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Job postings API for staffing & recruiting

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What staffing & recruiting teams need from job postings API, what Forager returns, and how teams like yours test it.

3 recipes use job postings API for staffing & recruiting teams.

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A selection of teams in staffing & recruiting using Forager for job postings API · plus other teams in staffing & recruiting

For staffing & recruiting teams

The job: Turn open job postings into business-development leads for a recruiting or staffing firm by reaching the CTO or hiring leader who owns the role.
When: A funded startup or scale-up posts several engineering roles or keeps a role open for weeks.
Outcome: Recruiters pitch a real, current hiring need and get more replies from hiring leaders.

Lead recipe 1

Win new staffing clients by reaching hiring leaders behind open roles

When to use it: A funded startup or scale-up posts several engineering roles or keeps a role open for weeks.

Find companies posting target roles with POST /job_search/ (title, location, posted date)
Filter by funding stage, size and industry with POST /organization_search/
Find the CTO, VP Engineering or talent lead with POST /person_role_search/
Fetch work_email via /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and pitch candidates or capacity for that role

Inputs	Outputs
role keywords	`company with open roles`
company filters	`hiring leader`
	`work_email`

Lead recipe 2

Prospect plant and warehouse managers for an on-demand staffing marketplace

When to use it: A facility posts repeated hourly roles (forklift, picker, line worker) or expands to a new site.

Show the steps

Detect high-volume hourly hiring by site with POST /job_search/ (title, location, posted date)
Find plant, warehouse and operations managers at each site with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title, location, organization_domains)
Fetch work_email and Gold mobiles via /person_contacts_lookup/work_emails/ and POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
Route leads to the local market team and track first-shift bookings

Inputs	Outputs
hourly role keywords	`facility with open shifts`
metro areas	`operations manager`
	`work_email`
	`phone_number`

Open the recipe: Prospect plant and warehouse managers for an on-demand staffing marketplace

Lead recipe 3

Size local demand for a role before opening a staffing desk

When to use it: A staffing firm plans a new specialty desk, a new branch, or its quarterly territory review.

Show the steps

Count postings for the role per metro with POST /job_search/totals/ (title, locations, date_featured_start, date_featured_end)
Repeat for the prior period to see whether demand is growing
List the employers behind the postings with POST /job_search/ (title, locations, is_active)
Rank metros by posting volume and employer count and share the shortlist with leadership

Inputs	Outputs
role titles	`posting count per metro`
candidate metros	`period-over-period change`
date range	`employers posting the role`

Open the recipe: Size local demand for a role before opening a staffing desk

Fields

Fields you get back

company with open roles
hiring leader
work_email
facility with open shifts
operations manager
phone_number
posting count per metro
period-over-period change
employers posting the role

From the workflows above. Full field reference: Job postings API and the Job postings API reference.

Who owns this

Who evaluates job postings API at staffing & recruiting teams, and what they are judged on

Product manager who owns the enrichment feature: judged on what users see when they open a record
Engineering lead integrating the API: judged on response time and errors they can route on
Partnerships or data lead managing vendors: judged on cost per valid result

A selection of teams in staffing & recruiting using Forager for job postings API · plus other teams in staffing & recruiting

Juicebox
- AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: Forager data behind its PeopleGPT search and sourcing agents.
HubSpot
- CRM add-ons
Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.
Andela
- Customer
Selected use case: Forager data for the go-to-market team at a global talent marketplace.
SeekOut
- Talent intelligence
Selected use case: Forager’s people data feed, used to keep candidate profiles current.

2–3 years on the Forager people data feed, by SeekOut’s own account¹
Intro
- AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.
Velox
- Staffing firms
Technical staffing firm in the Netherlands.
SBR2TH
- Staffing firms
Selected use case: people and job-postings feeds loaded into its own data lake for AI search.
MarketMapr
- Talent intelligence
Selected use case: licensed people and company feeds that let recruiters map a whole niche.

Sources

¹ SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How do staffing and recruiting firms use the job postings API?

Turn open job postings into business-development leads for a recruiting or staffing firm by reaching the CTO or hiring leader who owns the role. Search live and historical job postings by company, title and location to spot hiring signals. This page walks through 3 workflows with the exact steps.

What does the job postings API cost for staffing and recruiting firms?

Job postings API: 2 credits per request, charged whether or not data comes back. 1,000 job search requests use 2,000 credits: about $27 of Starter credits month to month, or about $20 on Pro with yearly billing. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

Which staffing and recruiting workflows use the job postings API?

Win new staffing clients by reaching hiring leaders behind open roles, prospect plant and warehouse managers for an on-demand staffing marketplace and size local demand for a role before opening a staffing desk. Each is on this page with its trigger, steps and outcome.

How do I find companies hiring engineers and their cto?

Find companies posting target roles with POST /job_search/ (title, location, posted date). Find the CTO, VP Engineering or talent lead with POST /person_role_search/.

What do I send, and what comes back?

You send candidate metros, company filters and date range. You get back work_email, company with open roles, employers posting the role and facility with open shifts, from POST /job_search/, as JSON.

Am I charged when nothing is found?

Yes. Job postings API is charged per request, whether or not data comes back. Only mobile and email lookups are free when nothing is found, so try your inputs on a small run before you scale.

Is there a free way to try Forager?

Yes. Create a free account at app.forager.ai: it comes with $5 in free credits and an API key, and there is no credit card to sign up. Run it on records you already know, or book a demo and send us a list: we run it and show you what we find.

How do I find plant managers hiring hourly workers?

Detect high-volume hourly hiring by site with POST /job_search/ (title, location, posted date). Find plant, warehouse and operations managers at each site with POST /person_role_search/ (role_title, location, organization_domains).

How do I know the data is right?

The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.

How is a job postings API different from scraping job boards?

Scraping job boards means maintaining a crawler per site and cleaning duplicates. A job postings API lets you search live and historical postings by company, title and location in one call and use hiring as a signal in your product.

Does Forager integrate with the tools we already use?

Native in Clay, partner-built in Deepline and called through the API from your own code. Everything else connects through the REST API with one API key.

Is there a contract or minimum commitment?

No contract to start: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using job postings API, choose a monthly or yearly plan. Monthly plans cancel anytime and unused credits roll over; yearly plans grant all credits upfront and cost 10% less. Larger volumes are agreed with our team.