Common measureentry_level_share
Entry-level share
Of these ads, the percentage aimed at graduates, juniors or interns.
SkillsRolesIndustriesText-derived
Definition
Exactly what it counts
- Unit
- Percent of ads
- Out of
- All ads matching the filter, at every level
- Time window
- 28 days, ending with the latest complete week
- Sample
- At least 30 ads, otherwise we say “not enough ads” and draw nothing
- Available after
- Available from the first day we track an item
- How it’s measured
- Title and text rules: graduate, grad program, junior, entry level or intern — and not senior, lead, principal or manager.
- Known limits
- About 1 in 10 ads is classified wrongly in our hand-checked sample.
- Filters
- Ignores the level filter so the share stays meaningful.
- Source
- Job ad aggregatefor skillsJob ad aggregatefor rolesJob ad aggregatefor industries
Read from ad text
This measure comes from rules applied to the wording of each ad. Rules miss some phrasing and misread some ads — the known error from our hand-checked sample is in “Known limits”, and the rules themselves are on the sources page.
Examples
What it looks like
Across Australia, all levels, this week.
Signals
How signals use it
We flag “more entry-level openings” when this share rises by at least 10 percentage points compared with eight weeks earlier, with at least 30 ads behind it.