# Wait, What Do You Do?

> Know what a job really is before you apply. Jobs (data and AI roles today) come directly from employers' own careers sites and hiring systems rather than from other job boards, and each carries our record of the posting: when we first saw it, when we last saw it, how many times we have checked it, and whether the employer still lists it. Job titles also say little (one company's Data Scientist builds models, another's builds dashboards), so we sort every job by the work its posting describes, whatever the title says.

Employers' own posted dates are often reset or wrong, so the date to trust is ours: "First seen by us" is when we first found the posting on the employer's site. A listing is open while the employer still lists it; we mark it missing when it drops off and closed once we confirm it is gone.

## Use it from an assistant

- [MCP server](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/api/mcp): remote MCP over streamable HTTP. Free, and searching needs no account.
- [Check a job](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/check): paste any job link (LinkedIn, Indeed, the employer's site) to see our record of the employer's posting; the same check as JSON at /api/verify-job?url=, free and with no key
- [Setup guide](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/connect): connecting Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code and other MCP clients, and what each tool does

Tools that read public job data:

- `search_jobs`: Search jobs
- `get_job`: Get job
- `get_company`: Get company
- `list_categories`: List role categories
- `verify_job`: Check a job

Tools that need the person to sign in (OAuth, asked for the first time one is used):

- `get_profile_summary`: Get my job preferences
- `match_jobs`: Match jobs to me
- `list_updates`: List my updates
- `list_applications`: List my applications
- `get_connections`: Find people I know at a company
- `save_job`: Save a job
- `save_search`: Watch a search
- `update_application`: Update an application
- `update_preferences`: Update job preferences
- `update_alerts`: Change my alerts
- `prepare_application`: Prepare an application
- `review_application`: Review an application
- `submit_application`: Submit an application

## Browse

- [All data jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/jobs): the board, newest first by the date we first saw each posting; `?q=` searches it
- [Data analyst jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/jobs/data-analyst): Answer business questions with reports and analysis.
- [Data engineer jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/jobs/data-engineer): Build the pipelines that move and store data.
- [Data scientist jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/jobs/data-scientist): Run experiments and build models that explain or predict.
- [Analytics engineer jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/jobs/analytics-engineer): Shape clean, trusted tables for analysts, often in dbt.
- [Machine learning and AI engineer jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/jobs/ml-engineer): Put machine learning models into products.
- [Data leadership jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/jobs/data-leadership): Lead data teams or design how their data fits together.
- [How we count](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/about#how-we-count): what each number on the board means

## Guides

- [How to make your resume readable by applicant tracking systems](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/guides/ats-friendly-resume): What applicant tracking systems actually read from a resume, what their own help pages say breaks them, and the file and layout choices that work on every system we checked.
- [What each hiring system does with your resume](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/guides/hiring-systems): Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Lever and 22 more: whether you sign in first, whether it reads your resume into its form, which files it takes and its size limits, each with a source.
- [What your Workday application status means](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/guides/workday-application-status): Submitted, In Progress, Completed and Withdrew: what each Workday status means, where to find it, and why it can change without anyone telling you.
- [How to tell if a job posting is real and still open](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/guides/ghost-jobs): Five checks before you apply: the employer's own site, how long it has been up, whether it was reposted, what the posting says, and the signs of a scam.

## Blog

- [How long do job postings stay up? We tracked 39,060 data jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/blog/how-long-do-job-postings-stay-up): Half of US data job postings are still up two months after they appear, and one in five after six months. How long each kind of role stays up, drawn from employers’ own sites.
- [Should you apply to a job that’s been up for months? What 11,000 open data jobs show](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/blog/old-job-postings): The jobs left on a board after a few months are not a fair sample: remote roles go first, and old postings cluster at employers that leave everything up or stopped hiring.

## Feeds

- [New data jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/feed.xml): RSS of the 50 roles we saw most recently
- [New data analyst jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/feeds/data-analyst.xml): RSS
- [New data engineer jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/feeds/data-engineer.xml): RSS
- [New data scientist jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/feeds/data-scientist.xml): RSS
- [New analytics engineer jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/feeds/analytics-engineer.xml): RSS
- [New machine learning engineer jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/feeds/ml-engineer.xml): RSS
- [New data leadership jobs](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/feeds/data-leadership.xml): RSS
- [Sitemap](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/sitemap.xml)

## Contact

- Something wrong in a listing or our record of it: corrections@waitwhatdoyoudo.com
- Privacy and data requests: privacy@waitwhatdoyoudo.com
- [Tell us](https://waitwhatdoyoudo.com/feedback): what's wrong, missing or confusing; assistants can POST JSON `{"message": "...", "page": "/jobs/..."}` to /api/feedback