Canada Job Bank Postings (Open Data)
Pricing
from $1.00 / 1,000 job posting returneds
Filter and compare the Government of Canada's monthly Job Bank job postings open data by NOC, NAICS sector, province, city, wage and keyword. Uses the official open data files, no website scraping.
You can access the Canada Job Bank Postings (Open Data) programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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