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Notes on finding work with real data: how to point an AI assistant at live job postings, what the market actually holds this month, and how the machinery underneath works. Every figure is dated and reproducible.

• Three in four Indian job ads say how many years they want. In America it is half.

  75% of Indian postings state a number of years against 51% of American ones, and vagueness is not kindness.

• How many jobs are actually remote? Two per cent in India.

  1,771 of 73,429 live Indian roles are marked remote, 6% in the United States, and why the number feels wrong.

• Why job posting dates lie, and how to read them anyway

  One platform stamps 52% of Indian postings on a Saturday and another 2%. The employers did not change; the software did.

• Who is hiring most in India, counted from their own job boards

  Accenture lists 24,900 live Indian roles against Amazon's 2,375, and what a third of an index sitting with one employer does to it.

• Which applicant tracking system do Indian companies use? Keka is ahead of Workday.

  376 Indian employers on Keka against 369 on Workday, and why the platform an employer picks changes whether you are found.

• What do Indian employers actually ask for? SAP, ahead of Java and Python.

  SAP is named in 3,997 Indian adverts, more than Java or Python, and enterprise work is far larger than the discourse admits.

• How many jobs are open to someone with under two years' experience?

  28% of Indian postings that state a number ask for two years or fewer, and the word to search in India is Associate, not Junior.

• Four in five American job ads mention a degree. In India it is half.

  80% against 54%, the opposite of what most people expect, and most of the gap is template language rather than policy.

• A third of employers with open listings have not posted anything in a month

  420 of 1,243 employers with live Indian roles have added nothing in 30 days, and why we will not label them stale.

• Which American cities have the most open jobs?

  New York 4,279, San Francisco 3,150, Chicago 2,710, and a distribution far flatter than India's.

• What does "senior" mean in a job title? We read 100,897 postings that say

  In the United States a senior title asks for about six years and a plain one asks for three. In India both ask for five, which makes the word nearly useless there.

• How to search real job postings from ChatGPT or Claude

  Add one address and your assistant searches 469,607 live roles from employers' own boards, ranks them against your resume, and never applies for you.

• How many jobs were posted in India this month? September 2026 figures

  34,067 roles open to India in the last 30 days from 822 employers, with the city breakdown, the method, and what the numbers cannot tell you.

• What is an MCP job search server, and how does Openings work?

  Seven read-only tools, evidence-based matching, freshness stated rather than implied, and the things it deliberately will not do.