The date on a job board is not the date the job was posted.
Most boards show the date a listing was last pushed to them, not the date the employer opened the role. A requisition that is reposted every two weeks reads as two days old for months. A role that was filled in March stays up until it times out. Aggregators republish the same posting from one another, each with a fresh stamp.
JobShifu holds its own crawl history for every posting, so the card can state the observable facts instead: when this posting was first seen, whether the same requisition was listed before, and for how long it has been up.
Where the postings come from
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Crawled from the employer's own system
Postings are read from the applicant tracking system tenant or the first-party careers site the employer actually uses, not from a board the employer syndicates to. That is the source of truth for whether a role is open, and it is where the application ends up regardless.
- Workday
- Greenhouse
- Lever
- iCIMS
- Ashby
- Workable
- SmartRecruiters
- Taleo
- SuccessFactors
- Eightfold
- Phenom
- Oracle Recruiting
- Personio
- Recruitee
- Teamtailor
- Amazon, Apple and Meta career sites
Measured 2026-08-08: 97.6% of open postings in the index came from an employer-direct source. The remainder is a small set of remote-work boards. Google's own listings are deliberately not crawled.
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Indexed within minutes, not after the re-posts
The crawl runs continuously. The median gap between a posting appearing on the employer's page and appearing here is a couple of minutes; the slow tail is boards that only publish a sitemap once a day, and the strip at the top shows both numbers.
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Taken down when the sweep finds it gone
Every board is re-swept. When a posting is no longer on the employer's page, it comes out of the index. Known re-posters, listings that reappear with a new stamp and no new requisition, are blocked at the source. The card never claims to know why an employer closed a role, only that the sweep can no longer find it.
What the card tells you before you spend an evening on it
Registered Nurse, ICU nights
Denver, CO · $41 to $52 per hour
First seen by JobShifu Aug 16, 2026 · posted Aug 16, 2026
- New. First seen inside the last 24 hours. Shown on its own; a card never carries the fresh tag and a staleness caveat at the same time.
- Reposted N×. The same employer requisition has been listed before, with the earlier first-seen date on the card. Often a slow pipeline or an evergreen listing. Worth applying with eyes open.
- Posted Nd ago. Over a month old. It may already be filled, and the card says so rather than showing a re-stamped date.
- Likely active / Aging / Possibly stale. A signal, not a verdict, from age, repost history and whether a pay range is disclosed. Pay taken verbatim from the employer's ATS is marked as such.
What it is not
Not a board where employers pay to be seen. Nothing in the index is sponsored, promoted or boosted. A posting is there because the crawl found it on the employer's page, and it leaves when the crawl cannot.
Not an apply queue. There is no board-side "easy apply" that files your application into a pile the employer may never open. The card links to the employer's own application page. JobShifu's part is what you bring to that page: a fit read that shows its work, and a resume tailored to that posting from experience you confirmed.
Not a promise about the queue. This page makes no claim that applying in the first hours wins the job. Nobody has a credible number for that. What it claims is narrower and checkable: the posting is here sooner than on the boards that republish it, and the card tells you what the crawl knows about its age.
The four things people check first
- Where a posting came from. The employer's own ATS or careers site, and the Apply link goes there, never to a board.
- Whether it is still up. Removed when the sweep no longer finds it on the employer's page.
- Whether the date is real. First-seen and previously-listed dates come from JobShifu's own crawl history, not the board's stamp.
- Whether the pay is real. A range taken verbatim from the employer's ATS is tagged ATS-verified; anything else is not.