# CareerPulse Industry Outlook

> CareerPulse Industry Outlook is a paid API for AI agents from careerpulse-steel.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns industry-level career outlook data including growth/decline trends, top employers, and salary benchmarks by sector

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://careerpulse-steel.vercel.app/api/career/outlook
- Price: $0.08/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/careerpulse-industry-outlook-ccac6146
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ipvRBvbjYAF_OI5wZlrrW

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability careerpulse-industry-outlook-ccac6146
```

Example prompt: What's the current career outlook for the healthcare sector — is it growing or declining, who are the top employers, and what do salaries look like?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs labor market intelligence at the industry/sector level, particularly for career planning, job search strategy, or compensation benchmarking. Best suited for questions about whether a field is growing, who the major employers are, or what salaries look like across a sector.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported or unrecognized sector name returns an error or empty result
- Missing sector parameter may return a default or error response
- Stale data if the underlying dataset hasn't been recently updated
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 or 429 status

## How this service works

Industry outlook for job-seeker and career-coach agents. Returns growth or decline, top employers, and salary trends by sector.

## Output

Returns structured industry outlook data for a given sector, including growth or decline status, leading employers in that space, and salary trend benchmarks.

## Example request

```json
{
 "sector": "healthcare"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "lang": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "en | es | fr | de | zh | ja | ko | pt | ar | hi"
      },
      "sector": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "technology | healthcare | finance | manufacturing | education"
      },
      "country": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "US | UK | DE | CA | AU | IN | SG | AE | BR | FR"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "errors": {
     "type": "object",
     "description": "Documented error responses, keyed by HTTP status code",
     "additionalProperties": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": [
       "description"
      ],
      "properties": {
       "example": {
        "type": "object"
       },
       "description": {
        "type": "string"
       }
      }
     }
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "sector": "technology",
  "country": "US",
  "avg_salary": 132000,
  "remote_pct": 68,
  "jobs_growing": [
   "AI/ML engineers",
   "Cybersecurity",
   "Cloud architects"
  ],
  "jobs_at_risk_ai": 22,
  "growth_outlook_5yr": "strong"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/careerpulse-industry-outlook-ccac6146/health.json
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