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# Gov Bc Ca WorkBC Job Posting API

The WorkBC Job Posting API exposes a feed of job postings published on the WorkBC Job Board run by the British Columbia government. It also serves the supporting reference data - major projects, job types, regions, and industries - that callers need to filter the feed sensibly. Job postings are retrieved with POST /jobs and matched against the supplied filters in the request body. The API is intended for partners syndicating BC public-sector and broader provincial job listings into their own employment portals or analytics pipelines.

## For AI agents

Pull a filtered feed of WorkBC job postings and the supporting reference data (job types, regions, industries, major projects) used to filter them.

## Scope

Does not accept new job submissions, manage applications, or expose employer dashboards - use for reading WorkBC job postings and their supporting reference data only.

## Capabilities

- Pull a filtered feed of WorkBC job postings by region, industry, or job type
- List the regions used to classify WorkBC job postings
- List the job types (full-time, part-time, contract, etc.) supported by WorkBC
- List the industries used to classify WorkBC postings
- List the major BC projects associated with eligible postings
- Syndicate WorkBC postings into an external job portal
- Sample WorkBC postings for labour-market analytics

## Use cases

### Job Board Syndication

Mirror WorkBC postings on a partner job board so candidates see provincial opportunities alongside private-sector listings. POST /jobs accepts a filter body and returns matching postings, while GET /regions, GET /Industries, and GET /jobTypes provide the lookup tables needed to populate filters in the partner UI. End-to-end syndication can be running in a day.

Example prompt: Pull WorkBC postings filtered to the Vancouver Island region and return the title, employer, and posting URL for each.

### Labour Market Analytics

Sample WorkBC postings periodically to track demand by industry and region across British Columbia. Combine the /jobs feed with the industry, region, and job-type lookups to attribute each posting to a normalised classification. The result is a reproducible dataset for labour-market dashboards without scraping the public site.

Example prompt: Fetch WorkBC postings filtered by the Construction industry and return a count of postings per region.

### Major Projects Outreach

Surface employment opportunities tied to BC major capital and infrastructure projects. GET /majorProjects lists the projects and POST /jobs can be filtered by project so workforce-development partners can route candidates to roles connected to specific projects (such as transit expansion or hospital builds).

Example prompt: List WorkBC major projects and return the names and IDs of projects that currently have associated job postings.

### AI Agent Job Recommender

An AI career assistant built on Jentic asks the user about their region, industry, and desired job type, then queries WorkBC for matching postings. The agent searches Jentic for 'get bc job postings', loads POST /jobs, and returns curated postings to the user without requiring credentials or web scraping.

Example prompt: Use Jentic to search 'get bc job postings' and pull WorkBC postings filtered to industry 'Health Care' in the Lower Mainland region.

## Key endpoints

| Method | Path | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| POST | /jobs | Pull a filtered batch of WorkBC job postings |
| GET | /regions | List BC regions used to filter postings |
| GET | /Industries | List industries used to classify postings |
| GET | /jobTypes | List job types used to filter postings |
| GET | /majorProjects | List major BC projects associated with postings |

## Key resources

- **jobs** — POST endpoint that returns a filtered batch of WorkBC job postings
- **regions** — Reference list of BC regions used to filter postings
- **Industries** — Reference list of industries used to classify postings
- **jobTypes** — Reference list of job types used to filter postings
- **majorProjects** — Reference list of major BC projects associated with postings

## Why Jentic

- **Setup:** Wiring the WorkBC Job Posting API by hand means mapping the job-search route and the supporting reference lists for regions, industries, and job types yourself, even though no credential is required. Through Jentic you install once, import WorkBC from the API Directory, and your agent calls it through one consistent path.
- **Permission scoping:** The WorkBC job search takes its filters in the request body rather than a resource id in the path, so limit the agent to the operations it needs, such as searching jobs or listing industries. You choose the operations it may call, so the agent cannot reach anything you have not included.
- **Credential handling:** This service needs no credential, so none is stored, and Jentic still routes each call through your own Jentic One instance so agent activity is logged consistently.
- **Discovery method:** Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'get bc job postings' or 'list workbc industries', and Jentic returns the matching WorkBC operation with its filter body schema typed so the agent calls the right endpoint without reading the docs.

## Related APIs

- **Adzuna API** — Adzuna offers global job search across many countries and aggregators
- **ZipRecruiter API** — ZipRecruiter exposes job postings across the United States
- **BC Data Catalogue API** — Use the BC Data Catalogue to discover related labour-market datasets

## FAQ

### What authentication does the WorkBC Job Posting API use?

The OpenAPI spec defines no security schemes for this service, so requests are made anonymously over HTTPS. No bearer token or API key is required, and Jentic relays calls as-is without injecting credentials.

### Can I filter WorkBC postings by region and industry?

Yes. POST /jobs accepts a filter body that supports region and industry constraints, validated against the lists returned by GET /regions and GET /Industries. Combine with GET /jobTypes and GET /majorProjects for additional facets.

### What are the rate limits for the WorkBC Job Posting API?

Specific limits are not declared in the OpenAPI spec. Treat the feed as a batch source: pull periodically rather than per user request, and cache the regions, industries, job types, and major projects lookups since they change infrequently.

### How do I pull WorkBC postings through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get bc job postings', load the POST /jobs operation, and execute with the desired region and industry filters in the request body. With pip install jentic, the call returns the matching postings ready for syndication or analytics.

### Why is /jobs a POST instead of a GET?

The endpoint accepts a structured filter body, which is awkward to express in a GET query string. The spec models it as POST /jobs accordingly so callers can pass nested filters cleanly.

### Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the WorkBC Job Posting API?

Yes. Because you run Jentic One yourself, you decide which WorkBC operations your agent can call, so you can allow just searching postings with POST /jobs and listing regions, industries, job types, or major projects while leaving out anything else. The job search takes its filters in the request body rather than a resource id in the path, so your rules govern the whole operation set the agent may reach. Since the agent can only invoke the operations you have included, it cannot touch endpoints you leave out.