How to find any company's careers page in 10 seconds

You’ve identified a company you want to work for. Now find where its jobs actually live — which is harder than it should be, because there is no standard for this and companies hide the page in a dozen different ways.

Here are five methods, in the order you should try them. In practice the first one works about 80% of the time and takes about four seconds.

Method 1: The obvious search (works most of the time)

Search Google for:

[company name] careers

That’s it. For most companies, the first organic result is the careers page or the ATS board that serves it.

Two refinements when the results are noisy:

Add the location or a domain hint if the company name is generic: Atlas careers amsterdam beats Atlas careers.
If you get job board pages instead of the company’s own page, add -site:linkedin.com -site:indeed.com to push the aggregators out of the way.

Method 2: Guess the URL

Faster than searching when you already know the domain. Try these in order — most companies use one of the first three:

company.com/careers
company.com/jobs
company.com/about/careers
company.com/company/careers
company.com/join-us
company.com/work-with-us
careers.company.com
jobs.company.com

British and European companies also use /vacancies and /opportunities. If the site is non-English, try the local word — /karriere, /carriere, /carreras, /vacatures, /kariera.

If the URL guesses fail, open the homepage and go straight to the bottom of the page.

Careers links live in footers far more often than in main navigation, because companies design their nav for customers and their footer for everyone else. Look for “Careers”, “Jobs”, “Work with us”, “Join the team”, or sometimes just “Company”.

If the footer has nothing, check the “About” page — it’s the second most common home for a careers link.

Method 4: Restrict the search to their own domain

When the company’s site has a careers section that Google isn’t surfacing well, force it:

site:company.com jobs
site:company.com careers
site:company.com "open positions"

This searches only pages on that domain, which cuts through aggregators completely. It also finds careers pages that aren’t linked from anywhere obvious — which happens more often than you’d think, especially at engineering-led companies.

Hands typing on a laptop beside a coffee — checking careers pages directly takes seconds once you know where to look

Method 5: Find the ATS instead

This is the one that solves the hard cases. If a company has no visible careers page, its listings are almost certainly hosted on an external applicant tracking system — and you can search for that directly.

The major ones and their URL patterns:

System	Pattern
Greenhouse	`boards.greenhouse.io/company` or `job-boards.greenhouse.io/company`
Lever	`jobs.lever.co/company`
Ashby	`jobs.ashbyhq.com/company`
Workday	`company.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com` (the number varies)
Recruitee	`company.recruitee.com`
Personio	`company.jobs.personio.de`
BambooHR	`company.bamboohr.com/careers`
Workable	`apply.workable.com/company`
Teamtailor	`company.teamtailor.com`

Two ways to use this:

Guess the slug. Take the company name, lowercase it, strip spaces and punctuation, and try it against the most common systems. Acme Software → boards.greenhouse.io/acmesoftware.

Search for it. Combine the ATS domain with the company name:

site:boards.greenhouse.io "Acme Software"
site:jobs.lever.co acme
"acme" site:jobs.ashbyhq.com

Once you know which ATS a company uses, you have a permanent, stable URL that shows every open role — usually cleaner and more complete than the marketing careers page. Bookmark that, not the pretty page. The deeper method for searching across companies on these systems is in searching ATS job boards directly.

When there’s genuinely nothing

A few companies really don’t have a public careers page. In rough order of what to do:

Check their LinkedIn company page — the Jobs tab, which is often the only place a very small employer posts.
Check the founders’ social accounts. Small startups hire in public, often from a personal account rather than the company one.
Look for a hiring email address — jobs@, careers@, hello@ — and use it for a speculative application.
Accept that this company is a networking target, not a search target, and treat it accordingly.

Judging whether the page is current

Finding the page is step one. Knowing whether it’s live is step two:

Posting dates on listings. The best signal. If they’re shown, use them — anything past 30 days deserves scepticism, and the reasoning is in how to spot a ghost job.
Change over time. Check it twice a fortnight. A page whose contents never move is either a static marketing page or a company that isn’t hiring.
Cross-check LinkedIn. If they’re advertising roles there that aren’t on their own page, the careers page is stale, not the other way round.
Application form behaviour. If clicking “Apply” leads to a working ATS form with the role name pre-filled, the listing is plumbed in and almost certainly real.

Save what you find

The whole point of this exercise is that you only do it once per company. When you find the right URL — usually the ATS board, not the marketing page — record it.

That record is the beginning of your target company list, which is what turns careers page checking from an occasional burst of effort into a fifteen-minute weekly routine. Add alerts on top and you stop checking entirely — the roles come to you.

The shortcut

Or skip all of it. RoleFinder has already found the careers pages. We scan thousands of them daily, list new roles the day they appear, and remove them when the company does — so instead of locating a hundred careers pages one at a time, you search them all in one place.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the fastest way to find a company's careers page?

Search Google for the company name followed by the word careers. If that fails, try the site: operator restricted to the company domain with the keyword jobs, then check the site footer, which is where careers links are placed more often than in the main navigation.

Why can't I find a company's job listings on their website?

Most companies host listings on an external applicant tracking system such as Greenhouse, Lever, Workday or Ashby, so the listings live on a different domain entirely. Some very small companies also post only to LinkedIn or nowhere at all.

What are the most common careers page URLs?

In rough order of frequency: /careers, /jobs, /about/careers, /company/careers, /join-us, /work-with-us, plus the subdomains careers.company.com and jobs.company.com.

How do I know if a careers page is up to date?

Look for posting dates on individual listings, check whether roles have been removed since your last visit, and compare against the company's LinkedIn activity. A careers page that never changes across several weeks is either a static page or an employer that isn't hiring.