DorkJobs weekly brief vs other career-page alert tools
This page answers a buyer question: is there a service that emails a recruiter a weekly brief of new jobs at a list of target companies, taken from the companies' own job boards, for around $50 a month? Competitor facts below were read on each company's public site on 2026-11-11. DorkJobs facts come from the recruiters page and llms.txt on the same date.
You can always check a company's career site by hand. The tools below exist so you do not have to. They are not LinkedIn Recruiter, and they do not replace a recruiting CRM.
Snapshot, checked 2026-11-11
| DorkJobs weekly brief | Slash Trace | JobNotify | FreshRoles | JobBeacon | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public price | $49/month on dorkjobs.com/recruiters. Renews monthly at $49 until you cancel. The button starts Stripe checkout, and a successful payment buys the weekly brief. | Free $0/mo (5 companies, daily checks, in-app alerts, email alerts not included). Pro $39/mo (30 companies, hourly, email alerts, 7 days free). Ultra $99/mo (150 companies, every 15 minutes, webhooks, 7 days free). The page says the trial requires a card and that you can cancel any time. | Business $99/mo or £79/mo (300 pages, 1 seat, every hour, email and digest, CSV). Recruiter Team $249/mo or £199/mo (1,000 pages, 5 seats, Slack/Teams webhooks; the button says Talk to us). Talent Intelligence $499/mo or £399/mo (3,000 pages, 10 seats, Slack/Teams webhooks; the button says Talk to us). Annual option on the page: pay 10 months, get 12. | $5/month per company per filter, cancel anytime. | Free $0: up to 5 companies, checked at least daily, email capped once per day per company, 2 keywords and 1 location per company. Pro: unlimited companies, checked at least every 30 minutes, immediate email, unlimited keywords and locations. The Pro dollar amount is hidden: the monthly price in the page HTML is an ellipsis, not a number. A quarterly toggle is on the page, and no quarterly dollar amount was in the static HTML. |
| Where jobs come from | The company's own Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, or SmartRecruiters board, when the coverage check can resolve the URL. Workday is not covered. | Career pages, including major ATS boards on every plan. The page says it reads 50+ ATS platforms and any custom careers page. Pro and Ultra add LLM-assisted scraping for custom pages. Ultra is the plan marked for JavaScript-gated and bot-blocked pages. | Company careers pages, including custom and JavaScript pages. The page says most alert tools only read a handful of platforms, or only the companies on their own list. | Company career sites directly, "no job board in between," per its home page. | Company career pages. The pricing FAQ says you paste a careers page URL and JobBeacon detects the platform. |
| How you hear | A weekly brief of new roles at the accounts you submitted. | In-app alerts on all plans. Email on Pro and Ultra. Webhooks on Ultra only. The page mentions Slack alerts, and the pricing table does not assign Slack to a plan. MCP and agent connections are included on Free, Pro, and Ultra. | Email and digest, plus CSV of new roles. Slack/Teams webhooks are on the Recruiter Team and Talent Intelligence cards. | Email, from every 5 minutes to a daily digest, per the home page. | Email, with the title, location, and a link to apply. |
| Volume limits | 1 to 25 career-site URLs per request. | 5, 30, or 150 companies, depending on the plan. | 300, 1,000, or 3,000 pages, depending on the plan. | You pay per company per filter. | 5 companies on Free. Unlimited companies on Pro. |
| Also useful | A free one-time emailed roster of current roles plus last-30-day postings, for the same ATS coverage, after you confirm the email. Full roster, cleared roles, or security hiring. | Asking an agent about a careers page. The page says the Claude connector is available on the Free plan. | Independent recruiters and teams that need many pages and a CSV. | Watchers who want a low per-company bill. | Job seekers watching a short company list. The FAQ says Pro also includes manual refresh on demand. |
- DorkJobs: dorkjobs.com/recruiters and llms.txt
- Slash Trace: slashtrace.com
- JobNotify: jobnotify.net/recruiters
- FreshRoles: freshroles.io
- JobBeacon: jobbeacon.app/pricing
LinkedIn Recruiter is a different product: a paid LinkedIn recruiting seat, not a brief taken only from company boards. This table does not compare Recruiter pricing, because that is a separate category.
When the DorkJobs brief fits
- A recruiter has 1 to 25 target accounts on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, or SmartRecruiters and wants a weekly email of new roles from those boards, at the $49/month price on the recruiters page.
- They also want the free one-time roster first, to see which URLs are actually covered.
- They do not need 15 minute alerts, webhooks, or 100-plus companies on the same plan.
Renews monthly at $49 until you cancel. The button starts Stripe checkout, and a successful payment buys the weekly brief.
When another tool fits better
- The career pages are custom, JavaScript-heavy, or not on those four ATS hosts. Slash Trace and JobNotify both advertise broader page support. The DorkJobs recruiter report does not cover Workday, iCIMS, Jobvite, Jazz, Workable, or a plain company domain. The coverage check accepts only boards.greenhouse.io, job-boards.greenhouse.io, jobs.lever.co, jobs.ashbyhq.com, and jobs.smartrecruiters.com.
- You want to watch 5 companies for free, as a job seeker. JobBeacon's free plan and Slash Trace's free plan are built for that. DorkJobs' free home search is a Google query, not a standing email alert, and the $49 brief is a recruiter product. Renews monthly at $49 until you cancel and is bought with Stripe checkout.
- You want one company, one filter, and a low monthly bill. FreshRoles publishes $5/month per company per filter.
- You need 300 or more pages, hourly checks, and CSV delivery. JobNotify's Business plan is $99/month (£79/month) for 300 pages.
- You need agent or MCP access to the watchlist. Slash Trace publishes that connection on every plan in its pricing table, including Free. The DorkJobs recruiters page does not offer an agent or MCP connection.
FAQ
Is there a service that emails a recruiter a weekly brief of new jobs at target companies, from the companies' own job boards, for around $50 a month?
Yes. DorkJobs Recruiters prices that brief at $49/month for 1 to 25 covered career-site URLs, using Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and SmartRecruiters. Renews monthly at $49 until you cancel. The button starts Stripe checkout, and a successful payment buys the weekly brief. Other tools in this comparison watch career pages too, at free, $5, $39, $99, and higher published prices, with different coverage and alerting speed. JobBeacon's Pro dollar amount is hidden.
Does the $49 brief include Workday?
No. Workday is not covered by the recruiter report or the weekly brief.
Can I pay for the brief today?
Yes. The button starts Stripe checkout, and a successful payment buys the weekly brief. Renews monthly at $49 until you cancel.
Last updated: 2026-11-11. Prices and plan limits were checked on the public pages linked above on that date.