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What we find in the job market
We index hundreds of thousands of live openings and check each one is real. That produces numbers nobody else has. This is where we publish them.
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We read 70 job application forms. The same question is asked 25 different ways.
Advice about beating the ATS is everywhere and almost none of it is counted. We read every question on 70 live application forms across ten hiring systems.
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We read 583 job postings. Fewer than half say how much experience they want.
CV advice says to match what the employer asks for. We read 583 live job descriptions and counted. Fewer than half name a number of years; a third mention a degree.
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We read 583 job postings looking for someone to write to. We found three people.
Every guide says to address your cover letter to a named person. We searched 583 live postings for one. Five carried an individual email; none named a person.
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We checked 500 live job postings. 13 were already closed.
Everyone talks about ghost jobs. We measured the adjacent thing you can actually verify: how many currently-listed openings have already stopped accepting applications. On a job index refreshed 24 hours ago, 2.6% were dead.
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685,153 job postings have 408,567 different titles
We counted every job title in our index. 356,119 of them appear exactly once — 87% of all distinct titles are used by a single employer, one time. That is why keyword job search fails you.
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Which hiring systems companies actually use
We track 685,153 live openings across ten applicant tracking systems. SmartRecruiters carries the most jobs from the fewest companies; Personio the opposite. The ratio tells you who each system is really for.
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Where the jobs actually are, and how few of them are remote
317,170 of 685,153 live openings are in the US. Only 23,208 — 3.4% — are advertised as remote. The geography of hiring is far more concentrated than the discourse suggests.