Reading hiring signals for SDR

What is actually going wrong

SDR skew hiring signals, for a reason specific to them. SDR sit in one function and one seniority band, and both move with company size, and hiring signals has to work around it. On SDR, hiring signals rarely catches this: the same title means three different jobs at a startup, a scaleup and an enterprise. If you would rather try it than read about it, GTM Hiring Signal Scraper does hiring signals for SDR today.

Traditional Search Tools

• The job advert itself, for SDR. 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.

The method

1. Start with one of SDR you already know, so a wrong hiring signals answer is obvious rather than plausible.
2. Run GTM Hiring Signal Scraper across your list of SDR, which carries 2 ready made setups for hiring signals.
3. Read ten rows of hiring signals on SDR by hand before you trust the rest of the list.

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• GTM Hiring Signal Scraper2 preconfigured tasks on this page's job.