Job Board Monitor — New & Removed Job Alerts

Job posting monitor & new-jobs alert tool for Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and 3 more ATS — track new and removed job listings across careers pages.

Know the moment a company's hiring changes. Point this Actor at any careers page, run it on a schedule, and get alerted about every new posting — and every removed one. A posting that disappears usually means the position was filled or closed: that's a signal almost nobody tracks, and it tells you a company just made a hire (new employee onboarding = new tooling decisions) or cut a search.

Works on top of stable public job-board APIs — Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Workday & Personio — so it never fights anti-bot walls and doesn't break when a page changes its layout.

Why monitoring beats re-scraping

Scrapers give you a snapshot; you're left diffing CSVs by hand. This Actor keeps state between runs in your account and emits only the changes:

Record	Meaning	Why you care
new_job	Posting appeared since last run	Fresh hiring intent — reach out while the pain is live
removed_job	Posting disappeared	Position filled or closed — congratulate, pitch onboarding tools, or note the hiring freeze
board_summary	Per-company digest	One row per company per run — includes a ready-to-send summary_text line for Slack/Telegram

Extra signals baked into the records:

• repost_hint on new jobs — the same title was removed from this board within 60 days: likely a reposted/evergreen "ghost job", treat with skepticism
• hiring_freeze_hint on summaries — 3+ removals and zero additions in one run: possible hiring freeze; recruiters save their time, sellers adjust timing
• summary_text on summaries — one formatted line ("Acme: +3 new, -1 removed (120 open) — New: …") you can pipe straight into a Slack/Telegram/email integration without any templating

The first run for each board silently records a baseline (no flood of "new" alerts) — from the second run on, you only see real changes. Enable emitBaseline if you want the full current list on day one.

💥 Watch a whole niche — no list needed

Enable watchNiche and the Actor samples companies from its built-in directory of ~8,800 job boards (Common Crawl-harvested), freezes the sample in your account, and monitors the same companies run after run. Combine with keywords or role presets:

{ "watchNiche": ["greenhouse", "ashby"], "watchLimit": 200, "keywords": ["golang"] }

That's a standing order: "alert me whenever anyone in the Greenhouse/Ashby universe posts or removes a Go engineering job." The sample stays frozen so day-to-day diffs are meaningful; delete the watchlist key in the job-board-monitor-state store to resample.

Feed it anything

The sources field accepts, in any mix:

• Any careers page URL — https://ramp.com/careers, https://acme.io/jobs… The Actor fetches the page and auto-detects the embedded ATS (board links, embed scripts, API references)
• Board URLs — boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab, jobs.lever.co/spotify, jobs.ashbyhq.com/ramp, apply.workable.com/blueground, careers.smartrecruiters.com/ServiceNow
• Bare slugs (gitlab) or plain company names (Blueground) — probed against all five ATS providers

Optional keywords and locationFilter narrow monitoring to the roles you care about (e.g. only sales roles, only remote).

Typical setups

• SDR team: monitor 100 target accounts daily, get new_job alerts for SDR, sales, revops keywords → outreach the same morning. Companies staffing sales teams are buying sales tooling.
• Recruiting agency: watch competitors' clients; a burst of new postings = an account that needs help, a burst of removals = placements happening without you.
• Job seeker / talent community: monitor dream-company boards for remote + your stack, pipe alerts to Telegram or email via Apify integrations.
• Competitive intel: removed engineering postings at a competitor often precede a launch.

Scheduling & integrations

Designed for Apify Schedules (daily or hourly). Connect the run to Slack, email, Telegram, Google Sheets, Zapier, Make or n8n through standard Apify integrations — a run that found nothing new produces only compact board_summary records, so downstream alerts stay quiet unless something happened.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per detected change (new or removed posting), $0.005 per board summary, $0.005 per Actor start. Monitoring 50 companies daily with a handful of changes typically costs a few cents per day. No subscriptions, no platform-usage surcharges.

FAQ

How is this different from job scrapers? Scrapers re-download everything every time and leave the diffing to you. This Actor is stateful: it remembers what it saw and reports only deltas — including removals, which snapshots can't give you.

A source shows "No ATS board found"? The company either uses an unsupported ATS (iCIMS, Oracle HCM — on the roadmap) or a fully custom careers page with no embedded board. The Actor logs a warning and continues with your other sources.

Where is the state kept? In a named key-value store job-board-monitor-state in your Apify account — your tracking history stays private and survives between runs.

Something broken or missing a feature? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — I respond within 1–2 business days.

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Need company-level hiring analytics instead of alerts — scored leads, tech-stack detection, seniority mix, hiring velocity? Check the companion Actor: ATS Hiring Signals.