Glossary
The jobs-data terms, defined.
Short, plain-English definitions of the integration and jobs-data terms developers actually search for - what they mean, why they are confusing, and how they fit together. Written by the team that indexes the ATSs.
Concepts
Job aggregator
A job aggregator is a system that collects job postings from many sources - company career pages, applicant tracking systems, and other boards - and combines them into a single searchable, deduplicated index.
Unified API
A unified API is a single API that abstracts many similar third-party services behind one schema and one authentication flow, so a developer integrates once instead of once per provider.
Talent intelligence
Talent intelligence is the practice of collecting and analyzing workforce data - job postings, skills, compensation, hiring activity, talent movement - to make better decisions about recruiting, workforce planning, and competitive strategy.
Integrations
ATS API
An ATS API is the programmatic interface an applicant tracking system exposes so software can read or write recruiting data - job requisitions, candidates, applications, and interview stages - without going through the ATS web interface.
ATS integration
ATS integration is the work of connecting an applicant tracking system to other software - a job board, a sourcing tool, an HRIS, an analytics product - so recruiting data moves between them automatically instead of by manual export.
Job board API
A job board API is a programmatic interface for reading job postings - title, company, location, salary, description, apply link - usually across many employers, so software can ingest listings without scraping web pages.
API rate limiting
API rate limiting is the practice of capping how many requests a client can make to an API within a set time window, protecting the service from overload and enforcing fair use across all consumers.
Data
Job posting schema
A job posting schema is the defined structure of a job record - the field names, types, and meanings - that lets job data from different sources be stored, searched, and exchanged consistently.
Job posting deduplication
Job posting deduplication is the process of detecting that several collected job records describe the same real-world opening and collapsing them into one, so an aggregated index does not count the same job many times.
Job scraping
Job scraping is the automated extraction of job postings from websites - company career pages, job boards, and ATS-hosted listings - by programmatically fetching pages and parsing the posting data out of them.
More definitions on the way
We’re adding entries on job feeds, careers-page crawling, rate limiting, and freshness. Want a term defined next? Hit us on the contact page.