Get your SEEK candidates through an API

What you can build on SEEK

• Get the candidates for a job ad

  Build this

  Opens a job ad in Candidate Management and reads its applicants, with each one's status and application date.

  Takes

  Job ad title, status (optional)

  Returns

  Candidate name, application date, status, applied to your company before, verified SEEK Pass results, answers to application questions

• Get hiring outcomes per job ad

  Build this

  Reads the Hiring Outcomes view under Ad Usage in Analytics: placements and cost for each job ad.

  Takes

  Nothing

  Returns

  Job ad, placements, placement rate, cost per placement, hiring status

• Get SEEK spend and budget balance

  Build this

  Reads the Overview Dashboard in Analytics: your SEEK spend, its breakdown, and your budget balance and utilisation.

  Takes

  Nothing

  Returns

  SEEK spend, spend breakdown, budget balance, budget utilisation, recommended actions

• Update a candidate's status

  Build this

  Opens a job ad in Candidate Management and moves one candidate to a status such as Shortlist or Not suitable.

  Takes

  Job ad title, candidate name, new status

  Returns

  Candidate name, job ad, previous status, new status

Automate SEEK with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• New applicants on the job ads you name

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00

  Step 1

  For each job ad you name, get the candidates in Candidate Management.

  Step 2

  Keep the candidates who were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the list per job ad, with application date and answers to application questions.

• Weekly hiring outcomes and spend report

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 9:00

  Step 1

  Get the Hiring Outcomes per job ad from Ad Usage.

  Step 2

  Get your SEEK spend and budget balance from the Overview Dashboard.

  Step 3

  Have an AI step summarise placements and cost per placement, then post it to your webhook.

• Statuses decided in your system, set in SEEK

  Build this

  Starts

  When your system calls the workflow's webhook with a job ad, candidate and status

  Step 1

  Take the job ad, candidate name and status your system sends.

  Step 2

  Update that candidate's status in Candidate Management.

  Step 3

  Post the previous and new status back to your webhook.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get the candidates for a job ad” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "talent.seek.com.au/get_job_ad_candidates",
    "input": {
      "job_ad": "Warehouse Team Leader",
      "status": null
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "job_ad": "Warehouse Team Leader",
    "candidates": [
      {
        "name": "Applicant 1",
        "application_date": "2026-11-11",
        "status": "Shortlist",
        "applied_before": false,
        "seek_pass_verified": true,
        "answers": {
          "Do you have a forklift licence?": "Yes",
          "Years of team leading experience": "3 to 5 years"
        }
      }
    ],
    "count": 1
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

SEEK’s own options

SEEK offers the SEEK API to recruitment software developers: job posting, application export, Apply with SEEK and Selection Signals. Live credentials are issued after SEEK approves an integration request. A hirer gets this by using recruitment software that is a SEEK Connected Partner; otherwise the work is done in the employer site.

Read on November 12, 2026: SEEK API introduction, How to connect your recruitment software with SEEK, How do I check hiring outcomes for my SEEK job ads?.

Signing in to SEEK

When you sign in to SEEK as an employer, SEEK sends a verification email, which can take up to 5 minutes to arrive. If a login looks unusual, SEEK also sends a one-time code by SMS. With Fous you sign in once through SEEK's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, the emailed verification is handled, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Not suitable sends a message after 48 hours

When you move a candidate to Not suitable, SEEK notifies them 48 hours later that they are unlikely to progress. A write method that sets this status sends that notice too.

Opening an application tells the candidate

SEEK sends the candidate 'Your application has been viewed' whenever you interact with their application. Decide which applications a method opens with that in mind.

Hiring Outcomes sit under Ad Usage

Analytics opens on the Overview Dashboard, with spend and Ad Budget balance. Placements, placement rate and cost per placement per job ad are in the Hiring Outcomes view under Ad Usage.

The SEEK API comes through your software vendor

The SEEK API is issued to recruitment software developers. If your software is not on SEEK's Connected Partners page, it does not support SEEK's posting and apply solutions.

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