Indeed, a leading job search platform, is testing paid plans for job seekers in Canada, sparking debate among job seekers and employers alike. While Indeed positions these plans as a way to enhance candidate visibility and connect with more employers, the Reddit thread suggests otherwise.
A closer look at the offering reveals little value to the job seeker. In fact, it looks more like the LinkedIn Premium tool, … problem is, Indeed is nothing like LinkedIn.
Employers won’t care about you marking a job as interested, top applicant is of no use, seeing who looked at your profile equally useless. Need I go on?
For Job Seekers: Limited Added Value
The core functionality of searching and applying for jobs remains free, leaving users questioning the value of paying for features that don’t significantly improve their job search. These offerings do little to advance a users job search and Indeed should know better than to just copy LinkedIn.
Just look at the comments;
- “This is gross and greedy. We should get paid to apply for jobs on this site.”
- “I don’t really see how this will offer any real additional benefits, or live up to the $10/mo price tag.”
- “They aren’t offering anything of value to the job seeker. Why does Indeed think people are going to pay for “Compare Your Skills” and that other nonsense?”
If you want to charge job seekers you MUST offer them VALUE and help them SPEED up their job search and STAND OUT among their competition. That’s why AI resume tools like Teal and others can charge for access because they are good at helping the job seekers with crafting a better resume and performing mock interviews leveraging AI technology.
Perhaps Indeed should ask their own user base what they’d be willing to pay for instead of creating products in a silo. If they need more revenue they need to come up with useful tools and services that make job hunting easier.
Until then, they are just throwing spaghetti at a wall.
