jobdownupTHE JOB MARKET CHANGED · 2026
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jobdownup reads company career pages directly, scores real roles against your profile overnight, and coaches you through the rest of the search.
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✓ healthnz.govt.nz/careers checked
✓ careers.jpmorgan.com checked
✓ fultonhogan.com/careers checked
H88
Registered Nurse — Theatre
found on healthnz.govt.nz · open 71 days
F66
Site Electrician — Commercial
found on fultonhogan.com · not on job boards yet
88
Scored against your profile while you slept.
Whose side is your job search on?
Recruiters
Paid by companies to fill their roles. You're the raw material, not the customer.
PAID BY COMPANIES
Job boards
Paid by advertisers per posting — including ghost postings that will never hire.
PAID BY COMPANIES
The jobs report
Paid attention by the market, not by you. Averages a country, misses your week.
PAID BY COMPANIES
jobdownup is paid by one person: you.
| Job boards | jobdownup | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Who pays | Advertisers, per posting | Employers and recruiters | You. No advertisers at all. |
| Where roles come from | Whatever was paid to be listed | Postings and syndication | Employer career pages, read directly |
| Ranked by | Recency and paid placement | Relevance and engagement | Fit, and whether you can win it |
| Dead postings | Still listed — they were paid for | Still listed | Tracked. Age and reposts are the signal. |
| What it optimises | Applications per posting | Time on platform | That you stop needing it |
| Cost to start | Free, you are the product | Around €30/month for Premium | Free forever, no card |
WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED
25 people looking
10 openings
~2 of them are ghosts
2.5 unemployed people per vacancy in the UK, and roughly one listing in five was never going to be filled.
24.9 weeks
The average spell of unemployment in the United States ran 24.9 weeks in July 2026 — nearly six months.
July 2026 · source →18–22%
Between 18% and 22% of jobs posted on the Greenhouse platform in any given quarter are ghost jobs — roles the employer is not actually trying to fill. In 2022 the figure was 12–15%.
Q4 2024, reported January 2025 · source →61%
61% of job seekers have been ghosted after a job interview — up nine percentage points in eight months.
December 2024 · source →24.9 weeks
The average spell of unemployment in the United States ran 24.9 weeks in July 2026 — nearly six months.
July 2026 · source →18–22%
Between 18% and 22% of jobs posted on the Greenhouse platform in any given quarter are ghost jobs — roles the employer is not actually trying to fill. In 2022 the figure was 12–15%.
Q4 2024, reported January 2025 · source →61%
61% of job seekers have been ghosted after a job interview — up nine percentage points in eight months.
December 2024 · source →1.8 million Americans had been out of work for 27 weeks or more in July 2026 — 25.5% of everyone unemployed.
A quarter of the people looking have been looking for over six months. That is the norm now, not the tail.
It’s not you. The market changed.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, The Economics Daily: 1.8 million people had been unemployed 27 weeks or longer in July 2026 · July 2026 · the full picture
It’s not you.
The machinery broke.
I don’t read job boards.
I read the source.
I read the source.
jobs.pleo.io
The company posts on its own career page
FOUND TUE 06:00 · SCORED 79
jobdownup reads it overnight and scores it against you
LINKEDIN / INDEED · FRI
3 days later — with everyone else applying
jobs.pleo.io
The company posts on its own career page
FOUND TUE 06:00 · SCORED 79
jobdownup reads it overnight and scores it against you
LINKEDIN / INDEED · FRI
3 days later — with everyone else applying
FOUND ON JOBS.PLEO.IO · NOT ON JOB BOARDS YET
Senior Manager, Sales UKI
Pleo · €70–95k OTE
79
✓Enterprise leadership✓Renewal focus✓UKI market
Highly targeted match
Most tools re-list what the boards already have. I read the career page itself — the same page the hiring manager updates. By the time a role syndicates out, you’ve already been scored against it.
The whole flow, in seven steps →70,000+
live roles
open right now, read from the employer
1,200+
employers
career pages read directly, not via a board
16
hiring systems
Greenhouse, Workday, Ashby, SuccessFactors…
daily
re-read
a filled role disappears within a day
Measured 23 Aug 2026 from our own crawl. Stated as floors — the corpus grows daily.
Every tool scores fit.
None of them score whether you can win.
None of them score whether you can win.
A good match you will never get is a worse afternoon than an average one you might. So I score a second thing: how gettable the role actually is — read from how long it has sat open against how long this employer and this market normally take to fill it.
SAME CANDIDATE · SAME DAY · TWO DIFFERENT ANSWERS
Registered Nurse — ICU
Te Whatu Ora · Auckland
FIT
81
WINNABLE
34
Closed in 6 days last time
Registered Nurse — Theatre
Southern Cross · Auckland
FIT
76
WINNABLE
88
Open 71 days · market fills these in 24
The lower-scoring role is the one to spend your afternoon on. Fit says you could do the job. Winnable says you can get it.
Read from how long each posting has stayed open against the median for that profession, that market and that employer. No survey, no guess.
A role open three times longer than its market’s median isn’t over-subscribed. It’s under-filled — and they will look at a CV that isn’t perfect.
Both scores run across twenty professional families, not just tech — healthcare, trades, education, finance, the built environment — in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
How winnability is calculated →This is the list, every morning.
TODAY·4 newSort: Most winnable
- Financial AccountantFrankfurt · hybrid · €65–80kopen 84 days · reposted 2× · employer median 28dFit74Winnable88Under-filled
- Site Electrician — CommercialFulton Hogan · Auckland · NZ$95–110kopen 51 days · not on job boards yetFit66Winnable72Still open
- Senior Manager, Sales UKIPleo · London · €70–95k OTEopen 6 days · first seen this morningFit79Winnable41Early days
- Registered Nurse — ICUTe Whatu Ora · Auckland · NZ$78–92kopen 4 days · closed in 6 days last timeFit81Winnable34Closes fast
Every follow-up, every draft, every note is filed against the role it belongs to — because the search that works is the one you can actually keep running.
Finding the job is the easy half.
Most people don’t lose the search at the search. They lose it walking into the interview cold, or accepting the first number they hear.
01
Found
Read from the employer's own careers page overnight, before it syndicates to the boards.
Scored for fit and winnability
02
Decided
Ranked by which ones you can actually get, with the reason written out in a sentence you can argue with.
A shortlist, not a feed
03
Tailored
Your CV reordered and rewritten against that specific description, plus a cover letter in your own voice.
CV + letter, print-ready
04
Prepped
A dossier on the company, the likely panel, and the questions this role actually asks — then a mock interview in character.
Prep pack + live rehearsal
05
Negotiated
What the band is worth in that market, what to ask for, and the words to ask for it with.
Offer analysis
MOCK INTERVIEW · IN CHARACTER AS THE HIRING MANAGER
“Walk me through a renewal you nearly lost. What was actually at risk?”
A €400k logo went quiet after their CFO changed…
FEEDBACK
✓ Concrete numbers. ⚠ You skipped the setup — one line on the risk doubles the impact.
The mock interview is in character as the hiring manager for the specific role, and it pushes back. Better it happens here than in the room.
✓Tailor CV✓Cover letters✓Interview prep✓Negotiation✓Warm intros✓Follow-up reminders
All included. Nothing gated.
Filip Markovic
Founder · jobdownup
Filip Markovic
Founder · jobdownup
I’ve spent a decade on the sales side of the table, and my own job search taught me the tools are built for the people paying — not for me. So I built the one I wanted: it reads career pages directly, scores real roles against your profile overnight, and coaches you through the rest.
One person pays for jobdownup: you. Which is the only reason it can honestly work for you.
PRICING
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A job search is a project, not a subscription. This is the whole search — including the slow middle, where most people quit.
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Questions worth asking first.
What is jobdownup?
jobdownup is a job-search agent for one person: the candidate. It reads employers' own career pages directly rather than re-listing job boards, scores every role it finds against your profile overnight, and then helps with the rest of the search — a tailored CV, a cover letter, interview practice and salary negotiation. It is built and run in Germany and covers the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
Is jobdownup actually free, or is it a trial?
It is free with no expiry and no card. The free plan gives you matches, the fit score, the winnability score, the application tracker, one hunt a day and ten newly scored roles a day — and it stays that way. Your first application is free end to end, including the tailored CV, the cover letter, interview prep and the follow-up. Paying adds unlimited artifacts and a six-hour hunt cadence instead of daily.See what free includes →
Where do the jobs come from?
From the employers themselves. jobdownup reads company career pages and the applicant tracking systems behind them — Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, SuccessFactors and a dozen more — so a role is usually visible here before it syndicates out to the boards. Every posting keeps a link back to the page it was read from, so you can always check the source yourself.Every stat, sourced →
What is winnability, and how is it different from a match score?
A match score answers whether you fit a role. Winnability answers whether you can actually get it, using the posting's own history: how long it has been open, how many times it has been reposted, and how that compares to the median for that employer and that market. A role that has sat open three times longer than its market's median is not over-subscribed — it is under-filled, and that employer will look at a CV that is not perfect.How winnability is calculated →
Does jobdownup apply to jobs for me automatically?
No, and that is deliberate. Nothing is ever sent on your behalf. Mass auto-application is what flooded employers in the first place, and it is why so many applications now go unread. jobdownup prepares the application — the tailored CV, the letter, the prep — and you decide what gets sent and when.
Will the AI put things on my CV that I did not do?
It is built specifically not to. The tailoring step reorders and rephrases what is already in your CV; it will refuse to run at all on an empty one, because there is nothing to be true to. Every number in the tailored text is checked back against your original CV, and anything unsupported is flagged to you in the app rather than quietly shipped. An invented figure is what costs a candidate the interview.
Which jobs and countries does it cover?
Twenty professional families, not only tech — among them healthcare, trades, education, finance, built environment, sales, engineering, insurance, legal, operations, admin and real estate. Markets are the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Coverage is deepest where the employer estate publishes on systems that can be read directly.
How long does it take to find a job in 2026?
Longer than most people plan for. The average spell of unemployment in the United States ran 24.9 weeks in July 2026 — close to six months — and 25.5% of everyone unemployed there had been looking for more than 27 weeks. Germany passed three million unemployed in July 2026, with roughly a third of them out of work for over a year. In the United Kingdom there were 2.5 unemployed people per vacancy in April to June 2026. A search that is two months old is an early search, not a failed one.Every figure, with its source →
How is it different from LinkedIn Premium or Indeed?
Job boards and LinkedIn are paid by the employers and advertisers posting the roles; their incentive is more postings and more applicants per posting. jobdownup has one customer, the candidate, and no advertisers at all. Practically, that shows up in three places: the roles come from career pages rather than paid listings, roles are ranked by whether you can win them and not only by fit, and nothing is optimised for how long you stay on the site.
Where is my CV stored, and who can see it?
Your CV, applications and coach conversations are stored in a Postgres database hosted by Neon in the United States (AWS us-east-1) under standard contractual clauses — a third-country transfer, disclosed as one. No human at jobdownup reads your data as a matter of course and it is never sold. You can export everything or delete your account outright from inside the app, and deletion is immediate.Every subprocessor, named →
Can I cancel, and what happens to my account?
You can cancel any time from the billing portal, and the account drops back to the free plan rather than being closed — your matches, applications and history stay. Deleting the account is a separate, immediate and irreversible action you take yourself in settings.Refund policy →
How many people use jobdownup?
Not many yet — it launched in 2026 and is early. There are no customer testimonials on this site because there are not yet customers to quote, and inventing them is the one thing that would make everything else here worth less. What can be checked is the machinery: the sources page lists every statistic with its citation and retrieval date.Check the numbers →
Real roles. Found first. Scored for you.