🇦🇺 Employment Hero Job Scraper

🚀 First-mover advantage: Only 5 competing actors on Apify for Employment Hero
🤖 AI-Ready: Works seamlessly with Claude Code, ChatGPT, and other AI assistants via Apify MCP
🎯 Australian Market: Extract jobs from Australia's leading employment platform

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Smart Search — Filter by job title, location, and keywords
• 📊 Rich Data — Extract titles, companies, locations, salaries, descriptions, job types
• 🏎️ Fast & Reliable — Uses JSON-LD structured data for accurate extraction
• 🤖 AI-First Design — Built for Claude Code, ChatGPT, and recruitment automation
• 🌏 Australian Focus — Covers jobs across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and all major cities
• 💰 Cost-Effective — $0.005 per job + $0.05 start fee

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🤖 AI Agent Use Cases

Perfect for AI assistants and automation workflows:

🔹 Recruitment Automation

"Find 50 software engineering jobs in Sydney on Employment Hero"
→ AI agent scrapes and filters relevant positions
→ Builds shortlist with salary data and job descriptions

🔹 Job Market Research

"Compare salaries for data scientist roles across Melbourne and Brisbane"
→ Extracts salary ranges from Employment Hero listings
→ Analyzes market trends by location

🔹 Candidate Matching

"Get all part-time marketing jobs in Adelaide with descriptions"
→ Scrapes job details including requirements
→ Matches candidates to opportunities

🔹 Competitive Intelligence

"Monitor new job postings from [Company X]"
→ Track hiring patterns and expansion signals
→ Alert when competitor posts new roles

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📥 Input Configuration

Field	Type	Description	Example
searchQuery	String	Job title or keyword	"software engineer"
location	String	City or state filter	"Sydney", "Victoria"
maxResults	Integer	Max jobs to scrape (1-500)	50
proxyConfiguration	Object	Apify proxy settings	{"useApifyProxy": true}

Example Input

{
  "searchQuery": "data analyst",
  "location": "Melbourne",
  "maxResults": 100
}

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📤 Output Schema

Each job listing includes:

{
  "jobTitle": "Senior Data Analyst",
  "company": "Tech Solutions Australia",
  "location": "Melbourne, Victoria, 3000",
  "salary": "$90,000 - $110,000",
  "jobType": "FULL_TIME",
  "description": "We're seeking an experienced data analyst to join our analytics team...",
  "url": "https://employmenthero.com/jobs/position/...",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-22T02:55:00.000Z"
}

Field Descriptions

• jobTitle — Job position title
• company — Hiring organization name
• location — Full address (suburb, state, postcode)
• salary — Salary range (if available)
• jobType — Employment type (FULL_TIME, PART_TIME, CASUAL, etc.)
• description — Clean job description (HTML removed)
• url — Direct link to job posting
• scrapedAt — ISO timestamp of data extraction

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🚀 Quick Start

Via Apify Console

1. Open the actor page
2. Configure input (search query, location, max results)
3. Click Start and download results as JSON, CSV, or Excel

Via Apify API

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fervent_bus~employment-hero-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "searchQuery": "software engineer",
    "location": "Sydney",
    "maxResults": 50
  }'

Via Python (Apify Client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_API_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("fervent_bus/employment-hero-scraper").call(
    run_input={
        "searchQuery": "product manager",
        "location": "Brisbane",
        "maxResults": 100
    }
)

# Fetch results
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['jobTitle']} at {item['company']} - {item['location']}")

Via JavaScript (Apify Client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('fervent_bus/employment-hero-scraper').call({
  searchQuery: 'marketing manager',
  location: 'Sydney',
  maxResults: 50
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach(job => {
  console.log(`${job.jobTitle} - ${job.company} (${job.location})`);
});

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🤖 Claude Code / ChatGPT Integration

This actor is optimized for AI assistants via Apify MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Example Prompts for AI Agents

Claude Code:

Use Employment Hero scraper to find 100 tech jobs in Sydney. 
Filter for roles with "Python" in the description and salary > $100k.
Export to CSV.

ChatGPT + Apify:

Scrape Employment Hero for remote marketing jobs across Australia. 
Compare locations by number of openings and average salary.

Custom AI Workflow:

# In your AI agent code
from apify_client import ApifyClient

def search_jobs(query, location, count=50):
    """AI-callable function to search Employment Hero"""
    client = ApifyClient(os.getenv("APIFY_TOKEN"))
    run = client.actor("fervent_bus/employment-hero-scraper").call({
        "searchQuery": query,
        "location": location,
        "maxResults": count
    })
    return list(client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items())

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🎯 Who Is This For?

• 🤖 AI Developers — Build recruitment bots, job aggregators, salary analyzers
• 📈 HR Teams — Automate job market research and competitor tracking
• 💼 Recruiters — Monitor new openings, track hiring trends
• 📊 Data Analysts — Research employment market trends across Australia
• 🔧 Job Boards — Aggregate Employment Hero listings into your platform

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🛠️ Technical Details

• Technology: Python 3.11 + httpx + BeautifulSoup4
• Data Source: JSON-LD structured data (schema.org JobPosting)
• Protection: None required (clean server-rendered HTML)
• Speed: ~100 jobs per minute
• Memory: 1024 MB recommended
• Proxy: Optional (included in Apify subscription)

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💰 Pricing

Event	Price	Description
Job Scraped	$0.005	Per job listing extracted
Actor Start	$0.05	One-time fee per run

Example cost:

• 100 jobs = $0.05 + (100 × $0.005) = $0.55 total
• 500 jobs = $0.05 + (500 × $0.005) = $2.55 total

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📚 Additional Resources

• 📖 Actor Source Code
• 🐛 Report Issues
• 💬 Apify Platform Documentation
• 🤖 Apify MCP Integration Guide

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🔗 Related Actors

• Seek Scraper — Australia's largest job board
• Indeed Australia — International job listings
• LinkedIn Jobs — Professional network positions

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📄 License

This actor is provided as-is under the MIT License.

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🚀 Get Started Now

Compatible with Claude Code, ChatGPT, and AI agents via Apify MCP.

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