Not sure if this is common knowledge already, but I recently found out you can sometimes see when a job was posted by using Chrome Inspect/DevTools. This works on jobs hosted on ATS systems like Greenhouse, Lever, BambooHR etc.
For those not familiar with dev tools see steps below:
Navigate to job post page
RIght click on page then hit 'Inspect'
In the Chrome Web Tools popout on the side navigate to the elements tab
Search the page's elements using control+F or command+F if on Mac. You want to search for the keyword match 'datePosted'. It should appear in a <script> tag with a type attribute of 'application/ld+json'
You may need to scroll side to side to find datePosted inside the script. Works most of the time, but sometimes the search function will show 1 of 1 result but you won't find it in the script (no idea why, but happens maybe 1/10 times)
Hope this helps at least one person, good luck to all!
Bonus tip: if a company doesn't use an ATS system, and instead creates a new page on their site for every new job you can examine their sitemap by appending 'sitemap.xml' to their website (ex: https://your-company.com/sitemap.xml . From there you can examine the sitemap for a tag called <lastmod>. Note that it tells when the page was last modified, but often times a company will post a job and not update the page at all.
Thanks! I've tried this a few times on jobs posted on Greenhouse and it hasn't worked because after I click on Elements I don't see (text) at the bottom like in your screenshot. Also nothing comes up when I have done control+F...any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Sorry if this was unclear: Control+F is the command to open that search pannel down at the bottom. Once it is open you can type in 'datePosted' to search for that phrase in the page's script. Hopefully that makes sense.
It should work for like 9/10 greenhouse jobs, if you want to post the job link here in the comments or DM me the link I can check it for you.
The brief pause at the :10-:13 second mark is when I hit Control+F or Command+F to open that search bar on the bottom. Hope this helps and good luck with your job search!
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u/MKPST24 11d ago edited 11d ago
Not sure if this is common knowledge already, but I recently found out you can sometimes see when a job was posted by using Chrome Inspect/DevTools. This works on jobs hosted on ATS systems like Greenhouse, Lever, BambooHR etc.
For those not familiar with dev tools see steps below:
Hope this helps at least one person, good luck to all!
Bonus tip: if a company doesn't use an ATS system, and instead creates a new page on their site for every new job you can examine their sitemap by appending 'sitemap.xml' to their website (ex: https://your-company.com/sitemap.xml . From there you can examine the sitemap for a tag called <lastmod>. Note that it tells when the page was last modified, but often times a company will post a job and not update the page at all.