Seek.com.au (page 4 of 5)

I never had any trouble getting a job up till about 5 years ago. I took some time off at the end of the mining boom in WA. Since I have been trying to reentre I have hit an invisable wall. Seek seem to have a monopoly in this area & they use ERMS technology that is discriminating on age. Everyone I know over 60 cannot get past this to get a job in their usual occupation. Its high time the Goverment had an investigation into the actions of Seek & other companies that use erms.

I just read a comment on the review option for employees to rate and comment on working with companies.
i Agree with the Business owner, how is this even considered to be justified and correct when it is usually a one sided story from disgruntled employees that were not performing and problematic. We are the ones paying for the service yet they allow negative comments on your Business to be posted. Our Business prides itself on Honesty, integrity and a great working environment where staff turnover is low and have many long standing employees that are totally dedicated to our organisation. This is a terrible and damaging very unprofessional seek .

The site wont let me log on and when I try to reset my password it says link is invalid.

Never had a reply to applications, been using seek for many years.

As a small business I purchased x2 AD packs at $709 each, well waste of time, no hire all unsuitable not qualifying for Trades positions. Candidates applying from all African states and South America! In the ads clearly stating AU & NZ Residents Only! One hopeful candidate ticked all boxes qualified only to contact him and he advised me odd as he was 72 year old retiree! Did not apply for position!

So Seek are you purging and pushing non existent applicants resumes to company email, these applicants really didn’t apply for role! Waste of mon...

Dozens of applications sent out for jobs that I was qualified for. Not ONE single response. Not even “ sorry we passed on your application “!!! I’d be almost 100% certain these employers don’t even get my application
Complete waste of time.
If your an employer... don’t use this site.

Where do I begin? I wish I could rate zero stars because I'm unsure whether any of the 'jobs' posted on seek are actually real, or if they're all just recruitment groups!!!
There are so many jobs that are 'too good to be true' and that's because they are, they're bait to lure people in and to get them to sign up for recruitment companies where they attempt to sign you up for training and waste vulnerable people's time!!!
I have contacted seek about this many times where I'm told that its unacceptable and they do not support that as a part o...

We have used Seek to advertise roles for the past 15 years and generally been pretty happy. We implemented an HRIS solution a couple of years ago and were initially having trouble getting candidates to apply through seek to that solution. After some discussion Seek agreed to allow us to post the links to our HRIS.

Recently we formed another company and setup a new Seek profile. Seek advised us they would no longer make an exception and allow us to post links from the Seek adverts to our HRIS citing term 25 of their T & Cs. It makes no se...

I paid $300 dollars for nothing.
My job description was a MR Truckdriver/ Labourer to do treelopping very simple.
They sent me Plumbers, Sheetmetal workers and a variety of others tradesman WITH no truck licence.
Hopeless I should have burnt the $300 in my hand.
Tried to talk to anyone and also e mailed them
No one wanted to get back to me or talk to me.

I will never use SEEK AGAIN TOTALLY HOPELESS.
CEO ([name removed]) doesn't know what's going on or only worried about his bonuses.

Treelopper

They undermined three weeks worth of applying for particular jobs because their stupid Facebook style profile keeps saving default CVs, even when you delete them; it is a nightmare. They think that everyone uses one CV and does not edit it or add and remove things for the benefit of your application. A complete waste of time now. It used to be much simpler although problems with saving files/ letters were more common This is the last time.

Seek ads email you an annoying confirmation of application email then nothing happens. There is no doubt that agencies post fake job ads too.
Something else though - if you do happen to find yourself on the dole Centrelink makes you apply for ten jobs a fortnight.
This will stuff you up with employment agencies very quickly.
It is counter-productive to you finding a job.

It also drowns employment agencies with 10 times the number of job applications they receive.

While you can see why Centrelink do this, it totally damages the wh...

I have a business that has taken 25 years to build up. In that time I have employed over 200 people and currently employ around 60. Sadly some employees have to be terminated or are asked to move on because of lack of ability or significant issues where continued employment is no longer sustainable. Those employees can then post up the most one sided, distorted reviews which are often downright lies and its simply posted. This is extremely damaging to a business and its hard won reputation. There is apparently nothing that can be done about it.

Employer Alert. If you are an employer, think very carefully about using SEEK.COM. The company is no longer permitting links to external application forms within a listing, or providing hyperlinks to the website of the employer, and/or even permitting the citation of the employer’s web address. Many employers (like the client I was working for) choose to have all relevant information about a position on their website, plus key information such as the position description, the application procedures and the appointment timeline. SEEK does not en...

I have applied for over 7 jobs in the last 2 weeks, all over which are in the same role that I am highly experienced in. I have uploaded a resume (which I have had professionally done) and included a cover letter. All of the steps seek advise for applying for jobs I have carried out exactly. This website just wants numbers and takes advantage of people genuinely looking for work- I would absolutely understand if I was not offered the job- but I have never received feedback for a single job I.have applied for. It’s disgusting.

Don't be fooled by this worthless website. Everything seems so real, but it's not. I used SEEK for the better part of six weeks, and applied for over 60 jobs. I was overqualified for every single position I applied for. Simple jobs that required a licence or experience - I've had both for over ten years.

The "employment agencies" obviously rarely get any notifications from SEEK. The automated replies mean nothing; don't get your hopes up. After six weeks, and after seeing re-posts for the SAME job more than three times, that I applied for EV...

I am a qualified manufacturing engineer, yet i never get a response or inkling that someone has read or reviewed my application. I get emails stating my application is being reviewed but then NOTHING. What's the point of not getting any feedback. It has been over 4 months and many applications and no replies. Are these jobs real?? I subscribed to the email alerts wow what a joke, they send me jobs that are a thousand miles away even though you subscribe to the area you applied for. Also i notice re-occurring job ads, something not right here. D...

There should be an enquiry into Seek and all the recruiting companies that post Jobs on this platform. The Jobs advertised are fake and misleading - ACCC Should be sueing all Seek and all the recruiting companies for false information and misleading consumers !!!

I must say, I've found Seek to be a great website. I found my current role on Seek and I've been at my workplace for nearly 2 years. Not sure why so many other seem disgruntled.

We have been receiving bills for a job advert that we did not post. After making the relevant inquires through the Customer Service team, we come to the conclusion that another party or maybe even a disgruntled ex-employee has posted the ad online. Seek confirmed that who ever posted the ad only used the information that is public knowledge such as email and phone number. The job ad apparently used a reference number, which we do not.... we also have never used seek due to the price per advert. It makes no sense to all of a sudden use them, now we have to foot the bill for an advert we did not post, did not want to post on seek and never even interviewed anyone for. Be cautious everyone.

Been trying to apply for jobs recently, and when I apply for jobs I can't scroll down when they ask for how many years experience have you worked for in that field etc. This has happened to me on so many occasions in the last couple of weeks I give up. Fix this problem!

Hands down the worse ever. Do jobs really exist. There BDM [name removed], spruiks the company on their biggest competitors site - LinkedIn. Just goes to show they are fast shrinking. Don't use them, if you load you CV up you get random phone calls from marketing companies. No real jobs exist.

I have come to realized that this site is nothing more than pile of crap. I vote for this site 0.5. Perhaps I should take the .5 off the score. But I decided to leave it at that for the sake of being useful for nothing.

Seek.com.au sells ad packs to advertisers, but these ad packs will expire. it's like food labeling. So you paid for the ads and if you haven't used the ads within 6 months your ad pack will expire. So SEEK will take all your money and put an "used by date" on it. How does this sound? Yes not good at all. I wouldn't buy any ad packs from Seek!

Been with the NZ one for ...(?).......that long. Deleted the website and gone somewhere else. They appear to don't like anyone missing out certain details especially when you have no fancy degree and only a high school education. Even Self-Taught education is not accepted. Including if your over a certain age (yes age discrimination does exist here even over a website). Deleted Seek because they are no help for me.

Genuine applications, from individuals with genuine experience, depositing their personal details into an ever and bloated database with not as much as a thank -you. Agencies trolling for candidates for jobs that don't have, as its a cheap form of Advertising. Private employers leaving jobs that have been filled on the website. If recruitment agencies purport to say that they have many good candidates on their books and its a competitive market, where is the need to search on seek. I would love list the main offenders, but I am not going to gi...

Ok i guess, needs to refresh they're database more often, better off using a different site to do job searching on, not sure what the go is with people getting no replies.