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Labor Market Data for Capital Markets


A company's hiring moves before its revenue, earnings, and share price do. Market IQ lets you read that shift early, across companies and sectors, from billions of clean, deduplicated and enriched job postings across 15 markets. Build it into a signal, test a thesis, or flag a turn in a position, delivered by API, data feed or portal.

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Where the move shows up first

Hiring is the earliest read on a company’s direction

When a company is accelerating, it hires; when it is pulling back, when it is pulling back.

Market IQ turns that into a clean, comparable measure of demand at company, sector and geography level, enriched across 50+ data points, with point-in-time history for backtesting.

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A company’s hiring moves before its revenue, earnings and share price do. Market IQ lets you read that shift early, across companies and sectors, from billions of clean, deduplicated and enriched job postings. Build it into a signal, test a thesis, or flag a turn in a position, ahead of the print. Request a demo and we will run it against a name you cover.

FAQ

Got questions about Market IQ for Capital Markets? Check out our FAQ for basics or dive into our developer portal for more in-depth technical info. We’re here to help if you need more answers.

What is job postings alternative data?

Structured data on hiring activity drawn from job postings, used as an early read on company and sector demand alongside financial and economic data. Market IQ provides it as deduplicated, enriched postings at company, sector and geography level. Also referred to as labor market alternative data.

What makes job postings data useful for investors?

A posting signals hiring before it shows up in revenue, headcount or filings, giving an earlier read on company and sector demand. Tracking how postings change over time surfaces shifts in operating posture.

How early is the signal?

A posting reflects a hiring decision, which precedes the revenue, headcount and earnings changes that later reach the financials and the share price. Our data is real time, with most postings appearing within a day of going live.

Is the data point-in-time?

Yes. The data reflects exactly what was visible on any given date, so your backtests aren’t contaminated by information that wasn’t available yet.

Can you map postings to my investable universe?

Market IQ normalises company names and maps to tickers where available. Our team can work with yours to build a sync with your internal records.

How is the data sourced, and is it compliant?

Market IQ’s data is aggregated from publicly available job postings, with no personal data on individuals. We maintain all relevant regulatory compliance, including GDPR.

Is job posting data reliable for investing?

Reliability depends on collection and cleaning. Market IQ deduplicates postings, filters expired and low-quality listings, reaches the long tail beyond the major boards, and enriches each posting with standardized fields, so counts and segments hold up under analysis.

How is Market IQ delivered?

Through the portal for research, an API for integration, a custom data feed for your environment, and the ATS/CRM marketplace.

How much history is available for backtesting?

Up to 15 years of history is available depending on the country, via the Market IQ data feed. The portal holds two years, with point-in-time postings for backtesting and model validation.

How does Market IQ compare to LinkUp?

LinkUp sources postings directly from employer sites with long history. Market IQ adds enrichment across 50+ data points, cross-lingual taxonomies and deduplication, with long-tail coverage across 15 markets, for teams that want analysis-ready data rather than raw counts.

How does Market IQ compare to Revelio Labs?

Revelio Labs builds on workforce profiles alongside postings. Market IQ is a job-postings dataset focused on hiring demand, deduplicated and enriched, for teams that want a clean postings signal rather than profile-derived metrics.

Which markets and sources does Market IQ cover?

Postings from more than 33 million sites across 15 markets in North America, Europe and APAC, including company career sites, not only the major job boards.

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