jobdownupWRITING
What we learn from reading the market every day.
jobdownup reads company career pages directly, which means we watch the same roles over weeks rather than seeing a snapshot. These are the things that turn up along the way — useful whether or not you ever use the product.
- 2 min read
How to tell whether a job posting is actually live
Three checks you can run in about two minutes, before you spend an hour tailoring an application to a role nobody is going to fill.
Longer reads
Two pages that are not posts, because they are reference rather than writing — they get updated rather than dated.
- Winnability: how to tell if a job posting is worth applying to
The method in full, worked through — including the three cases where it is wrong.
- The job market, measured
Every figure from a statistics office or the organisation whose own data it is, with the period and the date we read it.