Personio Jobs Scraper — Every Career Portal as Clean JSON (No API Key)

Scrape Personio career-portal job postings from any company's public board into clean, structured JSON — title, department, seniority, full description sections, locations, posting date, and apply URL. No account, no login, no API key. Point it at a list of Personio tenants and get a normalized jobs feed back.

✅ Last verified working: 2026-06-10. Monitored by an automated daily canary. When Personio changes its feed, we patch fast and log it in the changelog below — so your hiring-data pipeline doesn't silently break.

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Why this Personio scraper

Personio is the ATS standard for the German, Austrian, and Swiss SMB market — thousands of DACH companies run their careers page on a {tenant}.jobs.personio.de portal, and every one of those portals serves a public XML feed of its published positions at the explicit /xml path. No key, no login, no browser. One request returns the whole board with full descriptions, departments, and seniority levels — metadata most ATS feeds don't expose. The catch is the usual one: the moment the feed shape shifts, a naive scraper silently returns nothing. This actor is built to stay working:

• One normalized schema — the same stable job record as our Greenhouse & Lever, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, and Teamtailor scrapers, so Personio companies slot into the exact same pipeline with no special-casing.
• Departments + seniority included — Personio's feed exposes department, seniority (entry-level / experienced / …), and employment schedule on every position: the segmentation fields hiring-signal and recruiting datasets usually have to infer.
• Full descriptions, in one call — every description section ("About the role", "Your profile", …) comes back as labeled clean text. No extra requests, so it's fast and cheap.
• Language option — pass language: "en" (or de, …) to get localized titles/descriptions where the company provides them.
• Per-company isolation + retries — a dead or unknown tenant is skipped and logged; it never crashes the run. Transient errors retry with backoff.
• Stable, versioned output (_schemaVersion) + a daily canary — that "last verified working" date is real.

What data you get

Each row is one normalized job posting. Fields Personio's public feed doesn't provide come back as null, never missing, so your downstream schema stays predictable.

Field	Type	Description
_type	string	Always job.
_schemaVersion	string	Output schema version.
_source	string	Always personio.
company	string	Tenant identifier (the {tenant}.jobs.personio.de subdomain).
jobId	string	Personio position ID.
title	string	Job title.
department	string | null	Department (populated on virtually every posting).
seniority	string | null	Seniority level (e.g. entry-level, experienced).
team	null	Not exposed in the feed — always null.
location	string | null	Primary office string (as the company writes it, e.g. DE - Stuttgart).
allLocations	string[] | null	All listed offices (comma-separated offices split out).
workplaceType	null	Not exposed as a dedicated field — remote status often appears in the office string.
commitment	string | null	Schedule (Full-time, Part-time, …).
country	null	Personio gives free-form office names, not country codes — always null.
url	string	Public posting URL (/job/{id}).
applyUrl	string	The posting page (applications happen there).
postedAt	string | null	Creation date (ISO).
updatedAt	null	Not exposed in the feed — always null.
descriptionText	string | null	All description sections as labeled clean text (when includeDescription is on).
_scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp this record was fetched.

Use cases

• DACH sales intelligence / hiring-signal tracking. Personio is where German-speaking SMB hiring lives — a segment US-centric ATS datasets miss entirely. department + seniority + postedAt feed straight into lead-scoring and growth-signal models.
• Recruiting & talent sourcing. Aggregate live openings across target employers into one table — same schema as our five other ATS scrapers, so multi-ATS coverage needs zero special-casing.
• Job boards & aggregators. Need to scrape Personio jobs into a uniform feed? Point it at your tenant list and ingest normalized records on a schedule, in the language you need.
• Labor-market research. Track posting volume, departments, and seniority mix across the DACH SMB market over time.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Notes
companies	string[]	✅	Personio tenants (lanch) or {tenant}.jobs.personio.de URLs. One per row.
language	string	—	Optional two-letter code (en, de, …) for localized titles/descriptions where provided. Empty = tenant default.
includeDescription	boolean	—	Include the labeled description sections. Default true. Same request either way — turning it off only trims output size.
maxJobsPerCompany	integer	—	Cap per company (1–5000). Default 100.

{
  "companies": ["teamative"],
  "includeDescription": true,
  "maxJobsPerCompany": 100
}

Output sample

A real record from the default run (teamative — a DACH IT-services group hiring across Germany and Czechia):

{
  "_type": "job",
  "_schemaVersion": "1.0",
  "_source": "personio",
  "company": "teamative",
  "jobId": "2623782",
  "title": "Initiativbewerbung (m/w/d)",
  "department": "Marketing",
  "team": null,
  "location": "DE - Stuttgart",
  "allLocations": ["DE - Stuttgart"],
  "workplaceType": null,
  "commitment": "Full-or-part-time",
  "seniority": "experienced",
  "country": null,
  "url": "https://teamative.jobs.personio.de/job/2623782",
  "applyUrl": "https://teamative.jobs.personio.de/job/2623782",
  "postedAt": "2026-05-05T08:58:57.000Z",
  "updatedAt": null,
  "descriptionText": "Über uns:\nteamative bietet Beratung, Entwicklung und die Umsetzung von...",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-06-10T12:34:05.149Z"
}

Use with AI agents (MCP)

This scraper is callable as a tool by AI agents via the Apify MCP server — so assistants like Claude, Cursor, and VS Code can run it and use the structured results mid-conversation, with no glue code.

Simplest path: in a recent Claude Desktop, add the hosted server https://mcp.apify.com under Settings → Connectors and authorize with OAuth. For any config-file client:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apify": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@apify/actors-mcp-server"],
      "env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
    }
  }
}

Then ask in plain language, e.g. "List the open jobs on teamative's Personio portal with departments, seniority, and apply links." — the agent calls freshactors/personio-jobs-scraper with the right input and reads back the JSON. Full setup: Apify MCP docs.

Pricing

Pay-per-event — no subscription. You pay only for the boards you fetch and the postings you receive:

Event	Price (USD)	When it fires
Company jobs fetched	$0.02	Once per company career portal successfully fetched (with ≥1 job).
Job posting fetched	$0.0005	Once per job posting returned.

Worked example — "how much do 100 results cost?" Scrape 5 companies for 100 postings total:

• Boards: 5 × $0.02 = $0.10
• Postings: 100 × $0.0005 = $0.05
• Total: $0.15 for 100 normalized jobs (with departments, seniority, and full descriptions) across 5 companies.

(Apify platform usage is billed separately per their standard rates.)

FAQ

Is scraping Personio jobs legal? This actor reads public, non-personal job-posting data from companies' own public career portals — the same data those pages serve to any visitor. No login, no personal data. Use responsibly and in line with applicable terms and laws.

Do I need an API key? No. There's no Personio API key, account, or login — it reads the public XML feed every career portal already serves.

How do I find a company's Personio tenant? It's the subdomain of their careers page — **lanch**.jobs.personio.de. Companies that embed jobs on their own site usually link through to the jobs.personio.de portal — paste that URL.

How many jobs can one call return? The feed returns the company's full published board in a single request — Personio's customer base is SMB, so boards are typically 3–50 positions. Use maxJobsPerCompany to cap volume and cost.

Can I get postings in English (or German)? Yes — set language to a two-letter code (e.g. en). Where the company maintains translations, titles and descriptions come back localized; otherwise you get the tenant's default language.

Why is country always null? Personio's feed gives free-form office names ("DE - Hamburg - remote", "Berlin"), not structured country codes — we pass the office strings through honestly in location/allLocations rather than guessing.

Can I scrape many companies at once? Yes — pass as many tenants in companies as you need. Each board is fetched in isolation; a dead or unknown tenant is skipped, not fatal.

How often is the data updated? It's live — every run fetches the companies' current public boards. The actor itself is monitored by a daily canary so parsing stays correct as the feed evolves.

Other FreshActors tools

FreshActors actor	What it scrapes
Greenhouse & Lever Jobs Scraper	Greenhouse + Lever — normalized job postings
Workable Jobs Scraper	Workable — normalized job postings, full descriptions
SmartRecruiters Jobs Scraper	SmartRecruiters — normalized job postings, full descriptions
Recruitee Jobs Scraper	Recruitee — normalized job postings, full descriptions + salary
Teamtailor Jobs Scraper	Teamtailor — normalized job postings, full descriptions
App Store Scraper	Apple App Store — app details, search, reviews
Google Play Scraper	Google Play — app details + reviews
Microsoft Store Scraper	Microsoft Store — app details, rating windows, search, reviews
VS Code Marketplace Scraper	VS Code extensions — install/trending stats, search, reviews
Shopify App Store Scraper	Shopify App Store — app details, reviews, discovery
Redfin Scraper	Redfin — US real-estate listings

Reliability

A scheduled daily canary scrapes a known Personio portal, validates the normalized schema, and alerts the moment a parse changes. When Personio shifts its feed, we patch the same day and record it in the changelog below. Every record carries _schemaVersion and _scrapedAt.

Changelog

• 2026-06-10 — v1.0 launch. Single-call public XML feed (full board + labeled description sections per request), departments + seniority exposed, optional feed language, normalized schema shared with our five other ATS scrapers, per-company isolation, daily canary monitoring.

Legal note: Reads public, non-personal job-posting data from companies' own public career portals (the same data those pages serve to any visitor). No login, no personal data. Use responsibly and in line with applicable terms and laws.

Found a problem? Open an issue on the actor — issues are answered fast.