{
  "id": 19783589,
  "title": "I checked 37,000 career portals for India jobs. Only 2,354 had any.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/i-checked-37-000-career-portals-for-india-jobs-only-2-354-had-any",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-13T09:07:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/careerscan/i-checked-37000-career-portals-for-india-jobs-only-2354-had-any-24jo"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "I examined 37,000 career portals for India job listings. Only 2,354 of them contained any job openings, which amounts to approximately 6%. This free job board, careerscan.in, compiles job listings directly from employer career pages without any middlemen or fees for jobseekers. The process of building this board was straightforward, but the challenge lay in filtering out the relevant job listings from the vast number of portals. The scraper currently covers 16,920 boards, with the most prominent platforms being Greenhouse and Ashby. However, platforms like Workday and Breezy presented unique challenges, such as requiring specific filters for accurate results, and some platforms like Breezy and iCIMS required parsing due to the absence of public JSON feeds.",
  "summary": "I checked 37,000 career portals for India jobs. Only 2,354 had any. I run careerscan.in, a free job board for India. It lists 382,000+ jobs right now, and every one of them comes straight from the employer's own career page, with no middlemen, no reposts, and no fees for jobseekers. I built it for $0, with no paid tools and no credit card. Building the board was the easy part. The surprise was…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Tech in Asia",
        "title": "Qualcomm begins layoffs in India, over 1,000 jobs at risk",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/12/qualcomm-begins-layoffs-in-india-over-1-000-jobs-at-risk",
        "published": "2026-11-12T00:36:18.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}