Coverage

How complete the underlying collection is, and what that means for every other number here. Vacancy data measures advertised demand. It is not a measure of employment or of unemployment in Zimbabwe.

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Coverage grade is computed from source health, how much of the data comes straight from employers and official portals, the sample size and how recent the last collection was.

CCoverage grade

What the coverage grade means today

CCoverage grade

Coverage is partial. Read these figures as indicative only and check the sample beside each number.

Registered sources

Healthy at last run

Straight from employers or official portals

Days since last collection

Where the records came from

3 groups with fewer than 3 adverts are not listed, so that no reader draws a conclusion from one or two records. Window: last 3650 days. Total counted: 4.

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The source register

Tier	Source	Owner	How it is collected	Permission	Trust weight	Schedule	Observations	Health
1	Greenhouse applicant tracking feeds	Hiring organisations directly	Structured JSON feed	Public board application programming interface	0.95	Every 6 hours	0	registered
1	Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe careers page	Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ)	Pattern read of the bank’s own vacancy pages	Public institutional publication	0.9	Every 4 hours	1,602	ok
1	Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare	Government of Zimbabwe	Scheduled page read	Public government publication	0.95	Weekly	0	registered
1	National University of Science and Technology careers	NUST	Scheduled page read	Public institutional publication	0.9	Weekly	664	ok
1	Old Mutual Zimbabwe careers system	Old Mutual Life Assurance Company Zimbabwe Ltd	Structured JSON feed from the employer careers system	Public careers site interface	0.95	Every 4 hours	467	ok
1	Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals	Ministry of Health and Child Care	Scheduled page read	Public institutional publication	0.9	Weekly	0	registered
1	People's Own Savings Bank careers page	People's Own Savings Bank (POSB)	Structured data read of JobPosting markup	Public institutional publication	0.9	Every 4 hours	0	registered
1	Public Service Commission vacancies	Public Service Commission of Zimbabwe	Scheduled page read	Public government publication	0.95	Daily	1,434	ok
1	University of Zimbabwe careers	University of Zimbabwe	Scheduled page read	Public institutional publication	0.9	Weekly	0	registered
1	ipcjobs.org employer postings	ipcjobs.org	Direct employer submission	Employer agreement at registration	1	Continuous	26	ok
2	CA Global	CA Global Headhunters	Rendered page read of the agency listing	Public listing on the agency site, discovery only	0.65	Daily	23	retired
2	CV People Africa	CV People Africa	Rendered page read of the agency listing	Public listing on the agency site, discovery only	0.65	Daily	113	ok
2	Industrial Psychology Consultants placements	Industrial Psychology Consultants	Partner submission	Signed partner agreement	0.8	Continuous	10,500	ok
2	Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe	ICAZ	Scheduled page read	Public member publication	0.75	Weekly	0	registered
2	Registered recruitment agency partners	Various licensed agencies	Partner submission	Signed partner agreement	0.7	Continuous	0	registered
2	ReliefWeb humanitarian vacancy service	United Nations OCHA	Structured data read of JobPosting markup	Public humanitarian publication	0.85	Every 4 hours	0	registered
3	General Zimbabwe vacancy board	Third party board	Structured data read of JobPosting markup	Public structured data, discovery only	0.45	Every 4 hours	12,270	ok
3	VacancyMail vacancy board	Third party board	Structured data read of JobPosting markup	Public structured data, discovery only	0.45	Every 4 hours	3,983	ok
3	iHarare Jobs vacancy board	Third party board	Structured data read of JobPosting markup	Public structured data, discovery only	0.45	Every 4 hours	5,593	ok

Tier one is official employer career pages, government vacancy portals, universities, hospitals and approved applicant tracking feeds. Tier two is verified recruitment agencies, professional bodies and licensed boards. Tier three is reputable boards without a direct feed, used for discovery and revalidated more often. Anonymous social posts, adverts that ask an applicant to pay, and broken or misleading links are quarantined and never counted.

The metric dictionary

Metric	What it counts	How it is computed	Smallest group published	What to watch
Active vacancies	The count of distinct vacancies that are open on the as of date, after duplicate observations of the same vacancy have been collapsed to one record.	count(distinct job where status is open and closing date is not past and analytics eligible is true)	1	This measures advertised demand only. It is not a count of jobs available in Zimbabwe and it says nothing about employment or unemployment.
New vacancy flow	The count of vacancies first observed inside the chosen period.	count(distinct job where first seen falls inside the period and analytics eligible is true)	3	Flow is sensitive to how many sources were healthy in the period. Read it next to the coverage grade.
Employer participation	The count of distinct employers with at least one eligible vacancy in the period.	count(distinct employer identity across eligible vacancies in the period)	3	An employer that advertises through an agency under a confidential advert cannot always be resolved to a single identity, so this is a lower bound.
Pay transparency	The share of eligible vacancies that publish a pay figure or pay range.	eligible vacancies with a disclosed pay figure divided by all eligible vacancies, times one hundred	10	Disclosure practice differs sharply by sector and by employer size, so movement in this figure can reflect which employers advertised rather than a change in practice.
Median advertised pay	The middle value of advertised pay for a group, computed separately for each currency and each pay period.	median(midpoint of advertised pay range) grouped by currency and pay period	8	Advertised pay is what an employer offers in an advert. It is not what people are paid. United States dollar and Zimbabwe Gold figures are never combined. Estimates below the minimum sample are suppressed.
Skill demand	The count of eligible vacancies that name a skill in the required or preferred skill list.	count(distinct job where the canonical skill appears in required or preferred skills)	5	Skills are extracted from advert text, so a skill an employer assumes and does not write down will not appear here.
Hard to fill score	A composite of how few qualified applicants a vacancy attracts, how long it stays open and how often it is reposted.	weighted composite of qualified applicants per vacancy, median days open and repost rate, scaled to one hundred	3	A high score means the advertised role is drawing few qualified applicants on this platform. It does not prove a national skills shortage.
Supply versus demand ratio	Registered job seekers whose profile matches an occupation, divided by eligible vacancies in that occupation.	matched registered seekers divided by eligible vacancies for the occupation	5	Supply here is registration on this platform, not the Zimbabwean labour force. Occupations where few people register will look scarce when they are not.
Hiring momentum	The change in new vacancy flow for an employer or a group against the preceding equivalent period.	new vacancy flow this period minus previous period, divided by previous period, times one hundred	5	Momentum is volatile for employers advertising small numbers. Groups below the minimum sample are suppressed rather than shown as a large percentage swing.
Coverage grade	A grade from A to D describing how completely the underlying sources covered the group and period being displayed.	graded from the share of registered sources that were healthy, the share of records from Tier 1 sources, sample size and recency of the last successful collection	1	The coverage grade is displayed with every dashboard. A grade of C or D means the figures should be read as indicative only.

As at 5 Oct 2026, 18:18. Method version 2026.07.1.

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