How does the checker know whether a job posting is still open?

JobShifu crawls employer applicant tracking systems and career sites directly and re-sweeps every board. The checker reports the date JobShifu first saw the posting, the last time the crawl found it on the employer's page, and, if the crawl can no longer find it, the date it stopped seeing it. It does not claim to know why an employer removed a role.

Which job URLs can be checked?

Postings on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS and Workday, looked up by their posting ID. Paste the URL from the employer's own careers page. Links from LinkedIn, Indeed and other boards are not looked up, because the board's copy is not the source of truth for whether the role is open.

What does 'reposted' mean on the result?

The same employer requisition was listed before, disappeared, and was listed again. The checker shows how many times and the earlier first-seen date. It is often a slow pipeline or an evergreen listing, and it is worth applying with eyes open.

Posting checker Updated 2026-08-30

Is this job still open?

Paste the posting's URL from the employer's careers page. JobShifu tells you when it first saw the posting, whether it is still listed there, and whether the same role has been reposted. Free, no signup.

Works with Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, iCIMS and Workday posting links. Board links (LinkedIn, Indeed) are not looked up, and the result says why.

How can you tell if a job posting is still open?

Check whether the posting is still listed on the employer's own careers page, not on the job board you found it on. Boards keep listings up after the employer has taken them down, so the employer's applicant tracking system is the only source that goes quiet when the role closes. JobShifu re-sweeps those systems and records a first-seen and a last-seen date for every posting.

A "not seen since" date is an observation, not a verdict on the employer. It means the crawl could not find the posting on the employer's page after that date. Roles are filled, paused, moved to another requisition and reposted for ordinary reasons. The checker states what it saw and leaves the inference to you.

Reading the result

How to read the result

Still on the employer's page. The crawl found it there at the time shown. That is the strongest available signal that the role is open.
Not seen since a date. The crawl looked and could not find it after that date. Applying is still possible if the employer keeps the form open, but the listing is gone from the source.
Relisted N×. The same requisition was seen, vanished, and appeared again. Often a slow pipeline or an evergreen posting. Worth applying with eyes open.
Likely active, Aging, Possibly stale. The app's posting-health signal, from age, repost history and whether a pay range is disclosed. A signal, not a verdict.

Relisting is more common than most job hunters assume, and JobShifu publishes the measured rate from its own crawl, broken down by function, seniority and country. See how often postings are relisted → See how long they stay open →

Which links work

The checker looks a posting up by the ID inside its URL, which is why it needs the employer's own link and not a board's copy. Supported now:

Greenhouse
Lever
Ashby
SmartRecruiters
iCIMS
Workday

In the index but not yet looked up by URL: Workable, Taleo, SuccessFactors, Eightfold, Phenom, Oracle Recruiting, Personio, Recruitee, Teamtailor and the Amazon, Apple and Meta career sites. Postings from those sources carry the same first-seen and repost history inside the job index; the checker will cover them next.

Board links (LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor) are deliberately not looked up. Their date is the date the board received the listing, and their copy can outlive the original. Open the posting on the employer's page and paste that URL instead.

See the same signals on every posting.

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