{"source":"RealAnalystJobs","author":{"name":"Anil Kumar","role":"founder","url":"https://realanalystjobs.com/analysts/Ani19arya"},"title":"Age of live analyst job postings and measurable ghost job signals, 7 November 2026","question":"How long do analyst job postings stay up? Posting age and ghost job signals","url":"https://realanalystjobs.com/research/analyst-job-posting-age-ghost-job-signals","answer":"Most are recent. Of 14,733 live analyst postings on realanalystjobs.com on 7 November 2026, half were first seen 7 days ago or less, 20% have been live over 30 days and 4% over 60 days. What share of postings close, and how fast, cannot be measured yet: closed postings are deleted from the board, not archived.","scope":"14,733 live analyst postings read from employers' own careers sites by realanalystjobs.com, counted on 7 November 2026","sampleSize":14733,"computedOn":"2026-11-07","live":true,"license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},"citation":"Anil Kumar, RealAnalystJobs (7 November 2026). Age of live analyst job postings and measurable ghost job signals, 7 November 2026. https://realanalystjobs.com/research/analyst-job-posting-age-ghost-job-signals","method":["Sample: every live posting on realanalystjobs.com on 7 November 2026, read from employers' own careers sites and applicant tracking systems. Employer-posted listings (4) are left out because they expire on their own schedule, and so are the reposting sites Jobgether and Weekday (199 postings). 14,733 postings remain.","First-seen date: the day the daily sync first stored the posting's apply link. It has been stable since 29 July 2026; earlier rows read that date.","Posting date: the date the employer's careers site publishes for the posting, when it publishes one. It is never inferred from text.","Age is whole days from that date to the day the page was computed. Medians are of whole days; shares are of the postings in that column.","Duplicates: postings whose company (normalized name), title (lower case, punctuation dropped) and location text are identical while their apply links differ.","Every number is recomputed from the live board each time the page loads, and the JSON download carries the same numbers."],"limitations":["This measures postings that are still live. It says nothing about postings that already closed, which is where a closure rate would come from.","First-seen age is a lower bound on true age: a posting found when its company was added to the board was already live elsewhere.","Posting dates come from the careers site platform. Some platforms never publish one, and an employer can refresh a date without changing the role.","A duplicate here is a text match. It cannot tell a repost from several open seats for one job.","realanalystjobs.com reads a large set of company careers sites, but not every employer, so this is not the whole market."],"notMeasured":[{"metric":"Share of postings that close, and median days live until closing","why":"Closed postings are deleted by the daily sync, not archived, so no closing date is stored. To measure it the board would keep each closed row with a closed-on date (or log apply link, company, title, first-seen and closed-on to a closures table) and publish once a few months of closures exist."},{"metric":"Repost rate (a role closed and listed again)","why":"Needs the closures history above plus a fingerprint of company, normalized title and location, so a new apply link matching a recently closed fingerprint can be counted as a repost."},{"metric":"Ghost job rate","why":"Intent to hire cannot be read from a posting. Even with closure history, a long-open or reposted role is a signal, not proof, so we would publish those signals by name, not a ghost job percentage."}],"sources":[{"name":"realanalystjobs.com live board","url":"https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs","note":"Every live analyst posting on 7 November 2026, with its first-seen date and the employer's posting date where one exists."}],"tables":[{"caption":"Age of 14,733 live analyst postings on 7 November 2026","columns":["Age","By first-seen date","Share","By employer posting date","Share"],"rows":[["0 to 7 days","8,191","56%","0","0%"],["8 to 30 days","3,581","24%","0","0%"],["31 to 60 days","2,375","16%","0","0%"],["61 to 90 days","412","3%","0","0%"],["91 days or more","174","1%","0","0%"],["Total","14,733","100%","0","0%"]],"note":"First-seen is the day the board first read the posting. The posting-date column counts only the 0 postings whose careers site gives a date. Rows first seen on or before 29 July 2026 may be older than shown."},{"caption":"Posting age by country","columns":["Country","Postings","Median days since first seen","Live over 30 days","Live over 60 days","With a posting date","Median days since posted"],"rows":[["United States","5,787","7 days","18%","5%","0%","No dates"],["India","2,459","7 days","15%","2%","0%","No dates"],["United Kingdom","783","12 days","29%","4%","0%","No dates"],["Canada","427","7 days","17%","2%","0%","No dates"],["France","364","18 days","33%","3%","0%","No dates"],["Poland","301","9 days","26%","3%","0%","No dates"],["Singapore","298","11 days","27%","1%","0%","No dates"],["Mexico","284","7 days","11%","4%","0%","No dates"]],"note":"Countries with at least 200 live postings. Over 30 and over 60 days are counted from the first-seen date."},{"caption":"Posting age by careers site platform","columns":["Platform","Postings","Median days since first seen","Live over 60 days","With a posting date","Median days since posted"],"rows":[["Workday","5,261","6 days","0%","0%","No dates"],["Greenhouse","2,490","36 days","13%","0%","No dates"],["Oracle HCM","1,125","7 days","0%","0%","No dates"],["SmartRecruiters","1,112","32 days","2%","0%","No dates"],["Jibe","733","7 days","0%","0%","No dates"],["Amazon","585","25 days","0%","0%","No dates"],["Ashby","547","25 days","19%","0%","No dates"],["Lever","527","39 days","18%","0%","No dates"],["Eightfold","424","7 days","0%","0%","No dates"],["SuccessFactors","375","7 days","0%","0%","No dates"]],"note":"Platforms with at least 150 live postings. Whether a posting date exists depends mostly on the platform, not the employer."}],"data":{"asOf":"2026-11-07","liveRows":14936,"excludedEmployerPosts":4,"excludedReposters":199,"postings":14733,"firstSeen":{"median":7,"buckets":[8191,3581,2375,412,174],"over30":2961,"over60":586,"over90":174,"censored":147},"posted":{"withDate":0,"median":null,"buckets":[0,0,0,0,0],"over30":0,"over60":0,"over90":0,"olderThanFirstSeenBy30":0,"future":0},"duplicates":{"groups":593,"rows":1389,"extraCopies":796,"topCompanies":[{"name":"Amazon","extraCopies":53},{"name":"Talan","extraCopies":53},{"name":"Arthur J. Gallagher","extraCopies":41},{"name":"Omnicom Media","extraCopies":20},{"name":"EXL","extraCopies":19}]},"byCountry":[{"label":"United States","roles":5787,"medianFirstSeen":7,"over30":1062,"over60":284,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"India","roles":2459,"medianFirstSeen":7,"over30":377,"over60":45,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"United Kingdom","roles":783,"medianFirstSeen":12,"over30":228,"over60":31,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Canada","roles":427,"medianFirstSeen":7,"over30":74,"over60":10,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"France","roles":364,"medianFirstSeen":18,"over30":119,"over60":11,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Poland","roles":301,"medianFirstSeen":9,"over30":77,"over60":8,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Singapore","roles":298,"medianFirstSeen":11,"over30":79,"over60":3,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Mexico","roles":284,"medianFirstSeen":7,"over30":30,"over60":10,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null}],"bySource":[{"label":"Workday","roles":5261,"medianFirstSeen":6,"over30":0,"over60":0,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Greenhouse","roles":2490,"medianFirstSeen":36,"over30":1396,"over60":327,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Oracle HCM","roles":1125,"medianFirstSeen":7,"over30":0,"over60":0,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"SmartRecruiters","roles":1112,"medianFirstSeen":32,"over30":563,"over60":17,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Jibe","roles":733,"medianFirstSeen":7,"over30":0,"over60":0,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Amazon","roles":585,"medianFirstSeen":25,"over30":0,"over60":0,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Ashby","roles":547,"medianFirstSeen":25,"over30":255,"over60":103,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Lever","roles":527,"medianFirstSeen":39,"over30":327,"over60":95,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"Eightfold","roles":424,"medianFirstSeen":7,"over30":0,"over60":0,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null},{"label":"SuccessFactors","roles":375,"medianFirstSeen":7,"over30":0,"over60":0,"withPostedDate":0,"medianPosted":null}],"license":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Anil Kumar","firstSeenStableSince":"2026-07-29","ageBuckets":["0 to 7 days","8 to 30 days","31 to 60 days","61 to 90 days","91 days or more"]}}