FAQ’s

Frequently Asked Questions

What Country Data is Available?

Job Postings and Workforce Profiles Data – United States, Canada, and Great Britain. In our next release we are planning to expand to full global coverage.

Resume Data – Global resume data. If you want to know about a specific country, just ask. Data is only written in English. How many countries?

Reviews Data – Global reviews and interviews data, which represents more than 200 countries and 3 million companies. If you want to know about a specific country, just ask. Data is only written in English.

What are our Data Sources ?

We are continuously evaluating new sources of data and methods for enriching, normalizing and optimizing data.

Job Postings Data – Two sources – directly from employer websites and leading job board, Indeed, which serves as a good proxy for the job market. We plan to add postings from LinkedIN in a future release.

Resume Data – Two sources – Indeed and social sites, primarily LinkedIn.

Workforce Profiles – Primarily from LinkedIn® and other social sites.

Company Data – TBD, LinkedIN

Reviews Data – Glassdoor® and Indeed®.

Labor Market Data – U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Higher Ed Data – Government publications such as IPEDS,

How Often is Data Updated?

We update job postings data weekly – it will be ready on Wednesdays for the prior week, and we use Saturday-Friday as our week. Other job market data is updated monthly, and will be ready by the 10th of each month. Government data is updated as it is released.

Because we update data every week/month, counts may change from prior months if we discovered new postings, resumes, etc.

How Far Back in Time is Data?

Job Postings Data – We provide job postings data starting from January 1, 2021. In our TalentView Market self-service analytics application, we provide a rolling 25 month’s worth of data, and we remove open jobs that are considered evergreen or open more than a year.

Workforce Profiles Data – We provide workforce profiles data for current positions and previous positions as far back as people include on their social profiles.

Resume Profiles Data – We provide resume data starting from January 1, 2021. In our TalentView Market self-service analytics application, we provide a rolling 25 month’s worth of data. We segment by active resumes, which have been recently updated and deduped from the larger resume data set.

Employer Reviews/Ratings Data – We provide reviews/ratings data starting from January 1, 2021. In the TalentView Reviews self-service analytics application we provide data starting from January 1, 2023. Having historical data enables clients to understand the impact that new programs, strategies, management changes, and other factors have on employees’ ratings and sentiment over time.

What are the Counts of Data?

The volume of job postings, resume updates, employer reviews and workforce profiles changes with the market from month to month, and we are happy to give you the most current count information, just ask.

Job Postings

Resumes

Workforce Profiles

Reviews

What are Public Insight’s Data Delivery Methods?

We have multiple methods available for clients to access and utilize to our job market data. We can provide the specific scoped datasets you need and recurring automatic updates via:

  • AI Agent Access – Connect any AI agent (public or proprietary) directly to a scoped data warehouse via secure MCP server.
  • Scheduled data feeds to AWS S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, or SFTP server
  • API
  • SQL Connection
  • On-Demand Exports
  • Reports
  • TalentView Market – Self-Service Analytics (Microsoft Power BI)
  • TalentView Reviews – Self-Service Analytics (Microsoft Power BI)

Our flexible, scalable pricing and data delivery options enable small-to-enterprise organizations to pay only for the scoped data and data delivery method (s) needed now with the option to scale up or down as needed. One-time use of data is also available.

How is Public Insight’s Data Stored?

Lakehouse

What are Challenges with Job Market Data?

  • No Deduping – some job postings are repeated across 10+ job boards
  • Stale and Undated Postings – no reliable posting date, or take down signal, and many jobs are posted for more than a year
  • Data is Not Normalized or Enriched – titles, companies and geos are inconsistently represented
  • No Lineage or History for Comparison – yesterday’s data is gone tomorrow
  • Manually uploaded data files don’t automatically refresh with new data
  • No audit trail on how the data was filtered, aged, mapped or transparency into original sources
  • Public AI agents have low data file upload size limits (e.g., 30-50 MB), which can limit analysis of large job market data sets. Additionally, some AI agents cannot generate sophisticated calculations (e.g., supply/demand) based on limited scraped Web data available. AI agents that rely solely on public scraped data are not able to find the most current, important and historical data for comparison/benchmarking and detailed analysis.

How is Public Insight Data Better?

There are many sources for job market data, but with millions of job postings and titles, data can be very messy. We enrich, normalize and clean data to ensure the highest quality. Here are our steps:

  • Curate job market data from the best sources and are continually evaluating new options and technical methods – then the hard work really starts.
  • Dedupe, clean, map (titles, occupations, companies and geo locations), and enrich from multiple sources as well as calculate KPIs and metrics unique to our clients’ markets to provide very detailed, current and comprehensive data and insights to inform decisions and fuel growth.
  • Automatically update this data every week/month.
  • Provide transparency in our sourcing and mapping and access the link to the original job posting, review or workforce profile.
  • Offer multiple data delivery options and enable customers to buy scoped datasets based on what they need now and adjust as needed in the future.

What are the Key Uses Cases for Job Market Data?

Our clients utilize our data for recruitment strategies, business development, competitive intelligence, employer reputation analysis, content creation, account management, career path guidance and higher ed outcomes. The top use cases are:

  • Ensure compensation and company benefits are competitive
  • Adjust advertising budgets based on time to fill and supply/demand
  • Guide job descriptions based on skills analysis
  • Identify companies that are struggling to hire roles in specific markets
  • Competitive analysis and benchmarking
  • Trend analysis
  • Create monthly KPI reports to share with clients or management
  • Develop unique content for marketing and thought leadership
  • Share positive reviews data in recruitment marketing and interviews
  • Develop and differentiate your Employer Value Proposition (EVP)
  • Identify employee turnover risks
  • Find unhappy titles at competitors for recruiting efforts
  • Optimize AI agent search results (AEO), which love reviews data – make sure you address weak areas and understand how you compare to competitors
  • Enable employment outcomes reporting for Higher Ed (e.g., Pell Grants, Gainful Employment and ROI graduate success stats for marketing content)
  • Utilize targeted marketing data for Higher Ed (e.g., employers that offer tuition, graduates for specific programs)
  • Identify ideal career paths for graduates
  • Help college graduates and job seekers find and compare their ideal employers based on review and interview data

Check out our use cases. If you want to discuss other possibilities, just ask.

Are There Sample Datasets, Reports or Trials Available?

Yes, we can provide a custom sample dataset or report based on your specific needs, or a free trial for our self-service analytics solutions. View our sample datasets and reports or try our interactive dashboard right now.