# CareerPulse Layoff & Severance Intelligence

> CareerPulse Layoff & Severance Intelligence is a paid API for AI agents from careerpulse-steel.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.08/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns layoff risk assessment, industry hiring trends, severance benchmarks, rehire timelines, and unemployment filing guidance for a given role or industry

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://careerpulse-steel.vercel.app/api/career/layoff
- Price: $0.08/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/careerpulse-layoff-severance-intelligence-2a903faa
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hJFdLKCclJBLx7LJYQ11j

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-layoff-severance-intelligence-2a903faa
```

Example prompt: I work in tech as a software engineer — what's my layoff risk right now, what severance should I expect, and which companies are still hiring? I'm in the US.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when an agent needs to advise a user facing potential or recent job loss — specifically when they need a combined view of layoff risk, severance norms, active hiring companies, and unemployment deadlines rather than just salary data or job listings. Prefer this over general labor market APIs when the user's concern is severance and re-employment timeline intelligence.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or unsupported industry/role returns generic global defaults rather than an error
- Unsupported language code in ?lang= parameter may fall back to English without notification
- Payment failure via x402 (insufficient USDC balance) returns 402 with payment instructions
- Stale data if BLS/OECD/ILO sources have not been refreshed recently — no staleness timestamp in response
- Rate limiting may occur if the micropayment is processed but quota is exceeded

## How this service works

Global career intelligence API serving the world's 3.5 billion workers. 10 endpoints: salary benchmarking (any role + any country, sourced from BLS, OECD, ILO, Glassdoor, Levels.fyi), industry outlook, skills-gap analysis (with Coursera/Udemy/Pluralsight course links), ATS-optimized resume intelligence, salary negotiation playbooks, career transition roadmaps, remote work setup intelligence, certification recommendations (with A Cloud Guru/Pluralsight links), interview prep, and layoff/severance guidance. Full global scope — 190+ countries, 75+ languages via ?lang= parameter. LinkedIn Premium and resume builder affiliate links on relevant endpoints. All require x402 micropayment (USDC on Base).

## Output

A JSON object containing a layoff risk rating (e.g. moderate), a narrative on current industry hiring trends with AI role growth stats, a list of top companies actively hiring, typical severance in weeks, estimated rehire timeline in months, and the unemployment insurance filing deadline from date of separation.

## 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 | pt | ar | hi"
      },
      "role": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "software engineer | product manager | data analyst | designer"
      },
      "industry": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "tech | finance | healthcare | retail | media"
      },
      "location": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "US | UK | CA | AU | DE | IN"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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": {
  "layoff_risk": "moderate",
  "industry_trend": "tech layoffs stabilising — AI roles growing 34%",
  "top_hiring_companies": [
   "Microsoft",
   "Google",
   "Amazon",
   "Salesforce"
  ],
  "severance_typical_weeks": 4,
  "rehire_time_estimate_months": 3.5,
  "unemployment_filing_deadline": "30 days from separation"
 }
}
```

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