Working with job data · 2026-08-19
Deduplicating job postings is harder than it looks
Exact matching finds a fraction. Fuzzy matching merges roles that are genuinely different. Here is the shape of the problem.
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Working with job data · 2026-08-12
The applicant tracking system landscape, from the outside
Most job postings pass through a dozen or so systems. Knowing which changes what you can collect.
Working with job data · 2026-07-29
Normalising job titles: the problem nobody has solved well
Titles are marketing, not taxonomy. Every approach to grouping them trades one kind of error for another.