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Job Posting Analytics Now Shows Minimum Education for Job Postings

Analyst, Analyst - Canada, Improvement, Improvement, Improvement · October 25, 2022

In Profile Analytics you can now see what is the minimum education level needed for job postings.

Improvement to our Remote Job Posting Filter

Analyst, Analyst - Canada, Improvement, Improvement, Improvement, Improvement · August 2, 2022

We have improved our Remote Job Posting Filter!

In addition to Remote or Non-Remote you can now filter by Hybrid and Unknown.

These improvements will help you gain a better understanding of how remote work is changing and impacting your markets.

Ability to Use Multiple Institutions in the Occupation Table Filter

Analyst, Analyst - Canada, Improvement, Improvement, Improvement, Improvement · March 14, 2022

We have added the ability to use multiple institutions in the Occupation Table filter. As part of this improvement we have added the ability to add institutions to the filter through radius searches or user created groups.

Job Posting Feed Improvements

Analyst, Analyst - Canada, Default, Improvement, Improvement, Improvement, Improvement · January 10, 2022

As a result of our enhanced deduplication method and sharper skill scraping, we’re excited to highlight the following improvements:

  • Job postings data tracks 35% closer to JOLTS (a government benchmark for job posting data).
  • “Spammy” or false job postings are filtered out, resulting in a roughly 20% decrease in overall job postings volume.
    *    Even with this decrease, job postings trends are largely consistent.
    *    A large percentage of these “spammy” postings come from Truck Driving jobs.
  • Location accuracy is now over 95%.
  • Extraction of 20% more skills on average from job postings.

 

New “Searched” Skills Option in Job Postings Table

Analyst, Analyst - Canada, Developer, Improvement, Improvement, New, New, Talent · September 10, 2021

Now when searching using a skills or a group of skills in the Job Postings Table you can filter results to only see results for those skills using the “Searched Skills” Tab.

-If you want to see all Skills related job postings data you can use the “Related Skills” Tab.
-To see only results for the skills you used in your search you can use the “Searched Skills” Tab.

Multi-Region Exports!

Analyst, Analyst - Canada, Improvement, Improvement · April 5, 2021

Instead of running reports over and over for different regions you can now run one report for up to 20 different regions at once using the multiple-region export!

This option will be available in most reports anytime you search with two or more regions. Selecting the multiple-region export will run the report once for each different region you have selected and then give you an excel or csv download.

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