Indeed has spent nearly two decades connecting people and jobs. What changes when that connection is boosted with artificial intelligence — especially for you? In simple terms: faster results, better matches, and less repetitive work for both hiring teams and job seekers.
AI in practice: what Indeed does today
Indeed integrates more than a hundred AI-powered features on both sides of the process: for job seekers it offers personalized recommendations, salary insights and a career assistant; for employers it provides candidate matching, job description optimization and automated sourcing tools.
Indeed also uses OpenAI APIs in key products like Invite-to-Apply, Talent Scout and Career Scout. What's the effect? More precise, faster processes to connect talent with opportunities.
In practice, AI doesn't replace the person; it speeds up repetitive tasks and lets humans make the final decisions.
Culture and internal adoption
Adoption isn't just technological, it's cultural. More than 80% of engineers use AI-assisted programming tools, and about two-thirds of employees report saving up to two hours a week. How do they achieve that? With internal training, a VP of AI coordinating adoption, and bottom-up sharing practices: Slack channels, short coworker videos and hackathons.
That practical, social approach turns AI from an abstract idea into a tool anyone in the company can apply to their workflow.
Concrete results that matter
The numbers help you see the real impact:
- Candidates recommended by Indeed are 15 times more likely to apply when an employer reaches out through an AI recommendation.
- BrightSpring Health Services filled 45% more hard-to-fill roles in just four weeks and saved eight hours per week for the team thanks to Talent Scout.
- In Sponsored Jobs, about 70% of sponsored applications come from AI recommendations.
- Employers using Smart Sourcing hire 40% faster.
- Premium Sponsored Jobs moves 3 times more candidates and reduces time-to-hire by almost 60%.
- Career Scout helps people find jobs 7 times faster and increases the probability of being hired in early-stage screens by 38%.
Those results show that when AI is well integrated and transparent, it improves both the speed and quality of hiring.
Responsibility and human-centered design
Indeed says responsibility in AI is a cornerstone: transparency, fairness and accountability. The platform aims to use skill-based criteria to widen talent pools and provide clearer recommendations for job seekers.
The key is keeping employers as the final decision-makers and designing experiences where criteria are understandable and controllable. The goal? Avoid black boxes and encourage better, fairer decisions.
What's next and why it matters to you
In the short term you'll see more conversational agents and personalized assistants — like Career Scout — acting as always-available career coaches. In five years, the vision is that every person arrives to work with a set of AI-augmented capabilities: more productivity, accelerated learning and clearer career paths.
For you, whether you're searching for a job or hiring talent, this means less time on administrative tasks and more focus on the human side: meaningful interviews, deeper cultural-fit evaluation and skills development.
AI isn't a distant promise; it's already improving measurable hiring outcomes. The question now is how you take advantage of these tools to make your work more strategic and less repetitive.