What is JobBeacon used for?

JobBeacon monitors company career pages hourly and sends an email alert when a new job fits your chosen keywords and locations. It is a good fit for tracking openings at a shortlist of target companies, applying early to new postings and replacing broad LinkedIn job alerts with narrower ones.

Yes. JobBeacon has a free plan.

Is JobBeacon open source?

No. JobBeacon is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the HR & Recruiting category, open-source options include Resume Matcher, JobOps and Reactive Resume.

What are some alternatives to JobBeacon?

JobBeacon competes with Indeed, LinkedIn and Glassdoor.

JobBeacon: features, pricing and alternatives

About JobBeacon

JobBeacon watches company career pages for you. You paste the URL of a job board, set keyword and location filters, and the service checks it for new postings every hour. Each time a role matches, JobBeacon sends an email listing the job title and location along with a direct apply link, so you do not have to keep reopening a list of tabs.

Filters use plain keywords such as engineer or frontend and locations such as San Francisco or Remote, and you decide if a posting needs to satisfy any one filter or every filter. The site frames three workflows: monitoring specific career pages, watching company job boards on a schedule, and receiving fewer, cleaner alerts for companies you already picked.

Setup is described as taking about a minute, and the homepage offers to start watching for free. It also includes a comparison with LinkedIn job alerts, which it describes as noisy, and pages for companies, roles and jobs near me.

Key features

Hourly checks of company career pages
Keyword and location filters
Any-match or all-match filter logic
Email alerts with direct apply links
Paste a job board URL to start
Pages for specific roles and companies

Good fit for

Tracking openings at a shortlist of target companies
Applying early to new postings
Replacing broad LinkedIn job alerts with narrower ones

Tags: job-alerts; career-pages; job-search; monitoring; email-alerts; recruiting

JobBeacon: questions and answers

What is JobBeacon used for?: JobBeacon monitors company career pages hourly and sends an email alert when a new job fits your chosen keywords and locations. It is a good fit for tracking openings at a shortlist of target companies, applying early to new postings and replacing broad LinkedIn job alerts with narrower ones.
Is JobBeacon free?: Yes. JobBeacon has a free plan.
Is JobBeacon open source?: No. JobBeacon is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. In the HR & Recruiting category, open-source options include Resume Matcher, JobOps and Reactive Resume.
What are some alternatives to JobBeacon?: JobBeacon competes with Indeed, LinkedIn and Glassdoor.