USE CASE:
Where hiring signals differs for Australian companies
Here is how hiring signals for Australian companies actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Prospect Engine is the one pointed at Australian companies.
What is actually going wrong
Australian companies complicate hiring signals, for a reason specific to them. Australian companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, which shapes hiring signals. Worth knowing about Australian companies, since hiring signals inherits it: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. If you would rather try it than read about it, Prospect Engine does hiring signals for Australian companies today.
How we would run it
- Start with one of Australian companies you already know, so a wrong hiring signals answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Prospect Engine across your list of Australian companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for hiring signals.
- Read ten rows of hiring signals on Australian companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for Australian companies. Free, authoritative, and in its own language.
- 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.
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.