Where your postings appear
Five surfaces. Two are instant; three are on someone else’s schedule.
Publishing a posting does more than put it on your careers page. Here is every surface it reaches, and — just as important — how quickly.
| Where | Address | How fast |
|---|---|---|
| Its own apply page | /apply/<your-company>/<job> | Instant |
| Your careers page | /careers/<your-company> | Instant |
| The FAST jobs directory | /jobs and /jobs/<state> | Within minutes |
| Job board feed | An XML feed the boards pull from | Hours to days — each board’s own schedule |
| Google & Bing | Search results and Google for Jobs | Days to weeks — their decision |
Open any live posting in Hiring → Job Postings and expand Where this posting appears to get the real links for that specific job, ready to copy.
The two you control completely
The apply page
Every posting gets its own page with a stable web address. It works the second you publish, it needs no login, and it is the link to paste into a text message, a Facebook group, a referral bonus flyer or a QR code on the back of a trailer. The Copy Link button on the posting puts it on your clipboard.
Your careers page
One address that lists every live posting you have, styled with your logo and colours. This is the link for your website, your business cards and your voicemail greeting. It updates itself as you publish, pause and close postings — there is nothing to maintain.
The FAST jobs directory
Live postings from every FAST company also appear in a public driver-job directory at /jobs, with a page per state. It exists so a driver searching for work in your state finds your posting even if they have never heard of your company, and so every posting has other real pages linking to it — which is a large part of how search engines decide a page is worth listing.
Job boards
FAST publishes your live postings into a standard XML job feed that aggregators such as Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Talent.com and Jooble can consume. Each board pulls the feed on its own schedule and applies its own editorial rules, so appearing there is neither instant nor guaranteed — and a board may choose to charge for placement or promotion regardless of the feed.
Google — and why it is not instant
The moment you publish, FAST tells Google and Bing about the page directly, and keeps re-notifying them daily for as long as the posting is live. The page itself carries the structured job data Google for Jobs reads: title, pay, location, employment type, requirements.
What FAST cannot do is decide the outcome. Telling Google a page exists is a request to look, not an instruction to list. Google crawls when it chooses, then decides whether to include the posting. For an established careers page this is often quick. For a brand-new one it commonly takes several days to a few weeks, because Google has no history with your pages yet.
Searching for your own job title is the wrong test. Typing the exact title into Google usually shows nothing even for postings that are indexed perfectly — you are competing with every job board in the country for that phrase, and Google personalises results. It is normal, and it is not evidence of a problem.
How to actually check
- Open the apply link. If the page loads with the job on it, the posting is genuinely live and every link you share works. This is the only check that is about FAST.
- Search Google for
site:plus your apply address — for examplesite:forwardarrowsolutions.com/apply/followed by your company. This asks Google specifically whether it has the page, with no competition. Nothing back means it has not been crawled yet. - Try Google for Jobs the way a driver would — search a role and a place, such as CDL A driver jobs in Memphis, and look at the jobs box rather than the web results.
- Give it a week before concluding anything. Republishing, deleting and recreating, or duplicating the posting all make this slower, not faster.
The fastest driver applications almost never come from Google. They come from the apply link in a text to your own drivers’ contacts, a referral bonus, and your careers page on the side of your trucks. Google is a slow, compounding channel — treat it as a bonus while your own links do the work this week.
What makes the search channel work over time
- Each live posting needs its own description. Duplicated descriptions get postings removed from search entirely.
- Keep the title to just the job title. Pay figures, bonuses and mileage claims in the title break Google’s job posting rules.
- Fill in the pay fields — structured pay gets better placement and drivers filter on it.
- Close filled roles. A wall of stale postings drags down the ones that matter.
- Link to your careers page from your own site and social profiles.
The full detail is in Get your postings found on Google.
Almost certainly not. Google was told within minutes of publishing, but it decides when to crawl and whether to list — days to weeks is normal for a new careers page. Confirm the posting is live by opening its apply link, then use a site: search rather than searching the job title.
No. Live postings are included in the XML feed the aggregators pull. Each board decides its own pull schedule and whether to list, and some will still try to sell you sponsored placement on top.
No. They drop out of your careers page, the directory and the feed immediately, and FAST asks the search engines to de-list them. Boards catch up on their next pull.
It shows the same posting a driver would see on your careers page — nothing private, and no settlement or payroll data unless you have deliberately turned on Verified Pay Stats. The trade is more driver traffic reaching your postings.
Not today. The careers page and apply links are served on the FAST domain, which is also what lets them share the search-engine standing built by every FAST careers page. Link to it from your own site.
The directory groups by the posting’s state, so a posting with no state filled in has nowhere to go. Add the city and state to the posting and save.