To tell you how your resume fits the market, VulcanCV first has to read the market. Every analysis starts the same way: we look at your resume, work out your level and the band around it (one level below, your level, and one above), and then go to the public job boards to find real, current postings for those roles.
That reading doesn't get thrown away when your report is done. It becomes part of a running record of who is hiring, for what, and where, and once a month we publish that record as free market reports anyone can read.
What an analysis reads
For each analysis we search public job boards: company career sites on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, Hacker News "Who is hiring", We Work Remotely and USAJOBS. We search for the titles your resume points to, in the region you're looking in, and keep only postings from the last few weeks.
Every posting that makes it through those filters is recorded once, by its link, along with the company, the title, the location, the job board, and when we first and last saw it. If the next analysis finds the same posting, we update the existing record instead of counting it twice.
Nothing from your resume goes into that record. It holds public job postings and nothing else.
Why every analysis matters
We also run a small collector every day that checks a rotating list of companies, so the reports stay current even on a quiet week. But a fixed list only sees the companies and titles we thought to put on it.
An analysis is different. It searches for the exact roles a real person is aiming at, in the region they actually want to work in. A data engineer in Toronto, a support lead looking for remote work, a staff engineer in Austin: each one sends us looking in a corner of the market a schedule would miss. The more people analyze their resumes, the wider and more accurate the picture gets for everyone.
What we publish
On the 2nd of every month we take a snapshot of the last 30 days for each job category and turn it into a report:
- Is hiring up or down? Active postings per month, and the change from last month.
- How much is remote? The remote, hybrid and on-site split, and where the jobs are.
- Which levels are hiring? From intern and junior through staff, principal and director.
- What skills do they ask for? The skills that show up most often in posting descriptions.
- Who is hiring? The top companies and the most common titles.
Each report opens with a short summary written by Claude from those numbers, and only those numbers. A category gets a public page only once we have enough postings to say something real about it, so you won't find a report built on a dozen listings.
Companies that post far more jobs than any team could fill are still listed, but they don't get to drown out everyone else. We wrote about how that works in Ten companies posted most of last month's software engineering jobs.
Free, with no account
The market reports are free. There is no sign-up, no email gate and no paywall. If you're deciding where to aim your next search, they're a good place to start.
When you want to know where you stand in that market, that's what the analysis is for. And when you run one, the postings it reads go back into next month's reports for everyone else.