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November 13, 2025

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

September 30, 2025

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
Updated AMS taxonomy mapping in Market IQ Austria

September 1, 2025

AMS Skills taxonomy update in Market IQ Austria

August 18, 2025

Various additions to the French professions taxonomy

June 30, 2025

Various truck driven positions added to the profession taxonomy
Improved normalization of German pilot professions
Fixed wrong normalization of German 'kochen'

March 31, 2025

Added profession 'Surface treatment operator' to the professions taxonomy
AMS taxonomy mappings updated
Fixed wrong normalization of 'Commercial employee' jobs
Improved normalization of Optician jobs in German

January 6, 2025

Improved classification of BI Developer jobs

December 19, 2024

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

November 25, 2024

Improved gender suffix normalization

November 19, 2024

Insights is now the new starting page
In Insights, the country map and salary graph have been moved to the top
In the company page, the list with top websites and top professions have swapped places. Professions are now shown first since they are more important

November 12, 2024

Various improvements to profession normalization in Dutch, French, German, and Spanish.

October 31, 2024

Removed ONET 2010 from Jobs Data US. We recommend users to use the ONET 2019 field
Master account owners, who can download sub user activity into an excel file, can now see the number of jobs looked at in the portal by the sub user.This has replaced the feature to see how many queries were done by the sub user

October 24, 2024

Removed ONET 2010 from Jobs Data US. We recommend users to use the ONET 2019 field

October 2, 2024

Fixed normalization of biology/match teachers
Fixed normalization of pool lifeguards and swimming instructors in French
Improved normalization of 'product designer' titles
Various improvements to the AMS taxonomy mapping
Improved casing consistency of profession descriptions
Various improvements to the normalization of apprenticeship roles in (Swiss) German
Various improvements to the French professions taxonomy
Fixed normalization of Dutch job title "Verpleegkundige MBO"

September 17, 2024

Changed the profession taxonomy for Jobs Data USIt's now in line with the other countries in which Textkernel operates

August 15, 2024

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

August 1, 2024

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

July 24, 2024

Improved French medical skill extraction

July 23, 2024

Added SOC 2020 to Jobs Data UK

June 27, 2024

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
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

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

April 25, 2024

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

April 11, 2024

Jobfeed screens and email are rebranded to Jobs Data

April 2, 2024

Improved coverage of (Swiss) German medical skills
Added 20+ medical skills to the skills taxonomy in all languages.
Added 10 new skills to the skills taxonomy in all languages
Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms
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
Added watchmaking professions to the professions taxonomy
Improved Japanese profession normalization
Added 12 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Added professions Recruitment marketeer and Sourcer to the professions taxonomy
Added 25 new healthcare professions to the professions taxonomy

March 27, 2024

In job normalization, the 'Vice President' role no longer includes associate directos
Improved coverage of healthcare skills: added 40 skills and 275 synonyms

March 18, 2024

Fixed parsing errors of hourly salaries with many decimals
Fixed an issue regarding the normalization of job titles that contain soft-hyphens

March 14, 2024

If a job has multiple postings we prioritize showing the one that is still active and directly from the hiring company (if available)
When bulk labeling organizations the system will now offer more suggestions and only those that do not already have that label

February 5, 2024

Improved salary parsing in Dutch job descriptions
When bulk labeling organisations, the system will now automatically remove duplicate search terms
The weekly chart and country map on the insights page can now be downloaded through the download button

January 30, 2024

Improved recognition of Spanish (sub)regions

January 25, 2024

Improved Japanese profession normalization

December 14, 2023

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
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
Various improvements to the AMS job classification

November 29, 2023

Removed the following deprecated fields: Soft_skill_terms, it_skill_terms, professional_skill_terms, language_skill_terms and unclassified_skill_terms.Please use the new normalized fields in stead: IT_skills, soft_skills, professional_skills and language skills.If these fields are not visible to you, please contact your Textkernel account manager.
Searching for a website name is no longer case sensitive
Back by popular demand: Insights is showing top 10 charts in stead of top 5
Removed the "Welcome to the new Jobfeed screens" messages that were added for the new UI launch earlier this year

November 14, 2023

Added missing translations for education levels
Fixed spelling of Dutch education level 'Post WO'

November 13, 2023

The Jobfeed login screen has been given a modern look & feel to match the screens inside Jobfeed itself
Organization labels are now also shown in the individual job presentations

October 30, 2023

Improved recognition of voluntary jobs

October 13, 2023

Various improvements to Italian profession and skill normalization
Added various CompTIA skills to the skills taxonomy
Improved accuracy of finance and insurance skills

September 28, 2023

Improved classification of CFO/CFA job titles
Various improvements to Italian profession and skill normalization
Added 5 new professions to the professions taxonomy
Improved Spanish profession normalization for planner jobs
Improved normalization of French professions
Various improvements to Italian profession normalization
Various improvements to Spanish job title normalization

September 27, 2023

When making a new saved search the users email is now filled in by default

September 11, 2023

Added a preview of the number of results for saved searches on the "My Jobfeed" tab.

August 2, 2023

Added a filter to search for shift or regular work schedules

June 29, 2023

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

June 28, 2023

For users with a lot of email alerts: It's now possible to search for email alerts by name or email recipient
UI improvement, when you select a salary range the checkbox "exclude unknown" will be automatically set

May 22, 2023

Jobfeed API and custom feeds now allow the user to receive the raw building blocks of the annual salary (minimum rate, maximum rate and time scale)

May 16, 2023

Improved classification of contract types in Dutch
Improved region recognition for Clipperton and Saint-Barthélemy

April 24, 2023

Improved detection & rejection of incomplete jobs and jobs without line breaks.This will be gradually rolled out country by country

April 18, 2023

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

April 4, 2023

Improved cleaning of apostrophes from company names

March 31, 2023

Added ±500 new skills to the Skills taxonomy

March 30, 2023

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

March 21, 2023

Fixed an issue related to rendering new lines
Upgraded the vacancy parser to Deep Learning. This leads to significant quality improvements in various fields.

February 22, 2023

Better support for overseas territories

February 13, 2023

We seen an increasing amount of websites that do not properly clean up expired jobs.To deal with that Jobfeed will now close any job older than 12 months.

January 30, 2023

New field available for fresh jobs coming in: ONET 2019

January 24, 2023

When jobs are older than 6 months, and more than 2/3 of all the related postings have expired, the job will expire completely.This helps cleaning up non active jobs that still have a single posting floating around on a website that's not every precise in cleaning up their content.
New field available for fresh jobs coming in: ONET 2019

January 11, 2023

Improved Portuguese profession normalization

January 10, 2023

Deal better with city names present in multiple countries

January 9, 2023

New field: Apply URL now available in the Jobfeed API and in custom feeds
New field: KLDbCode now available for Jobfeed Germany in the API, custom feeds and for Jobfeed Analytics customers
New field: Experience Level now available through the Jobfeed API and in custom feeds

December 19, 2022

Jobs now include markdown to allow for bold, italic, header and bullet point display

December 15, 2022

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
Fixed classification of language teachers in Japanese
Three Javascript frameworks added to the skills taxonomy
Added 10 new skills to the skills taxonomy

December 5, 2022

Added SQL developer as a separate profession

November 1, 2022

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

October 18, 2022

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 classification of language teachers in Japanese

September 29, 2022

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

August 9, 2022

Fixed a problem related to dates being parsed as phone numbers

July 14, 2022

Added support for parsing Swiss salaries

July 10, 2022

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

June 11, 2022

Bebee.com is aggregating a lot of content, the high quality websites they aggregate from have been added to Jobfeed directlyBebee.com itself has been removed from Jobfeed US and Jobfeed Spain
Added over a thousand new websites to Jobfeed US
Added over 4,000 new websites with new unique jobs to Jobfeed Canada
Added more than 6,000 new websites to Jobfeed Belgium
Added over a thousand new websites to Jobfeed Austria

June 2, 2022

AMS Competency table updated in vacancy parsing - Austria

May 5, 2022

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

April 10, 2022

Added 6,344 new websites to Jobfeed France
Blocked a lot of jobs from trabajo.org since they are clones from bebee.com with less information

April 1, 2022

Fixed the education level dropdown for Jobfeed Austria

December 7, 2021

Various improvements to the German skills taxonomy
Fixed various errors in the profession-skills ontology
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
Improved German translation of job group "Government Administrators"

December 6, 2021

Remote work search option added to Jobfeed

December 3, 2021

Fixed various errors in the profession-skills ontology

October 25, 2021

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

July 30, 2021

Improved location mapping for French overseas territories

May 10, 2021

Removed the old website pages (about Jobfeed, news, contact)This is now all handled through the brand newwww.jobfeed.compage

April 29, 2021

Improved deduplication rules for all Jobfeed countries

April 22, 2021

When searching for active jobs, expired postings belonging to that job would not be searched in.This has been changed, improving your chance of finding the right job lead

April 12, 2021

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

March 29, 2021

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

March 24, 2021

Prepared Jobfeed to allow customers to match from within Jobfeed to their internal candidate database with a new field called seniority
Improved classification of direct employer companies
Customers can now try out the new lead generation screens in JobfeedWhen the remaining screens are ready the old screens will disappear

March 22, 2021

Improved recognition of "Erzieher" in German profession taxonomy

March 11, 2021

Improved recognition of the country Austria in German documents

February 19, 2021

Improved detection if a company is a staffing agency or direct employer

February 4, 2021

ISCO profession descriptions are now available in German

January 25, 2021

Added salary graph to Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and the NetherlandsAdded a geographical map for Austria and SpainAdded salary search option for Italy

January 18, 2021

Further improve staffing/recruitment agency detection based on company name for Jobfeed DE, NL, FR, CA, ES, IT

January 4, 2021

Improved posting deduplication logic for Canada and Spain

December 31, 2020

Jobfeed is now technically ready to investigate 1 million NEW websites every week (on top of the millions of websites it was already reading)
Added 24.000 websites to Jobfeed Austria.Jobfeed will check every day if these sites contain new jobs
Added 40,000 websites to Jobfeed Canada.Jobfeed will check every day if these sites contain new jobs
Added 230,000 websites to Jobfeed UK.Jobfeed will check every day if these sites contain new jobs
Added 1.2 million websites to Jobfeed Germany.Jobfeed will check every day if these sites contain new jobs
Added more Pharma companies to Jobfeed Germany, Spain, UK and US
Added 60.000 websites to Jobfeed France.Jobfeed will check every day if these sites contain new jobs
Added any missing stock exchange companies to the 10 Jobfeed countries
Validated Jobfeed France has the 300 largest municipalities correctly spidered and stored
Improved distinction between qualitative jobboards, aggregrators and direct employers in Jobfeed France
Added thousands of new websites to Jobfeed UK and Jobfeed US
Jobfeed Belgium: Added education levelJobfeed Italy: Added ISCO, Education level, Contract type and Employment typeJobfeed Spain: Added Contract type
Users who purchased the skills feature can now search for jobs requesting certain skills, setup email alerts based on skills and filter on skills in the Insights page
Jobfeed Italy: Added salary, education level, contract type and employment type to the APIJobfeed UK and Belgium: Added education level to the APIJobfeed Spain: Added contract type to the API
It's now possible to search for a city with a smaller radius than 10 kilometers/miles in Jobfeed Canada and Jobfeed Spain
Jobfeed information is now available in a graphical form which can be embedded in ATS systems with a single line of code
New online help feature available in various Jobfeed countries for users that speak French, English and Dutch
Custom job categories can now also be made in Jobfeed Italy
Added the following information to JobfeedJobfeed Germany: Duplicate on Jobsite, added/cleaned up posting language options, salary sliderJobfeed France: Duplicate on Jobsite, added/cleaned up posting language options, salary sliderJobfeed Netherlands: Salary sliderJobfeed Belgium: Salary sliderJobfeed Austria: Added/cleaned up posting language options, salary sliderJobfeed Italy: Source type, duplicate on Jobsite, added/cleaned up posting language optionsJobfeed Spain: Added/cleaned up posting language options, salary slider, employment typeJobfeed Canada: Contract type, added/cleaned up posting language options
Added normalized professions to the Jobfeed Italy search screen including autocomplete. Professions have also been added to Jobfeed Analytics
Adding Insights to Jobfeed Italy showing number of jobs, posting duration, trend, Job Board distribution, top professions, skills, top employers, top agencies and regional distribution
Jobfeed vacancies can now be exported as leads to the Bullhorn ATS
Advertiser type (staffing agency or direct employer) indicator added to Jobfeed Italy
Jobfeed Italy screens all translated to Italian
Jobfeed now shows all requested skills in the jobs as of 2017They can be found in Insights and Analytics (if purchased)
Switched to a new database release which increased the speed and stability of Jobfeed.
Improved deduplication of jobs
Entering a zip code in the city field when explicitly mentioning it's a city name combined with a search radius would not show any results.Jobfeed is now able to resolve that situation
Some virus scanners from customers would test every job link in the excel email alertWith potentially thousands of jobs in a single spreadsheet this caused some errors
The API endpoint did not correctly return the labels for multi-valued fields
For Jobfeed UK, Belgium, Austria and Spain the old URL's will go away as of the 4th of January 2021The new domains will be:uk.jobfeed.combe.jobfeed.comat.jobfeed.comes.jobfeed.comAnyone still using the old URL will be redirected to the new URL. Note: This redirect will not work for API calls

December 21, 2020

Added 25 ISCO and ONET mappings to the profession taxonomy
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
Minor improvements to the American English profession taxonomy

December 7, 2020

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

November 23, 2020

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

Non-existing city 'Nueva York' removed from autocomplete

November 9, 2020

Improved keyword extraction for English Match queries

October 26, 2020

Added language guessing when no full text or document language is provided via the Input API
Improved classification of Freelance and Apprenticeship contract types for French

September 14, 2020

Improved recognition of temporary contracts for French jobs

August 31, 2020

Improved extraction of posting dates for Dutch

August 3, 2020

Improved classification of contract types for French

July 20, 2020

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

May 25, 2020

Improved logic for computing annual salary for Austria

March 4, 2020

Improved classification of permanent contracts for English

February 3, 2020

Improved classification of contract types for French