How can I find when a job was first posted?
According to Zeltru, which reads job postings on employers' own careers sites: of currently listed postings with employer-published dates, 51.4% have been listed 30 days or longer, as of October 7, 2026.
To find when one job was first posted, start with the employer's own careers page, then check what its date means there.
Where to look
The employer's own careers page. Many show the date a posting went up, either as a date or as “posted N days ago”. This is the closest you will get to the employer's own date.
Not a job board's date. A job board can show the day it found the posting, which may be later than the employer's date. Compare the two when you can.
The employer's page on Zeltru. Each company page lists the postings on that employer's own careers site and how long each has been listed, using the employer's published date where there is one. Find it from the company directory.
What the date can and can't tell you
A posting date is a fact about a listing. On some sites it is when the listing was first published; on others it is when the record behind it was created, or the first date it was ever published, kept even after the listing came down and went back up. Our answer on what the date on a job posting means shows how we checked which kind each careers site uses.
If a listing came down and a near-identical one went up later, the new one has its own date. Our answer on telling whether a job listing has been reposted covers how to spot that.
Questions
How can I tell when a job was first posted?
Start with the employer's own careers page: many show the date a posting went up. Then check what that date means on that site, because some careers sites show when the posting record was created, which can be long before the job you are reading about, and some keep the first date a posting was ever published, even after it was taken down and put back up.
Why does a job board show a different date from the employer's site?
A job board can show the day it picked the posting up rather than the date the employer gave it. The employer's own careers page is the place to check.
What if the posting shows no date?
Some careers sites publish none. Where an employer gives no date, Zeltru's company page says so rather than putting a date of its own in its place.
Check a specific posting
Paste the link to a job on the employer’s own careers page to see how long it has been listed, counted from the employer’s posting date. No account needed.
What this doesn’t tell you
A date is a claim about a record, not always about the job. Some careers sites show when the posting record was created, which can be years before the opening you are reading. Some keep the first date a posting was ever published, even after it was taken down and put back up.
Not every employer publishes a date. Where none is given, we say so on the company page rather than putting a date of our own in its place.
A date says nothing about why a posting is up. It is a fact about the listing, not about the hiring.
Related questions
- How long job postings stay listedThe full distribution of posting age across every board we crawl, with the industry breakdown.
- How long does it take to hear back after applying?Nobody can measure an employer's reply from outside. What can be measured is how long the posting lasts.
- Why am I not hearing back from jobs?How much of what is listed right now has been listed for a very long time, and what that does and does not explain.
- What does it mean when a job posting is taken down after an interview?How old postings are when they come down, how often they come back, and why removal is not a decision.
- How can I tell if a job listing has been reposted?How to check whether a listing came back as a new posting, how often a new one with the same title follows, and what that can't tell you.
- How can I track a company's job listings?Its careers site, its page on Zeltru, following it for new postings, and watching a job you applied to.
- How many applications does it take to get a job?We cannot answer this one, and we say why. What we can show you is the size and staleness of what is open.
- Does the date on a job posting mean what it says?Most boards publish the date a listing went up. One publishes the date its record was created — and we mistook the two on our own homepage.
- What does it mean when a job posting stays up for months?How long a posting has been listed can be measured; why it is still up cannot. Here is the duration, and where the line sits.
- How long does the hiring process take?Posting lifespan is a floor on hiring time, not a measure of it. The difference matters and is explained.
- What can a job posting's age tell you?Why a posting is still up is not observable from a careers page. How long it has been up is. What the duration data supports, and what it does not.
- Why is a job still posted after I was rejected?How long listings stay up before they come down, measured, and why a listing that is still up says nothing about your application.
- How long should a job posting stay up?There is no standard. What employers actually do, from the postings we watched come down, without a recommendation.
- Which US states have the most job postings?Active postings by state on employers' own careers sites, with a link to every state's job board.
Or look up a specific employer: browse the companies we track, open the job posting checker on its own page, see the longest-listed postings, or read how these numbers are produced.