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Job Posting API Quickstart Guide What the Job Posting API Does 5 Ways Teams Are Using It Making Your First Call Where to Go Next Takeaway

Job Posting API Quickstart Guide

5 Real-World Use Cases

Vinay Rajur

04/23/26

5 min

Job Posting API Quickstart Guide

If you missed the news, we just launched our new Job Posting API (check out the announcement post)!

The Job Posting API provides direct access to real world hiring activity: who companies are hiring, where they’re growing, and what roles they’re investing in.

So, instead of managing datasets or scraping job boards, you can now just query this data on demand and plug it into your workflows.

Below are a few of the most common ways we’re seeing teams using it.

What the Job Posting API Does

The Job Posting API lets you:

Query live job postings (refreshed and updated daily)
Filter by company, role, location
Get structured results back instantly

Think of it as searching hiring activity, not storing it.

5 Ways Teams Are Using It

Now let’s take a look at the most common patterns we’re seeing across customers (with links to actual implementation examples).

1) Keeping Job Boards Fresh

Use the API to power job search experiences with live data instead of syncing a dataset.

Fetch jobs on demand as users search
Return only active, current listings
Paginate results easily

Why this works: no refresh pipelines, no stale data, and minimal infrastructure

Read the Docs

Keep a Job Board Up to Date

2) Monitoring Hiring at Target Companies

Track hiring activity across a list of companies over time.

Pull jobs by company
Run recurring checks (daily/weekly)
Track changes in roles and volume

Used for: account monitoring, competitive tracking, and investment research

Read the Docs

Get All Job Postings from a Company

3) Turning Hiring into Sales Signals

Use job postings as a proxy for company intent.

Find companies hiring for specific roles (e.g. SDRs)
Search for tools or technologies mentioned in descriptions
Focus outreach based on recent hiring activity

Outcome: better timing and more relevant targeting (with less volume than broad lead lists)

Read the Docs

Use Job Postings as an Intent Signal

4) Analyzing Hiring by Region

Understand where demand is growing without building a data pipeline.

Filter by geography and role
Identify hiring trends by region
Compare activity over time

Useful for: territory planning, market analysis, and expansion decisions

Read the Docs

Get All Job Postings in a Country

5) Building Multi-Step Workflows

Use job posting data as one step in a larger system.

Example workflow:

Find companies in your ICP
Pull their job postings
Filter by relevant roles
Push results into your CRM or outbound tools

Why this matters: the API is flexible enough to plug into existing systems - not just standalone queries

Read the Docs

Find Companies → Then Get Their Job Postings

Making Your First Call

The best part about the API is that you don’t need much setup to get started:

import requests

API_ENDPOINT = "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/job_posting/search"

payload = {
    "company_website": "openai.com", # Select a company
    "title_role": "engineering",  # Selects a job role
    "size": 3, # Get 3 records
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY" # Replace with your API Key
}

response = requests.post(API_ENDPOINT, json=payload)
print(response.text)

This returns structured job posting data for your query.

A typical response looks like this (trimmed for readability):

{
  "status": 200,
  "data": [
    {
      "title": "ai workflow engineer, marketing innovation",
      "company_name": "openai",
      "first_seen": "2026-04-08",
      "last_verified": "2026-04-08",
      // Additional fields like description, etc. (omitted for brevity)
    },
    // Additional records (omitted for brevity)
  ],
  "total": 673
}

That’s it! One request, a few easy-to-tweak parameters, and you have usable hiring data.

From here, you can expand filters, chain queries, and start plugging results into your workflows.

Where to Go Next

Want to see real implementations?

Use Cases Page

Want all the details?

Full API Docs + Quickstart Guide

Ready to try it?

Takeaway

Job postings are one of the clearest signals of what companies are doing next.

With the new Job Posting API, we’re seeing teams apply this data across sales, product, and strategy workflows with relatively simple setups.

If you’re already making decisions about who to target, where to focus, or when to act, this is a useful signal to add into the mix.

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Vinay Rajur

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Job Posting API Quickstart Guide

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