Insight · 8 Nov 2026

Ghost adverts: 61,000 say they are over a year old

On 8 November 2026, 61,000 live adverts say they were posted more than a year ago, 6% of those that give a date. The oldest claims 2010.

Some job adverts stay open for months or years. How many, and what that means.

Updated 8 Nov 2026 from 1,127,468 adverts
Adverts that never close61,000Read 8 Nov 2026 from 1,101,034 adverts

Adverts that never close

61,000

live adverts say they were posted more than a year ago, 6% of those that give a date. The oldest claims 2010.

Source and caveats

The date is the employer's own. Many are evergreen adverts kept open to collect CVs rather than to fill one job.

Six months and counting

120,000

live adverts (11% of those with a date) are more than six months old.

Source and caveats

Posted again and again

5,200

live adverts have been reposted five times or more. One has been reposted 381 times.

Source and caveats

Reposting can mean a hard role to fill, or an advert kept alive. We never name the employer.

The short version

61,000 live adverts say they were posted more than a year ago, 6% of those that give a date. The oldest claims 2010.

120,000 live adverts (11% of those with a date) are more than six months old.

5,200 live adverts have been reposted five times or more. One has been reposted 381 times.

What this means if you are looking

TUNAI shows when each advert was posted and drops it once it closes or its link dies, so your time goes on jobs that are open.

How we count

Every live advert TUNAI reads from employers’ own job boards and public job sites, counted once when the same job appears twice. Recounted every night; a number on this page changes only when the count behind it does, and a figure resting on too few adverts is left out rather than shown. The numbers are free to reuse with a link to this page (CSV, CC BY 4.0). Read the full methodology.

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TUNAI Jobs (2026). Ghost adverts: 61,000 live adverts say they were posted more than a year ago, 6% of those that give a date. The oldest claims 2010. Data read 8 November 2026, from https://jobs.tun-ai.com/insights/ghost-adverts

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