HiringCensus MCP
An official MCP server that provides access to HiringCensus's daily census of open jobs sourced directly from employer applicant-tracking boards. It allows AI assistants to verify if companies are actively hiring by checking publish dates, searching for recent roles, and identifying boards that are fresh or have gone quiet.
Endpoint and access
No sign-in to connect and list tools. Individual tools may still need a vendor account, credentials, or permissions; check the documented prerequisites.
https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcpWhat its tools do
6 tools, grouped by the hints the server advertises. Hints are self-declared, not verified behavior.
Checks and signals
Each line is separate evidence, not a trust score.
- Passed Endpoint answered the live check ·
- Passed Official MCP Registry namespace is tied to hiringcensus.com ·
- Passed Endpoint is on the registry namespace domain ·
- Availability 1 of 1 checks passed in 30 days
What you can do with it
- Check if a specific company is actively hiring or has abandoned boards
- Search for remote roles posted in the last week with publish dates
- Identify companies with no backlog of old job postings
- Find boards that have gone quiet with no new posts in six months
Source and maintenance
Protocol and capabilities
- Server
- hiringcensus 1.0.0
- MCP protocol negotiated in check
- 2025-06-18
- Tools
- 6 advertised
- Resources
- Not advertised
- Resource templates
- Not advertised
- Prompts
- Not advertised
{
"tools": {
"listChanged": false
}
}Server-provided instructions
Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.
Tools
6 advertised
search_jobs
Search open job postings read directly from employers' own Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever boards. Unlike a job board, every result carries the employer's real publish date and age in days, so you can tell a role posted this morning from one that has been open two years.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Max results (default 25)"
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Words in the job title, e.g. 'staff backend engineer'"
},
"remote": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "Only roles flagged remote"
},
"location": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Any part of the location string, e.g. 'Berlin', 'California'"
},
"department": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Function, e.g. 'Engineering', 'Sales'"
},
"technology": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Technology named in the posting, e.g. 'Python', 'Kubernetes'"
},
"max_age_days": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Only roles posted within this many days"
},
"min_age_days": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Only roles OLDER than this many days -- use to hunt stale listings"
}
}
}check_company
Ask whether a company is ACTUALLY hiring, not just whether it has jobs listed. Returns a verdict on the board -- actively_hiring, still_open, gone_quiet or likely_abandoned -- with the age of the newest posting, the median role age, and how many reqs have sat open over 90 days and over a year. This is the check that tells you whether an application or a sales approach is worth the time.
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"company"
],
"properties": {
"company": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Company name"
}
}
}find_quiet_boards
Companies still advertising open roles while having posted nothing new in over six months. Strong evidence of a board nobody tidied up after the hiring finished. Useful for striking dead accounts off a prospect list, or for avoiding applications that will never be read.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"limit": {
"type": "integer"
}
}
}find_fresh_boards
Companies where EVERY currently open role was posted in the last 30 days -- no backlog of applicants ahead of you, and usually a team that just started hiring. For sales, a company that just opened its first roles in a function is one whose budget has recently moved.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"limit": {
"type": "integer"
}
}
}whats_changed
What actually MOVED, on a list of companies you name or across the whole record. Answers the question a person with a book of accounts has every morning: which of mine changed, and is anyone suddenly ramping? Returns NET movement, because a company that opened 342 roles and closed 317 is churning and one that opened 261 and closed 41 is hiring -- and flags a board whose VERDICT flipped, which is a budget unfreezing and the strongest signal in this data.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"days": {
"type": "integer",
"description": "Window, default 7"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer"
},
"companies": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Company names to watch. Omit for the whole market."
}
}
}hiring_stats
Market-level hiring numbers measured this morning across every board we read: employers hiring, open roles, how many went up in the last 24 hours, how many have been open over 90 days and over a year, how many boards have gone quiet, and the most in-demand technologies.
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {}
}Prompts
Not advertised
Resources
Not advertised
90-day uptime
A lightweight connection check about every six hours, sampled on hosts with many listings. It shows the server answered, not that its tools work.
- 2026-11-07: 1 of 1 checks answered
30-day availability
Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.
- Successful checks
- 1 of 1 (100%)
- Average latency
- 1212 ms
- 95th percentile latency
- 1212 ms
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · probe · passed · 1212 ms · metadata changed · 6 tool(s)
Connect from your client
Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http hiringcensus-mcp https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcpCodex
codex mcp add hiringcensus-mcp --url https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcpCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"hiringcensus-mcp": {
"url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"hiringcensus-mcp": {
"type": "streamableHttp",
"url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp",
"disabled": false
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"hiringcensus-mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Gemini CLI
gemini mcp add --transport http hiringcensus-mcp https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcpClaude Desktop
https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcpWindsurf
{
"mcpServers": {
"hiringcensus-mcp": {
"serverUrl": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
}
}
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