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.
How the vocabulary breaks down
The jobs-data and B2B-intent vocabularies overlap with three adjacent fields - ATSs, CRMs, and data infrastructure - in ways that confuse documentation searches. “ATS API” means one thing to a recruiter (workflow integration) and a different thing to a developer (public read endpoint). “Intent data” means six different things depending on which provider category you’re shopping for. This glossary picks one definition per term and is explicit about which adjacent meaning each entry does not cover.
Terms cluster into four implicit categories:
- Data shapes - how postings are modeled. Job posting schema, job posting deduplication, job board API.
- Infrastructure - the plumbing under a jobs-data product. API rate limiting, unified API, job aggregator.
- Integration patterns - how you connect an ATS or job source to a downstream system. ATS API, ATS integration, job scraping.
- Intent surfaces - the B2B signal categories. Intent data, hiring-signal intent, talent intelligence.
If you’re new to the space, the most useful starting terms are job board API and ATS API (clarify the two surfaces), unified API (the integration pattern most teams converge on), and job posting deduplication (the problem that becomes obvious only at scale). The intent-data terms make most sense after reading the intent data providers comparison hub.
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.
Employment Type
Employment type is the field on a job posting that records the kind of working relationship an opening offers - full-time, part-time, contract, temporary, or internship - using a small, fixed set of values so jobs can be filtered and compared across sources.
Technographics
Technographics
Technographics is data about the technology stack a company runs - its frameworks, analytics, hosting, CRM, payments, and other tools - used by B2B teams to target and qualify accounts by the software they already use.
Technographic data
Technographic data is structured data on the technologies a company uses, attached to its domain, exposed via API so sales, marketing, and competitive-intelligence teams can target and segment by tech stack.
Firmographic vs technographic data
Firmographic data describes a company's attributes (industry, size, revenue, location); technographic data describes the technologies it uses. B2B teams combine both to define and prioritize target accounts.
B2B technographic data
B2B technographic data is technology-usage data on companies, used by sales, marketing, and competitive-intelligence teams to build target lists, qualify accounts, and personalize outreach around the tools a prospect already runs.
Technographic segmentation
Technographic segmentation is the practice of grouping accounts by the technologies they use, so messaging, targeting, and prioritization can be tailored to each group's stack.
Technographic data examples
Technographic data examples are the concrete technology data points attached to a company, such as the analytics suite, hosting provider, ecommerce platform, CRM, or payment processor it uses.
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.