# Hiring Signal Leads — B2B Buying Signals from Job Boards (`jgdata/hiring-signal-leads`) Actor

Companies actively hiring are companies with budget. Turn any prospect list into scored B2B leads from public job boards on 5 ATS platforms: open roles, hiring velocity, department growth, HOT/WARM/COLD score with quotable evidence. Only pay for leads delivered.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/jgdata/hiring-signal-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Jack Gendron](https://apify.com/jgdata) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Jobs
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Hiring Signal Leads — B2B Buying Signals from Job Boards

**Companies actively hiring are companies with budget.** This Actor turns any company's public job board into a scored B2B lead record — open-role counts, hiring velocity, department growth, and roles matching what *you* sell — across **5 ATS platforms**: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters.

Built on official public job-board APIs: HTTP-only, no proxies, no anti-bot breakage. You are only charged for lead records actually delivered — companies below your thresholds are skipped free.

### What you get — one scored lead per company

```json
{
  "company": "Blueground",
  "leadScore": "HOT",
  "totalOpenRoles": 29,
  "recentRoles": 4,
  "matchingRoles": 1,
  "departmentsHiring": 2,
  "topDepartments": [{ "name": "City Core", "count": 20 }],
  "signals": [
    "Scaling fast: 29 open roles",
    "4 role(s) posted in last 30 days",
    "1 role(s) matching your keywords — direct buying signal"
  ],
  "sampleJobs": [{ "title": "Junior Account Executive", "applyUrl": "..." }]
}
```

### Why hiring data beats cold lists

- A company hiring **5 SDRs** is buying sales tools *this quarter*.
- A company hiring **DevOps engineers** has infrastructure budget *now*.
- A company hiring across **4+ departments** is in growth mode — every vendor's best moment.

Feed it your prospect list, set `roleKeywords` to the roles your buyers hire for, and get back a prioritized HOT/WARM/COLD queue with evidence your SDRs can quote in the first line of an email.

### How scoring works

- **HOT** — multiple roles matching your keywords, or a keyword match plus high recent velocity
- **WARM** — some keyword match, high velocity, or large-scale hiring (20+ roles)
- **COLD** — hiring, but no strong signal for you

Tune with `recentDays`, `minOpenRoles`, and `hotOnly` (skipped companies are never charged).

### Input example

```json
{
  "sources": ["greenhouse:stripe", "lever:palantir", "ashby:ramp"],
  "roleKeywords": ["sales", "account executive"],
  "recentDays": 30,
  "hotOnly": true
}
```

`sources` accepts `platform:slug` or a pasted careers URL (auto-detected).

### Monitor mode

Schedule it daily/weekly over your full prospect list and pipe HOT leads to Slack, Sheets, or your CRM via Apify integrations — a standing hiring-signal radar for your territory.

### Related

Want the raw postings instead of scored leads? Use the companion **ATS Jobs Scraper** for full per-job records (title, location, salary, description) from the same 5 platforms.

# Actor input Schema

## `sources` (type: `array`):

One entry per company: `platform:slug` (e.g. `greenhouse:stripe`, `lever:palantir`, `ashby:ramp`, `workable:blueground`, `smartrecruiters:servicenow`) or a careers-board URL — platform auto-detected.

## `roleKeywords` (type: `array`):

Keywords matched against job titles to compute the `matchingRoles` signal — e.g. `sales`, `marketing`, `devops`. If your product sells to sales teams, companies hiring salespeople are your hottest leads. Leave empty to score on overall hiring only.

## `recentDays` (type: `integer`):

Postings published within this many days count as 'recent' for hiring-velocity scoring.

## `minOpenRoles` (type: `integer`):

Skip companies with fewer total open roles than this (no lead record, no charge).

## `hotOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Only output companies scored HOT.

## `includeSampleJobs` (type: `boolean`):

Attach up to 5 matching job titles + apply URLs to each lead as evidence.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sources": [
    "greenhouse:stripe",
    "lever:palantir",
    "ashby:ramp"
  ],
  "recentDays": 30,
  "minOpenRoles": 1,
  "hotOnly": false,
  "includeSampleJobs": true
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "sources": [
        "greenhouse:stripe",
        "lever:palantir",
        "ashby:ramp"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("jgdata/hiring-signal-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "sources": [
        "greenhouse:stripe",
        "lever:palantir",
        "ashby:ramp",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("jgdata/hiring-signal-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "sources": [
    "greenhouse:stripe",
    "lever:palantir",
    "ashby:ramp"
  ]
}' |
apify call jgdata/hiring-signal-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jgdata/hiring-signal-leads",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ykzV7Pnb5J7umKc39/builds/ma4hVahDWApOOjJGK/openapi.json