{"title":"Ghost job detection data","summary":"Every posting in Alion carries a trust level: ok, stale (open far longer than the employer usually takes to fill a role) or ghost (reposted again and again without a hire). Every company carries a hiring grade built from the same signals. In the API, trust=verified drops the postings scored as likely ghosts.","sections":[{"heading":"The signals","text":"Age against the employer's own median time to fill (stale beyond three times it, never under 90 days); Reposts of the same role with a new id; A second independent signal before a posting is called a ghost"},{"heading":"Use it","text":"Job boards drop ghosts before they show a role; recruiters and analysts weigh a company's open roles by how real they are."}],"faq":[{"q":"Where is the method written down?","a":"On /methodology, with the thresholds."}],"html_url":"https://alion.io/datasets/ghost-jobs","json_url":"https://alion.io/datasets/ghost-jobs.json","offers":[{"id":"company.list","title":"Companies by industry, country, size, technology and hiring","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per company in a list","note":"the whole list with a card per company","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_companies"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.list&for=datasets%2Fghost-jobs"},{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"any company of the list in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=datasets%2Fghost-jobs"}],"meta":{"source":"Alion (alion.io), CC BY-SA 4.0","updated_at":"2026-10-12T04:27:16+00:00","built_at":"2026-10-12T04:27:16+00:00","indexable":true,"generated_at":"2026-10-12T16:00:21+00:00","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json"}}