Seek.com.au

Extremely disappointed with SEEK Employer. It honestly feels like a professional scam. Businesses pay huge amounts of money for this scam. NEVER EVER advertise on SEEK. Employers are left frustrated while continuing to pay for a service that provides very little value in return. In my experience, it has been a complete waste of money, and I would strongly warn other businesses to stay away.

Seek.com.au has lost its way and is facing fierce better competitors that actually work and cost less than the massive price hikes by Seek.com.au where they increased the cost of advertising! So you are aware as a consumer they are giving clients money back for failed adverts that have not produced results based on false promises of results etc! … Read more

Seek.com.au are over charging and under delivering and performing with poor candidate replies and terrible candidate quality!

Avoid spending money and wasting it there is a reason they are charging double or three times more for an advert now and having to clients money back!

This is not good at all. New to you?? It always sits at 99+ even if you have looked at them all. Look again at it is the same jobs every time. Makes looking for new opportunities impossible. Uninstalling this one.

As an employer I've had such a great experience with Seek. WHen my ad wasn't performign I reached out to customer service (on a number of occasions) and each time I received fabulous support, that enabled me to attract great candidates - they tweaked the wording of my ad and looked and placement / format options. They have been super helpful and generous with their time and support and I'd definitely use them again!

does the contributed to the nasty things are like absolute dogs man like they should they clean? They clean toilets for a living like everyone that contributed to this app or website they literally clean toilets for a living.

It does the job – I don't understand the sheer amount of 1 star reviews. SEEK has been around since the dawn of the internet and it is still the best database for job vacancies. The interface on the website and app is far superior to other websites and apps out there. I agree with saved searches being somewhat inaccurate but for me it was a location issue. It… Read more

suggested the correct roles but they were nowhere near my preferred location(s). I do have privacy concerns with regards to my resume and personal information. Whenever I update my profile visibility, I start getting fake / scam / phishing calls, emails and text messages. Luckily I am aware enough to spot the fakes and ignore them. I also do not allow my resume to be viewed or downloaded for privacy reasons yet I still get scammers calling me every time without fail. Overall I have found SEEK to be a helpful online service when I am looking for a new job, minus a few issues with saved search accuracy and privacy concerns.

As someone involved in the majority of hiring at my company, I am appalled by SEEK’s latest transition into a mandatory 'walled garden.' Forcing a sign-in just to browse the landing page is a blatant disregard for user experience and a transparent attempt at aggressive data farming. By locking the platform behind a login wall, you haven’t created… Read more

'personalisation', you’ve created a barrier. This move ignores the reality of how both recruiters and candidates actually use the web. It’s clear that SEEK no longer cares about being a functional marketplace, but is instead focused on trapping user data and training AI models at the expense of privacy and accessibility.

I refuse to support a platform that treats its users like products to be harvested rather than professionals looking for work. As a key decision-maker in my organisation’s recruitment process, I will no longer be using SEEK for our hiring needs. I will be strongly recommending we move our budget and our listings to platforms that actually respect the user's time and autonomy.

seek makes it's money out of recruitment agencies, and as such refuses to allow searching by companies actually looking for staff. Recruitment agencies have been quite straightforward in saying companies are not paying them to "find people like you" (over 40). Seek could be useful if it helped people not waste hours of time applying for jobs theyre never going to get.

I have had to use this site and indeed for about 8 years, both are about as bad as each other. Since Workforce Australia took over the jobsearch stuff for centrelink payments, its been way worse. I blame workforce australia for the majority of the issues, but SEEK doesn't really help either, especially with a recent update they did with their… Read more

site.

There's no way to block/say you're not interested in a certain job like indeed has (there is tonnes of nurse and teacher jobs in my area which I will never be qualified for)

Selecting my town as a location no longer does anything, so I'm getting jobs that are more than 50km away (recent update removed the ability to look for jobs within a certain distance from selected location).

The algorithm changed and now the jobs I just looked at get filtered into future pages for no reason.

I live in a town with about 40k people, its not that huge, on average about 100 jobs going every month, including nurse and teacher roles. Judging by the reviews here, it seems they don't even care about feedback either.

As SEEK has supposedly added new features the functionality of tailoring job searches has been ignored and become worse and gets worse by day. The mindless unwanted recommendations that have no relevance to job seekers with no ability to remove the unwanted criteria. For example, a hospitality worker looking for a job in a restaurant has no… Read more

ability to filter out QSR (quick service restaurants). Email notification has to be turned off otherwise you are bombarded with QSR job postings. Second example, I don't want to be a Barista yet I can not filter out Barista listings even though I am looking for Restaurant Supervisor or Manager positions. Absolutely rediculous, poorly designed, doesn't work as it should.

Total crap!! I was born here 70 years ago. Both my copies of the birth certificate are accepted by everyone, including SAPOL, the Federal Police and the Department of Defence, but not by SEEK Give them a huge miss – they are absolutely as useless as can be.

I lost my job in November last year and started applying on seek (I have used them before and they were good) Well things have changed. applied for heaps of jobs with no luck. I was clearly qualified but no call backs. Seeks website asks you to show strong interest by providing your drivers license, which is questionable in itself (Identity… Read more

theft) but i tried anyway. the site would not allow me to do so and kept saying provide the front of your drivers license, which it was. Went through their IT department and wasted hours and they couldn't find the problem. checked other peoples reviews and they said to try indeed. Get this got the 1st job I applied for. :) Paying it forward, My advise is you're looking for work try indeed.

My wife has tried to get a job through seek for the past 4 months with Zero success! She has applied for over 100 jobs and not a single follow up interview. Seek is only a job advertisement company and nothing to help a person find a job.

Seek constantly asks you to upload documents such as car registration, passport, police check certificate, driver's licence and others. How do we know seek are not selling our identity to a third party ? Why do seek, need any of these documents? If I am granted an interview, I can bring all of these documents to the interview. That's how things… Read more

have worked for decades. This whole process is a complete invasion of privacy, as all of these documents are confidential. Seek should not have copies of anyone's documents.

Log in with the code they send to email . When put the code in , it takes me to a blank screen . Tried multiple times . Emailed Seek, got a response after a few days from an uneducated incompetent moron not replying to my issue that was emailed , not once but twice . Finally called them and got no help at all . Said they will pass it onto their… Read more

Tech guys. But still no response after 2 weeks . Obviously have to have certain software updates on iPhone or website doesn’t work properly. Must be the Norm with a lot of websites these days otherwise you can’t access the website and or certain features on the website . So have to get new Iphone, so can stay up to date with certain software updates required to access websites and features. Starting to get pissed off with all this technology year after year. If the morons concentrate on the Security of the websites instead of trying to make websites more advanced would be a better . Seek get your act together you morons . You expect people to upgrade their mobile phones all the time . Seems like they don’t care and are just there for the money for a paying job from the government.

constantly saying I am not verified, even though I have been through the verification supposedly suessfully several times. was able to find work there in the past , but like everything else its gone to pot with privacy policies that are so private you can't even see your own information and cv screening software , whom god only understands

Stay away knock on doors to get a job just use them as a engine to show you what’s in offer and just call the company directly yourself and speak to the hr department do not bother login in to there new system

Frustrating and time wasting – I find the job application process on Seek frustrating due to the lack of transparency from employers. Many listings provide no indication of when a position needs to be filled, leaving applicants uncertain about timelines. Additionally, it's disappointing to receive the generic response stating that companies "may not respond," rather than… Read more

offering a clear update on application status.

It should be mandatory for employers to include a hiring deadline and update applications to "Unlikely to Progress" when a candidate is no longer being considered. Furthermore, recruitment agencies posting non-existent roles simply to build their candidate database is misleading and wastes job seekers' time. Improved accountability and clearer communication from both employers and agencies would make the platform far more effective for job seekers.

Overcharging and gouging – I placed an add in September & November with Seek & had limited applicants. The extra applicants they sent me were on average 6 months old & not relevant/active. I went to place another ad today and they are trying to charge me extra $100 for exactly the same add - apparently, they have more applicants on their platform now!!! Isn’t that what… Read more

the platform is meant to do and Offer - we shouldn’t be paying anything extra for it - Money grabbing, there is no proof they have extra applicants - how do we know??? Offering us applicants is what this platform is meant to be doing !!

Employer, Bypass Seek! – Cr#p App for Employers. Spend too much time being bounced around the site, locked out, cant find site training info, lacks basic features, too pricey and SFA candidates. Customer support are helpful but not readily available after hours when SMB'S are more likely to use the platform. Seek is opening the door for a smart competitor to step in. Show details

Seek resume enhancement not recommended – I used their enhanced resume service but it just seems like they used chatgpt to redo my resume, does not seem like much effort had been put into it.

Too many recruitment agencies – I'm sick of all of the damn recruitment agencies on there with their bate and switch just so they can get you on their books. 4 jobs via recruitment agencies i got screwed out of...employers need to stop using then idiots

Does not adhere to your search requirements - time consuming – The most irritating thing about this site is that no matter how many times you set your preferences, it neither saves them or sends you jobs based on your set criteria and therefore, becomes a huge waste of time and energy having to manually search for what you want.

Scammers – What an absolute joke of a platform!! None of these jobs are real people they allow people to advertise jobs which you need to pay anything from $900 to $10,000 to apparently get there training which you may or may not make back