Indeed Vs LinkedIn: Which One Will Help You Find A Job Faster?

Is there a true difference in what platform you use?

Jay Kobayashi
5 min readJun 16, 2024

In the world of job searching and professional networking, Indeed and LinkedIn stand out as two of the most popular platforms that help people in their professional journey. While both offer services to job seekers and employers, the recent trend of entry level jobs becoming harder to obtain makes these platform crucial to the job hunting experience.

So in this entry of the Vs series, we will pit Indeed vs LinkedIn against each other and explore what each platform offers and examine how they succeed where the other may fall short at.

Indeed Overview

Indeed is a job search engine that launched in 2004 and it aggregates job listings from thousands of websites from job boards to company career pages. Serving as a central hub of job searching, Indeed makes it easy for both recruiters and job hunters who are looking for a straightforward and efficient way to find and fill employment opportunities.

LinkedIn Overview

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Jay Kobayashi

A starving writer from Los Angeles who aspires to be plagiarized one day.