Indeed knows they're the king of the hill and they can charge whatever they want and will continue to optimize and squeeze every dollar for their applicants.
Indeed knows they're the king of the hill and they can charge whatever they want and will continue to optimize and squeeze every dollar for their applicants.
After talking to a lot of other cleaning business owners, I realized why most of the applicants are unresponsive and low-quality applications here are some of my conclusions:
Short answer: Revenue.
The most applicants Indeed can capture the better, because they can sell applicants information/resume hundred of times to several cleaning businesses in the area.
Reselling the same name to local businesses is their business model, this is why applicants don't respond, they have hundreds of cleaning services contacting them as soon as they "apply".
✍️ Have applicants apply on your website rather than on Indeed. Is that simple! but there's an issue with this, Indeed doesn't want you to know this, that's why you have to contact Indeed to help enable/unlock this feature in your account.
You can't see it because it's not there, you have to call Indeed's phone number (1-800-462-5842) and ask to Enable your account to redirect applicants to your website so you can edit your job and redirect people to apply to any website, form or url you want.
This option in the image below appears once you have your account enabled to send applicants to other urls.
There are a thousand options to build an online application form. these are some:
Free:
Google forms
Paid:
Wuffo
Typeform
Gravity Forms
There's one issue with the above solutions. What?
You're going to spend some time typing the question and building that job application, and once it's complete publish it, go back to Indeed and redirect the applicants. Once you do this you will be finally getting better applicants, that at least some people that took the time and filled your form.
Since the applicants won't be landing in the "candidates" section of Indeed, you'll instead get emails of applicants in your inbox.
You will have to filter and screen manually and spend time on this process....not the best solution but definitely better than trying to contact people that just hit "apply" on Indeed.
Use a tool like Pipehire which is designed for cleaning businesses. See this brief 1 min video explaining how you can recruit more cleaning applicants in less time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1kScvyAJsE
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