Alternative Data for
Investment Professionals
From structured job data.
Track company growth, workforce shifts, skills, and expansion through structured job posting data.
Three Ways Investment Teams
Use Job Data
Job posting data does not produce a single signal. Different research workflows extract different value from the same underlying hiring activity.
Pre-Earnings Research
Correlate hiring surges or freezes with future revenue direction and investor disclosures, before results are announced.
Sector and Macro Analysis
Map hiring density across industries and time to detect sector-wide momentum shifts before they appear in quarterly reports.
Portfolio Monitoring
Track labour signals across holdings and targets to flag ramp-up, churn, or strategic repositioning as it happens.
See What Hiring Activity
Is Signaling
Hiring activity provides another view into how companies are changing, where they are investing, and what capabilities they are building.
| Company | Sector | Velocity | 30D CHANGE | Signal interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acme Cloud | Enterprise SaaS | Accelerating ↑ | +38% | Engineering and sales expanding |
| Meridian Health | Healthcare | Accelerating ↑ | +24% | Clinical and data hiring rising |
| Vantage Capital | Fin. Services | Stable → | +3% | Hiring remains broadly unchanged |
| Orion Logistics | Industrials | Decelerating ↓ | -18% | Engineering roles slowing. Watch for confirmation across ops and supply chain. |
| Apex Semiconductor | Technology | Accelerating ↑ | +51% | R&D and chip design surging. |
| Nova Retail | Consumer | Contracting ↓↓ | -44% | Decline across all functions. Restructuring or demand contraction. Investigate. |
Acme Cloud
Enterprise SaaSEngineering and sales expanding
Meridian Health
HealthcareClinical and data hiring rising
Vantage Capital
Fin. ServicesHiring remains broadly unchanged
Orion Logistics
IndustrialsEngineering roles slowing. Watch for confirmation across ops and supply chain.
Apex Semiconductor
TechnologyR&D and chip design surging.
Nova Retail
ConsumerDecline across all functions. Restructuring or demand contraction. Investigate.
A signal is only as good as
the data it is built on.
Propellum structures and standardises job data to give investment teams a consistent foundation for building reliable signals.
Canonical Job Records
Deduplicate the same opening across employer sites and job boards so each role is counted once.
Normalised Role Taxonomy
Standardise title variations into comparable role categories for consistent analysis.
Company-Level Identity
Connect every posting to the employer behind it, creating a consistent company-level view of hiring.
Time-Series Intelligence
Track first-seen, last-seen, hiring velocity, and changes over time.
Skills & Attribute Normalisation
Standardise skills, seniority, location, and other job attributes so signals remain comparable across companies and markets.
Historical Preservation
Access historical job data for long-term trend analysis and company-level comparisons.
Canonical Job Records
Deduplicate the same opening across employer sites and job boards so each role is counted once.
Normalised Role Taxonomy
Standardise title variations into comparable role categories for consistent analysis.
Company-Level Identity
Connect every posting to the employer behind it, creating a consistent company-level view of hiring.
Time-Series Intelligence
Track first-seen, last-seen, hiring velocity, and changes over time.
Skills & Attribute Normalisation
Standardise skills, seniority, location, and other job attributes so signals remain comparable across companies and markets.
Historical Preservation
Access historical job data for long-term trend analysis and company-level comparisons.
What a hiring signal
looks like in practice.
Job posting data has functioned as a leading indicator across both positive and negative market events. These are two published examples.
Circle Internet Group
Job postings +45% across engineering and compliance over 6 months.
Active pre-IPO buildout. Capital allocation confirmed in hiring data months before public announcement.
IPO filed June 2025. Stock +86%.
Sustained hiring contraction
Job postings down 66% YoY. More than 50% below the prior peak within the same year.
Sharp internal contraction across engineering and operations.
Significant negative market event. Signal visible weeks to months before market reaction.
Hiring signals add another layer of insight and should be considered alongside other investment research.
Research-Ready
Job Market Data
| DIMENSION | SPECIFICATION |
|---|---|
| Historical depth | 1998 to present, 28 years of career-page-sourced job data |
| Total records | 5B+ job records, deduplicated and enriched |
| Geographic coverage | 100+ countries, employer career pages, not job board aggregation |
| Source | Employer career pages, primary source, ahead of all aggregators |
| Update frequency | Continuous, new postings available within hours of going live |
| Point-in-time data | Available, prevents look-ahead bias in backtesting |
| Title normalisation | Consistent taxonomy across all employers and markets |
| Skills extraction | NLP-extracted, 40,000+ term taxonomy |
| Salary data | Stated where posted, AI-estimated via 4-signal model where not |
| Deduplication | Applied before delivery |
| Delivery | S3, Parquet, JSON, API, data warehouse, configured per workflow |
Built for investment teams
that work with alternative data.
Quantitative and systematic funds
Direct model input for alpha generation. Hiring velocity, function shifts, and skills signals integrated into factor models or event-driven strategies.
Fundamental long/short managers
Supporting research on portfolio companies and targets. Track hiring direction before earnings calls and management commentary confirm it.
Private equity and growth equity
Due diligence signal. Monitor target company hiring patterns, skills investment, and geographic expansion over time before and during evaluation.
Venture capital
Early-stage signal. Track hiring acceleration or deceleration in portfolio companies and potential investments as an operational health indicator.
Macro and thematic research
Sector-level and economy-level hiring intelligence across 100+ countries. Map labour market shifts before they appear in official employment data.
Alternative data platforms and aggregators
Embed career-page-sourced, point-in-time job data into your platform, earlier than job board feeds, globally sourced, enrichment applied before delivery.
Quantitative and systematic funds
Direct model input for alpha generation. Hiring velocity, function shifts, and skills signals integrated into factor models or event-driven strategies.
Fundamental long/short managers
Supporting research on portfolio companies and targets. Track hiring direction before earnings calls and management commentary confirm it.
Private equity and growth equity
Due diligence signal. Monitor target company hiring patterns, skills investment, and geographic expansion over time before and during evaluation.
Venture capital
Early-stage signal. Track hiring acceleration or deceleration in portfolio companies and potential investments as an operational health indicator.
Macro and thematic research
Sector-level and economy-level hiring intelligence across 100+ countries. Map labour market shifts before they appear in official employment data.
Alternative data platforms and aggregators
Embed career-page-sourced, point-in-time job data into your platform, earlier than job board feeds, globally sourced, enrichment applied before delivery.
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