8 things your Indeed profile is still missing

The useful part

8 things your Indeed profile is still missing Skip to the content scroll top Close Menu You made an Indeed account two years ago, uploaded whatever resume you had lying around at the time, and never opened it again. Here is what nobody tells you when you sign up: your Indeed account and your Indeed profile are two different things. Submitting applications does not automatically make you visible to the recruiters searching Indeed's own database every day, looking for people with your exact title, skills or certifications.

How it works

• A complete, public Indeed profile makes job seekers 3.8 times more likely to turn up in those employer searches and 4.5 times more likely to be contacted directly by someone hiring.
• Indeed never spells this out when you first sign up, which is why so many profiles sit half finished while employers search right past them.
• They are searching directly, the same way you would search a database, typing in job titles and skill combinations and scrolling through whoever comes up.
• That figure matters even if nobody ever discovers you through search, because a complete, visible profile also strengthens every application you submit the normal way.
• Turning on visibility is the only step that puts your profile to work in the background, whether or not you are actively applying that day.

What to take from it

A rough number beats no number, because a blank space next to a job title reads as though nothing happened there worth mentioning. Christin Hume via Unsplash Indeed built a free AI career coach directly into its mobile app called Career Scout, and it does the tailoring work most people skip because it takes too long by hand. New skills, a finished certification, a promotion, or a change in what you are willing to accept for pay all belong in an update, and none of them happen automatically just because they happened in real life.

Example or evidence

• For projects, name your role, the specific skills you used, and the actual result, and link to a portfolio or work sample whenever the application allows attachments.
• Fixing it starts with one setting, tucked near the top of your profile, that most people never touch.
• The numbers back that up: job seekers with a complete profile set to public are 90 percent more likely to move forward in the hiring process once they apply.

Details worth keeping

Your profile and your resume are not interchangeable, either. The profile is the living, editable version of your professional details. Your resume is the document that gets attached or pulled in when you apply.

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