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+# 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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-license: cc-by-4.0
+
+## 📖 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)
+
+<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>
+
+---
+
+### 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>
+
+---
+
+### Dialectal Variation
+
+<p align="center">
+  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drelhaj/ArabJobs/main/figures/dialects-english.png" width="700"/>
+</p>
+
+---
+
+## 🧪 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