How to see your applied jobs on LinkedIn, and what to do when the list disappears

Where LinkedIn keeps the jobs you applied to, why an application can be missing from the Applied tab, the one-year limit LinkedIn mentions on a different help page, and how to download your full application history.

The jobs you applied to on LinkedIn are in the Job tracker: Jobs, then Job tracker, then the Applied tab. Older guides and videos call the same page "My Jobs". LinkedIn's help pages now call it Job tracker.

If a job you know you applied to is not there, two rules usually explain it. A job you applied to on a company website only reaches Applied if you move it there yourself. And the Job tracker removes jobs after one year, a limit LinkedIn states on a different help page from the one most people find. This guide covers the exact steps on desktop and in the app, every reason a job can be missing, and how to get a full history out of LinkedIn before it drops anything else.

See your applied jobs on desktop

These are the steps from LinkedIn's help page View jobs you've applied for on LinkedIn:

Click the Jobs icon at the top of your homepage.
Click Job tracker in the left-hand rail.
Click the Applied tab.
Click a job to open its details page.

If you applied with Easy Apply, the details page also shows the resume you sent. For a job you applied to on the company's site, LinkedIn never saw your resume, so there is nothing to show.

See your applied jobs in the LinkedIn app

The same help page gives the mobile steps, on iOS and Android:

Tap the Jobs icon.
Tap Job tracker under the search bar.
Tap the dropdown, select Applied and tap Update.
Tap a job to open its details page.

Use the app rather than LinkedIn in a phone browser. LinkedIn says Easy Apply works "from a desktop browser or the LinkedIn mobile app" (LinkedIn Help), and recommends the app or desktop "to view your saved jobs and manage your job search" (LinkedIn Help).

Why a job you applied to is not in Applied

LinkedIn has two kinds of job posts, and the Job tracker treats them differently (LinkedIn Help: Track and organize job opportunities):

How you applied	How it gets into Applied	Can you move it back?
Easy Apply (on LinkedIn)	Automatically. Saved, In Progress and Applied "update automatically when you start or submit an application"	No. Once Applied, it "can't be moved to earlier stages"
Apply (redirected to a company site)	Only if you saved the job first, then moved it yourself with Change stage, or answered the tracker's prompt when you came back	Yes, between In Progress, Applied and Interview

So when a job is missing, check these, in this order.

You applied on the company's website

Start here. When the button says Apply instead of Easy Apply, LinkedIn sends you to the employer's site (LinkedIn Help), and it cannot see what you do there. LinkedIn's rule is that "to track jobs where you apply off LinkedIn, you will first need to Save that job", and then move it through the stages yourself. The tracker prompts you to update your progress, but if you dismissed the prompt, or never saved the job, it will not be in Applied.

The fix: search for the job again, save it, and move it to Applied with Change stage under the More icon. This only works while the post is still up.

It is in another tab

Look under Saved and In Progress. An Easy Apply you started and did not submit stays in In Progress. A job you moved to Interview sits under Interview, not Applied, and an archived job sits under Archive.

It is more than a year old

This is the one behind a lot of "my applied jobs disappeared" posts. The page that ranks for this question says: "After you apply for a job on LinkedIn, you can view it again at any time" (a512329). The Job tracker page says something else: "Jobs are automatically removed from the Job tracker after 1 year to keep your list focused and relevant" (a8684146).

Neither page says whether "removed" means deleted or only hidden from the list, and there is no setting to keep older jobs. If you applied to something 13 months ago, do not expect to find it in the tracker. Your data download, below, is the place to look.

The post was closed

When an employer closes a post, LinkedIn removes it from search results and stops taking applications (LinkedIn Help). LinkedIn's help pages do not say what happens to a closed job in your tracker, or whether you can still read its description. Assume you might lose the text. Our article on job postings taken down after you applied explains what a closed post means for your application, which is usually less than it looks.

The tracker is not loading

If Applied shows no jobs at all, including recent Easy Apply ones, the page is probably failing to load, and your history is fine. Open the tracker in the app if you were on desktop, or on desktop if you were in the app, before assuming anything was deleted. LinkedIn's help pages do not document outages, so there is nothing official to check.

You cannot withdraw or edit an Easy Apply application

Some guides tell you to withdraw an application from the Applied list. LinkedIn's own help page says the opposite: "You cannot edit or withdraw an application once submitted through LinkedIn. To make changes, contact the job poster via InMail" (LinkedIn Help).

That matters for your history too. The Applied list is a record LinkedIn keeps, not one you can clean up. If you sent the wrong resume, write to the job poster, and note what you sent in your own tracker.

Nobody else sees the list, though. LinkedIn states that "your application activity is private" and that "there will be no visible indication that you've applied for a job" on your profile (LinkedIn Help).

Download your full LinkedIn application history

LinkedIn's help pages describe no export from the Job tracker. The data download is the documented way to get your applications out as a file, and none of the how-to pages ranking for this question mention it. The steps, from LinkedIn Help: Download your data:

Click the Me icon at the top of your LinkedIn homepage.
Select Settings & Privacy.
Click Data Privacy in the left rail.
Under How LinkedIn uses your data, click Download your data.
Select the data you want, then Request archive.

Pick the specific categories rather than the full archive. LinkedIn lists three that matter here, all in its "available within 10 minutes" group:

Job Applications: "jobs the member has applied for, application date, company name, job title, and LinkedIn's job posting URL"
Saved Jobs: "the date saved, job title, company name, and the LinkedIn job posting URL"
Job Applicant Saved Screening Question Responses: your answers to the employers' application questions

A separate Resume data category, "resume data from job applications", comes in the slower 48-hour group.

Three limits to know before you rely on it:

Desktop only. "This feature is currently not available on mobile."
The link expires. The download "will be available for download for 72 hours" after LinkedIn emails it. Save the file somewhere you will find it.
No descriptions. The Job Applications category, as LinkedIn describes it, holds the title, company, date and a link to the post. It does not include the job description. Once the post is closed, that link may lead nowhere.

LinkedIn also does not say how far back the Job Applications category goes, or whether it includes company-site applications you marked as applied in the tracker. Request it, open it, and check your own oldest date before counting on it.

If you need a dated log of your applications, for your own records or for anyone who asks you to prove your job search, this file is a better source than screenshots of the tracker. Copy it into a spreadsheet with your other applications. Our free job application tracker template has the columns for it.

What the Applied tab does not tell you

For Easy Apply jobs, LinkedIn can notify you when the job poster views your application or downloads your resume. It also says that "an application view or a resume download doesn't guarantee that you'll receive a message, interview, or job offer" (LinkedIn Help). For jobs you applied to on a company site, the Applied tab only knows what you told it.

We cover what each LinkedIn status means, and the ones employers set from their own software, in job application status meanings.

Keep a copy LinkedIn cannot remove

The Applied tab is a list LinkedIn controls. It drops jobs after a year. It misses every company-site application you did not mark yourself. And LinkedIn does not promise you can still read a post once it closes.

The HiredFolio Chrome extension saves a LinkedIn job, Easy Apply or not, into your own tracker from the side panel. It fills in the title, company, location and full description from the post, plus the salary when the post lists one. You pick the stage when you save, such as Saved or Applied, and change it later. Saving the same LinkedIn job again finds the one you already have instead of creating a duplicate. The extension does not detect that you applied. You set the stage, as you would on LinkedIn for a company-site job.

What you save stays until you delete it, with the description, even after the post comes down. Set a follow-up date on a job and you get a reminder email that morning. The HiredFolio job application tracker shows the rest.

Save LinkedIn jobs with the HiredFolio Chrome extension

Key takeaways before your next LinkedIn application

Save every company-site job before you click Apply, then move it to Applied yourself, or LinkedIn will not list it.

Request the Job Applications download now and keep the file, instead of relying on a list that drops jobs after a year.

Keep the full job description somewhere of your own, because LinkedIn does not promise you can read it after the post closes.

For the third, one click is enough: save LinkedIn jobs with the HiredFolio extension.