You are going to make a list of the Jobcentre Plus Office codes for your site, then decide what format you want the results in and finally build the URL that you are going to need.

Step 1 List the office codes for your local jobcentres

Pan around the map and find your area, click on the markers of the offices you'd like to collect the latest vacancies for. Enter at least one three letter Office code, separated multiples with a pipe | character into the box below. The limit is 10 offices. Example: WOA|GUF

Office codes:

Step 2 How do you want the results?

json [default]
php
xml
yaml

[optional] JSONP callback function name:

Step 3 Press Build URL, then Copy your API call, and install it into your calling script.

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NB data streams requested on Sunday and Monday contain substantially reduced amounts, because nobody was inputting data on the previous days. Read more about the data.

Just show me the money! Too busy to fill in that form? Do you need instant datatification? Here is a live a data stream which opens in a new browser window and may depend on your browser settings, anyhow here is the output of Six offices in the South East as JSONP.

There are 710 Jobcentre Plus (JCP) offices and I'd guess each has its own catchment area.

No matter where someone lives, they are likely to be interested in jobs which lie in the catchment areas of offices other than their own single locally designated JCP Office.

Circumstances such as road and public transport links could play a large part in what your public perceives to be their "acceptable travel limit" when looking for a job, or looking to change jobs.

We would all like to work closer to home, and many are aware of the negative impact daily journeys to work have upon our environment.

Anyone new to your area, or thinking of moving to your area is unlikely to know the names of the local JCP offices.

Each JCP office is designated a three letter code (an office_code) example: GUF is Guildford, WOA is Woking - they are not easy to decipher.

The office_code is the key to extract local jobs, here are 3 ways to discover them:

• download the original csv file from the zois ftp site (JCP_offices_.csv)
• browse around the map above
• look at the Google Fusion Table I have shared

From the Google Fusion Table you can choose to geo-export a .kml file which you can keep on your own computer or website. Please do not link to my .kml file.