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Overview

Hiring signals are one of the most effective intent indicators in B2B outreach. They help identify companies that are either:
  • Hiring for roles your product complements (e.g., hiring SDRs if you sell sales enablement software), or
  • Hiring for roles your product replaces (e.g., hiring QA testers if you automate testing).
By aligning your outreach with these hiring moments, you reach companies at the right time—when budget, need, and intent are aligned. Bitscale supports two main workflows for leveraging hiring intent:
  1. Find Companies Hiring for a Specific Role (intent-based source)
  2. Track Active Jobs for Existing Accounts (enrichment inside a grid)

Workflow 1: Find Companies Hiring for a Specific Role

Step 1: Create the Intent-Based Source

  1. Go to New Grid → Intent-Based Sources → Find LinkedIn Jobs Data.
  2. Enter your Job Titles:
    • Example: “SDR,” “Sales Development Representative.”
  3. (Optional) Add filters:
    • Description Keyword – refine roles (e.g., “Azure” for Cloud Engineers).
    • Location – e.g., United States.
    • Experience Level / Job Type / Date Posted / Workplace Type.
  4. Choose Number of Results (e.g., 1,000) and click Import to New Grid.
    • Each company found represents an active hiring intent signal.

Step 2: Enrich the Company Data

  1. Run Enrich Company (LinkedIn) on the imported list.
    • Input: Company LinkedIn URL.
    • Output: Live company data such as size, industry, and description.

Step 3: Qualify Companies (ICP Layer)

Use a Formula Column or AI Enrichment to flag ICP accounts. Example (AI Formula):
“Check if @employee_count is greater than 40. If yes, return Yes. Else, return No.”
This helps identify target accounts that meet your size and relevance thresholds.

Step 4: Find Relevant People

  1. Run Find People from Company on the qualified list.
  2. Inputs: Company URL, Department, Seniority, Location.
  3. Recommended setup for SDR-related hiring signals:
    • Department: Sales
    • Seniority: Head, VP, Director, Manager
    • Location: United States
  4. Add a Run Condition:
    • Only run for rows where ICP Checker contains “Yes.”

Step 5: Export Contacts & Refine

  1. Export to New Grid – move contacts into a dedicated Contact-Level grid.
  2. Map key account-level data (e.g., employee count, industry) for reference.
  3. Run GPT Mini or Formula Columns to verify contact seniority:
    • Prompt example:
      “Check if @title is a senior sales role or decision-making position.”
  4. Filter results to keep only decision-makers or relevant roles.

Step 6: Enrich Contact Data

Run the following enrichments:
  • Email Waterfall (find verified work/personal emails).
  • Phone Waterfall (find phone numbers).
💡 Coverage typically averages 80–85% for emails and 90%+ for phones.

Step 7: Outreach & Automation

Push the final list into your outbound or CRM systems:
  • Email Tools: Instantly, Smartlead, Lemlist
  • LinkedIn Tools: Heyreach
  • CRMs: HubSpot, Salesforce
You can also send data to Slack for manual review or internal visibility.

Workflow 2: Track Active Jobs for Existing Accounts

Step 1: Use Active Jobs Enrichment

  1. In any existing Account Grid, go to Enrichments → Active Jobs.
  2. Input: Company LinkedIn URL.
  3. Run to fetch the last 10 active job listings for each company.

Step 2: Apply AI Filters

Layer a GPT Mini enrichment to qualify or extract intent from the job data:
“Check if the company is hiring for SDRs or Sales roles.”
This identifies existing ICP accounts that have recently begun hiring for relevant roles—great for re-engagement or timing your follow-up.

Best Practices

  • Use Find Jobs Data for discovering new intent-based companies.
  • Use Active Jobs Enrichment for tracking signals within your existing CRM or account list.
  • Combine hiring signals with other filters (e.g., funding rounds, tech stack) for deeper qualification.
  • Leverage AI layers to automate role-based classification.
  • Refresh the “Find Jobs Data” source weekly using the built-in auto-fetch scheduling feature.

Summary

Hiring Signals help you prioritize outreach by identifying companies that are actively expanding their teams in relevant roles. Whether you’re discovering new accounts or tracking existing ones, Bitscale’s hiring workflows let you:
  • Detect high-intent companies in real time
  • Qualify and segment accounts automatically
  • Find and enrich the right decision-makers for outreach
For deeper playbooks or campaign examples, reach out to the Bitscale support team.
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