Google may have a bug with its job search feature because it is barely showing any new jobs within its search results. This has been happening for the past week and it is unclear why.
I mean, we know based on today’s jobs report that there are plenty of jobs out there? Nonfarm payrolls jumped by 162,000 in August, well ahead of the consensus for 53,000, while the unemployment rate held steady at 4.1%, as expected, was reported.
But there are barely any new jobs being posted in job search.
Here is what filtering jobs within NYC for the past day looks like – nothing!
Here is a three day filter, which only shows a few jobs:
A Reddit thread asks, “Google Jobs feed drying up?” Here are some of the complaints in that thread:
I use saved Google Jobs queries to get potential job leads. Over the last few days, it appears that no new jobs are being generated. Queries still work, but only return old postings. Anyone else noticing this issue?
I noticed it several days ago. I look for all jobs in a city here and filter by last three days. It stopped showing anything, so I removed that filter to see what was up. The “x days ago” tag is missing from anything newer than 8 days ago. Well, I should say that there are many jobs missing the “x days ago” tag. I, obviously, cannot tell when they were actually posted without that date tag. I’m only assuming this is what’s messing up my job search.
I’ve read elsewhere that, earlier in August, there was a time filter glitch/issue for regular search results and News articles. Maybe that’s trickled over.
I am told it works better when searching like in London but I am not sure.
Is this a bug with Google job search?
Forum discussion at Reddit.
