Working with job data · 2026-08-26
What a job data API actually gives you
The pitch is “millions of listings”. The work is in the fields nobody advertises.
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Everything we have written about job data: what the data shows, where the common readings go wrong, and what we can and cannot measure.
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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.
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.
Job market · 2026-08-09
Why job counts differ between sources, by a lot
Two providers report the same market and differ threefold. Usually none of them is lying.