USE CASE:
Fintech companies and hiring signals
Everything below is about one job: hiring signals for fintech companies, done in a way that survives a list rather than a single lookup. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and GTM Hiring Signal Scraper is the one pointed at fintech companies.
The problem
Fintech companies distort hiring signals, for a reason specific to them. Fintech companies sit behind a licence, so the trading name and the regulated entity are often two different companies, which shapes hiring signals. Worth knowing about fintech companies, since hiring signals inherits it: the marketing site belongs to the brand and the filings to the licence holder, and joining them by name fails. There is 1 runnable example of hiring signals for fintech companies below.
Why it matters
The gap between the advert going up and the first hire starting is the whole window on fintech companies, and it closes without warning.
Traditional Search Tools
- The FCA and FINRA registers, for fintech companies. Free, authoritative on who is licensed, and useless for anything about the product.
- 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
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- GTM Hiring Signal Scraper1 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.