OJCP: Workday and Seven Others Publish an MCP-Based Open Protocol for Agent-Consumable Job Feeds
OJCP / Hacker News·low signal
The Open Job Context Protocol surfaced on HN as a v0.1 draft spec built on MCP and schema.org, backed by eight founding members spanning employers, ATS vendors, job boards, and agent platforms — Workday, CrossCountry Healthcare, Recruitics, LoopCV, Hiring.cafe, aiApply, scale.jobs, and Tink — under a steering committee with no single-vendor veto. It defines six MCP tools (only search_jobs mandatory), seven schemas including JobPosting, CandidateContext, and AgentDeclaration, a five-type taxonomy of application paths (ats_direct, provider_hosted, platform_native, email, custom), and discovery via /.well-known/ojcp.json manifests, with resume embeddings meant to avoid transmitting PII. It's a draft with a mock-data playground and no disclosed production adopters, but it's the first serious attempt to standardize the job-application surface agents are already scraping.