Job Postings
Who Wants Which Workers?
Lightcast job postings data is gathered by scraping over 65,000 websites worldwide, including company career sites, national and local job boards, and job posting aggregators.
Lightcast applies a unique two-step approach to deduplication that results in up to 80% of all jobs we collect being deduplicated.
The first step: On a source-level basis, we use intelligence contained within the scraping spiders to identify a new advertisement for that source. The spiders refrain from collecting advertisements that have previously been aggregated.
The second step: As the same new advertisement can be found across multiple sources. We use normalized fields including job title, company, and location to check if these fields have been used in new advertisements found in another source. This is checked across 60 days of data to identify duplicates.
To illustrate ‘step two’, here is an example: if there is a job for a Marketing Specialist at Google posted for the first time on March 1st, Lightcast considers this as the ‘original posting’ then for the next 60 days Lightcast considers any advertisements found as duplicates. In theory, if Google posts the same ad every day for the entire year on different sources Lightcast will count it 6 times.
Each job posting is further enriched with value-add processes including
- Job title and company standardization
- Skill extraction and tagging
- SOC and NAICS code determination and assignment
- Education and experience determination
Read more detail on Lightcast’s Job Posting Analytics (JPA) process.
Available Region-Specific Postings:
Global Postings
UK Postings
Canada Postings
The Lightcast Job Postings API Allows You To:
| Unveil Job Market Trends | Empower Jobseekers | Create New Strategies | Understand Economic Impact |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dive deep into the job market's pulse. Identify emerging industries, in-demand skills, and exactly what other organizations are asking for, so that you can discover where the opportunities lie and stay ahead of the curve. | Provide jobseekers with the knowledge they need to thrive in a competitive landscape. Highlight trending skills, showcase industries with the highest demand, and empower individuals so they can stand out in the crowd. | Uncover which companies are actively hiring, the types of job postings they prioritize, and the qualifications they seek. This allows employers to both understand the competition and refine their own workforce strategies.. | Use the past to understand the future. See historical data on what happened during past economic shifts to understand which industries were affected, how recovery unfolded, and how job seekers and employers adapted. |
Comprehensive and Reliable Data
For everyone involved with the labor market, Lightcast job posting data provides the tools you need to make data-driven decisions, seize new opportunities, and stay ahead of a dynamic world of work. Powered by our proprietary, best-in-class taxonomies, the Lightcast Job Postings API delivers the most accurate understanding of job postings on the market, delivered in the exact way you need it.
Updated 3 months ago