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- # ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Advertisements
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- [![Paper](https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper-ArabicNLP%202025-blue)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22589)
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- [![License: CC BY 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC--BY--4.0-lightgrey)](#license)
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-
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- ---
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-
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- ## 📖 Overview
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-
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- **ArabJobs** is the first publicly available, multinational corpus of **Arabic job advertisements**, collected from
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- **Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE**.
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-
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- It contains:
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-
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- - **8,546 job postings**
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- - **550,000+ words**
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- - Coverage across numerous **sectors** and **dialects**
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- - Rich metadata including salary, profession, gender indicators, and job categories
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-
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- This dataset supports research on:
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-
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- - Fairness-aware Arabic NLP
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- - Gender representation and bias in recruitment language
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- - Dialectal variation and code-switching
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- - Salary estimation and profession classification
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- - Labour market discourse across Arab countries
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-
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- ---
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-
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- ## 📑 Citation
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-
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- If you use ArabJobs, please cite:
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- > El-Haj, M. (2025). *ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Ads*.
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- > Proceedings of the 3rd ArabicNLP Conference, EMNLP, Suzhou, China, 9–10 November 2025.
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-
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- ### BibTeX
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-
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- @inproceedings{elhaj2025arabjobs,
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- title={ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Ads},
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- author={El-Haj, Mo},
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- booktitle={Proceedings of the ArabicNLP Workshop, EMNLP},
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- year={2025},
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- address={Suzhou, China},
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- month={November}
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- }
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-
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- ---
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-
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- ## 📁 Dataset Structure
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- Each row in the dataset corresponds to a single job advertisement with the following key fields:
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-
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- - `job_title` — the job title in Arabic
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- - `description` — full job description text
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- - `country` country of posting
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- - `location` — city or region
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- - `salary` — raw salary text
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- - `salary_local`, `salary_usd` — normalised salary
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- - `profession` derived profession label
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- - `gender` — male, female, or neutral (when detectable)
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- - `job_category`, `sub_category` — hierarchical job categories
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-
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- All text is encoded in **UTF-8 Arabic**.
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-
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- ---
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-
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- ## 📊 Visualisations
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-
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- ### Gendered Job Advertisements (Word Clouds)
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-
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- <p align="center">
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- <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/professionwordcloud_male.png" width="350"/>
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- <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/professionwordcloud_female.png" width="350"/>
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- </p>
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-
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- ---
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-
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- ### Job Ads by Country
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-
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- <p align="center">
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- <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/ads_by_country_overall_english.png" width="600"/>
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- </p>
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-
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- ---
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-
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- ### Dialectal Variation
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-
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- <p align="center">
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- <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/dialects-english.png" width="700"/>
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- </p>
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-
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- ---
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-
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- ## 🧪 Example Records
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-
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- Here are sample entries from the dataset:
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-
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- | job_title | location | salary | profession | description | gender | country | salary_local | salary_usd | job_category | sub_category |
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- |-----------|----------|--------|------------|-------------|--------|---------|--------------|------------|--------------|--------------|
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- | 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 |
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- | 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 |
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- | 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 |
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- | 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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-
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- ---
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- ## 🔏 License
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- This dataset is released under the **CC BY 4.0 License**, allowing research and academic use with appropriate attribution.
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-
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- ---
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-
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- ## 🤝 Contributions
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- Feedback and contributions are welcome.
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- Please open an issue or pull request on the GitHub repository:
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  👉 https://github.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs
 
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+ ---
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+ language: ar
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+ license: cc-by-4.0
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+ tags:
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+ - arabic
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+ - jobs
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+ - recruitment
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+ - gender
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+ - sociolinguistics
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+ - labour-market
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+ task_categories:
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+ - text-classification
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+ - summarization
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+ - question-answering
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+ - token-classification
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+ size_categories:
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+ - 5K<n<10K
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+ pretty_name: "ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Advertisements"
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+
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+ dataset_info:
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+ features:
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+ - name: job_title
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "Job title as written in the advertisement."
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+
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+ - name: location
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "City or region where the job is located."
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+
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+ - name: salary
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "Raw salary text exactly as written in the job post."
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+
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+ - name: profession
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "Derived profession label inferred from job description."
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+
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+ - name: description
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "Full job description text."
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+
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+ - name: gender
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "Gender signals extracted from linguistic markers (male/female/neutral)."
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+
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+ - name: country
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "Country from which the job post originates (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE)."
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+
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+ - name: salary_local
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+ dtype: float32
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+ description: "Salary normalised into local currency."
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+
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+ - name: salary_usd
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+ dtype: float32
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+ description: "Salary converted into USD."
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+
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+ - name: job_category
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "High-level job category (e.g. IT, Finance, Education)."
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+
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+ - name: sub_category
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+ dtype: string
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+ description: "More specific category inside the main job category."
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+
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+ splits:
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+ - name: train
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+ - name: validation
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+ - name: test
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+ ---
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+
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+ # ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Advertisements
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+
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+ [![Paper](https://img.shields.io/badge/Paper-ArabicNLP%202025-blue)](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22589)
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+ [![License: CC BY 4.0](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-CC--BY--4.0-lightgrey)](#license)
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📖 Overview
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+
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+ **ArabJobs** is the first publicly available, multinational corpus of **Arabic job advertisements**, collected from
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+ **Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE**.
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+
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+ It contains:
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+
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+ - **8,546 job postings**
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+ - **550,000+ words**
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+ - Coverage across numerous **sectors** and **dialects**
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+ - Rich metadata including salary, profession, gender indicators, and job categories
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+
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+ This dataset supports research on:
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+
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+ - Fairness-aware Arabic NLP
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+ - Gender representation and bias in recruitment language
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+ - Dialectal variation and code-switching
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+ - Salary estimation and profession classification
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+ - Labour market discourse across Arab countries
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📑 Citation
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+
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+ If you use ArabJobs, please cite:
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+ > El-Haj, M. (2025). *ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Ads*.
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+ > Proceedings of the 3rd ArabicNLP Conference, EMNLP, Suzhou, China, 9–10 November 2025.
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+
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+ ### BibTeX
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+
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+ @inproceedings{elhaj2025arabjobs,
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+ title={ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Ads},
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+ author={El-Haj, Mo},
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+ booktitle={Proceedings of the ArabicNLP Workshop, EMNLP},
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+ year={2025},
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+ address={Suzhou, China},
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+ month={November}
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+ }
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📁 Dataset Structure
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+
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+ Each row in the dataset corresponds to a single job advertisement with the following key fields:
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+ - `job_title` — the job title in Arabic
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+ - `description` — full job description text
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+ - `country` — country of posting
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+ - `location` — city or region
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+ - `salary` — raw salary text
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+ - `salary_local`, `salary_usd` — normalised salary
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+ - `profession` — derived profession label
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+ - `gender` — male, female, or neutral (when detectable)
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+ - `job_category`, `sub_category` — hierarchical job categories
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+
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+ All text is encoded in **UTF-8 Arabic**.
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 📊 Visualisations
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+
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+ ### Gendered Job Advertisements (Word Clouds)
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/professionwordcloud_male.png" width="350"/>
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/professionwordcloud_female.png" width="350"/>
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+ </p>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ### Job Ads by Country
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/ads_by_country_overall_english.png" width="600"/>
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+ </p>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ### Dialectal Variation
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+
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+ <p align="center">
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+ <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/dialects-english.png" width="700"/>
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+ </p>
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+
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+ ---
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+
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+ ## 🧪 Example Records
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+
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+ Here are sample entries from the dataset:
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+
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+ | job_title | location | salary | profession | description | gender | country | salary_local | salary_usd | job_category | sub_category |
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+ |-----------|----------|--------|------------|-------------|--------|---------|--------------|------------|--------------|--------------|
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+ | 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 |
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+ | وظيفة أخصائي مواقع إلكترونية | الرياض | 4,000/شهري��ً | أخصائي مواقع إلكترونية | يعلن صندوق اسرة الخضير عن حاجته لموظف/أو موظفة… | female | Saudi Arabia | 4000 | 1080 | تكنولوجيا المعلومات | تكنولوجيا المعلومات |
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+ | 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 |
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+ | 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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+
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+ ---
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+ ## 🔏 License
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+ This dataset is released under the **CC BY 4.0 License**, allowing research and academic use with appropriate attribution.
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+
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+ ---
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+ ## 🤝 Contributions
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+
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+ Feedback and contributions are welcome.
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+ Please open an issue or pull request on the GitHub repository:
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+
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  👉 https://github.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs