BetterJobs does one thing: it finds job postings across many providers and returns each real opening once. If your problem is something else, another tool will serve you better. Here are the cases we know about.
You need contact data for people
Section titled “You need contact data for people”BetterJobs returns jobs and company hiring profiles. A canonical job has no person fields: no hiring manager name, email or phone.
Use instead: a contact-data waterfall. Feed it the company domain from company.domain and the role you want to reach. Use BetterJobs to find which companies to contact and why now, and the contact tool to find who.
You need many years of job history
Section titled “You need many years of job history”BetterJobs is built for current and recent hiring. posted_within_days goes up to 365. Of the partner providers, the longest history any of them claims starts in 2020: per Coresignal docs, postings since August 2020, and per Techmap, 451M+ postings since 2020. Nobody in the waterfall covers ten years.
Use instead: a labor-market data vendor that sells long historical series. If 2020 onward is enough and you need it in bulk, buy the dataset from Coresignal or Techmap directly (see below).
You already pay for the one provider you need
Section titled “You already pay for the one provider you need”If one provider’s coverage is enough for you and you already have a contract, BetterJobs adds a layer between you and data you already own. The value of BetterJobs is the merge: more sources, one schema, duplicates removed, one bill. With one source, there is nothing to merge.
Use instead: that provider’s API directly. Our migration guides map field names both ways, so you can compare later.
You need full datasets delivered to your warehouse
Section titled “You need full datasets delivered to your warehouse”BetterJobs is an API. An async search returns up to 10,000 jobs per search, paged at 100. It does not drop files into your bucket.
Use instead: a bulk feed from a provider. Per Coresignal docs, Coresignal delivers JSONL, Parquet or CSV to S3, GCS, Azure or Snowflake. Per Techmap, Techmap offers daily country feeds via AWS Data Exchange.
You need technographics or firmographics
Section titled “You need technographics or firmographics”BetterJobs answers “who is hiring for what”. It does not return a company’s tech stack, size, funding or revenue.
Use instead: a company-data provider. Per TheirStack docs, TheirStack sells technographics inferred from job text plus firmographics. Join on the company domain.
You need to resell job data
Section titled “You need to resell job data”Each job carries a license. license.resale: false means you may not resell or redistribute that job as data. Check it before you build a product on top. See Licensing.
You need GA guarantees today
Section titled “You need GA guarantees today”The API is a v1 preview. Endpoints and fields may change before general availability. Uptime, coverage and freshness figures are published at GA. If you need a contractual SLA now, wait for GA or talk to us about Enterprise terms.
Still a fit?
Section titled “Still a fit?”If you need current job postings from many sources, merged, with one key and one bill, start with the Quickstart. The keyless sandbox costs nothing.