USAJOBS Coded: Federal Job Postings from 2017 to 2026

Federal job postings from January 2017 through March 2026 include full-text descriptions and structured metadata. This coded version presents structured features assigned to each posting by the JAAT system. The dataset was created by loyoladatamining and last updated on the Hugging Face platform in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in federal government hiring based on structured metadata like job title and employer.
• Train text classification models on full-text job descriptions to categorize roles or required skills.
• Study the evolution of job postings and required qualifications over the nine-year time range.
• Benchmark natural language processing tools on structured, domain-specific text data from a government source.

Strengths

• Covers a nine-year time range from January 2017 to March 2026.
• Includes both full-text job descriptions and structured metadata.
• Features are coded by the JAAT system, suggesting a consistent processing method.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

USAJOBS, the official U.S. government job board.

Collection Method

Collected and processed by loyoladatamining, with features assigned by JAAT.

Time Range

2017-01 to 2026-03

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 13:22:56; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United States federal government.