Anyone can copy a job board. What is harder to copy, and what this page is for, is the list of things we decided not to publish. Below is last night's, in full, with the reason attached to every one.
Last night, in one sum
| Adverts | |
|---|---|
| Read from employers' own careers boards | 4,224 |
| − Not adverts | −84 |
| − Work placed outside these countries | −8 |
| − The same role posted more than once | −237 |
| − Removed by hand after a report | −6 |
| Published here | 3,889 |
That last number is the one on the front page and on the numbers. If the sum above ever stops reaching it, something here is wrong, and we would rather you could see that than take our word for it.
What is not an advert
Employers publish more than vacancies through their recruiting software. A talent pool is not a job. Neither is a form inviting you to apply for nothing in particular, nor an advert announcing that the role has closed. Every one of those wastes the time of somebody who is job hunting, so none of them is listed here.
| Reason | Last night |
|---|---|
| Open or speculative applications | 42 |
| Talent pools and talent communities | 23 |
| The advert places the work abroad | 9 |
| General application forms | 4 |
| No role yet — future opportunities | 3 |
| A page that is not a vacancy at all | 2 |
| A programme, not a vacancy | 1 |
These are decided on the advert's own title, so the rule can be read and argued with rather than guessed at. When a rule turns out to be wrong, fixing it puts the advert back the same day — nothing has to be fetched again.
Work that is not here
An advert whose own text places the work outside Germany, Austria or German-speaking Switzerland is left off, however the listing was filed. The one that taught us this said Lake Zurich, Illinois, and it sat on the Switzerland page for three days.
The same job, posted twice
Large employers often post one role several times — once per office, once per recruiting system, sometimes simply twice. Where the employer, the job title and the city all match, it is shown once. That is why a count here is lower than the number of adverts we actually read, and it is the right way round.
Where the link goes
A link that leads nowhere is worse than no listing. Every advert's link is opened in a real browser and the page is read back, so that a posting which has quietly become an empty application form, or a page with no advert on it at all, can be held back rather than published.
Since 5 Sep 2026 we have opened 4,164 addresses this way. 38 of them turned out to show no advert, or only a form.
In what order
Newest first. Every list here is ordered by one thing — the date we first read the advert, most recent at the top — and nothing else moves it. Not the label a listing carries. Not how many people have opened it; we do not count that. And not advertising: what is shown on this site is never allowed to decide what is listed on it, or where in the list it sits. One rule, the same for every employer, and you can hold us to it: every card on new this week carries the date we first saw that advert, and they run down the page in order.
When we get one wrong
We do. A label can be wrong about an advert, and an advert can say something its own page does not. Anyone — a reader or the employer — can report a listing, and a listing taken out this way is named in the build log by hand — which is where the 6 in the sum above come from.
What none of this can tell you
Every screen above reads an advert. None of them reads a job. A company whose advert never mentions German may still expect it in the room, and no amount of careful filtering changes that — which is why every label on this site describes the advert and never the role. That distinction is the whole of how we label German, and it is worth two minutes before you rely on anything here.
Nor is this the job market. It is 470 employers who publish their vacancies somewhere a machine may read them with permission, which is a particular kind of company and not a random one. The numbers sets out that boundary in full.
How often
Once a night. Every employer's board is read again, every screen above runs again, and every page of this site is rebuilt from scratch. A listing that stops appearing on its employer's own board is retired after fourteen days. Nothing on this site is kept because it was true last week.