Most job searching is done on a Monday between 10am and
1pm and a Tuesday between 10am and 1pm. This means ideally we need to be
placing adverts that appear on job boards on Monday at 10am so that we are
right at the top without having to pay.
This is easily organised when we are paying for an advert, but for
Indeed where we don't pay, we need to think about the date and time it goes
live on our own website because Indeed will be sweeping our website for that
advert and if we mistime when it displays on our website then it won't appear
at the top of Indeed's listings at the ideal time, and instead if it appears
earlier it could have traveled down the listing quite a long way by the time
Monday 10am arrives.
Advice
from Indeed
Indeed advise that we should probably
time our advert to go live on our own website from late Sunday evening, early
Monday morning, for example 2am on a Monday morning which you link HR Team can
organise in the New HR System. Indeed
explain that their system indexes (scrapes) websites every six hours. There is
no set time that this will happen to each website, so they can't guarantee that
our website will be scanned at 8am every Monday morning for example, but advise
that if we place the job on our website on a Monday morning then it will
definitely be picked up by Indeed on Monday afternoon/evening. So as we are wanting the advert to be close
to the top of the listings at around 10am on a Monday they advise that we
should post our advert to our own site on a Sunday evening/early Monday
morning.
Timings
you should use
Aim for adverts to go live from 2am on a
Monday morning and hopefully the adverts will be fairly near the top of the
listings. We can only guarantee a
specific time by paying for the advert though.
In the Additional Information section on the Staff request put something
to the effect "Please arrange for the advert to go live on the OBU website
from Monday (date) at 2am so that we can benefit from being at the top of the
lists by Monday morning when Indeed will have captured our advert from the OBU
page as this is when there is a surge in job searches happening."