How to see every job you've applied for: Seek, LinkedIn, Indeed and the rest

Seek: Applied jobs and Saved jobs

Seek keeps two lists in your account, and both depend on being signed in. Seek's help centre, checked on 6 October 2026, describes them like this:

• Saved jobs: on the website, open the drop-down menu beside your profile photo or avatar at the top right and choose Saved jobs. In the app, it is under My Activity. On the website you can leave private notes under each saved job.
• Applied jobs: once you apply for a job you saved, Seek moves it to your Applied jobs page, where its help page says it stays for 90 days. After that, do not rely on Seek for older applications.

Two details explain most of the "Seek is not showing my applied jobs" confusion. First, Seek has moved to the nz.seek.com address, so an old bookmark may land you somewhere unexpected. Sign in again from the new address before assuming anything has gone. Second, when you press Apply on an ad that sends you to the employer's own website, Seek records it under Applied Jobs even if you never finished. Its help page is plain about this: your details are not sent to the employer unless you complete their process, and Seek assumes you did because it cannot see what happens after you leave. So the Applied jobs list can include jobs you never really applied for.

The same gap shows up in the status. Seek says "Viewed status unavailable" means the advertiser manages applications with outside software, so Seek cannot tell you whether your CV has been opened.

LinkedIn and Indeed

LinkedIn's help page puts your applications in its Job tracker. On a computer, click Jobs at the top of your homepage, then Job tracker in the left-hand column, then the Applied tab. On the app, tap Jobs, then Job tracker under the search bar, then choose Applied from the drop-down. The same Job tracker has a Saved tab, where you can move a job to a different stage or archive it, and LinkedIn says you can have up to 2,000 saved jobs at once, not counting the ones you have applied for. The page describes jobs you applied for on LinkedIn. It says nothing about applications you finish on an employer's own site after clicking through, so do not count on those appearing.

Indeed keeps applications in the Applied tab of My Jobs. Its help page says an application may not appear there if:

• you did not apply directly on Indeed
• it is linked to a different Indeed account or email address
• you applied more than six months ago.

Indeed also says some employers post jobs directly on Indeed while others send you to another site to apply, and that status updates from the employer are usually only available for jobs posted directly on Indeed. Like LinkedIn, Indeed lets you set your own status on an application, such as interviewing or offer received.

The pattern is the same on all three. Each board knows about the applications made through it, for as long as it keeps them, and what happens after an "apply on company site" click is out of its sight.

Careers pages and hiring systems

Applications made on an employer's own careers page are the hardest to find again. Many employers use a hiring system behind their careers page, and each one usually asks you to create a separate candidate login. Apply to ten employers this way and you can end up with ten accounts, each holding one application, with no single place that lists them.

The one thing these applications usually have in common is a confirmation email. Hiring systems commonly send one when you submit, and it tends to name the role, the employer and sometimes a reference number. That makes your inbox the closest thing to a shared record you already have, and it is where a rebuild starts.

Student Job Search, ZEIL, recruitment agencies and direct emails to a hiring manager add more lists again. An agency may submit you to an employer without the job ever appearing on any board you used.

Rebuild one list in 20 minutes

If you have lost track, a short session with your inbox will rebuild most of it. Work through these in order:

1. Search your inbox for the phrases hiring systems use: "application received", "thank you for applying", "your application", "we have received" and "application for". Search your spam folder too, because automated confirmations can land there.
2. Search for the boards themselves: emails from Seek, LinkedIn and Indeed confirming an application, and from any recruitment agency you have dealt with.
3. Check each board's applied list, as above, for anything the inbox missed, and mark any Seek entries where you clicked through but never finished.
4. Add each application to one board with the employer, the role, the date you applied, where it came from, a link to the ad if it is still live, and its stage: applied, screening, interview, offer or closed.
5. Close the old ones. Anything with no reply after three weeks past the closing date is probably over, so mark it closed rather than leaving it in the active list. Our article on how long to hear back after applying explains the timing.

From then on, keep the list as you go, which takes seconds per job. With the Chrome extension or the bookmark from jobtracker.co.nz, you press one button on an ad on Seek, LinkedIn, Indeed, Student Job Search, ZEIL or a careers page, check what came across, and the job is saved with the whole ad, which stays after the listing comes down. It saves the ad you are looking at. It does not bring across your history from any board, so the rebuild above is still the way to catch up.

Why one list matters

A single list is not tidiness for its own sake. When a recruiter rings about "the analyst role you applied for", you can find it while they are still on the line. When you get to an interview, you can read the ad you applied to, even after the board has taken it down. And when you report to Work and Income, every application is already there, whichever site it came through.

It also prevents a costly mistake: applying for the same job twice, once directly and once through an agency, or through two agencies. Our article on how to track job applications explains that duplicate trap and how to avoid it. One list, checked by employer name before you apply, is the simplest defence. Our page on the job boards we work with shows how saving works on each one.

Every application on one board