Indeed Smart Sourcing allows you to proactively search for and contact candidates who may be a good fit for your caregiver openings instead of waiting for them to find your job first.

When paired with Augusta’s Indeed integration and Indeed Apply, candidates sourced through Indeed can still flow into Augusta once they complete their application.

This allows you to use Indeed for proactive candidate discovery while continuing to use Augusta to screen, process, interview, and track applicants through your hiring workflow.

Quick Takeaway

To use Indeed Smart Sourcing seamlessly with Augusta:

1. Your Augusta Smart Posts should be connected to Indeed.
2. Indeed Apply must be enabled through your Augusta Indeed Settings.
3. Use Smart Sourcing to find and contact candidates for your existing Augusta jobs.
4. Once the candidate completes their Indeed Apply application, they will flow into Augusta for screening and processing.

Important: Enable Indeed Apply from your Augusta dashboard, not directly within Indeed. Changes made directly to Augusta-published jobs inside Indeed can disconnect the job from Augusta’s integration.

Learn more: How to turn ON Indeed Apply inside Augusta

How Smart Sourcing Works with Augusta

The two systems handle different parts of the candidate journey:

Important: Smart Sourcing activity itself stays within Indeed. Viewing a candidate, messaging them, or adding them to an Indeed project does not automatically create an applicant in Augusta.

The candidate will appear in Augusta only after they complete the Indeed Apply application connected to your Augusta job.

That keeps Indeed useful for sourcing while Augusta remains your central system for processing applicants once they enter your hiring funnel.

Before You Start

Make sure:

• Your Augusta Smart Posts are publishing through the Augusta x Indeed integration.
• Indeed Apply is enabled in Augusta.

To enable Indeed Apply:

1. Open your Augusta Dashboard.
2. Go to Smart Posts.
3. Select Indeed Settings.
4. Toggle Opt-in to Indeed Apply ON.
5. Click Save Indeed Settings.

Changes may take up to 24 hours to reflect on Indeed.

Indeed specifically notes that Sourcing Assistant can deliver completed applications into an ATS when Indeed Apply Sync is enabled. Without that sync, sourced candidates may remain within Indeed rather than entering the ATS workflow.

How to Source Candidates

Once your setup is ready:

1. Sign in to your Indeed Employer Account.
2. Open Smart Sourcing.
3. Select the existing Augusta job you want to recruit for.
4. Review Indeed’s matched candidates or search using job title, location, skills, experience, and other filters.
5. Open candidates who look like a potential fit.
6. Select Message to invite them to apply.
7. Once an interested candidate completes the application through Indeed Apply, their completed application will flow into Augusta.

From there, continue processing the candidate through your normal Augusta workflow.

Keep Your Outreach Simple

Indeed allows you to create templates and personalize outreach to sourced candidates.

We recommend keeping your message short, specific, and focused on why the opportunity may be relevant.

For example:

Hi {CANDIDATE_FIRSTNAME},

This is {RECRUITER_NAME} from {COMPANY}. I came across your profile on Indeed and thought your experience could be a great fit for our {JOB_TITLE} opportunity.

We’re currently hiring caregivers in {LOCATION} and would love for you to take a look at the position and apply if you're interested.

Hope to connect soon!

Indeed may also send follow-up reminders to candidates who do not respond, depending on the Smart Sourcing features enabled on your account.

Where Should I Process the Candidate?

Use Indeed to find and initially engage sourced candidates.

Once they apply and appear in Augusta, we recommend continuing your recruiting workflow in Augusta.

This keeps your team’s:

• Candidate statuses
• Qualification information
• Interview activity
• Recruiter notes
• Hiring stages
• Integrations
• Hiring reporting

in one place alongside applicants from your website, referrals, Google, community recruiting, and every other source.

That last point is important: Smart Sourcing should complement your broader recruiting strategy—not become your entire recruiting strategy.

In Summary

Indeed Smart Sourcing can be a useful way to proactively find caregiver candidates who haven't applied to your jobs yet.

When you use Smart Sourcing alongside Indeed Apply through Augusta’s Indeed integration, completed applications can flow directly into Augusta, where your existing screening, scheduling, integrations, and hiring workflow continue as normal.

Use Indeed to expand your candidate reach. Use Augusta to keep your complete recruiting process centralized once those candidates apply.