How can I tell if a job listing has been reposted?
About 1 in 5 job postings we watched come down (18.2%) were followed within 60 days by a new posting from the same employer with the same title and location.
That share is an upper bound, and it can't tell you why a posting came down or why a new one went up. If a listing you applied to disappears and a near-identical one appears, the careers page doesn't say what either change means for your application.
How to check a listing yourself
Compare the title and the location. Our count needs both to match, ignoring spacing and capital letters. The same title in another city is a different listing here.
Look at the link. A new listing comes with its own link, so compare the links as well as the title.
Compare the descriptions if you can see both. The text tells you more than the title. It is also the one comparison our count could not make across every board.
What we measured
A removal is a posting we recorded coming down between August 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026, at an employer we had been reading for that whole window. For each one we looked for a new posting at the same employer with the same title at the same location, first seen after the removal and by September 30, 2026. 43,796 of the 240,465 removals were followed by one.
Employers we first read later in the window are left out (405,060 removals), because a first read makes every posting look new.
By title alone, at any location, the share is 30.4% (72,989 removals). Matching the location as well gives the narrower figure above.
Not the same as a posting coming back
Some postings come down and later return under the same listing. Our answer on a posting taken down after an interview counts those. This page counts something else: a new listing, with its own link, that has the same title and location as one that came down.
A related rule is already live. The job board's “Last 7 days” and “Last 14 days” views no longer count a posting as new when the same employer took down a posting with the same title at the same location within the previous 60 days and put it back up, unless another posting like it was still up at the time or the two descriptions differ.
Questions
How can I tell if a job listing has been reposted?
Compare the title, the location and the link: a new listing comes with its own link. If you can see both descriptions, compare them too: they tell you more than the title does.
How often is a job posting followed by a new one with the same title?
Of 240,465 job postings we watched come down between August 1, 2026 and September 30, 2026, 18.2%, about 1 in 5, were followed within 60 days by a new posting from the same employer with the same title and location. That is an upper bound: separate openings under one title in one place match too.
Does a new listing with the same title tell you why the first one came down?
No. A careers page shows what is listed, not why a posting came down or why a new one went up. We measure the listings, never the reasons.
Check a specific posting
Paste a job link to see whether Zeltru tracks the posting and how long it has been open, by the employer’s own posting date. No account needed.
What this doesn’t tell you
An upper bound. An employer hiring for several openings under one title in one place, such as several “Registered Nurse” postings at one hospital, matches too. The measurement does not exclude separate openings.
Mostly one platform. 93.3% of the removals counted (224,364 of 240,465) were at employers whose careers sites run on Workday, so the share describes those boards more than any other.
Title and location only. We store descriptions for only some postings, so nothing in the count was compared by description. We read some pairs side by side where both descriptions were stored. In a small hand check, most were the same posting listed again.
Not a full 60-day follow-up. A posting that came down late in the window had less time to be followed by a new one, which pulls the share down, while separate openings push it up. The figure is what the rule matched as of September 30, 2026.
We see listings, not reasons. Nothing on a careers page says why a posting came down or why a new one went up.
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 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-open postings, or read how these numbers are produced.