Indeed application status: what each one means

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Where do you find your application status on Indeed?

Open My Jobs and choose the Applied tab. My Jobs has four tabs: Saved, Applied, Interviews and Archived. Each job in the Applied tab carries a status, and the tab lists six months of applications at a time.

Indeed describes a status as showing what is happening with your application. Some statuses you update yourself. Others change based on what the employer does.

02

What does each Indeed application status mean?

For how these compare with the labels on employer career sites, see what “under consideration” means on a job application.

03

What does “Application viewed” tell you?

Indeed’s definition is one sentence: the employer reviewed your application. It sits in the group of statuses that the employer updates.

That is all it establishes. It does not say what the employer thought, and it is not an invitation to follow up the same day.

The absence of the status proves little either. Asked whether you can check if an employer viewed your application, Indeed’s help center answers “Maybe”, and adds that employers can update application statuses for jobs they posted on Indeed. So a missing label is not proof that nobody looked.

04

What does “Response seems unlikely” mean?

It is Indeed’s forecast, not the employer’s decision. Indeed sets this status when it does not expect the employer to reply, in one of two situations:

• the employer has already hired enough candidates;
• there has been no activity on your application for at least two weeks.

A rejection by the employer has its own status, “Not selected by employer”. So “Response seems unlikely” is not a message that someone turned you down. It means either the employer has the hires it needs or your application has gone quiet. For planning purposes, treat it as closed and put your time into new applications.

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Why is there no status, or one that never changes?

1. You applied on the company’s site. Indeed lists two kinds of jobs. For jobs with an application on Indeed, you can track your status in My Jobs. For jobs that send you to the employer’s site, Indeed says it redirects you to the employer’s applicant tracking system and that you will not receive communication from Indeed about your application status. Those applications are not saved on Indeed, so you have to move the job to Applied, Interviews or Archived by hand.
2. You are using the website. Indeed says the statuses it sets are available only in the mobile app.
3. The employer has not updated anything. Three of the statuses depend on the employer’s actions.
4. The application is not in this account. Indeed says an application can be missing from My Jobs if you did not apply directly on Indeed, if it is linked to a different Indeed account or email address, or if you applied more than six months ago.

The guide to applying for jobs on Indeed explains how to tell the two kinds of job apart before you apply.

06

How do you update or withdraw an application on Indeed?

1. Open My Jobs and choose the Applied tab.
2. Click or tap the three dots next to the application status.
3. Choose Update status, then pick Interviewing, Offer received, Hired or No longer interested. The new status appears above the job title.
4. To stop being considered, choose Withdraw application from the same menu.

Indeed attaches several warnings to withdrawing. You can only withdraw an application you made directly on Indeed. You may not be able to apply again. The employer may still contact you. And a withdrawn application cannot be reopened: if you withdrew by mistake, Indeed says to message the employer.

07

What should you do when the status stops moving?

Indeed’s help center gives its own sequence for an employer that does not respond:

1. After one to two weeks: give the employer time to review. The one task Indeed suggests is checking your spam or junk folder.
2. After two to three weeks: if the employer accepts follow-ups, send one brief, courteous message that repeats your interest in the role.
3. After three to four weeks: with still no reply, Indeed’s view is that it is fine to move on and keep applying elsewhere.

Whether you can message at all depends on the employer. Indeed says the option exists only if the employer turns it on. When it is available, you are told by a “Send a message” option under the listing in My Jobs, by an email from Indeed, or by a notification in your account, after a delay of at least a few days. Your message is shared with your application and saved in Messages.

Hi [Name or hiring team],

I applied for the [job title] role on [date] and wanted to restate my interest. I have [number] years of [relevant experience], including [one result that matches the posting].

Could you tell me whether applications are still being reviewed? I'm available to talk any day this week.

Thank you,
[Your name]
[Phone]

For other channels and a second message, use the application follow-up guide.

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