I have serious concerns about your HR candidate experience to date , particularly as a search engine and software company who in its marketing and branding espouses to be helping candidates succeed in their careers search, yet enacts a flagrantly demeaning emailing campaigns, where the tone and timing are indicative of eco-system hostile and hurtful to candidates and industry colleagues. I apply for openings where I have researched the company, its culture, its R&D, P&L statements, and its cultural climate , and do not anticipate or appreciate receiving emails such as “You’re invited to the Job Cast: Succeeding at Search”, which says more about Indeed missing the mark more than anything else. Since there are actual people interested in talking to folks at Indeed, what candidates expect as human beings is to be treated with respect and to know that their time is valued and appreciated. Not everyone is a great fit for a role, but every candidate should have a positive experience in the candidate journey. This is amid a time of significant change, from Covid-19 crises, the racial lynching of George Floyd, Brionna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, a financial crises, and civil rights movement, and should be instead where Indeed is doing its part to actively contribute to social decency and professional decorum rather than adding to the conflict there is in the world. What would be helpful is a forum with job candidates, perhaps, Candid Indeed conversations with prospective candidates, on the ways in which implicit bias, sexism, unconscious bias, microaggressions, and white supremacy show up in Indeed’s candidate experience and cultural climate, even when folks intend to be fair and impartial. And if there were more diversity, equity, and inclusion at Indeed, they would know better, do better, and care by doing the daily work. My hope to those at Indeed whether you are holding things down in HR, sales, finance, accounting, engineering, security, compliance, technology, marketing, training or research - that you have a far better candidate experience in your employment journey at your next company than that I have had with indeed. You deserve it and are worth it. YOU. ARE. WORTH. IT.