Search the hiring systems, not the job boards.
Almost every employer posts its jobs on a hiring system first. The job board copy comes later, if at all. One Google search, written the right way, goes straight to the original.
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The short version. Employers post jobs through software such as Paylocity, Workday or Greenhouse. Each of those systems puts the posting on a public page at its own web address, and Google reads those pages. Search Google for your title, limited to those addresses, and every result is the employer's own posting. No reposts, no middlemen, no copies that outlived the job.
Where a posting actually starts
When an organization opens a role, someone in HR types it into the hiring system the organization pays for. That system publishes the posting on a page it hosts and collects the applications. Everything you see on a job board after that is a copy: pulled in by a feed, scraped by an aggregator, or reposted by a recruiter.
The careers page note made the case for going to the original. This is the faster way to find originals you did not know to look for. A careers page search starts from employers you already listed. A hiring system search starts from your title and finds employers you never thought of.
Which systems to search
The idea came from a recruiter's post listing the systems tech companies use. Her list was right, and it stopped at tech. Small and midsize nonprofits, local governments and community employers mostly hire through payroll and HR systems instead. So Rolespect searches two groups.
Nonprofit and local employers
8 systemsPaylocity, Paycom, ADP Workforce Now, UKG, BambooHR, JazzHR, Workday and iCIMS. If you work in nonprofits, health care, education or local government, this is where most of your postings live.
Tech and startups
4 systemsGreenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workable. Companies that grew up online tend to hire here.
Do it by hand in two minutes
You need three pieces of Google search: a title in quotes, a list of sites joined with OR, and a minus sign for what you never want to see.
- Put the title in quotes. "director of operations" finds that phrase, not every page with the word director somewhere on it.
- Add the systems. (site:recruiting.paylocity.com OR site:myworkdayjobs.com OR site:bamboohr.com). Each site: limits the search to that system's pages.
- Add the place. Houston, or remote.
- Subtract what you will not take. A minus sign in front of a word or a quoted phrase drops every result that has it: -"executive director".
Put together, it reads: "director of operations" (site:recruiting.paylocity.com OR site:myworkdayjobs.com OR site:bamboohr.com) Houston -"executive director". Change the title and the place, and run it once a week.
One limit to know: Google reads only the first 32 words of a search. A long list of sites and exclusions can push words off the end without warning. Keep the search short, or split it into two.
How Rolespect does it
In Scout, under The big job sites, pick a title and a place, then look for Search the hiring systems directly. There are two buttons, one for each group above. Each one writes the Google search for you and leaves out every title on your Titles to never surface list. If your exclusions will not fit inside the 32 words, it names the ones that did not fit so you can skip them by eye.
Open the results worth a look. On the posting, press your Clip to Rolespect bookmark, and the role lands on your board with the employer's own address attached. That address matters later: Decide's first gate asks whether the seat is live on the employer's own site, and you already have the answer.
What this will not tell you
- That every result is still open. Some systems leave a posting up after the seat is filled. Check the date, and let Decide check whether it is still live.
- That Google found everything. Google does not read every page, and a new posting can take days to show up. Keep checking the careers pages of the employers you care about most.
- That every employer uses these systems. Some use a system not on the list. Some post only on their own site, or only by word of mouth. If an organization you want does not show up, find a person there.
Go straight to the original posting.
Scout writes the hiring system search for your title and place, leaves out the titles you never want, and clips the postings worth a look onto your board. Free, no account, and nothing you enter leaves the device.