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Why Job Listings Get Reposted—And Why You Should Apply To Them Anyway

January 11, 2024

Job Openings

Why Job Listings Get Reposted—And Why You Should Apply To Them Anyway

January 11, 2024

Photo by Eric Prouzet on Unsplash

At first glance, it doesn’t make sense that job postings with hundreds (or even thousands) of applicants get reposted. Counterintuitively, this can be a great time to apply. Let me tell you why:

Recruiters are typically managing 15 to 25 live roles at any one time, which means they’re juggling a universe of dozens of stakeholders (hiring managers, interview panelists) and hundreds of applicants. All of which to say, many take the path of least resistance.

Job postings receive the largest volume of applicants in the first 48 hours, which often means if you apply after the role has been open more than 7 days, your application might never get seen (after checking inbound volume a couple of times in the first week the recruiter likely has a universe of viable candidates).

Most of the time when a role gets reposted, it means the selection process has run its course and no viable candidate has been selected. Great recruiters keep their pipeline filled so that this ‘back to square one’ scenario doesn’t happen, but in a market like this, when recruiting teams have been decimated, they likely don’t have the bandwidth to do this, which is why jobs are getting reposted.

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It doesn’t make sense that job postings with hundreds of applicants get reposted. Counterintuitively, this can be a great time to apply
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