USE CASE:
The real work behind hiring signals for UK companies
Here is how hiring signals for UK companies actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. Mamba Labs builds Apify actors, and Prospect Engine is one of 2 named below that cover UK companies.
What is actually going wrong
UK companies skew hiring signals, for a reason specific to them. UK companies file, publish and advertise under local rules that no global dataset models properly, and hiring signals has to work around it. What catches people out on UK companies, hiring signals included: coverage from any vendor drops off a cliff outside the English speaking market. If you would rather try it than read about it, Prospect Engine does hiring signals for UK companies today.
How we would run it
- Start with one of UK companies you already know, so a wrong hiring signals answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run Prospect Engine across your list of UK companies, which carries 2 ready made setups for hiring signals.
- Run GTM Job Discovery across your list of UK companies, which carries 1 ready made setup for hiring signals.
- Read ten rows of hiring signals on UK companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Traditional Search Tools
- The national company register, for UK 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.