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Wouldn’t it be great to have an easy way to learn about new job openings at a company you want to work for? Wouldn’t it be even better to get an email when that company posts a new job for the role you’re looking for?

John was a career counseling client of mine who was frustrated because he kept applying on LinkedIn and getting no results. He couldn’t find openings at the larger companies he wanted to work for. “I assume they aren’t hiring,” John said.

He assumed wrong. Those companies were hiring. They just weren’t advertising the jobs where John was looking. Many large companies post most of their openings only on their own websites. John didn’t realize that, so he never saw those jobs. Many job hunters think just like him.

Why So Many Jobs Never Show Up On LinkedIn Or Indeed

It’s very expensive for a company to post a job listing on LinkedIn or Indeed. Large brand-name companies such as Google, Apple, and other Fortune 500 employers don’t need to. Enough people visit their careers pages to look, so they advertise there and save a lot of money.

A company might have 1,500 jobs listed on its own website and advertise only 10 of them on the job boards. A few of its openings will show up on LinkedIn or Indeed. Many won’t.

State and city government jobs work the same way. Those openings are rarely advertised anywhere else. You have to go to their website to find them.

 

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Build Your Target List

As a career counselor, I have taught this strategy from the very beginning. Make a list of 15 to 20 companies and government agencies you want to work for. Then go to each one’s careers page once a week and search for openings that fit what you want.

As you create your list, consider:

  • Location. Is the job onsite or remote? Can you conveniently get there?
  • Work culture. Is this a place you would want to work every day?
  • The kinds of jobs they have. Do they hire people to do the work you want to do?
  • The right job title. Titles vary from one employer to the next. At some places, searching for “business analyst” might not turn up a financial analyst role, so searching for just “analyst” may work better.

Why Most People Don’t Keep It Up

Job hunting is tiring. It’s much easier to look on Indeed or LinkedIn. Going to 20 different websites every week, searching each one, and not even knowing if anything is available can feel overwhelming. So people stop going.

That’s when they miss out. A new opening may only be posted on a company’s website for four, five, six, or seven days. If you don’t get there soon, you’ll miss it. And most large companies don’t offer job alerts. A few do, but most don’t, so it’s up to you to go look.

An Easier Way To Track New Openings

Then I found a new tool that makes this search easier.

Visualping is a monitoring tool that tracks the careers pages of the companies you choose and sends you an email when a new job with your title gets posted. Eric Do Couto, Head of Marketing at Visualping walked me through a demonstration. What impressed me most was the job alert that tells you when a new job is available. This could inform you about a job you might never have found on your own.

Most job hunters are very discouraged with the job market right now. I suspect that getting an alert saying something new is available would make people feel a little better, too.

“Visualping is a website change monitoring tool that job hunters use to automatically track company career pages for new job openings,” Do Couto explained. “It allows access to monitor up to 25 career pages for six months on the job seeker access version.

Do Couto continued, “Our tool has been around for ten years. Visualping is widely used to track all kinds of online information, such as product price drops or new apartment rentals. Now we want to provide a free service to help job hunters. The job seeker monitoring program was just recently launched.”

How To Get Free Job Seeker Access:

How It Works

Let’s say you’re looking for a project manager job at Boeing. When a job with that title you want appears on Boeing’s careers page, you get an email. Click the link in the email, and it takes you to Boeing’s careers page.

One caveat, and this is important. The link does not take you to the job opening itself. Once you’re on the careers page, you’ll need to type “project manager” into the search bar and look for it. If you’re searching for project manager jobs, there may be a dozen or more listed, and you’ll have to look at each one. Sometimes the site shows which listings are the newest, but not always.

The tool also can’t tell the difference between entry-level, mid-level, and senior roles. If you’re looking for a marketing job, you’ll get alerts for all marketing openings too. It’s not that sophisticated yet. A good workaround is to clarify what you want, such as using Marketing Coordinator or Marketing Product Manager when listing the role.

Do Couto pointed out that the tool can track state and city government job sites. That’s a big plus, since those openings usually aren’t found anywhere else.

When you find a role, review the requirements carefully. Make sure you meet them and are a good fit before you apply. No tool does everything for you. But knowing a new opening exists and finding out about it quickly helps a lot.

Does Applying Early Help?

HR people and recruiters have told me that applying early can make a difference. For a job opening with many candidates, you improve your odds that you may be reviewed by the recruiter. Since some postings come down within a week, applying early means you won’t miss that job opportunity.

To learn more about why applying early can be helpful, and how to know quickly about new postings on LinkedIn, read my article How To Use LinkedIn Job Alerts To Find New Job Openings Faster.

The Bottom Line

Make your list of up to 20 companies and government agencies you want to work for. Use Visualping to track them or bookmark each careers page and go look for yourself once a week. You won’t get a job alert that way, so you’ll need to stay dedicated. Either way, keep looking. If you’re not looking in the right place, you’ll never find the job opening that just might be the one you get hired for.

 

 Forbes.com | November 10, 2026 | Robin Ryan