Where the listings come from

The listings are aggregated, not ours

Job Alert does not host a job board. Every listing you see is aggregated from a third-party service that continuously indexes employer career sites and public job boards and makes the results available through an interface the app queries. When you search, the app asks that service for listings matching your keyword in your selected country and shows you what comes back.

Appers Systems did not write any of those listings. We do not own them, we did not receive them from the employer, and we do not have a relationship with the employer. Appers Systems does not post, verify, or endorse any job listing. We are not a recruiter, an agency, or an employer. The app is a window onto an aggregated index — a fast, account-free way to read it on a phone.

We deliberately do not name the upstream provider. The app keeps its endpoint out of the shipped binary and pins the certificate chain it talks to, which is a protection we are not going to undo in a marketing page. What matters for your decision is the mechanism, and the mechanism is above: an aggregated third-party index of employer sites and job boards.

If aggregation itself is new to you, we wrote a longer explainer: what a job aggregator actually is.

How fresh the listings are

Results are pulled live at the moment you search, so you are reading the index as it stands today rather than a copy that was cached last week. The index itself is refreshed continuously as the upstream service re-crawls the sites it covers.

That still does not make the feed a real-time mirror of the labour market, and we cannot promise otherwise. Three lags stack up. An employer publishes a role, and some time passes before a crawler sees it. The role is filled or withdrawn, and more time passes before a crawler notices it is gone. Some sites are re-crawled far more often than others. The result is that a filled role can linger in a feed for days after the employer stopped caring about it — the posting is still sitting on a page somewhere, so the index still has it.

This is not unique to this app; it is how every aggregated job feed behaves, including the very large ones. We have a post on how long job postings stay up if you want the detail.

What the “posted recently” label means

Some listings carry a label indicating they were posted recently. It reflects the publication date attached to the listing in the index — nothing more.

It does mean: the date on the record is close to today, so the posting is probably a current campaign rather than an old page.

It does not mean: that the role is still open, that the employer is still reviewing applications, that nobody has been hired, or that we checked. A listing with no label is not necessarily stale either — plenty of postings simply carry no reliable date, and the absence of a label reflects the missing date rather than an old one.

Tapping apply opens the original posting

When you tap apply, the app opens the original posting in your browser — the employer’s own careers page, or the job board where the role was published. From that point on you are on their site, following their process, under their privacy policy.

Job Alert does not submit anything. It does not fill in a form for you, does not attach a CV, does not email a recruiter and does not sit in the middle of the conversation. It also cannot tell you what happened next, because it never sees the application at all. Nothing you type on the employer’s site comes back to us.

Read the employer’s own listing before you apply

Treat what you see in the app as a pointer, not as the authority. The record in an aggregated index is a summary, it can be incomplete, and it can be out of date. The employer’s own page is the source of truth. Before you spend time on an application, check on their site that:

• the role is still open and the closing date has not passed;
• the title, location and work arrangement match what the app showed you;
• the employer name is the real hiring organisation and not a reposting middleman;
• the application route is the employer’s own form or a system they clearly control;
• nobody is asking you to pay a fee, share bank details, or send ID documents up front.

That last one deserves a flat rule: a legitimate employer does not ask a candidate for money. Since no listing in the app has been checked by us, that judgement is yours to make, and the employer’s own site is where you make it.

If a listing looks wrong

Some listings are duplicated, some are mislabelled, some point at pages that no longer exist, and a small number are outright bad. Because we neither create nor curate the records, we cannot fix an individual listing at the source — but we do want to know about it.

• Closed or expired: nothing to do; it will drop out of the index once the upstream crawler notices. Move on to the next result.
• Wrong details or a broken apply link: the employer’s own careers page is usually the fastest correction — search for the role there directly.
• Fraudulent, or asking for payment: do not engage, and email us at support@apperssystems.com with the role title and employer. We pass patterns of abuse upstream and can report the posting to the board that published it.

If you want the summary in one line: this is a search tool over an aggregated index that always sends you to the original posting, and the employer — never Appers Systems — is the party you are dealing with.

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