How to find jobs on company career pages

Build your target company list first

Before you visit a single career page, write down every company you would genuinely accept an offer from. Most job seekers skip this step and end up searching randomly. A focused list of 30 to 60 companies is more useful than a vague intention to 'check around'.

Use these sources to build the list: your industry's trade press, LinkedIn's company search filtered by size and location, Glassdoor's Best Places to Work lists, and the Fortune 500 or equivalent lists for your country. In Australia, the AFR Boss Best Places to Work list is a useful starting point. In the UK, the Sunday Times Best Companies list covers a wide range of sectors.

• Write the company name, industry, and rough headcount in a spreadsheet
• Note whether the company is known to hire remotely, hybrid, or on-site only
• Flag companies that sponsor visas if that applies to you
• Mark companies where you already have a contact inside

How to find the career page for any company

Most companies put their career page at one of a small number of predictable URLs. Try these in order before you resort to a Google search.

If none of the direct URLs work, search Google for: site:company.com careers OR jobs. This surfaces the correct page even when the company uses a subdomain or a path like /en/us/careers. For companies that use a third-party applicant tracking system, the career page often redirects to a Greenhouse, Lever, or Workday subdomain.

• company.com/careers
• company.com/jobs
• careers.company.com
• jobs.company.com
• company.greenhouse.io
• jobs.lever.co/company
• company.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

Search career pages effectively

Career page search tools vary widely in quality. Some let you filter by location, department, and job type. Others give you a single text box. Here is how to get consistent results regardless of the tool.

Use the job title your industry actually uses, not a generic term. If you are a data engineer, search 'data engineer', not 'data'. Try two or three synonyms: 'software engineer', 'software developer', 'SWE'. On Workday sites, the keyword search is often literal, so shorter terms work better than long phrases.

Check the date filter if one exists. Many career pages show roles that have been open for months. In the US and Canada, roles open longer than 60 days are sometimes already filled internally or on hold. Prioritise roles posted in the last 30 days.

• Search your primary job title, then one or two synonyms
• Filter by location or 'remote' before reading any posting
• Sort by date posted where the option exists
• Read the full posting before applying, not just the title

Set up alerts so new postings come to you

Manually checking 40 career pages every few days is not sustainable. Alerts solve this. The options below range from free and manual to fully automated.

Google Alerts is the simplest free option. Create an alert for: "[Company Name]" "careers" "[job title]". Google will email you when new pages matching that query are indexed. The delay can be a day or two, and it misses pages that are not indexed quickly, but it costs nothing.

Many career pages built on Greenhouse, Lever, and Workday have RSS feeds. The Greenhouse feed for a company is usually at: boards.greenhouse.io/[company]/jobs.json. Paste that URL into an RSS reader like Feedly or Inoreader and you will see new postings within hours of them going live. Lever uses a similar JSON endpoint at jobs.lever.co/[company].json.

For companies on Workday, the RSS approach does not work as cleanly. Instead, use a browser extension like Distill.io or Visualping to watch a specific search results page on the career site and alert you when the page content changes.

1. List your 30 to 60 target companies in a spreadsheet
2. Identify which ATS each company uses by visiting their career page
3. Set up RSS feeds for Greenhouse and Lever companies in an RSS reader
4. Set up Distill.io or Visualping watches for Workday and custom career pages
5. Set Google Alerts as a backup for any company not covered above
6. Check your alerts daily and log new roles in the same spreadsheet

Let an agent monitor career pages for you

If you want to skip the manual setup entirely, Break-In Bad's AI agent Omar can handle the monitoring and matching for you. She reads the full text of each posting, including location requirements, visa sponsorship notes, time zone expectations, and seniority level, and scores each role against your profile. Roles scoring 75 percent or above are submitted automatically on Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, and other employer sites, with a screenshot sent to you as proof. Roles between 45 and 74 percent are flagged for your review before anything is submitted.

This matters for career page hunting specifically because Omar applies directly on the employer's site, not through a job board, which is exactly what hiring managers prefer. You get 50 free credits when you sign up, and each submitted application costs one credit, refunded if the submission fails on Break-In Bad's side.

Keep track of what you have applied to

Career page applications are easy to lose track of because each company has its own confirmation email format and portal. Set up a simple log the day you start your search.

At minimum, record the company name, role title, the URL of the posting, the date you applied, and the current status. Update the status column every time you hear back. In the US and UK, most companies acknowledge receipt within a few days if they use an ATS. If you have heard nothing after three weeks, it is reasonable to send one short follow-up email to the recruiter if you can find their contact details.

• Company name
• Role title and posting URL
• Date applied
• ATS used (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, other)
• Status: applied, acknowledged, phone screen, interview, offer, rejected
• Follow-up date if no response after three weeks