How to confirm your job posting is live on job boards

If one of your jobs is not receiving any applicants and you're worried about its visibility on job boards, don't panic and, more importantly, don't search for your job on job boards.

Job boards tailor search results to the specific job seeker, which means your job isn't guaranteed to show up in every search. For instance, you may not be able to find your job on Indeed because it's been collapsed in search results (due to having the same title and location as another job from your business) or you previously searched for it but didn't click it, causing the search algorithm to assume the posting was irrelevant and stop showing it to you.

To confirm whether your job posting is visible, try the following strategies instead of searching for it:

1. Wait at least 24 business hours after posting your job. This gives most job boards enough time to receive, review, and add your CareerPlug job to their organic job feed.
2. Check the job visibility status indicator to see if your job has gotten any recent clicks. Navigate to your Jobs page and look in the Job Board Clicks column. If applicants have clicked on your job on a job board in the last seven days, you'll see a green Clicks Recently status. If no applicants have clicked on your job, you'll see a dark grey No Clicks Recently status (or an In review status if your job was posted recently).
3. Monitor applicant activity for your job using the clicks/applicants chart. This is the best way to confirm that applicants are seeing your job on job boards. Only Admin users can access reporting in CareerPlug.
4. Ensure the language in your job posting follows our job board best practices. Using certain characters, words, or phrases — or having duplicate postings — can cause job boards to exclude your job from organic visibility.
5. Ensure your job posting is set to Active. Navigate to your Jobs page, click the Edit (pencil) icon, then navigate to the Posting Status tab to verify your job post status.
6. Ensure that you’ve communicated to the job board in question that CareerPlug should be your source for job postings. This is typically only necessary if you've had a previous employer account with the job board or used another ATS to post jobs prior to CareerPlug.
7. Contact CareerPlug Support to get help with your job posting. Call the Hiring Expert team, create a support request online, or email the Hiring Expert team at support@careerplug.com.