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Company job boards versus aggregators
Aggregator sites reshare postings that are often already filled or point at the wrong page entirely. This cluster covers how to find a company's real careers page, spot a stale listing, and decide when easy apply is worth using.
Company job boards beat aggregators
Aggregators copy listings and go stale. Employer boards are the source. We hold 264 confirmed employer boards, and this is what that difference buys.
Why industry filters return the wrong jobs
We counted close to one distinct industry value for every one and a half boards. Fine as a label on a card, useless as a filter, and here is what to sort by instead.
Easy apply, or the company's own form
One click submits fast and lands soft. The employer's own form takes longer and lands where a human looks. Here is when each is the better trade.
Why a shorter list of employers works better
A short list of employers, each confirmed by reading its real job posts, finds better jobs than a crawl of fifty thousand career pages. Here is why.
The wrong board with the right name
Guessing an employer's board address is usually right and silently wrong the rest of the time: one guess lands on a garage door firm, another on a church.
Finding a company's real careers page
The page that ranks is often not the page that hires. Here is how to reach the employer's own board, and how to be sure it belongs to that employer.
Why the job you found is already filled
An aggregator holds a copy of a listing, not the listing. Copies outlive their originals, which is why so many promising postings are already closed.