USE CASE:
Hiring signals for Canadian companies, start to finish
Read this if you need hiring signals for Canadian companies and you would rather see the real options than a pitch. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for work like this, and Prospect Engine is the one that reads Canadian companies.
The situation
Canadian companies and hiring signals: one at a time is fine, and a list of them is not. Start from this: Canadian companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, and hiring signals follows. What catches people out on Canadian companies, hiring signals included: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. We keep 1 preconfigured task for hiring signals on Canadian companies, across 1 tool.
How we would run it
- Start with one of Canadian companies you already know, so a wrong hiring signals answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Prospect Engine across your list of Canadian companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for hiring signals.
- Read ten rows of hiring signals on Canadian companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for Canadian 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.