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👉 https://github.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs
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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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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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- 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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- 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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- name: profession
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dtype: string
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description: "Derived profession label inferred from job description."
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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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- 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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- 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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- name: salary_local
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dtype: float32
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description: "Salary normalised into local currency."
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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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- 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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- 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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splits:
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- name: train
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- name: validation
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- name: test
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# ArabJobs: A Multinational Corpus of Arabic Job Advertisements
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[](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22589)
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[](#license)
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---
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## 📖 Overview
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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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It contains:
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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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This dataset supports research on:
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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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## 📑 Citation
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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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### BibTeX
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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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## 📁 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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- `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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All text is encoded in **UTF-8 Arabic**.
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## 📊 Visualisations
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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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### Job Ads by Country
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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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### Dialectal Variation
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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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## 🧪 Example Records
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Here are sample entries from the dataset:
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| job_title | location | salary | profession | description | gender | country | salary_local | salary_usd | job_category | sub_category |
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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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## 🔏 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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## 🤝 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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