How to tell whether a job posting is still open

Reading postings · figures recounted Nov 14, 2026 from 89,712 open jobs · how they are made

Job sites copy postings from each other and keep them after the employer has closed them. Four checks tell you in a minute whether a posting is worth an evening.

1. Look at the date the employer posted it. Not the date a job site found it. Here both are on the job page.
2. Ask the employer’s own page. If the posting is gone there, it is closed, whatever a job site says. On this site the button “Check with the employer right now” does it from your browser.
3. Read the first lines for an invitation. “Join our talent community”, “general application”, “future opportunities” mean there is no opening today.
4. Count the days. A posting open for 90 days or more may still be real, and it is fair to ask the recruiter whether the role is being filled now.

What this site does about it

Every posting is read from the employer’s own hiring system each hour. When one disappears there, it leaves the lists here and its page is marked closed. Today that happened to 88 postings; 30,214 open ones carry the “open 90 days or more” mark.

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