You may use a custom query which monitors the job status. This query gives the status of a given job

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @Job_name = 'The Job Name'

The following tables hold all the information about the jobs.

msdb.dbo.SysJobs

msdb.dbo.SysJobSteps

msdb.dbo.SysJobSchedules

msdb.dbo.SysJobServers

msdb.dbo.SysJobHistory