A role I saw yesterday has gone. What happened?

Roles leave the board more often than people expect. Here is what each case looks like and what you can do.

The firm took it down

Most common. The role was filled, paused or pulled, so it is no longer on the firm's own board. We read the source, the role is not there, and it stops publishing here.

What to do: nothing recoverable. If you had started an application on the firm's site, finish it there if their form is still open. Their system, not ours.

The source stopped answering

A firm changes applicant tracking systems, moves its careers page, or blocks automated reads. The source goes quiet, and after fourteen days without a successful check every role from it drops off.

What to do: tell us the firm. A source that has moved is a fixable problem and we would rather know within a day than a month.

The role never met the bar

Some roles publish on a list page but never get their own indexed page, because they lack a description or a posting date. Those are visible while browsing but were never a standalone destination.

What to do: browse the firm page instead. It shows everything currently open at that firm.

If you followed an old link

A closed role can keep a recovery page for a while, so a link from an email or a bookmark does not simply break. Those pages say plainly that the role has closed and point you at what is currently open at the same firm. They are deliberately not indexed by search engines.

We would rather be told

If a role vanished and you think it should not have, that is a listing problem and it is free to report. Send the firm and the role title through the corrections form.