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Original Job-Search Research

Original studies, published so that a journalist, researcher, or sceptical reader can check the work rather than take it on trust.

Published

6 research and data surfaces.

Every one carries its method, its denominators, the underlying data as a download, and a statement of what it cannot support.

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    AI Job Search Tool Pricing Index

    The gap between the advertised monthly rate and the amount actually charged, measured across every verified plan.

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    The AI Job Search Software Market, Measured

    A market census with explicit verification coverage, so a reader can see what the figures rest on and what is still unmeasured.

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    Where Is It Hardest to Find a Job?

    One ratio, ranked across 51 places, with a ten-year history for each and an explicit account of why the period is not the current month.

  • researchupdated 2026-08-22

    Job Openings Stopped Meaning What They Used To

    An analysis of 294 comparable months finding that openings still track hiring as closely as ever, while the level relationship between them has completely inverted.

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    Why So Many Job Openings But So Little Hiring?

    A measure of how far apart the openings signal and the hiring signal are, with 25 years of history, a sensitivity analysis, and an explicit list of what it cannot explain.

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    How Hard Is It to Find a Job Right Now?

    A monthly composite index where 100 equals average 2019 conditions, with every component, the full history since 2000 and the window where the index is known to fail.

New releases appear in the Atom feed, which carries research and data only — never a monthly note published because the calendar turned.

Publication status

No original research has been published.

This is the strongest claim a publication can make, so it is the one most worth protecting. Nothing on this site will be labelled original research unless Jobsearch.ing genuinely collected or analysed the underlying data.

Summarising someone else’s survey is not research. Restating a vendor’s report with new charts is not research. Those are useful things to do, and when they are done here they will appear under Data, attributed to whoever did the measuring.

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The programme

The State of the Job Search

A recurring benchmark report on how job searches actually progress: volume, conversion at each stage, duration, and how those differ by seniority, industry, and work arrangement.

Not until all of these are true

  • A sample large enough and well-enough described to support the claims made from it.
  • A published methodology, written before collection begins rather than after results are seen.
  • Explicit, informed consent from every participant, with no repurposing of tool usage as research data.
  • A named human accountable for the findings.
  • A stated margin of error, and a stated list of questions the sample cannot answer.

Report structure

What every research report will contain.

Published in advance so that a report missing any of it is visibly incomplete.

  1. Research question

    Stated before the data was collected, not fitted to it afterwards.

  2. Executive summary and key findings

    The conclusions, in language that survives being quoted out of context.

  3. Methodology

    Sampling frame, recruitment, instrument, response rate, and any weighting or adjustment applied.

  4. Sample and definitions

    Who is in the sample, who is not, and precisely what each term counted.

  5. Results

    Tables and charts with units, sample sizes per breakdown, and an accessible text alternative for every figure.

  6. Interpretation

    What the results mean, clearly separated from what the data shows, and never presenting correlation as cause.

  7. Limitations

    The questions this study cannot answer, and the ways its sample is unrepresentative.

  8. Data, version, and citation

    A stable URL, a version number, a download where appropriate, and suggested citation wording.

  9. Corrections record

    Any change to a finding after publication, dated and described. Findings are not silently revised.

For journalists and researchers

What you can expect when there is something to cite.

Research published here is intended to be quoted, checked, and argued with. Every report will carry a stable URL that does not change when the page is edited, a version number and publication date, suggested citation wording, and the underlying tables in a form that can be downloaded rather than retyped from a chart.

Corrections are treated as part of the record. If a finding changes materially after publication, the change is dated, described, and left visible on the page — not quietly edited into the original text.

Where a figure is derived rather than measured, the derivation is shown. A reader should never have to guess whether a number was observed or calculated.

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