Job search diagnostic
Why the same job keeps getting reposted
The answer above holds regardless of your situation. The questions below narrow it to the one cause your own answers point at, which is a different and more useful thing than a list of possible reasons.
Why are jobs reposted over and over?
A reposted job usually means one of three ordinary things, and only one of them is worth acting on. The requisition may genuinely still be open because the search has not produced a hire; the employer may have refreshed or reposted the listing to regain visibility on a job board without anything changing; or the listing you are seeing may be an aggregated copy that outlived the original. None of these means the employer is collecting resumes with no intention of hiring, which is the usual assumption and the least supported one. Whether to apply again depends on which of the three it is, and that is often checkable on the employer's own careers site.
- Reposting for visibility
- Job board listings decay in ranking over time, and reposting is a routine way to restore it. The requisition and the process behind it are unchanged, so a second application adds nothing.
- A failed search
- If the role has genuinely been open for months with the requirements loosening between versions, the employer has not found what they wanted. This is the case where applying again, or applying for the first time, can be worth it.
- Aggregated copies
- Many listings are syndicated to third-party boards and can persist after the original closes. The employer's own careers site is the only authoritative source for whether a role is live.
- What cannot be established
- Whether any employer is posting a role they do not intend to fill. That claim is common and essentially unverifiable from outside, so this page does not make it.
Source and method
RoleSprint, from the structure of the job-search process rather than from a dataset. Verified 2026-08-30. This page carries no third-party statistics, because the honest ones for this question do not exist in a citable form. What it holds is a decision tree over facts you report about your own search, and the reasoning behind each branch is stated on the page so you can disagree with it. Nothing you select is transmitted anywhere.
Narrow it down
3 questions you can answer without looking anything up. Nothing you select leaves your browser.
What this page will not claim
Stated here rather than in a footer, because the value of a diagnostic is entirely in knowing what it cannot see.
- This page cannot tell you whether one specific requisition is genuinely open.
- It does not have access to employer hiring data and makes no claim about anyone's intent.
- The output reflects what you report about the listing, not an inspection of it.
Every outcome this page can reach
Published in full so the tool cannot be a black box. If none of these describes your situation, the page is the wrong one and says so rather than forcing a fit.
The listing may not be live at all
Check the employer's own careers site before spending any more time on it. If it is not there, the listing is an echo.
A genuinely unfilled search, and worth an application
Apply to the current version, and check it requirement by requirement against your background rather than reusing what you sent before.
A visibility repost, and a second application adds nothing
Do not reapply. Spend the time on a role where your application is not already sitting in the pipeline.
Worth one application, but do not read the repost as a signal
Treat it as a normal opportunity: check whether your background evidences the requirements before committing the time.
What to do next
This page narrows one symptom. The full diagnostic looks at the whole search at once, which matters when more than one thing is wrong.