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# How to watch a company's open roles

> See the roles a target or client company is hiring for, how long each has been open, and where it was posted.

A role that stays open for weeks is a reason to call. Ascern checks the public job listings of the companies you pursue and lists their open roles on each company.

## Which companies are watched

Ascern watches a company on its own when it has a Tier 1 or Tier 2 target that is still being pursued, or an open job. You can watch any other company yourself.

1. Open the company.
2. On **Overview**, find **Open roles** and turn on **Watch hiring**.

Turning on **Watch hiring** also reads the company's open roles. While it reads, **Open roles** says "Checking open roles…", and the roles show there when it finishes, usually within a minute. To watch a company, Ascern needs its website or its LinkedIn company page. A company with neither shows "Add a website to watch hiring".

![A company's Open roles: three roles with their location, days open and source, under the Watch hiring switch and Check open roles](https://mintcdn.com/skillflo/qOagcCahhdMGSysN/images/guides/company-open-roles-v1.png?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=qOagcCahhdMGSysN\&q=85\&s=9e3e71343b624ddadd9a139bedec8a12)

## Read the list

* Days open counts from the date the role was posted.
* **Source** names where the listing came from and when Ascern last saw it. Select it to open the listing.
* The list is as of its last read, which the line under it gives, for example "As of 11 Nov". When you select **Check open roles**, a role not seen for 14 days, or posted more than 60 days ago, drops off the list. Until then it stays, with the day it was last seen under **Source**.
* Listings come from LinkedIn. For a company that posts only on its own careers site or job boards, they come from there.
* Listings from recruitment agencies are left out, so the list shows the company's own roles.

Ascern counts each watched company's job listings every week while it is hiring, and every two weeks when nothing changes. Counting is free. Reading the roles is a paid lookup, so Ascern reads them only when you ask: select **Check open roles**. When the count has changed since the last read, or the roles were never read, **Open roles** says "Select Check open roles to see the roles open now".

## When checks pause

Your agency's plan includes a monthly amount of lookups. When it is used, reading roles pauses until the 1st of the next month, and the roles already found stay on each company. Everyone sees their own use in **Settings › Usage**, and Owners and Admins see everyone's, Ascern's own weekly counts are free, so they add nothing to it.

If a company's website or LinkedIn page can't be looked up, checks stop and **Open roles** says so. Fix the website or LinkedIn page on the company, then turn on **Watch hiring** to check again.

When many companies are added at once, for example from a target list, they wait in **Settings › Usage**. An Owner or Admin selects **Start watching** to begin. Watching is free; only **Check open roles** costs anything.

## Related

* [How to track a target company](https://docs.ascern.io/guides/how-to/track-a-target-company.md)
* [How to build a target list with Flo](https://docs.ascern.io/guides/how-to/build-a-target-list-with-flo.md)
* [How to check your agency's lookup usage](https://docs.ascern.io/guides/how-to/check-lookup-usage.md)


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