HiringCensus MCP Server

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answering

HiringCensus is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Is this company actually hiring, or is the board just still up? Real dates on 187,923 roles.

Uptime history 25 days of history · worst day 89%

25 days agonow

95.6%

Uptime 24h

87 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

665 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

HiringCensus does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 98.3% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 12 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add hiring-census --transport http https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hiring-census": {
      "url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hiring-census]
url = "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hiring-census": {
      "url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hiring-census": {
      "url": "https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

company

check_company

Ask whether a company is ACTUALLY hiring, not just whether it has jobs listed. Returns a verdict on the board -- actively_hiring, still_open, gone_quiet or likely_abandoned -- with the age of the newest posting, the median role age, and how many reqs have sat open over 90 days and over a year. This is the check that tells you whether an application or a sales approach is worth the time.

fresh

find_fresh_boards

Companies where EVERY currently open role was posted in the last 30 days -- no backlog of applicants ahead of you, and usually a team that just started hiring. For sales, a company that just opened its first roles in a function is one whose budget has recently moved.

hiring

hiring_stats

Market-level hiring numbers measured this morning across every board we read: employers hiring, open roles, how many went up in the last 24 hours, how many have been open over 90 days and over a year, how many boards have gone quiet, and the most in-demand technologies.

jobs

search_jobs

Search open job postings read directly from employers' own Greenhouse, Ashby and Lever boards. Unlike a job board, every result carries the employer's real publish date and age in days, so you can tell a role posted this morning from one that has been open two years.

quiet

find_quiet_boards

Companies still advertising open roles while having posted nothing new in over six months. Strong evidence of a board nobody tidied up after the hiring finished. Useful for striking dead accounts off a prospect list, or for avoiding applications that will never be read.

whats

whats_changed

What actually MOVED, on a list of companies you name or across the whole record. Answers the question a person with a book of accounts has every morning: which of mine changed, and is anyone suddenly ramping? Returns NET movement, because a company that opened 342 roles and closed 317 is churning and one that opened 261 and closed 41 is hiring -- and flags a board whose VERDICT flipped, which is a budget unfreezing and the strongest signal in this data.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://hiringcensus.com/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	797 ms	12 min ago

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HiringCensus — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can HiringCensus do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_company, find_fresh_boards, find_quiet_boards, hiring_stats, search_jobs, whats_changed. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is HiringCensus working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 87 of 91 checks got a reply (95.6%), average response time 665 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect HiringCensus?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does HiringCensus need an API key?

No. HiringCensus completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is HiringCensus?

It answers our handshake in 665 ms on average, which is faster than 19% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.