<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 5:46 PM, David Rysdam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@rysdam.org" target="_blank">david@rysdam.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">Alan Johnson <<a href="mailto:alan@datdec.com">alan@datdec.com</a>> writes:<br>
> Back when I worked for one of the top recruiting companies, the industry<br>
</span>> experts there said <a href="http://indeed.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">indeed.com</a> ...[was] the top resume<br>
> posting services.<br>
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If this was ever true, it is certainly not now. I was the recipient of<br>
some resumes from Indeed.com and they were not just bad, they were<br>
ridiculous. Like, nursing student resumes.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">IIRC, and my info is several years old at best, Indeed.com does not quite work like that. They are an aggregator that posts your resume on other job boards and maintain their own internal database as well. If you were getting lame resumes from Indeed.com, I would expect the problem was with whoever was using the tool and sending them to you rather than the tool itself. Most of these tools take some specialized skills on the recruiting side to get the search terms right but even then you run the risk of nursing students listing IT skills that could create some strange results. A clueful recruiter should filter those out before sending them along. <br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Simply Hired does (did?) pretty much the same thing. Startwire is something a bit different but still in the category that focuses on the helping job seekers find jobs rather than helping recruiters find candidates, but the 2 concepts are tightly coupled.<br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Again, I could be completely mixed up on this and my info is aged.<br></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Alan Johnson</span><br></div><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="mailto:alan@datdec.com" target="_blank">alan@datdec.com</a></font><div><span style="font-size:16px;font-variant:small-caps;text-align:center;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><a href="http://xkcd.com/1179/" target="_blank"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Date Format PSA</font></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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