What lands on the 3rd
Four things, each one a live query against a public jobs index at the moment your brief is built.
A count of postings in Adzuna's US index that match your job title in your metro and went up in the last 30 days. Leave the metro blank and it counts the whole country.
Adzuna's average advertised salary for that job title across the last six months, so you get the current figure and whether it has drifted up or down. This one is US-wide, not your metro, and it says so every time it appears.
The employers appearing most often in the current results for your title. Names, not a ranking. It is a sample of the current results page for your title over the last thirty days, not a list of the biggest hirers in your field.
Counted in months from the last time you rebuilt it in Bounce. Past six months the brief mentions it. It is the only line in the whole thing that is about you rather than the market.
Where every number comes from
One source, named on every figure, queried live for your exact title and metro.
| Figure | Source and scope | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles | Adzuna US search, your title, your metro, posted in the last 30 days | Not every job in your market. Adzuna does not index LinkedIn or Indeed. |
| Average pay | Adzuna salary history, your title, US-wide, last six months | Not your metro, not a prediction, and not what you personally would be offered. |
| Who is hiring | The employer names that recur most in the current results page for your title | Not a ranking of top employers, and not a signal that they want you. |
| Resume age | Months since your last rebuild in Bounce | Not a score, not a judgement, and never shown to anyone but you. |
Two of those numbers use different geography on purpose. Adzuna's openings search takes a typed city, so the openings count is genuinely local. Its salary history endpoint takes a fixed location hierarchy rather than a free-text city, so sending it your metro returns an error instead of a local number. We would rather hand you an honest national figure labelled national than dress a country-wide average up as your city. Month-over-month movement in openings starts with your second brief, because a comparison needs a previous month to compare against: your first brief gives you the level and says nothing about a trend it cannot see yet.
What Career Watch will not do
It will not get you an interview, a callback, or an introduction, and nothing on this page is going to imply otherwise. Career Watch applies to nothing, contacts nobody, and never sees a role you have not gone and found yourself. What it does is deliberately small: once a month it reads a public jobs index for your job title and tells you what it says, including the months when the answer is that nothing moved. The value is in recognising the month something does move, and in not being two years stale when it happens. If you want something that acts, that is Bounce Pro and Scout, and they are different products at a different price.
The price, with nothing buried
Career Watch needs no Pro plan under it. Blaise and Scout are added to a Pro plan from the pricing page because they are job-search tools; Watch is for the person who is employed and not looking, so putting a job-search plan under it would be backwards. Already on Scout? Career Watch is included at no extra charge, so do not buy it twice. All Access includes it permanently.
When Career Watch is the only subscription on your account, the Cancel button ends it: you will be offered a discount and a pause on the way out, and declining both cancels it. When you also pay for Pro or Scout, that button acts on the other plan, so use the End Career Watch button on the same page. Career Watch billing on its own runs to the end of the month you paid for, and Career Watch sharing a subscription with another plan stops when you confirm, with the rest of the month credited to your next invoice. The monthly send re-checks your subscription at the moment it goes out, so a lapsed account is never emailed for a month it did not pay for.
New title, new city, or a promotion: change what the watch tracks in your account and the brief re-reads the market on the spot rather than waiting for the 3rd.
If Adzuna has nothing for your exact title and metro, the brief says exactly that and suggests broadening the title. It does not widen your query behind your back to look busier.
Who this is not for
- You are actively job hunting. Then you want Scout, which is daily, matched to your logged experience, and never repeats a posting. Watch is monthly and deliberately shallow, and Scout includes it anyway.
- Your title is rare or brand new. Adzuna needs enough postings to say anything at all, and for a narrow title in a small metro the honest answer will often be that it has nothing.
- You need salary data for your city specifically. The pay figure is US-wide. If a local number is the whole reason you are here, this is not the product for it.
- You want to be told you are doing fine. Some months the count is flat and the pay has not moved, and the brief will say so rather than manufacture news.
Questions
What exactly arrives, and when?
One email on the 3rd of each month. The send starts at 9am Denver time and works through the subscriber list in hourly batches, so yours can arrive any time that day. It carries the count of roles posted in the last 30 days for your title and metro, the average advertised pay for that title US-wide and which way it has moved over six months, the employers appearing most often in the current results, and, once your resume passes six months old, a note saying so. The same brief is live in your account any time, without waiting for the 3rd.
Where do the numbers come from?
One named source: the public Adzuna US jobs API, the same index our free ghost-job checker cross-references. Every figure is a live query for your exact job title and metro at the moment the brief is built, and the brief labels it that way. There is no model, no proprietary index, and no estimate of our own layered on top.
Will Career Watch get me a job or an interview?
No. It cannot, and it does not try. Career Watch applies to nothing, contacts nobody, and introduces you to no one. It is a monthly reading of a public jobs index for your job title. That is genuinely useful for knowing when your market is moving and completely useless for acting on it, which is what Bounce Pro and Scout are for.
Do I need Bounce Pro to buy Career Watch?
No, and that is deliberate. Blaise and Scout are added to a Pro plan from the pricing page because they are job-search tools. Career Watch is built for the person who is employed and not looking, so requiring a job-search plan underneath it would be backwards. It is $9 a month on its own. It is also included at no extra cost with Scout, and permanently with All Access.
Why is the pay figure national when the openings are local?
Because of how the source works. Adzuna's openings search accepts a free-text location, so the openings count is your title in your metro. Its salary history endpoint accepts only a fixed location hierarchy, not a typed city name, so passing your metro to it returns an error rather than a local number. We would rather show you an honest US-wide figure and label it US-wide everywhere it appears than quietly present a national average as if it were your city.
What if there is no data for my job title?
The brief says so, in those words, and suggests a broader title. It does not widen your query behind your back to make the page look fuller, and it does not substitute a related title and present it as yours. An empty result for a narrow title in a small metro is real information about your market.
Can I cancel, and what happens if I do?
Cancel it yourself from your account. When Career Watch is the only subscription there, the Cancel button ends it, and on the way out you are offered a discount and then a pause, both of which you have to decline. When you also pay for Pro or Scout, that button acts on the other plan, so use the End Career Watch button on the same page instead. A Career Watch that bills on its own keeps running to the end of the month you paid for; a Career Watch riding on the same subscription as another plan stops when you confirm and the rest of the month is credited to your next invoice, and the page tells you which of those you are about to do. The monthly send re-checks your subscription at the moment it goes out, so a lapsed or cancelled account is never emailed for a month it did not pay for.
Cancel any time from your account: the Cancel button when Career Watch is the only subscription there, and the End Career Watch button when it is not. It will never promise you a job, an interview, or a callback.