Datasets:

drelhaj
/

ArabJobs

language: ar
license: cc-by-4.0
tags:
  - arabic
  - jobs
  - recruitment
  - gender
  - sociolinguistics
  - labour-market
task_categories:
  - text-classification
  - summarization
  - question-answering
  - token-classification
size_categories:
  - 5K<n<10K
pretty_name: 'ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Advertisements'
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: job_title
      dtype: string
      description: Job title as written in the advertisement.
    - name: location
      dtype: string
      description: City or region where the job is located.
    - name: salary
      dtype: string
      description: Raw salary text exactly as written in the job post.
    - name: profession
      dtype: string
      description: Derived profession label inferred from job description.
    - name: description
      dtype: string
      description: Full job description text.
    - name: gender
      dtype: string
      description: Gender signals extracted from linguistic markers (male/female/neutral).
    - name: country
      dtype: string
      description: >-
        Country from which the job post originates (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia,
        UAE).
    - name: salary_local
      dtype: float32
      description: Salary normalised into local currency.
    - name: salary_usd
      dtype: float32
      description: Salary converted into USD.
    - name: job_category
      dtype: string
      description: High-level job category (e.g. IT, Finance, Education).
    - name: sub_category
      dtype: string
      description: More specific category inside the main job category.
  splits:
    - name: train
    - name: validation
    - name: test

ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Advertisements

📖 Overview

ArabJobs is the first publicly available, multinational corpus of Arabic job advertisements, collected from
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE.

It contains:

8,546 job postings
550,000+ words
Coverage across numerous sectors and dialects
Rich metadata including salary, profession, gender indicators, and job categories

This dataset supports research on:

Fairness-aware Arabic NLP
Gender representation and bias in recruitment language
Dialectal variation and code-switching
Salary estimation and profession classification
Labour market discourse across Arab countries

📑 Citation

If you use ArabJobs, please cite:

El-Haj, M. (2025). ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Ads.
Proceedings of the 3rd ArabicNLP Conference, EMNLP, Suzhou, China, 9–10 November 2025.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{elhaj2025arabjobs,
  title={ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Ads},
  author={El-Haj, Mo},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the ArabicNLP Workshop, EMNLP},
  year={2025},
  address={Suzhou, China},
  month={November}
}

📁 Dataset Structure

Each row in the dataset corresponds to a single job advertisement with the following key fields:

job_title — the job title in Arabic
description — full job description text
country — country of posting
location — city or region
salary — raw salary text
salary_local, salary_usd — normalised salary
profession — derived profession label
gender — male, female, or neutral (when detectable)
job_category, sub_category — hierarchical job categories

All text is encoded in UTF-8 Arabic.

📊 Visualisations

Gendered Job Advertisements (Word Clouds)

Job Ads by Country

Dialectal Variation

🧪 Example Records

Here are sample entries from the dataset:

job_title	location	salary	profession	description	gender	country	salary_local	salary_usd	job_category	sub_category
مدير مكتب فنى (اثاث ) (فنون تطبيقيه ) - 15 مايو - القاهرة	15 مايو - القاهرة	15000 - 25000 جنيه مصري	هندسة عمارة وديكور	مطلوب مدير مكتب فنى خبرة لا تقل عن 7 سنوات…	neutral	Egypt	20000	640	إعلام وتصميم	تصميم
وظيفة أخصائي مواقع إلكترونية	الرياض	4,000/شهرياً	أخصائي مواقع إلكترونية	يعلن صندوق اسرة الخضير عن حاجته لموظف/أو موظفة…	female	Saudi Arabia	4000	1080	تكنولوجيا المعلومات	تكنولوجيا المعلومات
معلم عربي شاورما عدد 2	الزرقاء الجديدة	—	فندقة ومطاعم، معلم شاورما	مطلوب لدى مطاعم ابو يونس الزرقاء الجديدة…	male	Jordan	420	592.2	سياحة ومطاعم	فندقة ومطاعم
وظائف حسابات في إمارة الشارقة الإمارات	Sharjah	3000 درهم	حسابات	وظيفة شاغرة - موظفة حسابات…	neutral	UAE	3000	810	مالية ومحاسبة	مالية ومحاسبة

🔏 License

This dataset is released under the CC BY 4.0 License, allowing research and academic use with appropriate attribution.

🤝 Contributions

Feedback and contributions are welcome.
Please open an issue or pull request on the GitHub repository:

👉 https://github.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs