Indeed is a search engine exclusively dedicated to jobs. Per their website, Indeed‚ ”gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites, including all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages”.

Indeed represents another option for recruiters‚ to‚ advertise their open positions instead of ponying-up for a package of job slots with say Monster. In fact, if done right, it could be pretty cost-effective too. Indeed offers a performance-based model like “Google” where you only pay when targeted job-seekers click on the ads that are relevant to what they’ve searched for.‚ They claim to get over 4 million unique visitors to the site each month.

So for an example, you could place an ad for a Systems Administrator position based in San Francisco, California with Linux, SNMP and other key skills. You would place the‚ ad on Indeed with a link back to‚ your companies career site or perhaps another location on the web where it is placed, and each time a user finds your job, you are charged per click. See the example screen shot:

There are great benefits to both recruiters and job seekers. Recruiters get a targeted audience for their open‚ positions (based on defined key words, locations and more).‚ Job Seekers find jobs that match their exact search criteria (including key words, locations and more). In addition, Job Seekers can save‚ their searches on the site and have jobs delivered to‚ them by email alerts,‚ RSS feed readers and other means. The RSS feed directly to candidates is great because they simply set-up their search criteria and when a job matches it is sent directly to them without having to revisit the Indeed website.