We often hear from clients that sponsoring jobs on Indeed is an easy way to promote all their jobs at once:
Indeed was the only model where we could get visibility for all jobs while only paying for performance. Intermountain Healthcare
With Indeed, there’s not a lot of hands-on work involved - the candidates just come. You push a button, set the budget and it’s done. Pitney Bowes
This got us thinking - why not show how pay-per-click recruitment advertising on Indeed works, and how easy it is for a company to sponsor its jobs? The video below provides an overview and how to get started:
We’ve created a series of tutorial videos to help job seekers get the most out of using Indeed to search for jobs.
We encourage new users to take a few minutes to view each of our step-by-step tutorials. More experienced users will benefit from the tutorials demonstrating how to set up email job alerts and a my.indeed account.
Our first three tutorials are below. You can also view our entire tutorial series and find additional suggestions on our job search tips page.
Basic Search: How to search for jobs using keywords and location; how to narrow your job searches:
Email Job Alerts: How to save your job searches as email job alerts:
my.indeed Accounts: How to create a my.indeed account to save jobs, manage your job alerts and more:
Job seeker traffic to Indeed.com continues to soar. According to Comscore Media Metrix, Indeed is one of the top 10 fastest growing websites in the US by unique visitors, and the only employment website in the list.
Indeed is also the top search engine for jobs in Hitwise’s top 10 employment & training websites and second in overall market share in this category.
Indeed is focused on providing the most comprehensive and effective search engine for jobs. We are excited that so many people are finding it useful and wish everyone the best of luck in their job search.
Today we released Industry Trends, a picture of job posting numbers and job seeker traffic in 12 major industries over the last year in the US. If you are working in a rapidly declining industry, it will help you identify industries in better shape to which you can try to transition. If you are a recruiter, it will help you manage your recruitment advertising campaigns: you can monitor job seeker traffic in your industry and see which job titles, keyword searches and cities are getting the most clicks. Our press release is here.
Indeed’s jobs data are an alternative to government payroll statistics, offering a more forward-looking insight into hiring activity. If government data show the job market in the rear-view mirror - jobs that have been created or lost - Indeed’s Industry Trends provide a view through the front windscreen: job openings that companies intend to fill.
Our data show that compared with a year ago the number of job postings in the US has declined in all industries, while Education and Healthcare have declined the least. Job seeker traffic grew strongly in all industries; Education, Construction and Healthcare grew the most, experiencing a doubling of clicks in the last year.
Our job data are directionally similar to the government’s payroll numbers. Labor Department data for January 2009 show that Education, Healthcare and Government were the only sectors to grow in the last year, adding 743,000 jobs since December 2007. The US economy as a whole lost 3.6 million jobs.
The decline in job postings in the last year has been much steeper than the decline in overall jobs; the net loss of jobs in the economy is just one of several causes of job posting decline. People are switching jobs less often due to job insecurity, so job openings created by employee churn are far fewer. Also, employers are posting open positions less frequently to job boards because of a greater supply of candidates in the market.
Owing to Indeed’s comprehensiveness, Industry Trends provide a unique view of job posting activity in the US. We hope it will be of use both to job seekers and employers - please send us your feedback.
The outpouring of bad news in the media about layoffs continues unabated. The New York Times reports today that companies across the board are resorting to mass job cuts.
But this belies myriad opportunities: hundreds of thousands of companies are continuing to hire. While big layoffs are headline-grabbing, gradual hiring in sometimes hidden corners of the economy often goes unnoticed by the media.
Use Indeed’s job search to ferret out the jobs that fit your own background and our job trends to see which jobs are in demand. If the industry you’re in is struggling, find where you can deploy your skills in areas of the economy that are growing.
Try looking for the silver lining amongst the clouds; foreclosure work, for example, is booming. Or seek out opportunities in new technologies like renewable energy that are likely to transform tomorrow’s economy.
The Times itself found one pocket of growth, noting here that “Indeed.com shows a thriving job market for MySQL and Linux developers.” Not only that, but demand for MySQL and Linux skills is also strongly rising.
