Hiring Signals
Hiring Signals watches the labor market for you. You create saved listeners that fire when something relevant happens, in two flavors:
- Hiring Wave - companies posting jobs that match your keywords and filters. A company hiring for roles tied to your ICP is signaling budget, growth, and a new initiative.
- Talent Moves - people changing jobs. Watch a contact list, or name a competitor and get alerted whenever someone joins or leaves them.
Matches surface as signals on the contact and in your Signals feed, and can auto-enroll the contact into a campaign audience.
Where to find it
Open Signals -> Hiring. The page route is /signals/hiring. It mirrors the Social Listener layout:
- Two type tabs: Hiring Wave and Talent Moves
- A Listeners ↔ Results toggle
- A “New Hiring Wave” / “New Talent Move” button for the active type
Hiring Wave
A Hiring Wave listener is a saved job search. graph8 re-runs it on a daily cadence and surfaces matching companies.

Listener fields:
| Field | What it does |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Job-title and posting keywords to match (chips) |
| Location / window | Geographic scope and how far back to look |
| Contacts per company | How many decision-makers to pull per matched company |
| Title / seniority / department | Narrow which roles count as a match |
Results view opens a live grid with four sub-tabs:
| Sub-tab | Shows |
|---|---|
| Jobs | The matching job postings |
| Companies | Companies posting those jobs (your ICP, actively hiring) |
| Decision-makers | Resolved contacts at those companies |
| Recruiters | The recruiting contacts behind the postings |
Talent Moves
A Talent Moves listener detects job changes. Pick one of two watchlist sources:
| Source | What it watches |
|---|---|
| Contact list | A graph8 list or audience - alerts when anyone in it changes jobs |
| Company (competitor) | A named company - scans the global job-change feed and fires on both joins and leaves, no pre-built list needed |
Both sources accept role filters: title contains, seniority floor, department, minimum days in the previous role, and an employer allow/blocklist. Seniority and department are matched against the new job title, so phrase filters as title keywords.
Detected moves appear on the contact’s Hiring tab in the contact drawer (with a job-change badge) and in your Signals feed. Talent Moves are resolved on an hourly cadence.
Your first listeners (auto-seed)
If you have no listeners yet, the page shows a first-run hero with an Auto-seed option:
- Hiring Wave listeners are proposed from your Studio docs (personas / ICP)
- Talent Moves listeners are proposed from your existing contact lists
The onboarding modal lists the proposed listeners with checkboxes - pick the ones you want and create them in one click. You can also create listeners manually.
Auto-enroll into campaigns
Each listener can optionally sync matches into a campaign audience. When auto-sync is enabled, a matched contact is upserted into the chosen audience, which triggers your existing sequence-enrollment flow. Turn this on from the listener’s edit form.
How signals flow downstream
- The resolver emits a
job_change(Talent Moves) or hiring (Hiring Wave) signal. - The signal appears on the contact’s Hiring tab and in the Signals feed.
- If auto-sync is on, the contact is added to the target audience and enrolled in the linked sequence.
Related
- Intent Tracking → - keyword and topic intent on resolved contacts
- Social Listener → - monitor X (Twitter) for buying signals
- Sequencer → - reach matched contacts with outbound