Edition No. 2 (October 2026) is published. This edition stands as published and its figures are unchanged. Read Edition No. 2.

The Zeltru Report · Edition No. 1 · September 2026

How is the job market right now?

503,503 job postings, read daily from 1,124 employers’ own career boards. Not surveys — the boards themselves, measured. Data as of August 30, 2026.

• 48.5%of dated active postings have been listed 30 days or longer
• 18.8%have been listed 90 days or longer
• 21 daysmedian age at removal, across 185,659 postings watched come down since July 24, 2026
• 10,123removed postings have since reappeared
• 2009The oldest “open” posting we track carries an employer-published date from 2009 — flagged implausible, shown anyway in the report’s table of longest-listed postings, where it links to the live listing.

When hiring actually closes a posting, it closes in about three weeks. The long tail is something else — and measuring what, is this series’ job.

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Age distribution, the records, the removal lifecycle, cuts by sector, platform and geography, and the methodology.

Correction, 2026-09-17: the oldest-posting line above, and four rows of the full edition’s table of longest-listed postings, come from one hiring platform, Lever, whose board publishes the date a posting record was created rather than the date the listing was published. A record can predate its listing by years and survives the listing being taken down and put back up, so an age computed from it measures the record’s age rather than how long the posting has been open. No figure has changed; what those numbers measure has. The site no longer publishes an age of any kind for a Lever-sourced listing. The evidence is set out at what a posting date means, and the full note is in Section 7 of the full edition.