My saved job search keeps showing listings that have been reposted for months. Some are genuinely renewed openings; others look like placeholders that never close. It's hard to know which deserve a careful application. I'm starting to check the employer's own careers page and record when I first saw each role. How do you separate fresh opportunities from stale board listings without spending all morning investigating every post?
Dealing with job boards that keep resurfacing the same stale listings
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I usually look for a date change and a wording change. If the posting has been sitting there forever and the same recruiter note is still at...
I usually look for a date change and a wording change. If the posting has been sitting there forever and the same recruiter note is still attached, I treat it as stale unless the employer page says otherwise.
I’ve had better luck checking the company site than the board too. Sometimes the board makes it look fresh just because they paid to boost it again.
That boost thing is sneaky. I started keeping a little note with the first-seen date and whether the salary or location changed, and it save...