LinkUp

LinkUp is a job-market data provider that indexes vacancies directly from employers' career websites. Its records are used as measures of labor demand by investors, corporations, human-capital software teams, researchers, educational institutions, and public agencies.^[1] Unlike a consumer job board assembled from redistributed advertisements, LinkUp's commercial service emphasizes structured records and historical hiring signals.

The company reports that its data begins in 2007 and comprises more than 350 million indexed jobs from approximately 86,000 companies across 195 countries, including mappings to about 8,600 primary stock tickers.^[1] Datarade independently lists LinkUp as a verified data provider and describes daily job-posting products, custom pricing, and a historical dataset dating to 2007, although its displayed volume figures are older than those on LinkUp's current site.^[4]

What It Does

LinkUp monitors employer sites for newly published, changed, and removed vacancies. It retains the employer's original URL and records posting and removal dates, allowing analysts to count active openings, additions, removals, and listing duration.^[1][3] Aggregated over employers, occupations, sectors, and places, those observations can indicate changes in hiring demand before slower official statistics become available. At company level, they can serve as an alternative indicator of expansion, contraction, location strategy, or desired skills.

Data and Methodology

LinkUp says that proprietary indexing technology and web-data engineers collect listings daily from employer-controlled sites, after which the records are verified, parsed, cleaned, enriched, and assigned identifiers and classifications.^[3] Job fields include title, full description, company, location, dates, source URL, and SOC or O*NET occupation codes. Company fields can include ticker, NAICS industry, legal-entity identifier, CUSIP, SEDOL, ISIN, and PermID.^[3]

Direct employer sourcing can reduce duplicates created when the same advertisement is syndicated among job boards, and nightly checks can identify expired postings. It does not make the dataset a complete census: employers without accessible career sites, vacancies filled informally, collection failures, and changes in website structure can affect coverage. LinkUp's assertions that duplicates are impossible and expired listings never remain are vendor claims rather than conclusions independently tested in the reviewed sources.^[1]

Products and Delivery

LinkUp RAW is the record-level historical dataset. Custom Feeds provide selected geographies, companies, industries, or fields; Market Reports supply recurring analysis; and Compass is a browser-based query and visualization product.^[3] LinkUp also publishes labor-market indicators and forecasts based on its data, including estimates related to U.S. nonfarm payrolls and Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey releases.^[1] Datarade lists integrations or distribution through platforms including AWS Data Exchange, Snowflake Data Marketplace, Google Cloud Analytics Hub, Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics, FactSet Marketplace, and Knoema.^[4]

Buyers and Use Cases

Capital-markets users can connect hiring records to public-company identifiers for quantitative research or company monitoring. Corporate and human-capital users can compare competitors' openings, locations, salaries, benefits, and requested skills. Academic and public-sector users can analyze occupations, regions, sectors, or near-real-time demand.^[1][3] Datarade states that pricing depends on use case, scope, customer, and contract length and that samples are available; LinkUp itself directs prospective customers to request a demonstration.^[4]

History

LinkUp says the business began as recruitment-advertising company JobDig in 2001 and shifted its model toward job data in 2007. The company states that GlobalData PLC acquired it in 2024 and lists its office in Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[2] The consulted independent marketplace profile corroborates the 2007 start of the historical job dataset and identifies the provider's headquarters country as the United States, but does not independently document the acquisition terms.^[4]

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More about Jobs & Workforce

Jobs & Workforce is one of the signal families covered by The Alternative Data Encyclopedia, with 16 providers and 179 datasets listed in the register. For how the signal is generated, its caveats and the compliance considerations, and the full provider list, see the category article.