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IPMERC

How the job database works

Where the jobs come from, what happens to a text before it goes live, how a salary band is made and what the statuses mean.

Sources

Partner vacancy

A recruitment partner holds the vacancy and runs the application. These are the jobs you can apply for while they are open.

Observed at an employer

A vacancy seen on an employer's own site. It shows what the market asks and pays, and it closes when the ad comes down.

Posted by a member

A job posted by an IPMERC member, shown with the same columns and the same salary unit as every other job.

Open data feed

A job from a public open data feed, shown with the same columns and the same salary unit.

Every text is rewritten

A language model rewrites each vacancy in Dutch and English from the source and a list of names that must never appear. It keeps what helps a candidate decide: tasks, technology, level, hours, contract and benefits in general terms. It paraphrases every sentence and adds nothing the source does not say. The employer is described in one phrase: size, scope and sector.

Then it passes the anonymity check

Five checks run on every rewrite, and any hit keeps the job off the site: the employer's names, aliases and web domains; contact details such as e-mail addresses, phone numbers, links, postcodes and street addresses; names of contact persons from the ad; proper nouns the rewrite carried over from the source, such as product names; and long runs of words copied from the source.

How a salary band is made

Every band is in one unit: euros gross per month for a 40 hour week, excluding holiday allowance. An annual figure is taken back to a month without the allowance, an hourly rate is converted at 40 hours times 52 weeks divided by 12 months, and a band for fewer hours is scaled to 40. Each band carries one of three bases.

Published

Published with the job, converted to gross per month for 40 hours, excluding holiday allowance.

Recorded

From the closed record, widened and rounded so it cannot be traced to one employer.

Estimate

Estimated from comparable jobs in this market, level and region.

What the statuses mean

Open
Someone is working on the job: a partner runs an active process, or the ad is still live at the employer.
Paused
The search is on hold.
Closed
The job was filled or withdrawn, or the ad came down.
Archived
An older job without recent activity. It stays as a record of the market and cannot be applied for.

How applying through a partner usually runs

The usual course; a partner or employer may run it differently

Application

  1. You apply
  2. Intro call with the partner
  3. The partner checks your CV against the requirements
  4. Your CV goes to the employer with your consent

Interviews

  1. Invited
  2. Interview planned
  3. Interviews

Outcome

  1. Start date agreed
  2. Or not selected

Privacy and anonymity

The employers asked for their name to stay off the page, so no text names an employer, a brand, a product, a building or a person. A job shows a place as a region, and an industry never together with a detail that narrows it to one employer; when a sector and a place would, the rewrite uses a broader sector.

A recorded salary band comes only from a job that is no longer open, widened and rounded, so a live negotiation never loses its ceiling and a figure is never a client's budget.