Is this job posting real? What we can tell you, and what we cannot
Jobs for you marks roles that an employer keeps reposting, or that have been open for a long time, with the evidence in plain words. It is a reason to look twice, not a verdict that a job is fake.
First, the honest part
This is not a box you paste any link into
People searching for a ghost job checker usually want to paste a LinkedIn or Indeed link and get a yes or no. We do not offer that, and we are wary of anyone who does. A single posting on a job site says very little about whether the role is being filled. What does say something is history: the same advert taken down and put back up, or one that never comes down.
We have that history for one set of jobs: the roles in Jobs for you, which we read from employers' own public job boards on Greenhouse and Lever, every few days, for seven countries. Because we see each board over and over, we notice when an advert disappears and an identical one appears under a new id. That is the whole basis of the badge.
The two signals
Reposted, and open a long time
Either one puts a role under Check before applying, with the reason written out.
Reposted 2 or more times
The same employer's board lists a role with the same title and the same location as an earlier one, under a new advert id. The new one has to appear at least 7 days after the earlier one, while that one was still open or had closed no more than 30 days before. We look back 180 days. A single repost is common and says little, so the badge waits for 2. It reads, for example, “Reposted 2 times since August”.
Open 60 days or more
Counted from the day we first saw the advert, not from the date the board prints. Boards refresh that date, which is exactly what this is meant to see past. For a role that was already up when we started reading its board, our first sighting is later than the real one, so the count can understate but never overstate. It reads “Open 74 days”.
Worked example
Three adverts for one role, and the badge they produce
A senior data analyst role in one city, on one employer's board, read on 31 October. The rules are the ones above.
| Advert | First seen | Status | What the rule counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advert A | 4 August | Closed 26 August | First advert, nothing to compare with |
| Advert B | 25 August | Closed 15 September | A was still open when B appeared: one repost |
| Advert C | 22 September | Still open on 31 October | B closed 7 days earlier, inside the window: two reposts |
Advert C is the only one still open, so it is the one you would see. Its chain runs back through B to A, which was first seen in August, so the card says “Reposted 2 times since August”. It has been open 39 days, under the 60-day mark, so there is no second line. Had a fourth advert gone up the same week as C, it would not count: 7 days is the smallest gap we can tell apart from two openings posted together.
The role still appears in your list. It loses 1 point in the ranking, the same as one matching skill earns, so a role that fits you well stays near the top. Here is the note it carries:
Check before applying
- Reposted 2 times since August
From our records of this employer’s own job board. Many roles like this are real, so check the posting is current before you spend time on it.
Why not a verdict
Plenty of reposted jobs are real
A team that hires all year reposts the same title every month. A hard-to-fill role stays up for a quarter. A company with several openings under one title cycles adverts as each seat fills. None of those are ghost jobs, and all of them look like one from the outside. That is why the badge says what we saw and stops there. It never says fake, and it never hides the role.
What the evidence does change is how you spend an evening. A reposted role is a good candidate for a short message to the recruiter before a long cover letter: is this a current opening, and roughly when are you hoping to fill it?
Any posting
Checks you can do yourself, on any job site
- Find the same role on the employer's own careers page. If it is not there, ask why before applying through anyone else.
- Search the exact title and city on that careers page and see whether near-identical adverts sit side by side.
- Read the posting for a named team, a manager, a start date or a salary range. Vague postings are not proof of anything, but specifics are a good sign.
- Paste it into the job tracker to see whether it rules you out on citizenship, clearance or sponsorship before you spend time on it.
- If an employer you want sponsors visas, check the government lists on the sponsorship pages. A list says an employer has sponsored before, not that this role will.
Limits
What this does not do
- It only covers roles in Jobs for you, from employers' own boards on Greenhouse and Lever. Jobs on LinkedIn, Indeed, Naukri or other sites are not read.
- It cannot see whether anyone is being hired. It sees adverts appear and disappear, nothing more.
- It does not judge the employer, and it is not a scam check. A role can carry no badge and still be one you should be careful with.
- A board that joined our import recently has a short history, so its roles are less likely to carry the badge yet.
Where the jobs come from, checked 31 October 2026: Greenhouse Job Board API documentation, the public job board an employer publishes from its own Greenhouse account; Lever postings API documentation, the public list of an employer’s published Lever postings.
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