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.3 Smart Sourcing helps ensure that your talent team gets what they’re looking for by enabling new methods of matching, connecting and collaborating in the recruitment 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 job seeker such as skills, experience and preferences. Matched candidates you invite to apply are 15X more likely to apply to your job than job seekers who only see it in search.4
Seamlessly works across teams and tools*
Smart Sourcing’s collaboration options allow you to team up to provide feedback on candidates by adding and sharing notes, enabling a streamlined evaluation process and greater transparency. With Smart Sourcing you’ll have the ability to manage and add new team members, assign subscriptions, and monitor activity from one centralised administrative dashboard.
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 (1 to 11 hires per year)
With the Standard Smart Sourcing plan, you’ll get access to matched candidates, and outreach capabilities, 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 and the ability to save searches, and organise candidates in projects.
You’ll automatically get a shortlist of matched candidates from Indeed’s Resume database. Matched candidates functionality will be available for all jobs on Indeed, including Indexed Jobs (those not originally posted on Indeed), as well as free-to-post. Smart Sourcing also helps you find talent for hard-to-fill roles using Boolean search words like AND and OR to narrow or broaden search results.
Those with Standard subscriptions get 30 contacts per month that roll over for six months, and can purchase up to 70 additional contacts per month.
Professional: Best for continual hiring (12 or more hires per year)
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.
Key features of Indeed Resume that are now part of Smart Sourcing’s Professional subscription include advanced filters, bulk messaging, and the ability to pool and share contacts across global Professional subscriptions.
With the Professional subscription, you can also bulk-message candidates you find through keyword searches and filters. This feature can help you connect with candidates quickly, right where they are.
You’ll 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 Indeed 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.
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.
Start a trial or purchase a subscription here.
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1. Indeed data (WW), March 2024
2. Survey conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Indeed from 15-20 February, 2024 among US Hiring Managers (those with sole or primary decision making in the recruiting and hiring process) with 2,000+ number of employees; 300 respondents.↩
3. Survey conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Indeed from 15-20 February, 2024 among US Hiring Managers (those with sole or primary decision making in the recruiting and hiring process) with 2,000+ number of employees; 300 respondents.↩
4. Indeed data (US), August 2023↩
5. Indeed data (WW), Q1 2024, based on Indeed Resume↩
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