# A third of employers with open listings have not posted anything in a month *Figures as of 5 October 2026 · counted from employers' own job boards · https://avagama.co/openings/blog/employers-with-stale-listings/* **Short answer:** 1,243 employers have at least one live role open to India. 823 of them posted something in the last 30 days. The other 420 have listings up and have added nothing in a month. ## The split | | Employers | | --- | ---: | | With at least one live India role | 1,243 | | Posted at least one role in the last 30 days | 823 | | Listings up, nothing new in 30 days | 420 | ## What a quiet board means It does not mean the jobs are fake. The honest answer is that it means several different things and the advert does not tell you which. Some of those 420 are small companies with one or two openings that are genuinely still open. A ten-person company that posted a role six weeks ago and is still interviewing has a quiet board and a real job. Some have filled the role and not taken the advert down, because nobody owns that task. This is extremely common and it is the main reason job hunting feels like shouting into a void. The advert outlives the vacancy by weeks. Some keep a standing advert for a role they hire continuously, which is not dishonest but is not an opening either. ## Why we will not label them The temptation is to add a badge. Mark the quiet boards as stale and let candidates skip them. We will not, because we would be wrong often enough to do harm. Telling someone a real opening is dead costs them a job. The 420 includes genuine openings and we have no way to separate them from the abandoned ones without information the employer has not published. What we do instead is show the age of every posting and let you weigh it. Every role in our index carries the employer's own posting date where the board publishes one, and shows as undated where it does not. No role is ever presented as fresh because we happened to discover it recently. ## How to use it Recency of the employer's whole board is a better signal than the age of one posting. A company that posted four roles last week is clearly hiring, and a six-week-old advert on that board is more likely to be live than the same advert on a board that has been silent since August. Our employer pages show every role a company has listed with each one's date, which makes that check quick. If the newest thing on the board is two months old, write to a human before spending an hour on the form. ## What this does not tell you We only see public boards. An employer hiring hard through referrals and agencies looks idle here and is not. Thirty days is also an arbitrary line. A company that posted on day 31 counts as quiet and is doing fine. Read the split as a rough shape rather than a verdict on 420 named companies. ## Method An employer counts as having live roles where its board still listed at least one role open to India in our most recent read. Posting activity uses the employer's own published posting date; roles with no date are excluded from the activity count, which makes the 823 a conservative figure. Counted on 5 October 2026. Each posting was last re-read from its board on or before 29 September 2026. ## Common questions ### How many companies are actively hiring in India? 823 employers with live India roles posted at least one new role in the last 30 days. A further 420 have listings up but published nothing new in that period. ### Are old job postings still open? Sometimes. An advert frequently outlives the vacancy because taking it down is nobody's job. Check whether the employer's board has anything recent on it: a company posting weekly is more likely to have a live vacancy than one silent for two months. ### Do you remove old job postings? A role disappears from our index when the employer removes it from their own board, which is the only honest signal available. Until then we show its age rather than hiding it or presenting it as current.