Companies publish roles on their own careers page first and syndicate to the boards afterwards — sometimes days afterwards. Watching the source directly puts you in front of the queue, and for competitive research it tells you what a company is building long before they announce it.
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How do you get alerted about new job postings?
Watch the company's own careers page rather than a job board. Filter it to the roles or locations you care about if the site allows it, select the listings region, and check every few minutes. When a new role appears you are alerted with the listing text, usually before the same role reaches the aggregators.
For a job seeker, timing is most of the advantage. Applications are frequently reviewed in the order they arrive, and a role that has been open for a week already has a shortlist forming. The company's own careers page is where the role appears first.
For anyone doing competitive or market research, hiring is one of the most reliable forward indicators there is. A company that posts four backend engineers and a data engineer is building something specific, and it will be public months before the product is.
Both uses need the same setup: watch the listing page, filtered as tightly as the site allows, and check it often.
The filtering is what separates a useful alert from a daily digest of everything.
Boards lag the source, sometimes by days, and they add postings from everywhere else too. The company's own page is both earlier and quieter.
Most careers sites let you narrow by department, location or remote status, and that filtering usually produces its own URL. Watch the filtered URL and you are alerted only about roles you would actually apply for.
Careers pages carry a lot of recruitment marketing — values, benefits, photographs — that changes independently of the jobs. Selecting the listings table removes all of it.
This is one of the few use cases where minutes genuinely matter. For research purposes, daily is plenty.
Twenty-five watched pages on the $5 plan is twenty-five companies, all checked at the same frequency with nothing metered.
The most underused competitive signal available, and entirely public.
Job listings are a company describing its plans in detail, under obligation to be accurate, months before anything ships. The technologies named in a backend role tell you what they are building on. A first compliance hire says they are moving upmarket. Three roles in a new country says expansion is funded, not aspirational.
Absence is a signal too. A company that hired steadily for two years and stopped last quarter is telling you something, and a page that quietly loses six open roles in a week is telling you a great deal.
The practical approach is to watch competitors' careers pages daily and read the accumulated history quarterly. Individual postings are noise; the pattern over three months is the intelligence.
Two of these cover a large share of modern hiring pages.
Many companies use an applicant tracking system that renders listings client-side. We can render those on paid plans, at up to every fifteen minutes rather than every five. Test the specific page before relying on it.
If listings only appear after signing in, or filtering produces no stable URL, there is nothing a hosted tool can watch.
This is an alert, not an automation. It tells you the role exists; the application is yours.
A large share of hiring happens through networks and recruiters and never appears on a careers page at all. Monitoring cannot surface what was never posted.
Get alerted when a company posts a role, usually before it reaches the job boards.
Use their own site rather than an aggregator — it is where roles appear first.
Narrow by department, location or remote status, then copy the URL that filtering produces.
Click the listings region so recruitment marketing and photographs are ignored.
Every five minutes if you are actively applying; daily if you are watching for research.
A push notification reaches a phone lock screen, which matters when the advantage is measured in hours.
25 watched pages on the $5 plan is 25 companies, all at the same frequency.
Typically about 3 minutes from start to finish.
Uptime monitors, watched pages and heartbeats each get their own allowance, so adding a page watch never costs you a monitor. SSL and domain checks ride along with the monitor they belong to and use nothing extra.
| Plan | Monitors | Watched pages | Heartbeats | Fastest interval | Alert channels | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 1 | 1 | 1 | Every 30 minutes | 1 email address | $0 |
| Founding Member first 20 only | 25 | 25 | 25 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | $5/mo |
| Basic | 10 | 10 | 10 | Every 10 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | $8/mo |
| Growth | 50 | 50 | 50 | Every 5 minutes | Email + webhook & chat | $19/mo |
| Pro | 100 | 100 | 100 | Every 60 seconds | Email + webhook & chat | $34/mo |
Annual billing is cheaper on every paid tier. The pricing page is the authoritative list.
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Price fell from $49 to $39, and an annual discount was added.
The item is available again and the basket button returned.
A new subprocessor was added in another jurisdiction.
The free plan sends to one email address. Every paid plan adds the chat and webhook channels below, with 2 to 10 destinations depending on the plan. However many alerts you receive, the price does not change — nothing here is metered or charged per alert.
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Watch their careers page rather than a job board. Filter it to your role and location, select the listings region, and check every few minutes. New roles appear on the company's own site first, often days before the aggregators pick them up.
Boards lag the source and add everything else. Watching the company page directly is both earlier and quieter, and you control the filtering rather than accepting theirs.
Every five minutes if you are actively job hunting — this is one of the few cases where minutes genuinely change the outcome. Daily is plenty if you are watching hiring for competitive research.
Often, with browser rendering enabled on a paid plan, which checks at up to every fifteen minutes rather than every five. Many applicant tracking systems render listings client-side, so test the specific page before relying on it.
25 on the $5 Founding Member plan, 50 on Growth, 100 on Pro, and one on the free plan. There is no check quota, so watching them all every five minutes costs no more than watching them daily.
A great deal, months early. The technologies named in engineering roles reveal what they are building; a first compliance hire signals a move upmarket; roles in a new country mean funded expansion. Roles disappearing is often the more interesting signal.
Yes — browser push reaches a phone or desktop lock screen on any plan, and paid plans add Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Flock and webhooks.
No. It tells you the role was posted, quickly. Everything after that is yours.
Last updated August 4, 2026 · Written by Amit Gupta, founder of MonitoringDaddy
Free plan watches one careers page. $5/mo watches 25, checked every five minutes.