GUIDE
We re-check hundreds of Canadian employer career pages every day, so we see the churn most job seekers never notice. Here's what the daily observation looks like.
A meaningful share of live postings gets touched every week — pay ranges edited, locations adjusted, requirements rewritten, dates refreshed. The posting you read on Monday is often not quite the posting that exists on Friday. Most boards show you a snapshot from whenever they last scraped it; the employer's page is the only current copy.
The most common change isn't an edit at all — it's a re-date. The posting gets a fresh timestamp with an identical description. Some of these are genuine reposts; many are automated bumps to stay visible in search results. Either way, the "posted 2 days ago" label on a board often describes the refresh, not the opening.
When a role is filled or cancelled, the posting usually just vanishes from the career page — no announcement, no "position filled" note. Boards that don't re-check the source keep showing it for weeks. This is the single biggest source of dead applications: not ghost jobs, just quiet removals nobody propagated.
Check the source, not the copy. A board's posting date tells you when they last saw it; only the employer's page tells you it's still there. And when you see a posting's full history — first seen, every refresh, every edit — you can read the employer's actual behavior instead of guessing from a single date.
That's what we publish every week in the Freshness Report: how many postings were added, pulled, and refreshed across the employer pages we track. The numbers, not the narrative.