Get Notified When a Company Posts a Job: 5 Ways That Work
You have a shortlist. Maybe it's Figma, Linear, Spotify or GitLab, maybe a local startup nobody else has heard of. The question is simple: how do you get notified when a company posts a job, instead of finding out a week later? There's no single switch for it, but there are five practical ways, each with its own trade-offs. Here they are, from the most manual to the most automatic.
The quick answer
- Bookmark the company's careers page and check it on a schedule.
- Watch the page or its job feed with a page-change monitor or feed reader.
- Follow the company on LinkedIn and save a job alert filtered to that company.
- Join the company's talent community or job newsletter, if it has one.
- Use a role-based alert that happens to cover the companies you care about.
Most people end up combining two or three of these.
First, find the real careers page
Before setting anything up, find where the company actually publishes jobs. Many tech companies run hiring through an applicant-tracking system, and the job board lives at an address like jobs.lever.co/company or jobs.ashbyhq.com/company, or on a Greenhouse board, sometimes embedded in the company's own site. That page is the source; other listings are copies that may arrive later or not at all. See What Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby are for how to recognise each one.
1. Check the page on a schedule
Simple and reliable for a short list. Put the boards in one bookmarks folder, open them at fixed times, say morning and evening, and use each page's own filters for team or location.
- Works for: a handful of companies, up to about ten.
- Downside: it depends on you remembering, and it gets tedious quickly.
2. Watch the page automatically
Two options here:
- Feeds. Some job boards publish an RSS or other job feed. If yours does, a feed reader shows new entries without you opening the page.
- Page-change monitors. These tools check a web page at an interval and tell you when something changes. They work on almost any careers page.
The catch: a monitor fires on any change, such as a redesign, a closed role or a new banner, not just new jobs, and it can't tell a backend role from a sales one. How often it checks depends on the tool and the plan.
3. Follow the company on LinkedIn and save a filtered alert
LinkedIn handles this well. Follow the company to see its updates, then search jobs, filter by that company (and your title and location) and save the search as an alert.
- Strengths: it covers most companies that post on LinkedIn, and you can see who you know there before applying.
- Limits: not every role gets posted on LinkedIn, some arrive there later than on the careers page, and alerts come on the schedule you choose.
For a wider comparison, see Telegram bot vs LinkedIn job alerts.
4. Talent communities, newsletters and people
Some careers pages have a "join our talent community" or "get notified about new roles" form. If you see one, it's worth a minute: it's the company telling you directly. How often they write, and how relevant it is, varies a lot.
Don't forget people. Someone inside the company often hears about a role before it's posted. Ask a contact to tell you if something opens in your area, and ask about a referral then.
5. Role-based alerts that cover your companies
Tools like Hot Jobs work the other way round: you don't choose companies, you choose roles and where you can work. Hot Jobs checks the career pages of a fixed list of 390+ companies every 30 minutes, including Figma, Linear, Spotify, GitLab, Datadog, Cloudflare, Monzo and SumUp, along with the Remotive and Himalayas remote boards. You get matching roles from all of them.
Be clear about what that means:
- If a target company is on the list, its matching roles reach you, usually within about half an hour of going live.
- You can't narrow alerts to one company or exclude one. Matching roles from the other companies arrive too.
- If a target isn't on the list and doesn't post on Remotive or Himalayas, the bot won't see it. Use options 1 to 4 for that company.
Side by side
| Method | Effort | Speed | Filters by role | Which companies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Checking by hand | High | As often as you check | By eye | Any |
| Feed or page monitor | Low after setup | Depends on the tool | Usually not | Most pages |
| LinkedIn company alert | Low | On the alert's schedule | Yes | If they post there |
| Talent community | Very low | Varies | Rarely | If they offer one |
| Role-based bot | Low | About 30 minutes | Yes | Only its list |
A setup that works
- Write a list of 10 to 30 companies you'd genuinely accept an offer from. We go through this in how to build a target company list.
- Mark the ones already covered by a role-based alert you use. Those are handled.
- For the rest, bookmark the careers pages and add a LinkedIn company alert.
- For your top three, sign up to their talent community if they have one, or message someone you know there.
- Log what you apply to, so a role you spot in two places doesn't become two applications.
Why careers pages deserve this attention in the first place is covered in the hidden job market on career pages.
If some of your target companies are among the 390+ that Hot Jobs checks, it can watch them for you: pick your roles and region, and new matching postings arrive in Telegram. It doesn't let you choose individual companies, and it costs €3, paid once. Connect the bot