USE CASE:

Knowing which businesses are about to expand their sales team

Everything below is about knowing which businesses are about to expand their sales team, and about which hiring signals method holds up on a list rather than one record. Mamba Labs builds Apify actors, and GTM Job Discovery is one of 5 here that touch hiring signals.

What is actually going wrong

A company that just opened three sales roles is buying. It needs a sequencer, a data vendor, an onboarding plan and a manager, and it needs them before the new reps start. Two months later that same company has bought all of it and you are late. The window is short and it opens on a job board, not in a funding round.

Traditional Search Tools

  • LinkedIn Sales Navigator. Its hiring filter is decent at company level and tells you almost nothing about which roles. You get the signal without the detail that makes the first line worth reading.
  • LinkUp, Revelio or a jobs data vendor. Real coverage, real history, and priced for a data team rather than a two person sales function. Worth it if you are building a product on the data.
  • Google alerts on a careers page. Free and unreliable. Most applicant tracking pages render their listings in JavaScript, so the alert never fires.
  • Read the job boards yourself. Open the careers page of every account on your list, once a week, and note what changed. It works. It costs about four minutes per company, so a 500 account list is a full time job for one person.

Mamba Labs Apify Actors

These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.

Preconfigured tasks

A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.