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Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report stated that 51% of currently employed adults are searching for new jobs or looking for new work opportunities and 58% of job seekers look for jobs online; in other words, this market is huge. There are many alternatives to scraping job data. Also, there are so many ways to utilize job data, […]

Data scraping, data crawling, data harvesting or data extraction all refer to the process of collecting all kinds of industry or topic-specific data on the web for many sectors including e-commerce, market research, human resources, and real estate. Web scraping is not something new, it has been over for many years. However, the amount of […]

The newest Stanford AI Index report indicates that artificial intelligence has permeated nearly every industry in the global job market. And job posting data confirms AI’s growth: postings requesting AI job skills have grown five-fold since 2013 internationally. The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence is key to understanding why job posting data is so helpful in tracking […]

Building an effective recruitment strategy plan to hire the right talent for your business goes beyond identifying available positions at your company, putting up job postings on job boards, and upgrading the career page on your website. It even goes beyond hiring recruiters to help you fill positions with the best candidate. Job data scraping […]

Data is the key to success for businesses in today’s world. No matter what type of product you are building, or services you are offering, data is the key to increasing revenue while keeping costs at an optimum level. Data doesn’t convert to results or consumable information automatically– you need a Data Science team for […]

The recruitment industry is undergoing a massive change as we type this. It is one of the few departments in an organisation that is being automated at almost every level. Ten years from now, people will refuse to believe that there was a time where we screened resumes manually. Scouring through thousands of resumes everyday […]

We keep hearing about how we constantly need to up-skill and re-skill to keep up with everything that hits us in a year: pandemic, large scale automation, Machine Learning trying to mimic actual humans and doing a better job than them eventually. Phew. The fear of getting replaced by a bot and otherwise is real. […]

When the Coronavirus changed life itself as we know it in March 2020, both national and regional governments swooped down to bring in restrictions that would stop the virus from spreading. These restrictions in turn caused different industries like aviation and food and beverages to scale down their operations. The restrictions and the lockdowns together […]

The nexus between a job aggregator and a job board’s success is an interesting story, full of intricacies. For example, compared to 2020, unemployment rates are low. Besides, as the hiring rate increases, recruiters and job boards are struggling to find the right match for an opening in their organization.  However, no matter how difficult […]

Recruiting today looks radically different than it did just a year ago. Accelerated by COVID-19 and the movement for racial justice, changes that were expected to take years are happening instead in months. Virtually recruiting remote workers is the new norm for many. Internal mobility and upskilling programs are being built out, many for the […]

What is semantic search? Although the words “semantic search in recruiting” are being used in different contexts these days, what is important to understand is that it means searching not just using keywords, but also using logic and the context in which the keyword was used. This can mean multiple things. When we are searching […]

Last year, we were reminded that the only constant in life is change. We saw skills rise to the forefront as workers embarked on lifelong learning, and witnessed organizations putting skills-based hiring into practice. In this study, we sought to identify trends and insights that would help businesses and workers find growth and opportunity in […]

There isn’t a ‘been in business for 4784 years’ stamp in brand stories anymore. There is a ‘survived Covid’ stamp. It is the new Before Christ and Anno Domini. The pandemic has had changes so profound that we charter a new course in every aspect of our lives. Especially our professional lives. The future of jobs […]

2020 has upended our lives in a lot of ways that were previously unimaginable. The biggest upset ever was the advent of the Work From Home culture. Whether you hate it or love it, it is here to stay. And how. The entire recruitment mandate has shifted in the past year. And this isn’t cyclical. […]

You know the pitfalls of creating something that truly plugs in a major consumer need gap? There will be a sudden influx of people doing the same. And eventually your first mover advantage shall dilute. Then what, you ask? That is where you have to understand what it is that your customer actually seeks. In […]

Every new program launched by a college or other institution in higher education is a bet that the idea will resonate with students and grow enrollments, and too many of these bets don’t pay off. Then, what factors must be taken into consideration while developing new academic programs? The stakes are high for US higher […]

The process of recruitment has changed substantially since the advent of technology. Gone are the days when candidates used to visit offices with their resumes seeking their dream job. Or businesses using newspapers to advertise their job vacancies. They still do, but employers and candidates prefer online job boards as their primary source for recruitment […]

Data is generated in abundance in today’s digital world. Around 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day. And 90% of the currently available data was generated just over the last two years. But this raw data is of no use. And thanks to technologies such as big data that organizations can now make sense […]

Technological progress, demographic shifts, and geopolitical situations have a significant bearing on the global job market. As such, the pressure on both recruiters and candidates is enormous. Recruiters face a tough time alluring candidates with specialized skill sets, given the high demand for such talent. And it is against such a complex and aggressive job […]

Job boards are like marketplaces. Job boards provide job information to job seekers and talent to employers. And like any other marketplace, the job board flourishes on meeting the demands of all participants. The most successful job boards are those who can provide the latest job postings to job seekers while also empowering employers to […]

The COVID-19 pandemic caused millions to lose their jobs in a matter of weeks. While some industries like aviation and entertainment saw heavy layoffs, online-businesses, delivery agencies, as well as healthcare saw a large spike in hiring activities. Many of those who lost their jobs have tried their luck at various Job boards, agencies, and […]

A Staffing Agency has a single primary function– finding perfect matches between candidates and job postings. Its success can be measured by the number of candidates it can fit into the requirements that are posted by companies. Staffing Agencies make money when companies post jobs on their websites, and successfully find a matching candidate. They […]

Job Boards have played an important role in the lives of job-seekers for a long time. Their online presence helps candidates from any location browse through job listings and apply to their preferred jobs at any time of the day. In the post-COVID era where company-restructuring and lay-offs have become a norm, both fresh graduates […]

Recruiting employees is a nightmare today, with new job positions and requirement sets that keep evolving every year. Sorting through thousands of resumes, and filtering them manually can seem like an impossible task, especially when you need to hire for multiple roles across departments and domains.  Setting the requirements are “good to have” and matching […]

Demonetization, GST bill, Brexit, and the US polls have created ripples across the globe. Numerous sectors at the global and local level have come across critical changes and undergone massive transformations. While leaders strived hard to capitalize on the emerging hiring global trends, startups also put their best foot forward. As a result, some of […]

Hiring has always been an uphill task. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the true cost of a bad hire is at least 30 percent of the employee’s earning in the first year. A couple of summers back, Amazon had roughly 50,000 open positions they were looking to hire for. To fill in this […]

Freelancing platforms have been one of the driving forces for the gig economy. This coupled with the most disruptive shift in the job market brought about by the pandemic has got to be the most defining trends in the hiring industry. Companies like Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer.com all experienced a huge vertical rise in April […]

2020 was not an easy year. The world as we know it came to a halt. London suffered one of the biggest drops in job opportunities and a stark rise in unemployment. Adding to the mix: most people got laid off, some people got salary cuts, and almost all job seekers have been seeking jobs […]

The world is slowly opening up post the pandemic gloom. To put it succinctly, UCLA economists have called it “the end of the gloomy COVID winter and the advent of an exuberant vaccine spring.” The fear of contracting the disease is slowly dissipating over time with the world getting successfully vaccinated. The job market is […]

By October 2020, a whopping 23.2 million people were on unemployment benefits in the United States of America. Although with the country opening up in spades and the new president in order, the number of people filing claims for unemployment benefits is beginning to show a slight decrease in many parts of America. Though the […]

We are heading towards the ‘next’ normal. Everything around us has to adapt to the astounding change we have been subjected to. Especially in the hiring industry. Employees got laid off, organizations are adopting work from home permanently; the impact has been loud and strong. And if the repercussions are such, recruiters have to quickly […]

Markets across the world are influenced by changes in demand and supply. The global Job Market is no different. Data analysts and market observers continuously track multiple metrics to get the pulse of the job market and derive valuable insights. These often include finding out which positions are most “in-demand” and which sectors are seeing […]

If 2020 taught us anything, it is that we should always be prepared for outliers that will eventually become the norm. In a paradigm-shifting year, it is important to analyze how the micro-level disruptions will play out at a macro level economic cycle. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international organization that consists of […]

Job Boards and job agencies are helping our generation tackle one of the greatest problems in today’s world — unemployment. The difficulty for fresh graduates or even those who are seeking new jobs isn’t always the lack of a job, but instead the difficulty in finding the right one. Job parser for job Boards in […]

Recruiting the right talent does not come easy. It is energy-intensive and costly. And if you think that hiring the right talent is costly, can you imagine the cost of hiring the wrong talent? A whopping $240,000! If the stakes are that high, it only makes sense to harness the power of Artificial Intelligence for […]

There are job portals. And then there’s Linkedin. The search intent of the term “LinkedIn” on search engines has almost doubled in the past decade. Rightly so, not a lot of job boards match potential candidates to jobs the way LinkedIn does. LinkedIn uses job wrapping super successfully to cutting through the noise of half a […]

If you look at the core definitions of these two phrases. You will realize that both are similar and yet very different. The first one stands for businesses that gather job data from multiple sources and host thousands of job listings on their websites. The second one is used for companies that publish paid job […]

Popular Job boards. Often abused. Seldom understood. What truly separates a successful job board from the subpar ones? The secret sauce. Here we take a look at some of the main considerations and principles for anyone looking to launch a job board business. A successful one at that. One persevering stepping stone at a time. […]

Jack of all trades, master of none? Well, the often-used phrase can swing either way. Gone are the days where donning multiple feathers in your skill cap was considered attractive. If you have to distinguish yourself from the herd, you’ve to be specifically great at something. Now if the candidates are keeping up, can job […]

Let us paint you a scenario. There’s a wary applicant who is a quintessential Jack of all trades. They are going through the career pages of the Big 500 trying to find something that fits. They actually belong in your boutique firm, where their learning curve would encompass a holistic KRA. In this blog, we […]

Recruitment firms, consultancies, and online job boards all face the same problems. Today, connecting the candidate and the job has become more and more competitive thanks to multiple job boards across varied geographic regions and corporate sectors. Right from large companies to popular start-ups, various types of companies advertise vacancies on these websites. Job boards […]

So, you have tackled the big whale. You have built a spectacular job board, you have taken the best of all worlds, you have it dressed to the nines. But what good is it really if people don’t know about it? You have to do it justice by an impeccable marketing plan in place. In […]

The previous year was quite eventful with some of the remarkable incidents stirring up the entire business landscape. The ripples were not only felt within our country but also by various other nations across the globe. Some of the crucial incidents like electoral situations in the US and Brexit left substantial impacts on the global […]

Men since time immemorial have been trying to break themselves free of the shackles and confines of a rigid nine-to-five. Even before that, men have been trying to be less answerable to authority. Are we romanticizing the notion of work? Probably. Is it here to stay? Definitely. Depending on who you are listening to, the […]

Since mankind began exchanging money for goods and services, businesses and their staff have been negotiating the price of work. For the purposes of fair pay, organizations would ‘evaluate’ the jobs performed within them to determine their value to the organization. JobsPikr takes a look at how job evaluation improvement has improved and simplified over […]

The capabilities of recruiting software are changing rapidly, and HR Tech is alive and well in 2020. JobsPikr lists the 7 recruitment tools that can change the way HR teams can strategize and hire for positions accordingly. According to Crunchbase, by August 2018, the amount of VC money invested in recruiting software start-ups, in 2018 […]

You know there are certain brands whose names we use almost interchangeably with the product category itself? Search engine? No, you probably mean Google. Photocopy, what’s that? Xerox. Google, Taser, and Xerox are all examples of brand names that have become generic words for a type of product. The process is known as genericization. The recruitment industry was also dominated by behemoths […]

Imagine a scenario. Applicant A has stumbled upon an open position at your company. They have a total of 8 years’ experience in Oracle products. Applicant B has 8 years of experience in the Oracle database. Applicant C has 8 years of experience in the Oracle commerce platform. Nearly indistinguishable? These are the nuances that […]

Human resources. The human in human resources isn’t meant to do recurrent tasks. Especially those which have the highest room for error. And definitely, the ones that don’t require emotional stimuli. It is actually meant to maintain the cultural and emotional semblance of a company. On a more pragmatic note, what if there is a […]

The job posting is no mean feat. A fool-proof and credible hiring process is cumbersome and laborious. Redundant postings have to be removed. New ones have added almost every week. Can you imagine the man-hours you’d be investing (read: wasting) to just maintain a thorough talent-acquisition pipeline? The beauty of living today that any sufficiently […]

Do you know how they always taught us that real education lies outside the confines of books and classrooms? This was said, of course, when we were cramped within those four walls. Within the set curriculum, there was barely any breathing space to ‘upskill’. Or to go beyond what was set, whether that complemented our […]

Job aggregator business software is to job boards what Google is to search engines. It uses bots to rummage the web for new job listings. If you are a job seeker you are more likely to use the services of job aggregator as they cater to your search intent. They are more likely to rightly […]

Dress code; the dos and don’ts of workplace dress code has reversed in the decade. While more than half of the  global workplaces are following the formal dress code, the new age companies and start-ups have a more relaed approach. Today, we have CEOs of the big billion digital empires having press conferences in plain […]

Performance management often confused with the annual appraisals. End-of-the-year appraisals are directly tied to variable pay. And more often than not, increments do very little to judge the performance of individuals. It does not help them understand their strengths and weaknesses or improvement areas either. Employee performance management is not a simple affair. If you […]

Most recruitment agencies and online job boards scrape job postings from multiple sources, aggregate the job data, and provide candidates with a broader list of opportunities to explore. The internal job postings include career pages of the company website. While the external job postings include any other source apart from the company — job boards, […]

Data Scientist touted to be “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” in 2012 by The Harvard Business Review, a little more than 10 years after the term coined in 2001! Come 2020, and we are facing a shortage of anywhere between 200,000-350,000 data scientists all over the world. However, the data scientist job market […]

Indeed is one of the most popular job websites in the market today. It is a job aggregating website available in 60+ countries and covers multiple job boards, staffing firms, and company career pages. Scraping Indeed job data can help you access the latest job data, analyze job trends, and automate job boards. Indeed allows […]

The job market has never seen a dull day. With the world adapting to the new normal, we’ve seen the jobs’ demand and supply gap widen even further. Today, enterprises are looking at elegant solutions to help them bridge this gap. Gone are the days, when users can afford to lose time on vetting the […]

The Net Job Growth in The United States The United States, the most powerful democracy in the world that focuses deeply on job growth and the unemployment numbers of the country. So much so that presidents judged based on the number of jobs created during their tenure. Hence, in the times of COVID, it makes […]

Introduction To Job Board Sites Job board for recruiters and candidates have become the first choice for both during the pandemic. And why not, job boards help recruiters and candidates easily find each other across industries and hierarchies. The time and resources saved on finding and connecting with the right connect, is probably what making […]

Every human on earth supposedly creates 1.7MB of data every second and 2.5 billion GBs of data per day produced in total! As we continue to add more electronic devices to the internet — bulbs, watches, switches, cars, and more — data generated from these devices also increases exponentially. With the huge data flow, comes […]

In This post we talk about the different top programming languages that are used for job data scraping

Introduction To Job Scraping Data scraping, data extraction, job scraping, data crawling, or data harvesting all refer to the procedure of gathering all types of industry or topic-particular data online for different sectors including market research, e-commerce, real estate, and human resources. Web scraping is available for several years. Let’s explore different job scraping benefits. […]

Intro To Web Scraping For Jobs: Data analytics and Big Data are shaping the recruitment process today. With the availability of the huge amount of data joined from multiple resources – principally social media whereas possible candidates usually leave the digital thoughts as well as capability of converting all the data into expertise using powerful […]

JobsPikr has been going through rapid development on the functionality as well as the user experience fronts. This done to give our users a seamless and easy way of getting job datasets.

When it comes to data empowering individuals, you need to look at both sides of the table. Labor market data analysis can empower the hiring manager or the recruiter as well as the job applicant, though the process and data source may differ. Today we will be looking at how data can enable both the […]

Like most other developing countries, Coronavirus(COVID) has impacted the livelihoods of millions in India during these trying times. While some industries like mobile handsets have affected lightly, others like airlines are almost on the brink of bankruptcy. Few such as the IT and the EdTech continue to add new employees to support the digital growth […]

Industry Hiring Trends have changed during the lockdown which has caused irreparable damage to the economies of countries around the world. It is predicted that around 37 million people would lose their jobs. The pandemic has already rendered most activities impossible which has in turn impacted the global economy negatively. With the world in such […]

The Job Industry has never been going through times as turbulent as these. With new roles coming up to handle the different positions that have opened up based on customer requirements, job seekers either need to skill up, or switch roles. Web scraping job feed has been a requirement for most job agencies, but today […]

Introduction To Scrape Career Data From Company Career Pages Scraping career data from the web is not new. And whether you are using automated web scrapers, DaaS providers, DIY code, or the plain old copy-paste. Every industry is scraping data from the web. But today, due to the global Covid-19 pandemic. There has been a […]

Introduction To Data Science In Job Portals: What can be the common factor between an award-winning journalist, a photo-editor, the CEO of a fast-food chain, and an investment banker? Any guesses? If you guessed data, then you are correct. Every sector has seen an increase in decisions backed by data. This is beneficial on multiple […]

OKR as a useful framework to replace legacy PMS was covered in the previous post in this series. The post also talked about how we implemented it and our takeaways so far. Weekdone is an immersive new OKR Tool that we have been using for a while to track the goals of the company. But […]

The OKR framework needs no introduction in the realm of performance management systems (PMS) within organizations. Companies big and small are already obsessed with this idea of setting ambitious goals, enticed with the newness it brings to the way performances are evaluated. It’s spot on with having measurable results that can be objectively quantified. And […]

Why Web Data Scraping Jobs? Throughout the years of being within the web scraping industry, Web Data Scraping Jobs stands out as being one among the foremost wanted information online. As per a survey, 51% of employed adults who check out new jobs are trying to find new work opportunities, and 58% of job seekers […]

What is Mattermost? Mattermost is the brand new and cool alternative used by organizations. In a world fueled by digitalization, it is of prime importance that businesses collaborate in the virtual environment as well. Slack understood the need and so, in 2013 it created a digital workspace for employees to send messages privately or in […]

Introduction To Job Postings Extraction Web scraping, also known as data scraping, refers to the process of retrieving data from a website and storing it in an accessible format in your local computer or the cloud. Choosing to manually copy and paste data will take days as most data viewed using a browser. This process […]

Web Data Scraping Jobs Job scraping or web data scraping jobs from the web has been one of the major sectors’ use-cases of large-scale web scraping for a long time. With time, the quality of job data scraped via web-scraping has improved thanks to the availability of better and easier to work with tools, faster […]

Introduction To AI Integration: AI Integration and Artificial intelligence (AI) has gradually extended its reach into all aspects of our lives, including our work. While applicant tracking systems (ATS) were previously the popular choice when it came to recruiting, changing demographics and a need to fulfill candidate expectations has led to the rise of newer […]

Global Job Market Analysis A lot has changed in the last few months since COVID struck us. While countries across the globe have mandated lockdowns, it has severely impacted economic growth. Global job market analysis states that about 10 million US workers have already lost jobs, and a similar trend seen across geographies. As per this […]

Introduction: Having a polished and pristine resume when applying for technical jobs can mean the difference between your resume ending up in the contact pile or in the recycle bin. If you have gaps in your skills, those gaps will stand out on even the best resumes. If you’re looking to update and expand your […]

What is Job Feed Data? Job Data Scraping is a web-based application process, which helps end-users to find a job with searching criteria like preferred skill and location and work profile. It also helps to ‘post job’ and ‘search candidate’ based on the job seeker profile. Job providers can download the resume of the job […]

Job Portal is revolutionizing the recruitment industry is fragmented be it any part in the world and the reason for that is the recruiters want to find the best matching candidates no matter where they are. Thus, the recruiters go ahead with posting jobs on various sites. Similarly, even the candidates use the most common […]

Introduction To Job Searching Vs Job Portals Searching for jobs all by yourself means looking out for job advertisements in every nook and cranny you can find. Or putting up with that pestering uncle who promises he will get you a job in his office. Or paying quite a hefty sum to that agency that […]

The technology that started with discovering patterns in emails to block spam, is now getting used in everything from cancer detection, wildfire prediction, to the field of recruitment. While certain uses are targeted by most — such as finding the best candidates for a job, candidate screening, and matching jobs with candidates — certain unexpected […]

Introduction To Job Searching Job Searching used to be a very daunting task but thankfully, with the advent of the Internet, it has transformed into something much easier to handle. In the past, you would have had to spend quite a hefty sum to avail the services of a recruitment agency who would then send […]

Introduction To Jobs Portals: Jobs Portals are nowadays using Artificial Intelligence to analyze and interpret the user behavior of its customers and clients. There is a huge rise in the trend using Artificial Intelligence in the modern technological era   There are a lot of ways there is an increase in the recruitment technology of […]

Job Boards, Job Portals, or Job Aggregators use data from different sources to build up their websites. When looking for a means to get this data, automated web crawler are the best and the cheapest solution. It helps companies gather a lot of job listings, and also helps in getting the latest job posts. A […]

Introduction: Job Portals use Data science to bring logic and reason to recruitment, which largely governed by intuition before. You would go to an interview, answer questions asked by a panel of superiors and let them judge you on the things you say and wear, all the while hoping you are nailing the interview. With […]

Introduction To Big Data Analytics in Recruitment When it comes to Big Data Analytics in Recruitment, it all boils down to the three Vs- Volume, Velocity, and Variety. However, using traditional methods, you can only optimize these three to a certain level. Beyond it, you will need the secret spice- data. Let me explain how […]

Introduction: Job search used to be a strenuous exercise. Thankfully, the advent of the Internet and social media eradicated the strain. A man in search of a job would approach the best consultancies to help him find the ones worth applying to. He would happily part with his money to do so. However, the Internet […]

Introduction In a day and age when social media is all the rage, it is not unusual to find the recruitment industry increasing its dependence on it. With all sorts of people being a part of the online community at large, recruiting through social media becomes an easy task. As per a study, 92% of […]

Artificial Intelligence has changed our world, it has increased the pace in which candidates find a job. It has also helped recruiters find stability in the organization. Often we hear job seekers say that finding a job itself is a job in itself. Candidates take their own time and use it to polish their application, […]

The presence of a plethora of job boards and other online recruiting solutions for the modern man means no more “hitting the streets”. You can now search for jobs in your favorite chair with a cup of coffee in your hand, tapping away at the keyboard. Employers provide means to search for the perfect fit […]

With the advent of technology, many businesses and services have transformed and moved to the internet. The recruitment industry has also grown to a massive size in the last few years and today it far outpaces physical recruitment agencies. Online job boards and job search engines have brought job applications and job posts to the […]

Hiring recruits is something every company struggles with and given the fact that hundreds of candidates apply for a single post many a time, it becomes very difficult to filter out candidates to find the perfect fit. At the same time, if the process takes too long, candidates may tend to drop off. This is […]

Excellence in your field entails that you have excellent and hard-working people in your company. Just a few years back, walk-in interviews were the norm- a face-to-face conversation with the candidates where one would bank on the ensuing conversation to find the perfect fit for his company.  However, with the rapid advancement in technology, there […]

JobsPikr Beta was launched in late 2017 and went through multiple iterations following the demands of our growing user base. It has been a thrilling year for JobsPikr, accompanied with its highs and lows, pushing us further towards our set targets. There were times we had to push really hard because some of the assumed […]

It goes without saying that software engineering is a highly technical job. Salaries widely vary depending on the experience, specific skills along with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues. In this study, we will analyze the software engineer salary data based on the job listings posted by companies on popular job […]

With the advent of online job-hunting in the twenty-first century, we have seen multiple job boards and job matching services crop up. While some of them are popular worldwide, some are well known in the regions or niches they operate in. A job board can even be started in a day if you have the […]

If you are a new job-board owner or you are about to create a job-board of your own, you need to make sure that you have certain job board features that can attract more job-applicants and also companies who will pay you to get their job posts in your website. However, you can build these […]

While more and more businesses have been moving to the internet and leaving behind brick and mortar shops, the recruiting industry had made the move around the early 2000s. But job portals have changed with time, and Job boards have increased tenfold today. Most companies do not recruit directly, but rather they take the help […]

Like every other industry in the world, the recruitment business has also been struck by disruptive technologies. Ranging from automated job boards to Artificial Intelligence softwares for job matching and hiring, the recruitment industry is seeing rapid growth in data-driven HR technologies. Data and analytics are the need for success in the recruitment world. What […]

The job hunting scene was much different in the pre-internet era but like most things, the advent of the internet simplified it. No more newspaper ads or walking in the sun handing out resumes to every company you can think of. Job boards, also known as job search engines, are equipped with the best job […]

Labor market analysis can help enterprise leaders develop and improve business strategy, recruitment planning, hiring decisions, and identify and nurture the best workforce for the organization. Since the currently available data for effective labor analytics is limited to government data which is retrospective, fresh job data provided by JobsPikr accumulated from popular job boards can […]

Release notes are our regular updates that showcase the new features released by the JobsPikr team so that you get to learn everything new from a single space. Here is a roundup of everything that went live last month. Let’s understand more about job data download scheduler. Download Scheduler This is one of the key […]

Global technological advancement continues to impact Australia’s job markets, boosting postings for a number of lucrative tech-based professions. Let’s analyze Full Stack Developer Jobs in Australia in this blog. According to new research from jobs search portal Indeed, ‘Full stack developers’ are in highest demand in the tech domain and witnessing explosive growth in job […]

In case you are looking for an answer to the question ‘How to create job board in WordPress’ and set up a business in the job domain, and want to build something using the latest tech available, a job directory site can work wonders. With the growing popularity of the gig economy and flourishing job […]

When it comes to job listings, no company today lists all types of jobs. Just as nobody applies for all types of jobs. Specialization is the key to success, whether you are hosting job listings or applying for a job. Even fields like software engineering which were traditionally seen as a single sphere have now […]

LinkedIn has published a list of the most promising jobs in the U.S. for 2019. They used the data available on this professional networking site to analyze the number of job openings and yearly salaries to find out which positions provide the best hiring growth and pay. They also factored in the probability for promotion […]

JobsPikr has been delivering an easy and convenient solution to download job data for more than two years now. This job feed solution is helping grow several recruitment agencies, job boards and AI-driven job matching apps. In April this year, JobsPikr announced a list of useful changes that were appreciated to a great extent. Maintaining […]

LinkedIn created a list of the most promising jobs in the U.S. for 2019. Using data from its platform, the professional networking platform looked at job openings and yearly salaries to see which positions provide the best hiring growth and pay. They also considered a robust likelihood for promotion as a ranking factor by looking […]

If you start browsing the internet for job boards, you will come across multiple articles, which specifically state that niche job boards are better than general job boards. Even we came across many such articles like this. However, what’s the reason behind such a strong statement? Well, there are not one but multiple benefits of […]

It’s been 2 years since the initial launch of JobsPikr as an automated tool to gather fresh job postings data from the web. We’ve made tremendous improvements over the last 2 years and not only has the data coverage improved drastically, we also did quite a lot of advancements in terms of how it can […]

Last year, the US job market saw tremendous growth in job opportunities while witnessing the lowest unemployment rate. As reported by Glassdoor, 76% of hiring managers have stated their biggest hurdle has been attracting top talent during recruitment. This doesn’t come as a surprise since the US unemployment rate in 2018 was at its lowest in […]

The unprecedented growth of Machine Learning is already disrupting the way the industry runs. This is fueled by the data getting generated — in the present time, we are producing 2.5 quintillion bytes of data on a daily basis. However, for any business, data doesn’t hold much value unless it is beneficial to the company. […]

Using Job Data for Lead Generation  Lead generation can be often expensive, that is they are generated by costly advertisements, content creation, PR campaigns, industry events and in-person meetings in most cases. In certain cases, there’s even a high chance of your efforts to generate leads not delivering desired result, even after spending a lot […]

August 2018 marked 95 straight months of job creation and job growth in the US. This bullish run has far exceeded conservative predictions and estimates and doesn’t show signs of slowing down anytime soon, even with negative sentiments associated with the trade tariffs imposed by aluminum and steel imports. Employers augmented the US job market […]

As per the research conducted by EY and Timewise in 2017, a flexible working marketplace, 87% of full-time employees in the UK would prefer flexible working hours. The percentage increases to 92% for millennials, according to the same study. This is a general tendency among workers and it resonates with the majority employees of the […]

The recruitment industry in Europe is going through a healthy phase of growth and stability. Recruitment agencies specializing in a range of positions across the healthcare sector are reporting positive sentiments. Be it Qualified Nurses, Consultants and Physicians, Physical and Occupational Therapists, Medical Technologists, Health Care Assistants, or Senior Care Assistants, there are many positions […]

Most of us know about the Netflix recommendation System Challenge that offered $1,000,000 to anyone who cracked it. But before we get too far, let’s cover our bases first. What is a recommendation system? Simply put, it is a system that gives us recommendations based on the data that it has collected from us, and […]

Europe’s job market is now booming with lucrative opportunities for highly skilled individuals and the demand is at a peak. This is even more pronounced in the healthcare sector which is currently undergoing rapid innovation, thanks to the proliferation of big data technologies. The European healthcare market is expected to cross the US $224 Billion by […]

According to a research conducted by Hays Group for the Middle East region, in 2018 71% of the employers are planning to increase hiring in the next 12 months and 66% are optimistic about year-on-year market activity for their businesses. This job data analysis essentially cements the fact that the Middle East (ME) is poised […]

Tim Sobbeth from Houston was hopeful that the interview he had given for a new vacancy would land him his dream job. But as weeks passed without any callback from the HR team, he was dejected–not because he had potentially lost the job, but that he was made to wait for so long without a […]

Data acquisition is emerging as the preferred technique to gain valuable insights in the right way. Take the case of talent analytics in the HR function, for instance. It is eliminating the clutters of HR analytics for the better. JobsPikr is the ultimate example of a reliable data mining solution geared to add layers of […]

Data scientists help companies make solid data-backed decisions. Its also a relatively new career, residing at the intersection of social science, statistics, computer science and design fields. This job also happens to be the fastest-growing job in the United States, according to LinkedIn. Data science skills and job role has witnessed a growth of 6.5 […]

Revenues for the online recruitment vertical have grown at an average rate of 14.6% over the past five years, according to the research firm IBISWorld. And the momentum isn’t expected to stop: The industry made $4.4 billion in 2017 and is anticipated to rake in $6.4 billion in 2022 according to the same business intelligence company. In […]

There’s no doubting the importance of recruitment as a crucial process for the stability and continued growth of any organization. With the ever-increasing competition, the importance of the critical business function has taken a new turn. Nowadays, attracting the right talent has become harder and retaining them is another challenge in itself. Recruitment Innovation is […]

JobsPikr has been going through rapid development on the functionality as well as user experience fronts. It was in December 2017 that we added job boards as a data source in JobsPikr and this has lead to a significant adoption by our clients. As part of our ongoing product improvement activities, we have made a […]

In 1955, the word “Artificial Intelligence” was used to describe small concepts of computer science. But today, it has flourished in all business sectors providing unlimited opportunities to departments across organizations, irrespective of their scale or size. It is not just the media hype that has allowed AI to gain such a huge level of […]

The last few years have been the years of artificial intelligence technologies, workplace diversity and candidate experience in the recruitment industry. A lot of these will follow into 2021 and we will continue to see the changes brought about by them in the years to follow.  Let’s look at some of the top recruitment trends […]

It’s almost been an year since we launched JobsPikr and the product has come a long way in terms of features and user adoption during this short span of time. We now have a sizable number of customers from the recruitment industry including HR consultancies, market research firms and niche job boards. While JobsPikr is […]

There are global job board catering to each and every niche that you can imagine out there. While monetizing a website isn’t necessarily a hard nut to crack, the difficulty of making a sustainable revenue from your website totally depends on many factors including your niche, target geography, popularity and organic traffic among many others. […]

How to Build a Recruitment Agency The 6th Annual Staffing & Recruiting Trends Report (North America) by Bullhorn has thrown some interesting numbers our way. In this article, we will learn how to build a recruitment agency. hTake for instance the two stats below – 1 – 71% of the recruiting firms saw a profitable […]

There are plenty of popular job search engine out there, and some of them are generic while the others cater to specific niches. Irrespective of that, the recruitment industry can still accommodate new and better players. Job search engines bridge the gap between job seekers and employers on a bigger level than job boards. This […]

The corporate and business world is undergoing a massive transformation which was kickstarted by the ready availability of data. Businesses, irrespective of their size and industry vertical are now embracing data and analytics to optimize their operations and stay updated to the current trends. These changes happening in the industrial world means a lot to […]

The job market is tightening by each passing day and the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that the number of voluntary separations and quits are also on the rise. The statistics also show that new job openings are mushrooming at a rate faster than ever before. This scenario is alarming from an employer’s point of […]

Job boards serve the indispensable function of connecting job seekers and employers without any hassles. It’s a simple and straightforward process to apply for a job vacancy through a job board. Even for employers, job boards present the opportunity of making their job vacancies known to millions of potential candidates in a matter of few […]

Hiring the right candidate and matching the skills required for the job requirement is a major bottleneck for any organisation. The problem is huge and Techcrunch post, there are continuous efforts to mitigate the same by different companies. According to this here has been a proliferation of new startups in the recruitment space with investors […]

Recruitment is a two-way affair. While potential recruiters are on the lookout for top talents, efficient and skilled candidates also want to work with branded employers. Everybody wants to land their dream jobs, and the best applicants are no exceptions. It’s here that both candidates and potential employers should be aware of the entire recruitment […]

If you are connected to the recruitment industry in some way, you wouldn’t need an introduction  to the value of job listings as one of the key market growth indicators of this industry. Recruiters, HR consultancies and labor analytics firms would find job data to be resourceful in planning, analyses and market research among many […]

Job boards help connect job seekers with employers, and that’s just the basic operational model of a typical job board site. If you dig deeper, you’d find that the world of niche job boards is a lot more diverse and vast than that. For starters, there are job portals that get a little innovative in […]

Every individual wants to land his dream job and achieve success in professional life. This won’t be possible without the right employment opportunities. Recruitment and staffing happen to be an integral segment of the job sector, where both employers and employees are at a beneficial end. While commercial establishments get the right set of workers […]

After two months of hard work and relentless testing, the time has come for us to announce the new version of JobsPikr. We’re thankful to the early users of our app who gave us valuable feedback and played a major role in the improvement of JobsPikr. We used the feedback that we got from them […]

If you were to choose a job, what would be your priority? Compelling job profile, higher average salary, or decent work-life balance? How about all the three! Well, the U.S. job market should be able to help you as this country scores high in many of the parameters in comparison to the rest of the […]

If there’s one thing constant about the job market today, it would be is its highly dynamic nature. As the technologies being used by businesses keep evolving on a continuous basis, the skill-sets required to handle them are sure to change too. This is evident from the mushrooming of new jobs; many of today’s high-paying […]

The expectations and forecasts for the recruitment industry are incredibly promising for the next few years. The competition, for example, is already at peak levels and is expected to tighten further. Having cutting-edge technologies to your aid is crucial when the competition is tough. In this context, Big Data and Business intelligence are the most […]

Having access to ready-to-use job data feeds holds a lot of potential in the recruitment industry. Job listings data can unveil insightful information that could positively impact the bottom lines of companies in the recruitment industry as well as the ones looking to hire quality talent. Until recently, there was no practical and easy solution […]

You’re probably aware of the fact that the job boards industry had already hit its saturation point long back. Now, there is a job board that caters to every sector and niche that you can think of – Programmers, Designers, Marketers, HR professionals, you name it. We’re talking about tens of thousands of job boards […]

Counted amongst top job sites worldwide, Indeed.com is known for its unique features that help align the right candidates for the right job roles. The Indeed job board site records more than 200 million visitors per month and its services are available in over 60 global countries and 28 different languages. The website now covers […]

Google certainly has no plans to stop experimenting despite repeatedly failing to succeed in certain areas like social media. Google launched Orkut when social media was on the rise but quickly lost it to Facebook. Although they made a second attempt with Google+, it’s safe to say that the platform still doesn’t have the same […]

Sourcing the right talent for a job vacancy has become challenging even for the top recruitment agencies, as the world is stepping ahead with cutting-edge professional competition. Educational qualifications and experience aren’t the only parameters to judge a candidature in this highly competitive world. On one hand, recruiters are missing out on right fit potential […]

Every entrepreneur looks to utilize human capital to give a thrust to the company’s growth. You will surely want to take your business forward, ensure comprehensive growth for it, accelerate your bottom lines, and optimize your profits. But how’s that possible without the right set of people working with you? Let’s explore the future of […]

Update: JobsPikr has a new major upgrade and now delivers data from job boards on top of company websites. After long stretches of rigorous testing and finishing touches, JobsPikr public beta is now live for everyone. We have implemented some of the ideas from the feedback that we received during our private beta program which […]

The job search niche has transformed substantially since the advent of technology. While personal references and contacts aren’t irrelevant, the increased penetration of internet and smartphones has completely transformed the way people go for job hunting. A majority of potential candidates and job seekers rely on job portal sites while looking for career opportunities. The […]

Employment generation and employee retention issues had always been a prime concern for employers in the changing millennial job market. From colossal enterprises to small business ventures, every business unit strives hard to retain and uplift their workforce. However, the situation is trivial! Most of these organizations don’t have a specific plan and targeted policies […]

While JobsPikr is still getting its finishing touches done, we thought we could give you a quick preview of the features and workflow. We wanted to ensure a smooth workflow for the users and have made the process as simple as possible. In the previous blog post, we had outlined what the JobsPikr product update […]

We’re getting closer to the beta launch of JobsPikr – a job data feeds delivery platform that extracts data directly from the company websites. This is an exciting time for us and we’re happy to share some of the key information related to this platform. JobsPikr is meant for anyone who’s looking to get job […]