When a company opens five finance roles in a month, it is probably about to buy finance software. When it starts hiring sales staff in a new city, it is probably about to need office space, payroll in a new state and recruiting help there too. Job postings are one of the few public signals that show where a company is putting its money, and they change week to week.

Sales and business development teams know this. The problem is the effort. Checking fifty careers pages by hand every week does not last long, and a single snapshot tells you little. What you want is the trend: which accounts are adding roles faster than usual, in which departments, and what changed since last week.

This tutorial shows how to build that trend from public job boards using the Job Postings Scraper: Company Hiring Signals Actor on the Apify Store.

Where the data comes from

Many fast-growing companies run recruiting on one of three applicant tracking systems: Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby.…