Guides for building with job data.
Simple guides about jobs APIs, job boards, hiring systems and job data.
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What is a jobs API?
A jobs API is a way for your app to ask for job posts and get them back as clean data. Here is how it works, in plain words.
How to choose a jobs API.
Not all job data is the same. Use these 9 simple questions to compare job posting APIs before you build.
Is there a free jobs API?
Most good job data costs money to collect. Here are the free options, what they are good for, and how our free trial works.
Job data words, made simple.
Simple meanings for the words you hear when working with job data: ATS, job feed, API key, change feed, job aggregator and more.
Build with job data
How to build a job board.
A simple step-by-step guide to starting a job board: pick a niche, get jobs, show them well and keep them fresh.
Add job listings to your website.
Want a jobs section on your site? Here is how to add real job listings from employers using a jobs API.
Keep your job board up to date.
Load your jobs once. Then follow what changes, so new jobs appear and closed jobs disappear.
Job feed or jobs API?
An XML job feed gives you one big file of jobs. A jobs API lets you ask for just the jobs you need. Here is when to use each.
Remote jobs by API.
Find remote and work-from-home jobs from employer career sites in Canada and the United States, with one simple filter.
Where jobs come from
What is an applicant tracking system?
An applicant tracking system, or ATS, is the software companies use to post jobs and handle applications. Here is what it does and why it matters for job data.
Jobs from every ATS. One API.
Get jobs from Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS, SuccessFactors and dozens more hiring systems through one API and one format.
Scrape jobs yourself, or use an API?
Thinking about scraping job postings yourself? Here is what it really takes, and when a jobs API is the better choice.
Salary data in job posts.
More job posts now show pay. Here is where salary data in job posts comes from, why some posts have none, and how the API shows it.
Alternatives
Looking for the Indeed API?
Indeed’s old job search API is not open to new developers. Here is a simple way to get the same kind of job listings from the original source.
Looking for a LinkedIn Jobs API?
LinkedIn does not offer a public API to read its job listings. Here is how to get the same jobs from where employers first post them.
Is there a Google Jobs API?
Google shows jobs in search, but it does not offer a public API to read them. Here is what Google offers and what to use instead.
By goal
Job data for AI apps.
Give your AI app real, fresh job posts with full descriptions and clear sources. Here is how to use job data with AI safely.
Find leads in job posts.
A company that is hiring is often growing. Here is how sales and recruiting teams use job post data as a hiring signal.
Canadian job data, province by province.
Get job postings from employers across Canada. Filter by province, city, title and job type, in English or French place names.
US job data, state by state.
Get job postings from employers across the United States. Filter by state, city, title and job type through one API.
Start with a few jobs.
See how the data fits your app.
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