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Data Sources

Everything on the Platform is built on top of open data and original analysis. Here is where it comes from.

Jobs and Opportunities

Aggregated from public APIs and career sites. All listings link back to the original source or employer.

  • Greenhouse
  • Adzuna
  • Remotive
  • Reed
  • USAJobs
  • RemoteOK
  • Careerjet
  • The Muse
  • Jobicy
  • Arbeitnow
  • We Work Remotely
  • Himalayas
  • HN Who Is Hiring
  • Ashby
  • Workable
  • Personio
  • Jooble
  • Findwork
  • JSearch (via RapidAPI)
  • Lever
  • EURES
  • Employer Portal (jobs posted directly by verified employers)

Job listings are cached and refreshed via scheduled sync jobs. Listings older than 90 days are automatically deactivated.

Career and Occupation Data

Structured occupation classification and task descriptions.

  • ESCO — European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations
  • O*NET Online — US Department of Labor

Skills, Certifications, Training

Curated skill catalogs, learning resources, and certification pathways.

  • AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Learn (public training portals)
  • Coursera, edX, Google Grow (public catalog information)
  • freeCodeCamp, The Odin Project, CS50
  • Community-submitted resources

Salary and Market Intelligence

Aggregated wage information from public labor market data and community submissions.

  • US Bureau of Labor Statistics
  • UK Office for National Statistics
  • Statistics Canada, ABS Australia, and equivalent public statistics agencies
  • Community salary transparency submissions

Companies and Universities

Company and university profiles combine public data with our own analysis.

  • OpenCorporates (company verification)
  • Companies House UK (UK company data)
  • GitHub Organizations (open-source company profiles)
  • Wikipedia (summaries via REST API)
  • NIRF, QS, and Times Higher Education (public rankings)

Government and Regional Resources

Official government schemes, exams, scholarships, and portals.

  • National government portals
  • State and provincial workforce agencies
  • Public scholarship registries

Research and Academic Papers

Open-access research content.

  • CORE
  • PubMed
  • Semantic Scholar
  • arXiv
  • Crossref
  • OpenLibrary
  • Google Books (metadata)

News and Community Content

Public feeds and community-generated content.

  • Reddit (public JSON feeds)
  • Dev.to
  • Stack Exchange
  • Devpost
  • Podcast Index
  • YouTube Data API (metadata only)

Fraud and Safety

URL safety and email verification signals.

  • VirusTotal
  • URLhaus
  • Google Safe Browsing
  • PhishTank
  • Hunter.io (email verification)

AI Providers

Multiple AI providers power the coach, analysis, and generation features. Requests fail over across providers.

  • Groq
  • Google Gemini
  • Cerebras
  • DeepSeek
  • Mistral
  • OpenRouter
  • NVIDIA NIM

Personal identifiers are stripped from your input before any AI call.

Data quality and takedowns

If you are a data source, employer, or content owner and you believe data on the Platform is incorrect, out of date, or should be removed, please email contact@thecareermachine.com. We review takedown requests promptly.