Track a competitor's hiring with Apify and Google Sheets

Description and use

Automated workflow to track competitors’ job posting changes using Apify and Google Sheets, enabling identification of hiring signals for outreach.

Problem

Track changes in competitors’ job postings to identify hiring signals for outreach.

Outcome

The Actor provides a cost‑effective, automated pipeline that surfaces hiring signals such as new functions or leadership hires, enabling timely outreach.

Workflow

• Add up to 100 company domains or career-page links to the Actor’s boards input; optionally specify board names if auto‑detection fails.
• Run the Actor once to emit a baseline of all open postings (or disable emitBaseline to only record the starting point).
• Apply filters such as titleIncludes, departments, locations, or remoteOnly to narrow results.
• Schedule subsequent runs daily or weekly to receive only changes: new, closed, or modified postings, along with board‑level metrics like newCount, closedCount, newFunctions, leadershipHires, techStack, and role counts 7 and 30 days ago.
• Configure integrations: connect Google Sheets to receive posting rows; set up a Slack webhook for digest notifications; or use the run‑sync‑get‑dataset‑items endpoint for HTTP access.
• Optionally set a maximum cost per run and monitor usage via the Actor’s cost metrics.

Evidence

Hiring is one of the clearest public signals of what a company plans to do.

Source

It reads Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Recruitee and Personio, and nothing else.

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Run it again, or schedule it daily or weekly. Now you get only changes:

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$1.50 per 1,000 results; a quiet company costs $0.0015 a day.

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