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Paste a job link. The checker reads the date it was first posted straight from the employer's hiring system, and tells you whether the job is still open.
Works with job links from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workday, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Personio and Breezy. No sign-up, and we don't keep a log of what you check.
A job board shows when a listing reached it, or when it was last refreshed. The employer's hiring system holds the day the job was first published. That is the date this tool shows you.
In our study of 68,610 open jobs, the median posting was 54 days old.
Still open
Example result
Example Co. · Remote (US)
It has been open for more than a month. Some roles take that long to fill and some have stalled; the date can't tell you which. It is still listed, so it's worth a look before you put time into it.
The link to the job on the employer's careers page, or the page you reach after clicking Apply.
The checker works out which hiring system the job is on and reads the posting from that system's public job data.
The day the employer first published the job, how long ago that was, and whether it is still listed.
Nine hiring systems publish posting dates for anyone to read. These are the link shapes to look for in your browser's address bar.
| Hiring system | The link looks like | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Greenhouse | job-boards.greenhouse.io/company/jobs/1234567 | Date and time first published, and when it was last edited |
| Lever | jobs.lever.co/company/job-id | Date and time first published |
| Ashby | jobs.ashbyhq.com/company/job-id | The day it was posted |
| Workday | company.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/… | The day it was posted |
| SmartRecruiters | jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Company/1234567890-title | Date and time first published |
| Recruitee | company.recruitee.com/o/job-title | Date and time first published, and the closing date if set |
| Teamtailor | company.teamtailor.com/jobs/123456-title | Date and time first published |
| Personio | company.jobs.personio.de/job/123456 | Date and time first published |
| Breezy | company.breezy.hr/p/job-id-title | Date and time first published |
They don't allow tools to read their pages, so we don't. Open the job there, choose to apply on the company's website, and paste the link you land on.
Rippling, iCIMS, Taleo, Jobvite, Workable and BambooHR don't make posting dates public. The checker tells you so instead of guessing.
A page like careers.company.com often hides which system is behind it. Click Apply: the page you land on usually shows it, and that link works.
The employer's hiring system records when each job was first published. Paste the job's link into the checker and it reads that date from Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workday, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Personio and Breezy, then shows it to you with the number of days since and whether the job is still listed.
A job board shows when the listing reached that board, or when it was last refreshed there. A listing that has been reposted or promoted can look new when the role has been open for weeks. The date in the employer's own hiring system is the day the posting was first published, and that is the one this tool reads.
No. LinkedIn and Indeed don't allow tools to read their pages, so the checker never fetches them. Open the job there, choose the option to apply on the company's website, and paste the link you land on. That page is usually on the employer's hiring system, which is where the real date lives.
The checker looks for the job on the employer's hiring system at the moment you ask. If it's there, the result says Still open. If the employer has removed it, the result says No longer listed, even when a job board is still showing it.
Often, yes. Some roles take months to fill. What an old date tells you is that you won't be among the first applicants, and that it's worth confirming the job is still listed before you spend an evening on it. The checker does that confirmation for you.
No. A date shows how long a job has been open, not whether the employer intends to fill it, so the checker doesn't label any job a ghost job. It gives you the two facts that can be checked: when the posting went up, and whether it's still there.
It's free, with no account and no email. We don't keep a log of the links you check. A single visitor is limited to a few dozen checks every five minutes, which is there to stop scripts, not people.
From the job data each hiring system publishes for anyone to read. Greenhouse, Lever, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Personio and Breezy give the date and time a posting was first published. Ashby and Workday give the day. Nothing is taken from a job board, and nothing is estimated.
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