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We pull about 270,000 live job postings straight from company hiring systems, then publish what the numbers actually say. Plus practical guides to the software reading your résumé.

Every figure below is measured from that corpus. Methodology and caveats are published with each post.

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median hard requirements per US posting

LinkedIn's Applicant Count Is Measuring Clicks, Not Applications

For postings that redirect to a company's own site, LinkedIn keeps no record of who applied. Add the 42% who don't meet requirements and the median posting's 13 hard requirements, and '127 applicants' is a much smaller number of real competitors.

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