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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. AI-powered automation capabilities match you with quality candidates from Indeed’s pool of millions of job seekers.
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 jobseeker 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
Quickly connect with responsive candidates
Indeed facilitates an average of 65K successful connections between employers and job seekers each day.5 You can instantly create AI-assisted messaging that draws from a candidate’s resume and the job description, which could help increase candidate responsiveness and engagement.
Within this functionality, you can create customized content templates and personalized messaging for total control over your candidate communications. Recruiters can also monitor candidates’ responses to their outreach and send automated follow-ups to unresponsive candidates.
Seamlessly works across teams
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. In fact, 92% of users agree that Smart Sourcing collaboration features help their hiring teams save time.6 With Smart Sourcing, you’ll have the ability to manage and add new team members, assign subscriptions, and monitor activity from one centralized administrative dashboard. You can also streamline account creation and skip verification when you use Indeed Single Sign-On.
Smart Sourcing subscription options
Smart Sourcing provides you with flexible options to meet your organization’s changing hiring demands. You can choose between our Standard or Professional subscription plans.
Standard: Best for occasional hiring (one to 11 hires per year)
With the Standard Smart Sourcing plan, you’ll get access to matched candidates, AI-powered candidate highlights, and outreach capabilities, saving you time and helping you find candidates with the experience you need. Key features of Smart Sourcing include unlimited search and the ability to save searches and organize 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.
Smart Sourcing takes full advantage of AI capabilities to help you evaluate and communicate with job seekers. You’ll receive candidate summaries that provide you with insight into how the candidate’s resume matches your job requirements. You can create AI-assisted messaging and craft customized messages to capture the attention of candidates and thoughtfully engage them in conversation. You can also engage with candidates from anywhere with the Indeed Connect for Employers app.
Those with Standard subscriptions get 30 contacts per month, which 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 maximize your time in your search for quality candidates. Professional features that help you work efficiently across your hiring team and optimize your outreach efforts include: collaboration features, template analytics, and customizable subject lines and reminders.
Key features 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’ll be able to customize subject lines and reminders within Smart Sourcing’s AI-powered messaging tools, adding flexibility to your candidate outreach. You can also bulk-message candidates you find through keyword searches and filters. These features 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, which roll over for six months, and 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 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. In fact, 79% of users agree that Smart Sourcing is their preferred product for sourcing quality talent.7
For those with continual or high-volume hiring, a Smart Sourcing Professional subscription will be your best option, since it provides 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 February 15–20, 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 February 15–20, 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↩
6. Indeed Survey, US (n=300), Jan–Feb 2024↩
7. Indeed Survey, CA (n=151), Jan–Feb 2024
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