Jobs go live on a company’s own career page hours or sometimes days before they reach LinkedIn, Indeed, or your feed. Job Watch checks those pages for you and emails you the moment a role matches.
It’s all about timing. Apply while the CV pile is still small.
Senior Frontend Engineer
Remote
Product Designer
London
Your filter
ANY match · daily
Your 09:00 digest
inboxStaff Backend Engineer
Vercel · Berlin
View on Greenhouse
The problem
Here’s what actually happens when a role opens. It appears on the company’s own applicant tracking system first — Greenhouse, Lever, Workday. For a window of hours to days, it is live and applied to by people watching closely: referrals, internal candidates, and anyone who thought to check that morning.
Only then does it reach LinkedIn, Indeed and the job aggregators. By the time it lands in your feed, a shortlist is already forming and the recruiter is already reading in the order the applications arrived.
You didn’t lose on your CV. You lost on the clock.
Most applications arrive in the first few days. The ones read most carefully arrive first, because after the first thirty, the others don’t get reviewed.
Broad job alerts
Senior Product Manager
Reposted 3 days ago
Product Manager, Growth
Posted 1 week ago
Director, Product (d/f/m)
Posted 2 days ago
“Over 100 applicants” = your resume gets buried.
Job Watch
Catch jobs before they hit job boards.
Before Job Watch
After Job Watch
Job boards don’t notify you. Career pages don’t have alerts. And “job alerts” from big networks are covered in noise that has nothing to do with what you searched. We built Job Watch because we were tired of the same ritual: open fifteen tabs, scroll through the same listings, close them all, repeat tomorrow. There had to be a better way.
Set up your first company to watch — freeReads the job boards companies actually use
How it works
The whole loop, playing out below — the same one that runs on your account every morning.
Job Watch engine
LiveStep 01 / 04
Paste a careers URL or search by name. We work out which job board sits behind it and tell you straight away whether we can read it.
Board readable · 47 open roles found
Step 02 / 04
Keywords, locations, and whether ANY or ALL of them must match. Plain filtering you can reason about — no black-box relevance score.
Keywords
Locations
Any one keyword is enough — switch to ALL when you want every term present.
Step 03 / 04
A baseline is taken from what is already open, then the board is re-checked on a schedule. The backlog never reaches your inbox.
Scan history
on scheduleJust now — 1 role appeared that wasn’t in the baseline
Step 04 / 04
A single digest with the roles that opened after you started watching — each linking straight to the company’s own application page.
1 new role at Stripe
inboxStaff Backend Engineer
Berlin · matched “backend, staff”
View on Greenhouse
The other 46 roles were already open when you started watching, so they stay out of your inbox.
How job board monitoring works
Set it up once. After that the only thing you do is read the email — and only on days there is something to read.
Start your 5-day trialSearch by name or paste a job board URL — we work out which ATS sits behind it and tell you immediately whether it can be read.
Greenhouse · Lever · Workday · SmartRecruiters · SuccessFactors
Keywords like “engineer” or “backend”. Locations like “Remote” or “Berlin”. Choose whether ANY filter or ALL of them must match.
ANY / ALL match modes
Everything already open is recorded silently first. From then on the board is re-checked on your plan’s schedule, and only changes count.
Checked hourly — every 15 minutes on Business
A single digest with the title, location and a direct link to the company’s own application page. Never the backlog, never a re-post.
One digest, every company
Why early wins
You can’t control who else applies, the hiring bar, the budget, or whether they had a referral lined up before the post went live. You can control when you arrive.
A role that has been up for a week has hundreds of applications. A role that has been up for two hours has a handful. Same CV, very different odds of being read properly.
Early applications land while the requirement is still being shaped and before fatigue sets in. Later ones land against a shortlist that already exists.
Knowing a company opened a role today lets you message the hiring manager the same day — while it is the thing on their desk, not one of forty things in their queue.
What you get
We’re new, so this isn’t a highlight reel — it’s what the product actually does, and why each decision was made.
Baseline first
Adding a company records what’s already open before anything is sent. You hear about what changes next — not the 600 roles that were live before you arrived.
46 roles silently recorded at baseline
4 emailed
Connectors
Five shipped ATS adapters, plus automatic detection for career pages behind them.
Plus automatic detection for careers pages hosted on any of them.
Filtering
Keywords and locations you write yourself, matched with ANY or ALL. No relevance score to argue with.
One inbox
Daily, twice-daily or weekly — your schedule, not the job board’s. Each row links to the company’s own application page, never a scraped mirror.
Your 09:00 digest · 2 new roles
Staff Backend Engineer
Stripe
Product Engineer
Linear
Design Systems Engineer
Figma
Silent when there’s nothing: no new roles, no email. We’d rather you trust the ones you get.
Who it’s for
Example scenarios, not customer quotes — we’d rather show you the shape of the job than invent a testimonial.
Targeted job search
“twenty companies, one digest”
Twenty companies you would actually leave your job for, watched daily. You hear the day one of them opens something in your discipline.
Checked every morning
Recruiters & agencies
“hiring signal, first”
Watch where a client’s competitors are hiring. Head-count changes show up on the career page long before they show up anywhere else.
Competitor tracking
Team leads hiring
“know before the market does”
Track the companies you lose candidates to. Know which roles they are opening while you are still writing yours.
Market awareness
No account needed
Comparison
If you’re seriously job searching, you’ve tried both: a broad alert from a big job network, and the daily ritual of refreshing career pages yourself.
| What you want | Job Watch | Broad job alerts | Checking manually |
|---|---|---|---|
| Watches specific company career pages | Yes | No | Yes |
| Catches the role before it’s syndicated out | Yes | No | Only if you’re looking |
| Runs on a schedule without you | Yes | Yes | No |
| Keyword + location filters you control | Yes | Limited | Manual |
| Only roles posted after you started | Yes | Limited | You remember |
| Links straight to the company’s apply page | Yes | Limited | Yes |
| No algorithmic feed, no ads | Yes | No | Yes |
| One digest across every company | Yes | Per search | No |
| Daily time it costs you | 0 min | Varies | 20–30 min |
Job Watch is the dedicated career-page tracker for people who want every relevant role and none of the noise. Check a company’s career page now →
Pricing
It’s painful enough to search for a job. Start with 5 days free.
For one person running a real search.
$7/month
One shared account for a team or agency.
$29/month
One month of the Individual plan costs less than a sandwich in many countries. One interview you’d otherwise have missed is worth several thousand.
Before you decide
“I’ll just check the pages myself.”
You will, for about nine days. Then you'll miss the Tuesday one. Setup here takes under a minute per company and then costs you nothing.
“Won’t I get spammed?”
The opposite. We take a baseline first, so the existing backlog never reaches you, and we send nothing on days when nothing opens. Most users get two or three emails a week.
“What if the company I want isn’t supported?”
You find out the second you paste the URL — not three weeks later when you realise nothing was ever being watched.
“I’m not actively looking.”
Then this is the cheapest way to stay one step ahead of the market. A handful of companies, checked for you, and you hear the day the door opens.
Before you start
No. When you add a company we take a baseline from its current postings first, and only roles discovered after that point can reach you. The backlog is recorded silently and never emailed.
Yes — you put a card on file to begin, and it isn't charged for 5 days. After that the plan you picked renews monthly. Cancel any time before the 5 days are up and you pay nothing at all; we email you before the trial ends so the date is never a surprise.
It depends on the company. Roles appear on the company’s own ATS first and syndicate outward to aggregators afterward — often the same day, sometimes several days later. We check the source, so you’re in the first window rather than the second.
Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, SmartRecruiters and SAP SuccessFactors have dedicated, tested connectors. Career pages built on those platforms are detected automatically from the URL you paste.
You are told at the moment you add it, rather than being left to think something is being watched when it isn’t. No silent failures — an unsupported board is refused up front.
Individual checks each career page hourly; Business checks every 15 minutes. That interval is the real limit on how early you hear about a role — we find openings by checking the page, so nothing reaches you faster than the next check. Each company is fetched once and shared across everyone tracking it, which is what keeps frequent checking affordable.
They are kept, not deleted. Monitoring simply stops producing new alerts until you subscribe again, and picks up from exactly where it left off when you do.
Always. Every row in a digest points at the listing on the company’s own job board — no scraped mirrors, no re-posts, no middleman apply flow.
The next role you want will be posted at 2am on a Tuesday
Add the companies you care about once. We’ll tell you the day something opens — before it reaches anywhere else.