# Company Hiring Signals (`ponderable_hydrometer/hiring-signals`) Actor

Turn any list of companies into hiring-intent signals: open roles, departments hiring, recent posting velocity and a growth signal — pulled live from each company's ATS (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workday, BambooHR, Personio). No proxies, no login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ponderable\_hydrometer/hiring-signals.md
- **Developed by:** [Ponderable Hydrometer](https://apify.com/ponderable_hydrometer) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Jobs
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $10.00 / 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

## Company Hiring Signals

Turn a list of companies into **hiring-intent signals** — a compact, structured read on
what each company is hiring for, right now, straight from its own careers system.

A company that's hiring is a company that's growing and spending. This actor gives sales,
lead-gen, recruiting and market-intelligence teams a fast, per-company signal instead of a
raw jobs dump: how many roles are open, which departments are hiring, whether they're
adding engineers or salespeople, how fresh the postings are, and an overall growth read.

Data comes live from each company's ATS via public APIs (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby,
SmartRecruiters, Workday, BambooHR, Personio) — no proxies, no login, no LinkedIn/Indeed.

### Who it's for

- **B2B sales & lead-gen** — hiring is a buying trigger (a company scaling its sales team
  needs sales tooling; one scaling engineering needs dev tools/cloud).
- **Recruiters & staffing** — spot who's actively hiring and in which functions.
- **Investors & market intel** — track headcount-growth signals across a portfolio or market.

### Output

One row per company:

```json
{
  "company": "stripe",
  "ats": "greenhouse",
  "status": "ok",
  "totalOpenRoles": 510,
  "postingsLast30Days": 118,
  "newestPostingDate": "2026-07-11T00:00:37.000Z",
  "remoteRoles": 102,
  "remoteShare": 0.2,
  "topDepartments": [{ "name": "Solutions Architecture", "count": 19 }],
  "topLocations": [{ "name": "Dublin", "count": 35 }],
  "categories": { "engineering": 153, "sales": 93, "marketing": 46, "product": 32, "design": 18, "operations": 78, "finance": 31, "people": 3, "executive": 16 },
  "hiringEngineering": true,
  "hiringSales": true,
  "growthSignal": "high"
}
```

`growthSignal` is `high` / `moderate` / `low` / `none`, based on recent posting velocity
relative to size. `hiringEngineering` and `hiringSales` are quick booleans for filtering.

Companies with no detectable public ATS come back with `status: "ats_not_found"` and zeroed
metrics — still one clean row per company you asked about.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `companies` | array | — (required) | Company slugs or job-board URLs (a single value or a list) |
| `atsHint` | string | `auto` | Force an ATS instead of auto-detecting |
| `maxJobsPerCompany` | integer | `2000` | Cap on roles read per company when computing the signal |

### Notes & accuracy

- **Recency by ATS.** `postingsLast30Days` and `newestPostingDate` use each ATS's posting
  timestamp. Some platforms (e.g. Greenhouse) expose a *last-updated* time rather than the
  original post date, which can make recent activity look higher — treat `growthSignal` as
  directional, not exact. Counts, departments, and category signals are precise.
- **Workday dates.** To stay fast, this actor doesn't open each Workday posting, so Workday
  companies may report roles without dates (recency undercounted); totals and departments
  are unaffected.
- **Coverage.** Only companies on the seven supported ATS platforms produce a signal. Pass a
  full board URL for the most reliable detection (required for Workday).
- Built on public job-board APIs; you are responsible for using the output in line with your
  own legal and compliance requirements.

# Actor input Schema

## `companies` (type: `array`):

Companies to score for hiring intent — company slugs or job-board URLs. Detects the ATS automatically (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workday, BambooHR, Personio). Examples: "stripe", "gopuff", "https://nvidia.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/NVIDIAExternalCareerSite". A single name or a list both work.

## `atsHint` (type: `string`):

Force a specific ATS instead of auto-detecting. Leave on Auto-detect unless you know the board type.

## `maxJobsPerCompany` (type: `integer`):

Cap on how many open roles are read per company when computing the signal.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "companies": [
    "stripe",
    "gopuff",
    "https://arc.bamboohr.com/careers"
  ],
  "atsHint": "auto",
  "maxJobsPerCompany": 2000
}
```

# 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 = {
    "companies": [
        "stripe",
        "gopuff",
        "https://arc.bamboohr.com/careers"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ponderable_hydrometer/hiring-signals").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 = { "companies": [
        "stripe",
        "gopuff",
        "https://arc.bamboohr.com/careers",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ponderable_hydrometer/hiring-signals").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 '{
  "companies": [
    "stripe",
    "gopuff",
    "https://arc.bamboohr.com/careers"
  ]
}' |
apify call ponderable_hydrometer/hiring-signals --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/CkevOPhhqrnNcnUIh/builds/uhgfAxgIO6MTnVSTb/openapi.json