USE CASE:
The real work behind hiring signals for Dutch companies
What follows is the honest set of ways to get hiring signals on Dutch companies, including the ones that are not ours. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Prospect Engine is the one pointed at Dutch companies.
Where this starts
Dutch companies complicate hiring signals, for a reason specific to them. Dutch companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, and hiring signals has to work around it. Know this about Dutch companies before any hiring signals: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. Prospect Engine carries 1 ready made setup for hiring signals on Dutch companies.
The method
- Start with one of Dutch companies you already know, so a wrong hiring signals answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Prospect Engine across your list of Dutch companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for hiring signals.
- Read ten rows of hiring signals on Dutch companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for Dutch 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.