The phrase "applied for a posting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of submitting an application for a job or position within an organization.
Example: "After reviewing the job description, I decided to apply for a posting in the marketing department."
Alternatives: "applied for a position" or "submitted an application for a job".
In August 1919, he asked the War Department if he could embark on this course of study, stating that it was his intention to apply for a posting to Japan for the purpose of learning the language if the War Department saw fit.
He applied for a post at a local supermarket and received an interview, which he felt had gone rather well.
Although it felt counterintuitive, I applied for a post with more responsibility in a new school to balance the books.
A notorious case is Norton Wise, a historian of science at Princeton University who applied for a post at the Institute for Advanced Study.
In 1988, Snow applied for a post in the Everglades, hoping to find a warmer, more stimulating habitat for his family.
When that turned sour, he claims to have applied for a post in the Channel Islands, but ended up in Malaya, teaching at 'the Eton of the East'.
Returning home at about the time of the Suez crisis, she applied for a post in the test kitchen at Nestlé's American headquarters in White Plains, just north of New York City, where she stayed until 1959.
Robert Nicholson, a career lawyer from the Southern District of Florida, was asked some unusual questions when he applied for a post at the Justice Department headquarters, according to two department lawyers, including Margaret M. Chiara, the former chief prosecutor Western Michigan.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Leconte de Lisle, Georges Bataille and Anatole France were librarians, and Proust once applied for a post as an unpaid assistant in the Mazarine, one of his periodic half-hearted attempts to prove to his father that he could hold down a job.
