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November 25, 2025

Enhanced

Improved recognition of French driver's licenses
Fixed an issue with non-ASCII characters in email prefixes

November 20, 2025

Enhanced

Fixed an issue with non-ASCII characters in email prefixes

November 13, 2025

Enhanced

Improved normalization of "staff physician" jobs
Various IT networking skills added to the skills taxonomy
Various improvements to French profession normalization
Various additions to the French profession taxonomy

October 20, 2025

Enhanced

Improved recognition of Master degrees in CV and vacancy parsing (no longer misclassifying terms like 'Scrum Master')

October 14, 2025

Enhanced

Improved character recognition from PDF documents.

September 30, 2025

Enhanced

Improved localization for ADR Certification.
IT skill coverage improvements in all languages
French skill normalization improvements
Improved taxonomy coverage of HR job titles and skills in English
Improve coverage of modern IT skills in skill extraction and normalization.
Improved normalization of German assembly supervisor jobs
Various French job titles added to the professions taxonomy
Skill normalization added in 5 new languages: Bulgarian (BG), Estonian (ET), Latvian (LV), Korean (KO) and Thai (TH)

September 1, 2025

Enhanced

Improved recognition of remote/hybrid jobs

June 30, 2025

Enhanced

Various truck driven positions added to the profession taxonomy
Improved normalization of German pilot professions
Cloud-related skills added to the skills taxonomy
10 new skills added to the skills taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong normalization of German 'kochen'
Fixed an issue concerning the recognition of .NET skills

April 9, 2025

Enhanced

Improved Chinese job title normalization (simplified and traditional)

March 31, 2025

Enhanced

Improved Japanese skill extraction
Better coverage of English certifications
Added various Dutch Certifications to the certifications taxonomy
Improved normalization of "Customs and Trade Associate"
Added profession 'Surface treatment operator' to the professions taxonomy
Fixed wrong normalization of 'Commercial employee' jobs
Fixed normalization of branch manager jobs
Improved normalization of Optician jobs in German

March 24, 2025

Enhanced

Improved contextual validation of skills

January 6, 2025

Enhanced

Improved classification of BI Developer jobs
Improve coverage of English and Hebrew skills

December 19, 2024

Enhanced

Swiss German recognized as separate language code
Improved classification of BI Developer jobs
Improved classification of medical sales professions in German
Added 4 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to profession normalization in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.
Improved normalization of electrician jobs
Improved Swiss-French medical profession names
Various enrichments of the English professions taxonomy

December 16, 2024

Enhanced

Fixed wrong normalization of Dutch education level "MBO"

December 13, 2024

Enhanced

Improve coverage of English and Hebrew skills
Greatly improved Japanese skills extraction
Added various US certifications to the certifications taxonomy

November 12, 2024

Enhanced

Various improvements to profession normalization in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.
Added various US certifications to the certifications taxonomy

October 2, 2024

Enhanced

Swiss German recognized as separate language code
Fixed normalization of biology/math teachers
Fixed normalization of pool lifeguards and swimming instructors in French
Improved normalization of 'product designer' titles
Improved normalization of mechanical engineers in German
Improved casing consistency of profession descriptions
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy

September 16, 2024

Enhanced

Certification output field added to TK job parser

August 15, 2024

Enhanced

Medical Doctorates in the US no longer get classified as "Masters", but as "PhD or Professional Doctorate" (renamed from just "PhD")

August 1, 2024

Enhanced

Greatly improved normalization of English job titles used in non-English documents

July 24, 2024

Enhanced

Improved French medical skill extraction

June 27, 2024

Enhanced

Improved classification of job titles to the AMS profession taxonomy
Added Golang Developer to the professions taxonomy
Corrected normalization of Barrister jobs
Improved normalization of Dutch 'Conducteur' job titles
Improved normalization of (Swiss) German medical professions
Better handling of seniority (head, C-level, etc.) of product and operations roles in profession normalization.
Improved normalization of apprenticeship professions in (Swiss) German
Various medical professions added to the profession taxonomy
Improved French medical skill extraction
Added 45 new skills based on the SkillsFuture taxonomy

May 29, 2024

Enhanced

Added various networking technology skills to the skills taxonomy
Added 45 new skills based on the SkillsFuture taxonomy

April 25, 2024

Enhanced

Patch release the professions taxonomy with a fix for wrongly mapped ISCO codes

April 2, 2024

Enhanced

Improved coverage of (Swiss) German medical skills
Improved handling of ambiguous language skills in job and CV parsing
Added 20+ medical skills to the skills taxonomy in all languages.
Added 10 new skills to the skills taxonomy in all languages
Improved skill extraction of Hebrew CVs
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy
Various job titles added to the professions taxonomy based on Swiss market data
Improved Japanese Profession normalization
Improved normalization of 'apprenticeship' professions
Added Corporate Recruiter to the professions taxonomy
Improved Japanese profession normalization
Added 12 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Added 25 new healthcare professions to the professions taxonomy

Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms

March 27, 2024

Enhanced

Fixed casing of Britisch local education levels

Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms

March 19, 2024

Enhanced

Fixed casing of Britisch local education levels

March 18, 2024

Enhanced

Fixed parsing errors of hourly salaries with many decimals

Fixed

Fixed an issue regarding the normalization of job titles that contain soft-hyphens

March 5, 2024

Enhanced

Improved handling of salaries with space in the thousands separator (e.g. "25 000" or "25, 000")

February 23, 2024

Enhanced

All languages: Improve salary reasoning when specific letter casing is used

February 5, 2024

Enhanced

Improved salary parsing in Dutch job descriptions

January 30, 2024

Enhanced

Improved recognition of Spanish (sub)regions
Added support for language skills Pedi and Sepedi

January 25, 2024

Enhanced

Improved Japanese profession normalization

December 14, 2023

Enhanced

Added support for language skills Pedi and Sepedi
Added more Gen AI tools to the skills taxonomy
Added Prodigy (annotation tool) to the skills taxonomy
13 skills added to the skills taxonomy for all Tier 1 languages
Added Hebrew language skills
Add skill COSYS to the skills taxonomy
Improved the names of three German IT job titles
Changed the gender tag (m/v) to (m/v/d) in Dutch profession normalization
Improved normalization of IT professions in English
Fixed wrong normalization of Front End Clerk jobs
Improved taxonomy coverage on watchmaker professions

November 27, 2023

Enhanced

Better normalization of long location descriptions in job ads

October 30, 2023

Enhanced

Improved recognition of voluntary jobs

October 13, 2023

Enhanced

Various improvements to Italian profession and skill normalization
Improved recognition of language skills by written as iso code
Added various CompTIA skills to the skills taxonomy
16 new skills added to the skills taxonomy
Improved accuracy of finance and insurance skills

October 12, 2023

Enhanced

Improved recognition of two-character language skills

October 10, 2023

Enhanced

Improved recognition of language skills by written as iso code

September 28, 2023

Enhanced

Improved classification of CFO/CFA job titles
Various improvements to Italian profession and skill normalization
Added 5 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Renamed some French professions that exist both in English and French
Improved Spanish profession normalization for planner jobs
Improved normalization of French professions
Various improvements to Italian profession normalization
Fixed wrong normalization of cashier job titles
Various improvements to Spanish job title normalization

September 26, 2023

Enhanced

Improved recognition of Bachelor's degrees
Fixed Québec (CA) education levels

Fixed

Fixed an issue related to parsing Bachelor Degrees from jobs

September 20, 2023

Enhanced

Improving parsing of salaries for German language vacancies

September 5, 2023

Enhanced

Improved Japanese Skills Extraction

July 12, 2023

Enhanced

Improved classification of employment type and contract type in Japanese

July 3, 2023

Enhanced

Improved Japanese education level descriptions

June 29, 2023

Enhanced

Improved normalization of job titles found in Swiss vacancies
Various improvements to French job title normalization
Improved normalization of Agile-related job titles
Various improvements to Italian job title normalization
Improved normalization of the Dutch job title "Instructeur serveren"
50 new professions added to the Professions Taxonomy
Four new professions added to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to the German professions taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong German translation of "Police Surveillance Officer"
Corrected the ISCO code mapping for Product Owner
Fixed wrong normalization of Dutch job title "Adviseur (Digitale) Geletterdheid"
Fixed wrong normalization of "Credit Control Officer"

May 31, 2023

Enhanced

Improvements to the accuracy of the salary field in Japanese vacancy parsing

May 26, 2023

Enhanced

Improved region classification in Japanese job parsing

May 22, 2023

Enhanced

Better classification of German education level "Weiterbildung"

May 16, 2023

Enhanced

Improved classification of contract types in Dutch
Improved the classification of the education level 'Weiterbildung' in Germany
Improved region recognition for Clipperton and Saint-Barthélemy

April 18, 2023

Enhanced

Improvements to salary extraction in German and French
Quality of salary extraction improved for German and French
Improved salary extraction from German and French vacancies

March 31, 2023

Enhanced

Added ±10 SAP-related IT skills to the skills taxonomy
Added ±500 new skills to the Skills taxonomy
Added translations of two languages: Balochi and Aramaic
Added various Portuguese skills to the skills taxonomy
6 New skills added to the Skill Taxonomy

March 30, 2023

Enhanced

Added +- 80 German job title synonyms to the professions taxonomy
Added 5 new professions to the professions taxonomy, and renamed 7 professions in French
Various improvements to German job title cleaning
1170 job title synonyms added to the German Professions Taxonomy
Various improvements to the German professions taxonomy
Various improvements to Portuguese profession normalization

March 21, 2023

Enhanced

Improved salary detection in French documents, resulting in a strong reduction of the number of outliers.
Added translations of two languages: Balochi and Aramaic

Fixed

Fixed an issue concerning job titles that contain special characters

Upgraded the vacancy parser to Deep Learning. This leads to significant quality improvements in various fields.

February 22, 2023

Enhanced

Better support for overseas territories

January 24, 2023

Enhanced

Improved skill extraction from vacancies for Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese

January 11, 2023

Enhanced

Improved cleaning of job titles from Ireland
Improved Portuguese profession normalization
Improved Japanese profession normalization

January 10, 2023

Enhanced

Deal better with city names present in multiple countries

December 15, 2022

Enhanced

Various improvements to the French profession taxonomy
(m/f) tags were removed from profession descriptions in English, and -man suffixes (e.g. craftsman) were replaced by gender neutral equivalents (craftsperson)
Added SQL developer as a separate profession
Three Javascript frameworks added to the skills taxonomy
Added new diploma for French language
Hundreds of new terms added to the Japanese skills taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed classification of language teachers in Japanese

December 13, 2022

Enhanced

Improved skill extraction for all accounts from before 2020 (up to par with more recent accounts)

December 5, 2022

Enhanced

Added SQL developer as a separate profession

November 30, 2022

Enhanced

Improved skill extraction for all accounts from before 2020 (up to par with more recent accounts)

November 29, 2022

Enhanced

Improved skill extraction for all accounts from before 2020 (up to par with more recent accounts)

November 1, 2022

Added

Added support for fast reprocessing of stored vacancies to add or update normalized skills. Updating an entire index is still work in progress

October 27, 2022

Added

Added education resources for Singapore

Enhanced

Added new diploma for French language

October 18, 2022

Added

Extraction of the apply URL from a posting (only for input in HTML format with original URL provided). Currently works for English, more languages are planned

Fixed

Fixed classification of language teachers in Japanese

September 29, 2022

Enhanced

Updated the profession taxonomy (Septemer-2022 release)
20 New professions added to the professions taxonomy
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy
Various improvements to job title cleaning

Added

Various small improvements to the French professions taxonomy

Fixed

Fixed wrong classification of building inspector and covid tester

August 9, 2022

Fixed

Fixed a problem related to dates being parsed as phone numbers

July 14, 2022

Enhanced

Added support for parsing Swiss salaries

July 10, 2022

Enhanced

Added support for Arabic skills extraction (tier 3)
Support for Hebrew skills

Fixed

Solved an issue regarding ambiguity of 'Rust' in Dutch
Improve O*NET mapping for home health aides

June 2, 2022

Enhanced

AMS Competency table updated in vacancy parsing - Austria

May 5, 2022

Enhanced

Removed trunk code from the output of phone numbers (in Data Model v2). Phone numbers are now output in international notation, e.g. +31204942496.

Fixed

Fixed missing Umlauts in Austrian locations

January 27, 2022

Enhanced

This version of Sourcebox introduces a change where alert, prompts and confirmation dialogs no longer appear as browser prompts, but instead are consistent with the rest of the look and feel of the application. This does not affect their functionality, which remains the same. This is in response to Google Chrome deprecating the usage of these functions https://chromestatus.com/feature/5148698084376576

December 7, 2021

Enhanced

Various improvements to the German skills taxonomy
Added various (digital) marketing skills to the skills taxonomy
Improved skill disambiguation for multi-word terms in all languages
Improved the names of about 200 skills in the German skill taxonomy
Various improvements to Spanish and Italian translations of professions

Fixed

Fixed ambiguity issue regarding German skill 'Schreiben von Berichten'
Improved German translation of job group "Government Administrators"

November 12, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of Mexican regions

October 25, 2021

Enhanced

Improved detection of staffing agencies detection via new patterns for EN,FR,DE,ES,IT,NL languages

August 16, 2021

Added

Added a field that indicates whether the job allows remote work or working from home (either part-time, full-time or temporarily)

July 30, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of nationalities based on country codes
Improved recognition of French subregions

Fixed

Fixed an issue related to subregion recognition

April 12, 2021

Fixed

Location parsing in France vacancies: no longer report subregions as vacancy location

March 29, 2021

Fixed

Location parsing in France vacancies: no longer report subregions as vacancy location

March 22, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of "Erzieher" in German profession taxonomy

March 19, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

March 15, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

March 11, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

Fixed

Improved recognition of the country Austria in German documents

March 1, 2021

Enhanced

Improved recognition of (sub)regions in india and various other countries

February 15, 2021

Enhanced

Added 950 keywords in 6 Dutch, German, English, French, Spanish and Italian

December 21, 2020

Added

Added 25 ISCO and ONET mappings to the profession taxonomy

Enhanced

A small fix in the Dutch Profession Taxonomy, resolving erroneous classifications of "Montagemedewerker Brilmonturen"
Medical Affairs Manager added to profession taxonomy
Small improvements to French profession normalization

Fixed

Minor improvements to the American English profession taxonomy

December 7, 2020

Fixed

Fixed a deduplication issue in Canada and Spain that resulted in some postings not being deduplicated when street or neighborhood information was present in one of the postings

Enhanced

Error severity levels have been revised and updated for the Extract SOAP API, including advice on retrying strategies for better error handling. Some error IDs have been changed. For more details, refer to the Sourcebox API Reference documentation.

November 23, 2020

Fixed

Postings in which only a country name was mentioned as working location, were geocoded in the center of the country. New postings for such cases will no longer receive any geocoordinates.

November 20, 2020

Fixed

Non-existing city 'Nueva York' removed from autocomplete

October 26, 2020

Added

Added language guessing when no full text or document language is provided via the Input API

Enhanced

Improved classification of Freelance and Apprenticeship contract types for French

September 28, 2020

Fixed

Bullhorn users were not able to import candidates from external sources.

September 14, 2020

Enhanced

Improved recognition of temporary contracts for French jobs

August 31, 2020

Enhanced

Improved extraction of posting dates for Dutch

August 3, 2020

Enhanced

Improved classification of contract types for French

July 20, 2020

Enhanced

Improved geocoding for France in case a postal code or only a department is mentioned

June 8, 2020

In the Bullhorn-native integration, de-duplication was originally designed for single-tenant environments. It has been extended to work with multi-tenant orgs so that Bullhorn BusinessUsers will only see possible duplicates according to their Departments. This does not require configuration.

May 25, 2020

Enhanced

Improved logic for computing annual salary for Austria

March 4, 2020

Enhanced

Improved classification of permanent contracts for English

February 3, 2020

Enhanced

Improved classification of contract types for French