Comments on: LinkedIn vs. Indeed: The Apply Button Smackdown!

By: Rachel Dotson

Rachel Dotson — Fri, 03 May 2013 21:34:14 +0000

Rex, I’m sorry to say that we haven’t made any progress on RSS at this time. I hope I can tell you differently in the future. Thanks for checking in.

By: Rex Boyd

Rex Boyd — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:57:30 +0000

Rachel, how is this ticket progressing? I too love Ziprecruiter, but without RSS, my use of it is significantly marginalized.

By: Rachel Dotson

Rachel Dotson — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 23:42:14 +0000

Update! An RSS option for job searches is now in our ticketing system. I’m not sure when it will be completed, but we’re officially on our way. Thanks again.

By: Rachel Dotson

Rachel Dotson — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:45:30 +0000

Well, fddyb, I’m almost embarrassed to say this, but I don’t believe we’ve ever had a real conversation about adding an RSS option. Thanks to your comment, we’re now discussing it. I can’t promise anything, except that I will keep you updated with whatever we decide as soon as we decide. Thanks for the excellent suggestion and for taking the time to share it with us.

By: fddyb

fddyb — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:48:22 +0000

I haven’t used ZipRecruiter for months because there’s no RSS feed. I thought I’d check again today, and ended up here. So, why no RSS feed?

How would you like it if Gmail sent you one email per day, with all you other emails listed in it? Not optimal !! It’s the same with the job alerts.

I can’t just go through them one by one and check them off in an email or in the web search, like I can in an RSS reader. Instead, from Ziprecruiter I would get 5 to 20 job listings in one email and didn’t even know if I had already investigated the jobs, or not, or if they were a good match, or not. I’d end up looking over some listings 3 or 4 or 5 times. Not to mention if I had free time I couldn’t just pop over and see if there were any new ones. I had to wait for the daily email.

It was a huge frustrating waste of time. And the sad thing was, Zip was actually my favorite job board.

If it’s because of ads and revenue … ads still show in the feed reader, so … why then? It really is 50 times easier in a feed reader.

I put the other job boards in my feed reader and just look over the jobs one by one as the come in, and check them off as ‘not a good fit’, or apply to them.

You say you are responsive. Put up an RSS feed, please.

By: Chris Forman

Chris Forman — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:05:58 +0000

Ian – great post. You’re the Nate Silver of recruiting.

By: Indeed Apply boosts applications on web and mobile | We Search Jobs

Indeed Apply boosts applications on web and mobile | We Search Jobs — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 17:53:33 +0000

[...] data from ZipRecruiter, a job distribution system for small and medium businesses, highlights the increasing usage of [...]

By: Ian Siegel

Ian Siegel — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:10:40 +0000

Pointing out that Indeed just launched their apply button a few months ago is reinforcing the core assertion of the post. Adoption of the Indeed Apply button is RAPIDLY outpacing LinkedIn.

You can’t exclude Indeed traffic from the analysis because the fundamental question is do you get more applicants from the same volume of visitors with one apply button, two apply buttons, or neither.

BOTH apply buttons were available as an option on every job. Regardless of where the user came from they were given a choice.

(I think) a better follow up question to this post would be which button drives more hires? There may be a difference in the caliber of candidate using each button, but unfortunately ZipRecruiter doesn’t have that data. Maybe one of the larger Applicant Tracking Services will repeat our test and track it all the way through to hire.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 12:17:21 +0000

The bottom line is who provides the applicants and ultimatly the hire. LinkedIn has a great professional DB, but they are not a job search company. Indeed drives applications and hires. Companies who use Indeed Apply will generate more hires at a lower cost.

By: Linkedintome

Linkedintome — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:25:48 +0000

In addition, if you still keep thinking its apples to apples because indeed traffic remained constant. Indeed launched the apply button not long ago. The increase is only due to indeed pushing their users to add their resumes to apply faster with “indeed apply” thats the correlation.

If you took the sample from just google/yahoo/bing referred traffic then tell us how the comparison looked would be better.