USE CASE:
Sales: the work behind hiring signals
Everything below is about one job: hiring signals for sales, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. We are Mamba Labs, we build Apify actors, and GTM Job Discovery is the one that does this for sales.
The situation
Sales and hiring signals: the shortcuts stop working, for one specific reason. Sales sit in one function and one seniority band, and both move with company size, and hiring signals has to work around it. On sales, hiring signals rarely catches this: the same title means three different jobs at a startup, a scaleup and an enterprise. We keep 1 preconfigured task for hiring signals on sales, across 1 tool.
What is at stake
The gap between the advert going up and the first hire starting is the whole window on sales, and it closes without warning.
Traditional Search Tools
- The job advert itself, for sales. Free, and the responsibilities section says what the title actually means there.
- 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.
- GTM Job Discovery1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
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.