--- title: "Blog - Page 15 - JobsPipe" description: "Older posts from the JobsPipe blog. Page 15 of 22." canonical: https://jobspipe.dev/blog/page/15 --- From the blog · Page 15 # How we build, what we learn, what we ship. Posts about indexing public job postings at scale, salary parsing, and the systems that keep one universal JSON schema feeling small even as the source list keeps growing. [ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) ComparisonTaxonomy Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min ### Skills taxonomies compared: O\*NET, ESCO, Lightcast Open Skills and the vendor stacks Every skills-based-hiring initiative and every talent intelligence platform stands on a skills taxonomy, and the four big ones disagree about what a skill even is. O\*NET, ESCO, Lightcast Open Skills and the proprietary vendor taxonomies compared on size, license, update cadence and fit - plus how raw job postings turn into taxonomy rows in the first place. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/skills-taxonomy)[ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) ReferencePearson Jul 27, 2026 · 3 min ### Pearson Workforce Solutions API (Faethm): what it offers, and how access works Pearson's workforce API - built on the Faethm acquisition - models how technology impacts occupations: emerging and declining skills, task-level AI exposure, learning pathways, and an O\*NET crosswalk. Every endpoint group in the reference, the JWT-gated access model with no public pricing, and where a live postings feed fits alongside it. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/pearson-workforce-api)[ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) ComparisonAlternatives Jul 27, 2026 · 7 min ### Lightcast alternatives and competitors: 7 options for labor market data in 2026 Lightcast is the standard for labor market intelligence - and for many buyers it is more platform than they need, at a price that is never on the website. Who its competitors actually are, grouped by what they compete on, then seven alternatives compared by what you were buying: postings feeds, European coverage, workforce analytics, free official statistics, and the self-serve API tier Lightcast does not sell. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/lightcast-alternatives)[ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) GuideAcquisition Jul 27, 2026 · 4 min ### Artificial intelligence in talent acquisition: what it actually changes (2026) AI has landed in five places in talent acquisition - sourcing, screening, scheduling, outreach, and market intelligence - and it changes them unevenly. What each application actually automates, the regulation that now applies to all of them, and the constraint every vendor demo skips: the model is a commodity, the data underneath is not. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/ai-talent-acquisition)[ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) GuideClosed Jul 25, 2026 · 8 min ### What "job closed or expired" means on Indeed (and what to do about it) On Indeed, "job closed or expired" means the listing is no longer taking applications - either the employer closed it, or the posting ran out its visibility window. It is one combined status, so it does not tell you which happened, and it does not mean the role was filled. Here is how to tell the difference, how long Indeed postings really stay up, and whether to reapply when one is reposted. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/job-closed-or-expired-indeed)[ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) ComparisonTrap Jul 25, 2026 · 10 min ### Free job APIs in 2026: what's actually free, what's free-tier, and what's a trap Free means four different things in the jobs API market, and the difference is what burns people. A verified comparison of 11 options, with the real limits, the key requirements, and the redistribution terms nobody reads. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/free-job-api)[ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) ComparisonBright Jul 25, 2026 · 10 min ### Bright Data competitors: 8 alternatives compared for web data and job postings Bright Data is the biggest general-purpose web data platform, and for some jobs it is the wrong shape. Eight alternatives compared on category, pricing model and fit, including when a narrow vertical API beats a scraping platform. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/bright-data-competitors)[ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) GuideArchitecture Jul 25, 2026 · 9 min ### An API for job search: the architecture behind a search box that returns real jobs What has to happen between a user typing into a box and getting good jobs back: query understanding, filters, ranking, cursor pagination, caching, and the empty state everyone gets wrong. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/api-for-job-search)[ ![](https://jobspipe.dev/listly/card-field.png) GuideEvaluate Jul 25, 2026 · 10 min ### Job data API: how to evaluate one before you build on it Every job data API claims millions of postings, real-time updates, and clean structured fields. None of that is falsifiable from a landing page. Here are the seven dimensions job posting data actually varies on - coverage, latency, dedup, normalization, ID stability, status tracking, and provenance - and a test you can run for each one inside a two-week trial. ](https://jobspipe.dev/blog/job-data-api) [Back to latest posts](https://jobspipe.dev/blog) --- Try it with no key: `curl -d '{"limit":3}' https://api.jobspipe.dev/v1/sandbox/jobs/search`. AI agents: the full machine-readable index of this site is https://jobspipe.dev/llms.txt?src=md-twin - API quickstart, MCP server, pricing. Free key (1,000 jobs to start): https://jobspipe.dev/signup