How to monitor a company's careers page for new jobs
If there's a company you'd love to work for, the hard part is often timing. Roles go up, collect applications for a week or two and come down again. Job boards don't always list them, and checking the careers page every morning is tedious. This guide shows how to get told when something new appears, and how to keep the alerts down to the jobs you'd actually apply for.
Why the careers page beats job boards
Many companies post roles on their own site first, and some never post them anywhere else. Job boards also tend to copy listings late, or keep showing them after they've closed. The careers page is the source, so it's the most reliable place to watch.
It's also useful beyond job hunting. Recruiters watch it for new openings, and businesses watch competitors' careers pages because hiring plans say a lot: a run of sales roles in a new city usually means they're expanding there.
The usual ways to keep an eye on it
There are a few common approaches, each with trade-offs:
- Job alerts on the company's own site. Some careers sites let you sign up for alerts. Use them if they exist, but they're often limited to broad categories and can be slow.
- Job board alerts. Saved searches on the big boards are handy for a whole industry, but only cover companies that post there.
- Checking by hand. Fine for one company, but easy to forget, and hard to tell which roles are new.
- A page change monitor. It checks the careers page on a schedule and tells you when the list changes, whatever system the company uses.
Watch the list, not a single job
Point your monitor at the page that lists all open roles, not at an individual job advert. A single advert only tells you if that one job is edited or removed. The list page is where new roles appear.
If the company's site lets you filter by location or team, try applying the filter and copying the address from your browser. Some sites put the filter in the link, which gives you a shorter page to watch. If the link doesn't change when you filter, watch the full list and use an alert rule instead.
Filter alerts to the roles you care about
A big company's careers page can change several times a day as roles open and close. Most of those won't interest you. The fix is to describe what you want and ignore the rest. In ChangeGist you can write an alert rule in plain English, for example:
- “Only new jobs in London”
- “Only tell me about new engineering or data roles”
- “Only remote roles, and ignore internships”
Every change is still recorded in the page's history, but you're only emailed when a change matches the rule.
How often to check
Most roles stay open for days or weeks, so checking every few hours is plenty for job hunting. If you're a recruiter, or the company is small and fills roles quickly, more often can help. On the free trial pages are checked hourly; on paid plans it ranges from every 6 hours on Starter to every 5 minutes on Business.
If you're watching several companies, the weekly Monday summary email is a calm way to see everything that changed without an email each time.
When the careers page is hosted elsewhere
Many companies use a separate recruitment system, so clicking “Careers” takes you to a different website. That's fine: watch whichever page actually shows the list of roles. If the list only loads after you log in, a monitor can't see it, because ChangeGist only checks public pages.
Setting it up in ChangeGist
- Open the company's careers page and copy the address of the page that lists open roles.
- Paste it into ChangeGist and give it a clear name, such as “Acme jobs”.
- Add an alert rule like “Only new jobs in London” if you want fewer emails.
- Pick how often to check, then wait for the first change.
When a new role appears you get a short email such as “New job added: Senior Data Analyst, London”, with a link to the page.
A word on manners
Careers pages are public, but keep checks at a reasonable pace. ChangeGist respects robots.txt, so if a site asks automated visitors to stay away from a page, it won't check it.