SEEK Reviews 

I have been a registered user of this platform for at least 15 years. I have been using SEEK less over these years only because I find it inferior with filtering, matching and searching compared with other platforms that are much more useful and intelligent with targeting the roles I'm looking for.

I recently clicked on a job and was diverted to the employer page which stalled and appeared suspicious with incomplete web parts and misaligned text, reminiscent of a fake website for phishing. I immediately closed the page and advised SEEK customer service.

The response I received from "Kirby" was totally unsatisfactory as follows:

"... When you are redirected to an employer's direct website, we can't provide specific technical support as we have no view or control over their systems. Normally, clearing your cookies and cache clears most technical issues (instructions below) however, you may need to contact the employer directly if this does not work for further technical support or an alternative way to apply..."

I acknowledged that this may or may not be a phishing scam. It may be a technical glitch with a legitimate employer. Nevertheless, this absence of any responsibility on the part of SEEK for my candidate / user experience is disgusting, that I get a very weird looking web page that displayed that had errors and I was unable to click on anything, reminiscent of a fake website by cyber criminals.

I asked Kirby to escalate this from feedback to a complaint in SEEK and for a full and proper response ASAP, as the response caused me great concern about data security and privacy in SEEK. I did not receive a response. I have hidden my profile on SEEK pending account closure and deletion.

Other platforms have a process of reporting issues with job ads and they respond properly.

Highly recommend not to trust SEEK with any personal information until or if they develop and implement a responsive cycle of customer service for cyber security.

Both Australia and especially the NZ site is absolutely useless!! The search engines are an absolute joke and not to mention the job alerts that show jobs that have absolutely nothing to do with the alert created!!
Job search also shows jobs that has nothing to do with search criteria!!
SEEK is now just a time waster!! VERY DISAPPOINTING!!!!

I’ve been trying to get a hold of someone to let me know when is my order. It said delivered but I never received a tracking number to check or follow up. I’ve sent exactly 10 emails to support @seekglo.com and I am 100% ignored. They basically stole $120 from me amd I have no idea how to get it back. I’m Soooooooo pissed.

Still looking for work - that is not the issue, however. The issue is logging in and having a password is a complete waste of time. The passwords don't match half the time (despite getting it correct time and time again) and they send one time codes that do not work. The range of jobs available in categories is full but still feels limited.

Search is painful,
Type in Saturday and cop every listing that doesn't have work on Saturdays and says in the write up mond-friday
Which is a wonderful waste of time!
Most look like real jobs, and you waste time and money getting to them to find they're recruiters you have to pay to help find you work ?
Wont be using Seek again.

I have informed Seek about advertising a job with a very unethical company that discriminates and mistreats people worldwide (not an Australian company) with Trust pilot reviews a little over 1 star. Their reply was it is not their business, they advertise whatever as long as the client pays and directed me somewhere else to lodge a complaint. I found it extremely unethical to suggest to Australians to work for this company with such a bad record and total arrogance on side of Seek, lack of social responsibility and lack of protecting Australians. I do not trust Seek anymore.

I used their resume enhancement service and it seems like they used chatgpt to redo the resume. I know because I compared the one I did with chatgpt with the one they sent and they look identical.

Terrible. I applied more than 30 job. There are none of them review my application at all. what is going on here? I start wondering if this platform is actually running and help people to find a job. Either the job posts are fake or just a scam for personal information. It's so frustrating when people have the skill and experience who seriously look for a job. In the end, your profile is completely being ignored!! You don't even stand a chance for an interview!

I placed 4 ads on this recruitment website, and the experience was extremely poor. Since the positions I was hiring for were remote, the location was entirely irrelevant. Jobstreet calculates the ad price based on the position and location of the ad, but they do not disclose the potential user volume or possible recruitment results. As a result, you are blindly choosing the ad location. After my ads were posted, I immediately realized the location was incorrect because there were almost no applicants. I contacted Jobstreet’s account manager within 24 hours, hoping to get a refund and repost the ad with a new location, but I was told that the ad was non-refundable and that I would need to pay for a new ad to change the location. When I asked my account manager where would be a better location for exposure, since my ad placement was blind, I received no response. Later, I emailed Jobstreet’s client service team to resolve the issue and received a reply 2 days later. The client service team told me, first, that my ad had been live for 3 days (without any resolution or handling, so it was live for 3 days), and second, that my ad had received a large number of applicants (even though the ad had been live for 3 days, it had only 8 applicants, all of whom were unqualified; they referred to this as ‘a large number’). Their account managers do not listen to what you say, constantly interrupt you, and after you raise questions, they simply do not respond, leaving the phone hanging with no further response. A company with such unfair terms, which arbitrarily takes your ad money and insults consumers, deserves to go out of business.

NEVER RECEIVE A OUTCOME FROM THE JOBS APPLIED ON SEEK. ITS JUST A WASTE OF TIME EVEN THOUGH I TRIED LOW SKILL JOBS STILL NOTHING JUST A WASTAGE OF TIME

I want to give credit where credit is due. I use seek because of the ability to see the ratings users give employers. This is hugely meaningful for me and i really love that seek have this feature. Thank you seek keep up the good work and i absolutely recommend others use seek!

I agree with many of the other reviews.
Normally I cannot be bothered lodging reviews.
However, now without any prior advisory Seek have switched to splitviews in their search web-site display.
As both an emplyer advertiser and job search adviser this is really irritating.
It now takes much longer to scroll thru the displayed roles, the print font is smaller and harder to read, and fwd/back search to other pages of job roles is much more limited.
As an advertiser and as a job search adviser, I am switching to Indeed, which will be a nuisance to set up and do, but I strongly advise you to do the same.

Using Seek for applying for jobs as a working class man is like getting your passport confiscated if you were working in Dubai. The application process is ambiguous, they want to know everything about you, they want to share your information to other people, and they want you to upload personal documents. Thanks to lazy human resource departments and inept executives they have created a system which promotes resume lying and data collection two things which are a problem in modern society.

customer service useless arogant

Horrible experience. I have been in business 35 years and for some reason and they said they cant verify my business details. I paid $223 un US funds to advertise and they refund me $141.50 back. They made money off denying me. Stay away from these ppl. I now use one of their competitors and have no issues.

Seek weekly or daily emails alerts are listing jobs, but without a filed specific information in the listing itself. For example, i am actually from academics research filed and say looking for position in the filed of "biomedical research", or "Mechanical Material Manufacturing" or "Physics- nanomaterials". But when you the listing in the email doesnt give the information in the title of job, it only say the position say " Lecturer", and then remuneration etc... but not the field specifics, in which field they are looking for. The Job seeker, would only know after clicking each job position and go to another web page and then only will come to know if that profile is suitable or not. This way clicking each listing would take time and waste too.
I have sent email to seek thrice, but no action, except usual replies, "thank you for your feedback,.. bla bla bla..."
i am wasting time in clicking all links and closing as most are not suitable.

Fed up with seek.

All scam job posts. Not getting any job, dropped dozens of resumes.

they delete negative reviews of large companies with toxic work culture that are written honestly without bias and within their guidelines as these large companies have such high staff turn over they're always advertising on seek.
seek cares more about its income than allowing fair reviews.

Glad to see you can now have multiple resumes and cover letters. However you are still forced into mandatory profiles. Seek trying too hard to be like LinkedIn and it just doesn’t work. They were the number 1 job search platform and now they’re not simply because they’re making life too hard for job seekers. You can’t tailor your information to each job. If you’re applying to an employer for a retail manager job you don’t need to list your experience as a airhost. So you have to keep changing your whole profile every single time. And it’s mandatory to have a profile. Or you can choose “no work history” obviously not a good idea to put on an application to a potential employer. Who has time for this? Job seeking is hard enough. Used to be a good platform but well if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. From what I know from my network groups job seekers are getting the job information and applying directly to the employer or agency who is advertising so seek are doing themselves an injustice by trying to have their finger in every pie. Seek go back to simple and work on what you do best. Stop trying to be like others, stop forcing time consuming, annoying and backward mandatory profiles on your users who are working around them anyways and focus on what you do well, surely you can see your statistics and business reporting would be totally out of whack.

Either the jobs posted are fake and are used for data mining purposes or the employers are just lazy disrespectful dogscum grubs who fail to reply to job applications, either way ITS BAD