glassdoor vs indeed in this video i'm going to look at comparisons for glassdoor vs indeed
i'll compare pros and cons both are very well known websites and have many of the same uses
and functions but which is best for job seekers we'll look at which is best for job searching
interview research such as company reviews and salary checker services or salary comparisons
i go a lot deeper into the topic of glassdoor salaries in another video where i cover important
facts for job seekers and alternative places that i recommend to find good salary information
so i'll link that in the description below for you first up is job searching for job searches
i recommend indeed over glassdoor and i'll show you why so let's say that we were looking for as
an example a marketing assistant and we'll pop in the location as london and click find jobs
and we do the same thing on glassdoor so we'll also search for marketing assistant in london
so there's a number of different reasons that i'll go over with you so the first is the filters so
indeed has a lot more relevant filters than glassdoor on glass door you have only five
and on indeed there's about eight and some of the filters that glassdoor doesn't have
are filters like salary estimate which is really important if you're looking for a job a lot of
job seekers only want to consider jobs that are within a certain salary range which is perfectly
understandable so if you say you put in a salary estimate of 2022k you can see there's 125 jobs and
when you update it it brings it down to 77. so you are only looking at jobs within the salary
range that you need and many people have bills to pay they have to go for a minimum salary so this
is is a huge plus for indeed so glassdoor doesn't have this as one of the filters that i can see so
one of the other filters are remote which i think is new due to covid so they reference covid here
and this is absolutely key because with kovid some roles are temporarily remote and some are
completely remote and it really helps to know this because one of the lockdown rules is to work from
home if you can which means that there are some jobs where people are still going into the office
or they're still going into their workspace because their job needs to be done from that
workspace so this just cuts down all of that and you're only looking at roles that are relevant to
working from home not working from home or temporarily working from home or temporarily
remote due to covid and i don't see that filter on glass door so that's a huge another huge plus
for indeed one of the other filters that i can't see on glass door is job category which is speaks
for itself these are the sub categories that you can search under this filter on indeed
now one thing i would say about glassdoor is that they do have this more option and under this they
have things like work from home only but some of the sub filters under remote working on indeed
are not here and i don't see some of the other filters that i've mentioned under this drop
down and the second reason i recommend indeed over glass store is to do with the relevance
of search results so if we look at the search results for marketing assistant under glassdoor
we can see that there are 500 jobs in the search results whereas on indeed
so even if we remove the filters here there's 125 jobs now it might seem that there are more
jobs available on glassdoor and therefore it would be better for a job search but
when you look down at the search results let's say that we go down to say page five like all of
these seem like marketing assistant roles pretty relevant but if we go down to page five the roles
start to become very irrelevant so it's uh so we've got things like marketing manager we've got
things like hr assistant um advertising operations manager uh you know post-production assistant
there's so many roles that are not relevant to the search and it actually gets less and less as you
go further down into the search results so i think that for me is you know there may be 500 jobs but
if they're not what you're looking for then it's not that useful i find that the hyper-focused
search results are more useful when you're looking for a specific type of job whereas if we go over
to indeed it's a lot more hyper relevant so the majority of the roles are more hyper focused to
your marketing assistant role so there's a few in there that might not be but majority of them
are marketing assistant or some variation of marketing assistant and if you go down to page
five um again you can see marketing assistant or marketing internship they're all very still very
relevant so even though there are less roles on indeed actually i find that the relevance of them
is a lot higher and that's one of the other reasons that i recommend indeed over glassdoor
and i've tried this with lots of different roles over different industries to test the relevance
and i get the same results so although glassdoor is a brilliant tool to find work
if you want search results that are hyper relevant i would recommend indeed if you're getting value
from this so far do click like so this video can be shown to more people that need help with these
comparisons the second area is company reviews which can be vital for interview research this
can be great if you have an interview coming up or you just want to do some digging on a company that
you are thinking of working for in future so we'll look at which site is best for this so first we'll
just look at indeed so for indeed so we'll go for four seasons healthcare click on that so we can
see that there's 42 reviews 11 salaries and five questions and under the five questions you've got
only a couple of them have interview answers so just looking at this i can see immediately that
these are the sub criteria so work life balance pay and benefits job security management and
culture which is quite similar to glassdoor but one of the things i noticed immediately is that
there are not that many reviews so in comparison if we look at the same company on glassdoor
you can immediately see that there are almost 300 reviews jobs salaries interviews and if you click
on the interviews then you can see that you have quite a lot of detailed reviews where people are
talking about their experiences giving questions and answers things that would be a lot more useful
in terms of company research so one of the things to be aware of with reviews is that this is one
of glassdoor flagship services so they are particularly brilliant for company reviews
and so i would expect that they would be stronger in this area picking almost any company at random
i would expect that they would come out on top so i for that reason i would strongly recommend
glassdoor over indeed for company reviews i do have a video exploring this in more detail
because as glassdoor has grown in popularity there have been more questions about the authenticity
of reviews so i have explored this in more detail in another video which i will link in
the description below for you but particularly for company research and company reviews
i would recommend glassdoor the third area is salaries or salary comparisons so here we're going
to look at salary so whether you are negotiating a salary and you want to know what minimum you
should ask for whether you're changing professions maybe you're going back out into the job market
and you just want to see what the average salary is in your industry or profession salary
comparisons are key so we'll start with indeed we go to the fine salary on indeed and we'll
try for support worker so let's type in support worker and let's pop in the location as london
and we will also so the average base salary is 10 pounds 74 an hour let's do it per year
so it's about 25k and so we'll do the same thing on glassdoor to see what the results are
21k so it's not worlds apart it is a little bit different but these estimates are made up
by people submitting their salary so it really depends on what the what the makeup is of the
people that are submitting their salaries i also go over this in more detail in my
video on glassdoor salaries which i'll link in the description below it just explains why
some salaries may appear low in some cases and some of the different factors that can affect
the information relating to this so one of the things i noticed is that the this is made up of
1900 people that have submitted their salaries here and on glassdoor we've got 353 salaries
so there's a lot more people that have submitted their salary to indeed but what i would say is
it depends on what you're looking for so there are some other factors that go into glassdoor salaries
and depending on what you're looking for either of these sites can work quite well in terms of salary
data in the video that i mentioned earlier i also do discuss alternative websites that i recommend
to get good data on salaries because there are more than just these two places to find salaries
online so i go into more detail on that as well but in terms of salaries for these two websites
i actually think that even though more salaries are submitted to
indeed it doesn't necessarily make it the most accurate source of information
so i would say that both of these are pretty good to use to get an average on salary data and i do
think it's always good to look at at least three different places because you'll have different
groups submitting their salary which make up the final figure so either of these sites work quite
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