach the 1 crore jobseekers who have told Indeed that they are willing to relocate 
• Access to Indeed’s network of specialty partners, which helps reach passive candidates and drive a 4x increase in relevant applications
• And for the first time for jobs from an applicant tracking system, the ability to get matched candidates suggested for a job. Employers can review and decide which candidates to invite to apply. Employer-led outreach gets a 40% positive response rate.⁵

Ninety-six percent of enterprise employers who have used Premium Sponsored Jobs agree that it increases the number of candidates who meet their hiring needs.⁶

Get the most out of Indeed with Indeed Connect 

With more information from both jobseekers and employers, Indeed can deliver better matches, which increases quality and decreases time to hire. And with Indeed Connect, due launch in January 2026, employers who set up applicant tracking system integration will receive exclusive benefits.

This includes enhanced marketplace benefits, exclusive access to new AI-powered products and preferential terms with annual deals. 

Indeed Connect clients will also receive Candidate Summaries in their applicant tracking system. These include an actionable summary for every application. They will also receive exclusive access to trial Advanced Screening, designed to save hours of screening time for every role without sacrificing confidence. With Advanced Screening, employers can customise the exact criteria they are looking for in a candidate, typed in natural language. Indeed will capture candidate context through dynamic, open-ended questions and allow employers to confirm identity and credentials.

As an Indeed Connect client, employers will also receive access to Advanced Sourcing – designed to bring warm, qualified candidates directly into an applicant tracking system – sourcing talent for employers while they sleep. With Advanced Sourcing, employers can also tailor the criteria they are looking for in a candidate, including how stringent to be with requirements. Then, on the employer’s behalf, Indeed will reach out to qualified candidates from its vast talent pool, acting as an extension of an employer’s team.

The earliest Indeed Connect clients are already two times more likely to make a hire,⁷ and we are just getting started.

The future of hiring starts now 

Indeed has transformed from a site primarily focused on search to an AI-powered sourcing and engagement platform.

This AI wave is going to change hiring, and we want to make sure that we actually like the future we are creating. We want to feel, without hesitation, that the new way, enabled by AI, is better.

Chief Marketing Officer James Whitemore kicks off the two-day Indeed FutureWorks 2025 with a warm welcome – and a confession. 

Indeed’s Chief Executive Officer Hisayuki “Deko” Idekoba explains how new AI-powered innovations from Indeed help employers focus on what is most important. 

Learn more: 

Indeed Talent Scout
Indeed Career Scout

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Sources: 

1. Indeed research with Harris Poll
2. Indeed Data, U.S. 
3. Indeed Data, U.S., based on median, compared to jobseekers who use Mobile App. 
4. Indeed test data, U.S., May 2025 based on the average hires per apply.
5. Figures based on Indeed Data, U.S.
6. Comscore Plan Metrix Multi-Platform, 18+ Job Search Audience, December 2024
7. Indeed survey, U.S.