Hiring intelligence for recruiters and executive search teams
Know who’s hiring. Know where to focus.
Track vacancies, understand hiring trends and explore company insights across your target market — so your team can prioritise opportunities and approach clients better informed.
Vacancy tracking · Role and market analytics · Company insights · Business development
Illustrative example — sample data
Recently discovered vacancies
Head of Risk Analytics
Meridian Bank
London
3 days ago
Senior Pricing Analyst
Northline Air
Manchester
4 days ago
Data Platform Lead
Kestrel Asset Management
Edinburgh
12 days ago
Director, Operational Resilience
Calder Insurance
Leeds
31 days ago
“First discovered” is when a search first recorded the vacancy, not the employer’s posting date.
02 · The problem
A 500-company patch is normal. Checking it by hand is not.
Keeping up with that many employers means either a dedicated researcher or long gaps between checks. Job Hunter closes both gaps — and turns the results into a view of the market behind them.
Less manual research
Bring vacancies from your target companies into one place instead of checking individual careers pages.
Greater market understanding
See how advertised demand is moving by role, location and company, so priorities rest on more than a single advert.
Better-informed outreach
Use hiring activity, company insights and prepared research to approach the right prospects with a relevant reason for the conversation.
03 · How it works
Three steps from target list to conversation.
Choose your target companies
Define the employers, sectors and locations you want to follow, along with the roles that matter to you.
Set your searches and alerts
Run searches on demand or on a schedule. Alerts highlight newly identified roles, so you see what has changed rather than the same vacancies again.
Review, analyse and act
Explore vacancies and hiring trends, review company insights, and use both to plan your next conversation.
Alerts
Stay informed without reviewing the same vacancies again.
Scheduled searches highlight newly identified roles and send relevant updates to the right colleagues.
Features
What sits behind those three steps.
Tracking and search
- Tracked company lists from a few dozen to low thousands of employers
- Company search: every open vacancy across a chosen group of tracked companies
- Title search: one job title across your whole universe and your configured job boards
- Saved-data search: repeat a search against stored results without collecting again
- Match roles: rank open vacancies against a role description or a CV
- AI search: describe the brief in plain English, running on your organisation’s own AI key
Scheduling and alerts
- Run a search on demand, or let a saved search run to a schedule
- Background refresh picks up companies that have not been visited recently, including weekends
- Per-search recipient lists, so different searches reach different people
- Alerts give the role, company, location, when it was first discovered and where it was found
Role analytics
- Demand by role family, location and tracked company
- Aged vacancies: which companies have roles advertised 30, 60 and 90+ days
- Reposting patterns and roles that stay open for months
- Changes in advertised roles over time, where tracking history allows
Market intelligence
- Company hiring trends: openings, closures and net movement over time
- Peer-group and sector comparisons across your tracked universe
- Geographic concentrations of advertised demand
- Emerging role patterns once enough tracking history exists
Company insights and research
- Current vacancy mix and hiring history for any tracked company
- AI-assisted company reports and research summaries
- Briefing material and suggested discussion points
- Recorded activity kept separate from generated interpretation
Business development
- Prioritised companies with the reason each one surfaced
- Long-standing and repeatedly advertised roles as outreach signals
- Changes in hiring volume and breadth by company
- Freshness indicators showing when a company needs rechecking
Stored results
- Each search produces timestamped results that can be revisited, filtered and shared
- Live searches and saved results are labelled differently, so their freshness is clear
- Any set of results can be exported as CSV
- Title filters are recorded alongside the results they produced
Coverage and accuracy
- Careers pages monitored directly, with support for a wide range of recruitment platforms
- Bespoke or unrecognised career sites handled by a generic reader
- Coverage status reported for every company in a search
- Roles marked closed only after repeated missed findings, so one failed run does not empty a company
Team and administration
- Tracked companies, saved searches, results and analytics shared across the organisation
- Admin, standard user and viewer roles
- Documents and notes attached to any tracked company
- Timestamped activity log of searches, notifications and report generation
- AI features run against your organisation’s own provider keys
Confidence in the data
Direct sources. Clear context.
Company careers pages first
Monitor vacancies directly from employers’ careers pages, with support for a wide range of recruitment platforms.
Timestamped results
See when information was collected and distinguish live searches from saved results.
Clear coverage status
Understand when a page could not be accessed, rather than confusing missing data with no vacancies.
Platform coverage is maintained in-house and extended as employers change systems. Bespoke or unrecognised career sites are handled by a generic reader rather than being dropped.
Recorded activity, calculated signals and AI-assisted research are labelled separately, so you can see which is which. Advertised demand is not the same as headcount growth; a vacancy that disappears does not prove a successful hire, and a repost does not prove an unsuccessful one. Trend reading depends on the length and quality of your tracking history.
04 · Analytics & Intelligence
From individual vacancies to a clearer view of your market.
An open vacancy is only part of the story. Understand how demand is changing, compare employers and investigate the hiring patterns behind your next client conversation.
Role Analytics
Understand the roles behind the numbers.
Explore which roles are being advertised, where demand is concentrated and which vacancies remain open or appear repeatedly.
- Demand by role family and location
- Vacancy age based on when roles were first discovered
- Reposting patterns and long-standing vacancies
- Changes in advertised roles over time
Practical question: Which roles and locations deserve closer attention?
Illustrative example — sample data
Advertised vacancies by role family
Count of roles advertised across your tracked companies.
- Risk and compliance42
London, Manchester
- Data and analytics28
London, Edinburgh
- Finance and pricing17
Manchester, Leeds
- Operations and resilience9
Edinburgh, Leeds
Vacancy age and reposting
- 73 days since first discovered · relisted onceLong-standing vacancy
- First discovered 3 days agoNew since your last search
- 31 days since first discovered · two locationsAdvertised again after a break
Market Intelligence
See how hiring activity is changing across your market.
Compare hiring patterns across tracked companies, sectors and locations to understand where advertised demand is increasing, slowing or shifting.
- Hiring trends and changes in vacancy volumes
- Company and peer-group comparisons
- Geographic concentrations of demand
- Emerging role patterns where sufficient tracking history exists
Practical question: Where is demand changing across my target market?
Illustrative example — sample data
Peer comparison · this quarter against last
- Rising
Meridian Bank
More roles advertised, concentrated in risk and compliance
- Steady
Kestrel Asset Management
Similar volume, with two roles open for months
- Shifting
Northline Air
Fewer finance roles, more commercial and pricing
- Slowing
Calder Insurance
Fewer roles advertised from a high base last quarter
Interpretation depends on how long each company has been tracked.
Company Insights
Approach each company with more context.
Bring together a company’s advertised roles, hiring history and generated research to prepare for a more informed conversation.
- Current vacancy mix and hiring activity
- Changes in the roles and locations being advertised
- AI-assisted company reports and research
- Briefing material and suggested discussion points
Practical question: What should I understand about this company before I contact it?
Illustrative example — sample data
Arden Asset Management
Tracked for 9 months · 7 roles advertised · 2 locations
Recorded hiring activity
- 7 roles advertised across Edinburgh and London
- 4 first discovered in the last 30 days
- Investment and risk roles make up most of the current mix
Calculated signals
- More investment roles than last quarter
- Fewer operations roles advertised than last month
AI-assisted research
- Appointments to the investment team reported in the trade press
Business Development
Turn hiring signals into outreach priorities.
Use hiring activity — or a candidate you are already representing — to identify companies worth investigating and understand the evidence behind each opportunity.
- Prioritised companies with supporting reasons
- Long-standing and repeatedly advertised vacancies
- Changes in hiring volume and breadth
- Freshness indicators that show when information needs checking
Candidate-led outreach
Have a strong candidate? Find relevant opportunities across your target companies.
Match a CV or role profile against the vacancies you already track to see which employers are advertising relevant roles now — the candidate-led counterpart to monitoring companies for their hiring signals.
Practical question: Who should I approach, and what is the reason for the conversation?
Illustrative example — sample data
Suggested priorities
- Northline AirChecked 3 hours ago
Newly discovered roles in two locations
- Kestrel Asset ManagementChecked 1 day ago
Long-standing vacancy · relisted once this quarter
- Calder InsuranceChecked 9 days ago
Hiring volume easing after a busy quarter
Refresh before outreach
Company insights & reports
Go into the conversation better informed.
Combine current hiring activity with company research and briefing reports to prepare relevant questions, explore potential needs and support your client approach.
Illustrative example — sample data
Company briefing — Meridian Bank
Prepared from the company’s advertised roles and hiring history, so the conversation starts from what the company is doing now.
Recorded activity
- 18 roles advertised, 11 first discovered in the last 30 days
- Risk and compliance is the largest role family, mostly London
- Two roles first discovered more than 60 days ago
Questions and talking points
- How is the risk and compliance expansion shaping the team structure?
- Is the payments investment programme starting to change hiring?
- Two roles have been advertised for months — is the brief difficult to fill?
AI-assisted research
- Leadership change in the retail division reported in the trade press
- Investment programme announced for the payments function
Executive search
Look beyond advertised vacancies.
Investigate business events that may create a reason for an executive-search conversation — leadership changes, investment, acquisitions and expansion, drawn from publicly reported sources.
A publicly reported event does not by itself indicate that a mandate is available.
05 · Who it’s for
Built around the markets you work in.
Recruitment agencies
Keep a defined patch under continuous watch and approach candidates with vacancies that are open now, rather than last month’s list.
Executive search firms
Map a target universe of senior employers and see advertised leadership and board-level hiring as it appears.
Recruitment business-development teams
Use long-standing vacancies, expansion signals and hiring slowdowns to decide which prospects to approach and when.
Consulting and co-source firms
Follow hiring across clients and prospects to see which teams are expanding now, and where expertise or a delivery team can be offered on a co-source or project basis.
Investment firms
Follow advertised hiring as a market signal — where companies are building teams, where activity is easing and how peers compare — to support research and investment views.
With a current focus on financial services and travel, Job Hunter can also be configured around other defined markets and target-company lists.
08 · FAQ
Questions recruiters ask.
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