Six categories of hiring signal worth tracking weekly

If you do BD for a recruitment agency, you are in the business of timing. The right message at the wrong moment is silence. Here are the six signal categories that consistently produce booked meetings.

Funding rounds

Series A through C, with the largest concentration of hiring intent in the 60 days after announcement.

Executive moves

A new VP of Engineering, Sales, or People typically builds out their team within 90 days. Watching exec moves at companies in your patch is the highest leverage signal per minute spent.

ATS adoption or change

A company installing a new applicant tracking system is either scaling or restructuring. Either way, briefs are imminent.

Office moves

A new lease in a new city means roles in that city. A larger lease in an existing city means more of what they already hire.

Headcount jumps

Public headcount on LinkedIn moves as a rolling average per company. A 10 percent jump in 60 days is a meaningful inflection.

Job posting velocity

Not the postings themselves, but the rate of change. A company posting two roles per month for six months that suddenly posts seven is a different company than they were last week.

Each signal alone is noise. Together they form a high-confidence picture of where to spend the next hour. Cleyo's Discover module merges all six and ranks accounts by composite score, so your morning starts with a list of ten companies worth a message today, not a CSV of six thousand.