# JobLockHQ Employer Hiring Lookup

> JobLockHQ Employer Hiring Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.joblockhq.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Looks up real-time job postings and hiring activity for a named employer, returning open job counts, top hiring cities, top trades, and recent hiring trends.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.joblockhq.com/joblock/employer-hiring?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/joblockhq-employer-hiring-lookup-bb07d969
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_883ir5xvHDH97XoOSuOam

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 joblockhq-employer-hiring-lookup-bb07d969
```

Example prompt: Can you check if DPR Construction is actively hiring right now — specifically look at the last 30 days and tell me what trades they're hiring for and which cities they're posting in?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time hiring signals for a specific named employer in the construction or contracting sector — particularly when you want to verify whether a company is actively growing, check workforce expansion by trade or geography, or validate a contractor's operational activity before engagement. Prefer this over generic job-board APIs when you need structured, machine-readable hiring intelligence tied to a specific employer identity rather than a keyword search across all postings.

## Known failure modes

- Employer name not matched to any known source — returns empty matched_sources and zero jobs
- No jobs posted in the given time window — hiring may be true but new_in_window is 0
- Stale or unavailable live data — freshness timestamp may indicate delayed retrieval
- Ambiguous employer name matches multiple companies — may return unexpected source
- Invalid or missing required parameters — returns error or empty result

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## Output

Returns a JSON object with the employer's matched name and source domain, a boolean hiring status, count of open jobs, number of new jobs posted within the specified time window, a ranked list of top hiring cities (with counts), a ranked list of top trades being hired for, the retrieval timestamp, and the machine/capability metadata used to fulfill the query.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "required": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "query": {
   "employer": "DPR Construction",
   "window_days": 30
  },
  "hiring": {
   "jobs": [],
   "hiring": true,
   "open_jobs": 1,
   "top_cities": [
    {
     "count": 1,
     "value": "us-seattle-wa"
    }
   ],
   "top_trades": [
    {
     "count": 1,
     "value": "construction-manager"
    }
   ],
   "new_in_window": 1
  },
  "machine": {
   "id": "M004",
   "name": "JobLock Employer Hiring Lookup",
   "version": "1.0.0"
  },
  "employer": {
   "requested": "DPR Construction",
   "matched_sources": [
    {
     "id": "dpr-workday",
     "name": "DPR Construction",
     "domain": "dpr.com"
    }
   ]
  },
  "freshness": {
   "mode": "live_employer_query",
   "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12T00:00:00.000Z"
  },
  "capability": "employer_hiring_lookup"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/joblockhq-employer-hiring-lookup-bb07d969/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.joblockhq.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.joblockhq.com/llms.txt)