Smartphone adoption has grown faster than any other consumer technology in history—including the PC revolution in the 80s, internet boom in the 90s and social media today. With worldwide mobile internet usage set to surpass desktop over the next year, the number of job searches coming from mobile is rapidly increasing. Now, more than ever, it’s important to offer a mobile-optimized site experience for job candidates.

We’re already seeing the impact mobile has on the recruiting process. Today, one-third of visits to Indeed come directly from mobile devices. Our mobile traffic has more than doubled over the last year, and our Job Search app for iOS and Android is the #1 job search app worldwide.

However, very few companies – even the largest employers – have a career site that lets mobile visitors easily find or apply to jobs. The fact that job candidates can’t apply from their mobile devices creates a serious recruiting disadvantage. If you’re an employer, you need to make sure your jobs can be found in mobile search and most importantly, give people the ability to apply directly from mobile devices.

To solve this problem, we developed Indeed Apply:

Indeed Apply

With Indeed Apply, qualified candidates can easily apply to jobs on desktop and mobile devices with a cover letter and an Indeed Resume, or a traditional resume file. Over half a million jobs on Indeed and our partner sites now support Indeed Apply. These jobs are clearly labeled in Indeed’s search results to let users know which jobs have this easy application method.

Since its launch last year, more than 23 million job applications have been submitted via Indeed Apply, with 3.4 million in the past 30 days alone.

How it Works

Indeed Apply is available to every employer for free. For employers with career sites, Indeed Apply can be integrated directly with your site or with your Applicant Tracking System (ATS). A list of ATSes that currently offer Indeed Apply can be found here. If your ATS doesn’t offer Indeed Apply or you’d like to add it directly to your career site, contact us.

If you don’t have a dedicated career site, jobs that you post directly on Indeed will automatically include Indeed Apply and be optimized for mobile viewing, appropriately displayed on mobile devices and be ready to receive applications from mobile candidates. When someone applies, you’ll receive applicants the same way that you do today – either through an applicant tracking system (ATS) or sent directly to you by email. By using Indeed Apply on all of your jobs, you’ll reach more tech-savvy, qualified candidates, and ultimately make more hires.

Contact us to learn more about setting up Indeed Apply for your jobs, and help candidates apply to your jobs, from wherever they are.

Indeed has once again claimed the top spot for Job Search category traffic in the US according to new data released by comScore, a leading digital analytics firm. For the fourth year in a row, Indeed had more comScore unique visitors in the Job Search category than any other job site, commanding almost double the traffic of the next leading job site.

According to comScore, traffic to job search sites increased 24% in January 2013, reaching 28 million visitors. Indeed again ranked #1 in the category with 17.3 million comScore visitors followed by CareerBuilder (9.6 million) and Monster (9.1 million). Over the last two years, Indeed’s traffic in the category has increased 50% while the next two job sites declined by 10% on average.

Indeed, listed under the name of our parent company Recruit, also ranked as one of the top 10 fastest growing properties on the Web in the US over the first month of the year, according to comScore data. Today, Indeed enables employers to reach a larger proportion of job seekers than any other site. According to comScore, 62% of people who searched for jobs in January searched on Indeed. Most importantly, our traffic growth means that more people than ever are finding jobs through Indeed. Indeed was recently named the #1 external source of hire, providing employers more hires than the next four job sites combined and nearly 10X more hires than LinkedIn.