About
Recruiting and hiring data for government work.
Collecting postings from 1,123 official job systems gave us government hiring data. That data became hiring software, then a recruiting practice.
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- What we do
- Hiring software and recruiting for government, defense and contractor teams.
- What it runs on
- Postings from 1,123 official job systems, and OPM federal workforce data.
- Who you talk to
- A lead recruiter from Ayla, working on the data the founder built.
- Independent
- Ayla is a private company, not affiliated with any government agency. Most listings link to the employer’s own site; for roles posted on Ayla, you apply on Ayla and only that employer sees it.
- Company
- Civ Network, Inc., a Delaware corporation, trading as Ayla. 8 The Green, Suite A, Dover, DE 19901.
- How to reach us
- hello@aylagov.comContact
How we work
three things to know
One lead who reports to you
Every engagement has one lead recruiter who reports to you, working on Ayla’s data, so one hard role and a hiring program run the same way.
You see the evidence
Every candidate on a list comes with the reason they are on it, and every market figure comes with its source and date.
We infer clearances; we never verify them
Ayla reads work history for a clearance someone states, or one their record makes likely, so cleared people surface first. That is an estimate that speeds up sourcing, never a screen: we have no access to any clearance system, and only a security officer can verify one.
What the record holds
Ayla keeps one record of U.S. public-sector and government-contractor hiring: the postings from 1,123 official sources, plus the federal workforce figures the Office of Personnel Management publishes each month. These are the words the site uses for it, and what each one means.
- Posting
- One job announcement as published on an employer’s own careers system, kept with the date it was first seen there and the date it was last seen. A posting that appears on two systems is matched and flagged as a duplicate.
- Source
- An official careers system: USAJobs, a state, city or county portal, a school district, a hospital system, a university, or a contractor’s own board, including hosted platforms such as NEOGOV. We don’t collect from general job boards.
- Active
- A posting still visible at its source, or whose stated closing date has not passed. A posting closes when its source removes it or its closing date arrives. Nothing is closed on a timer.
- Pay
- The pay the employer published, normalized to an annual figure so hourly and salaried postings compare. Where a posting states no pay, Ayla shows none and never estimates one.
- Location
- Read from the posting’s own text and the employer’s system. Where it cannot be read with confidence, the field is left empty rather than guessed. A contractor’s headquarters is never used as a job’s location.
- Federal workforce figures
- Headcount, hires and separations from the Office of Personnel Management’s monthly Federal Workforce Data, by agency, occupation and state. Loaded each month; every figure shows the month it runs through, and where OPM redacts a value the redaction is disclosed, not filled.
How the data is collected
Ayla reads each source’s public careers pages, or its published API where one exists, and writes what it finds to the record. A posting seen again keeps its first-seen date and gets a new last-seen date. A posting that is no longer there, or whose closing date has passed, is marked closed and kept, so the record shows what was open on a given day.
Titles, locations, pay and job types are normalized after collection so they can be compared across sources. The source’s own wording is kept beside the normalized value, and a job page always links to the posting on the employer’s system. Where a field cannot be read with confidence it is left empty; no job-posting field is estimated to fill a gap.
Every job-posting figure on this site is computed from the record when the page is served and carries the date it was computed. Clearance likelihood and full-package pay are estimates, and are labeled as such. The government hiring data, the Government Hiring Report and the public API read the same tables, so a number quoted from one matches the others.
Corrections
If a posting is wrong, has closed at its source but still shows here, or a figure looks off, write to hello@aylagov.com with the page address. Postings belong to the employers who wrote them and are taken down on an employer’s request. Most listings link to the employer’s own site; for roles posted on Ayla, you apply on Ayla and only that employer sees it. Ayla does not verify security clearances.
Crawlers, answer engines and AI agents will find what they may do on this site in the agent policy.
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