Vendor Guide
SID is a Chrome extension that automatically downloads candidate resumes from your Indeed employer dashboard. It saves you from clicking into each candidate one by one.
You press Start, SID grabs all the resumes, and then you download everything as a single ZIP file. The best practice is to run SID on a job posting once it's closed and you're ready to save all the resumes at once. Each day, close your finished postings, run SID on them, and upload the files using your personal upload link.
You only need to do this once.
When you visit the Indeed employer dashboard, a small purple widget appears in the top-right corner of your screen. This is your control panel. Here's what it looks like:
After you go to a job's Candidates page, make sure you're on the "All" tab so SID processes every candidate. Then click on the first candidate's name to enter the individual candidate view — SID will appear in the top-right corner, waiting for you to press Start.
The SID widget in its "Ready" state — just click Start!
After you click Start, the button turns to "Stop" (in case you need to pause), and the progress bar fills up as candidates are processed. You don't need to stay on this tab — you can switch to other tabs in Chrome and do other work. Just don't close the Indeed tab. Come back when you think it should be done.
SID working through candidates — just let it run!
The progress bar turns green, you'll hear a chime, and the download buttons appear. The status shows a summary like "Done! 44 resumes ready · 44 reviewed" (and if any were skipped, it will say why). This is where you grab your files.
As SID processes each candidate, it automatically marks them as "Reviewed" in Indeed. This is just how SID keeps track — after a successful run on a closed posting, all candidates will show as Reviewed and you're done.
If you have an ongoing posting (not yet closed), the Reviewed status becomes more useful: candidates who apply after SID ran will appear in the "New" tab, so you can easily see who's new. See the "If You Have an Ongoing Posting" section below for how to handle that.
SID is finished — click one of the download buttons to get your files.
Clicking the Skipped number opens a panel showing who was skipped and why. A small number of skips is normal, but most candidates should have resumes. If you're seeing a lot of skips, let Melissa know.
The Skipped panel — shows each skipped candidate and the reason.
This shows all the jobs you've processed recently. Click any job to re-download its ZIP. There's also a "Clear All History" button at the bottom if you want to reset, but you usually don't need to — SID automatically cleans up job data older than 7 days.
Job History panel — click any job to re-download its ZIP file.
This is important to understand:
| Button | What It Does | When to Use |
|---|---|---|
| Download Zip | Downloads resumes + a CSV for this one job only. | Use this if you only ran one job today, or if you want to send each job's file separately. |
| Download All Today | Bundles resumes + CSVs for every job you ran today into one ZIP, with a master CSV that removes duplicate candidates. | Best option if you ran multiple jobs. One file, everything included. |
| Job History | Shows past jobs so you can re-download any of them. | Use if you need to re-download something from a previous day. Data older than 7 days is automatically cleaned up. |
Most of the time, you'll run SID once on a closed posting and you're done — that's the simplest approach. But sometimes a posting stays open for a while and you need to save resumes as they come in. Here's how that works:
Use the "New" tab. On Indeed's Candidates page, the "New" tab shows only candidates who haven't been reviewed yet — meaning anyone who applied since you last ran SID. Navigate to the New tab, click the first candidate's name, and run SID. It will download just those new candidates.
If you go back to the "All" tab on a job you already ran, SID remembers what it downloaded and will show something like this:
This means SID will skip the 44 it already has and only grab new candidates. However, SID's job history auto-deletes after 7 days, so this memory only works if you last ran the job within the past week (and haven't manually cleared your history). For ongoing postings where you're saving resumes daily, the "New" tab is more reliable since it's based on Indeed's status, not SID's memory.
What about "redo all"? If for some reason you need to re-download every candidate from scratch (for example, if Melissa asks you to), click the small "redo all" link under the status message. It will reset the job so SID processes all candidates again. You almost never need to do this — it's just there in case.
Either approach works for uploading: you can upload one "Download All Today" ZIP at the end of your shift, or upload individual "Download Zip" files per job — whatever is easier for you. Just make sure every job gets uploaded.
Here's the typical daily routine. The best practice is to run SID on a posting once it's closed and you're saving all the resumes at once. Most vendors close the previous day's postings in the morning, run SID on those closed jobs, upload the files using their personal upload link, and then new jobs go up for the current day.
The time SID takes depends on how many candidates are in the job. Here are conservative estimates so you know what to expect:
| Total Applicants | Estimated Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ~100 | 2 – 3 minutes | Small job — very quick. Just let it run. |
| ~300 | 6 – 10 minutes | Medium job. You can work on other things while SID runs in the background tab. |
| ~1,000 | 20 – 30 minutes | Large job. Start it and move on to other work. Check back periodically to make sure it hasn't stalled. |
After you download the ZIP file from SID, upload it the same day using the personal upload link Melissa gave you. This is a unique link for your uploads — bookmark it so you have it handy.
You don't need to open or edit anything inside the ZIP. But here's what's in there so you know:
| Folder / File | What's Inside |
|---|---|
| Resumes/ | All the candidate resume PDFs. Each one is named with the person's name, city, email, and phone number. |
| CSV/ | A spreadsheet for each job with candidate details (name, email, phone, location, job title, etc.). |
| Master CSV | One big spreadsheet with every candidate across all jobs, duplicates removed. |
Do not rename any files inside the ZIP. The names are formatted automatically and Melissa uses them for tracking.
If you're still stuck, email mallen@wallstjobs.com with a screenshot and a description of the problem.
Questions about anything in this document? Email mallen@wallstjobs.com anytime.
This document is confidential. Do not share it or the SID extension link with anyone outside your team.