README.md

---
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

[![Paper](https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper-ArabicNLP%202025-blue)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22589)
[![License: CC BY 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC--BY--4.0-lightgrey)](#license)

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## 📖 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  

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## 📑 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}
    }

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## 📁 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**.

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## 📊 Visualisations

### Gendered Job Advertisements (Word Clouds)

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/professionwordcloud_male.png" width="350"/>
  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/professionwordcloud_female.png" width="350"/>
</p>

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### Job Ads by Country

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/ads_by_country_overall_english.png" width="600"/>
</p>

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### Dialectal Variation

<p align="center">
  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/dialects-english.png" width="700"/>
</p>

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## 🧪 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 |

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## 🔏 License

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

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## 🤝 Contributions

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

👉 https://github.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs