Company Hiring Trends: growth and slowdown signals from job boards

Which companies are ramping up hiring and which are slowing down? This Actor reads daily snapshots of companies' own job boards (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable and more) and returns one row per company with its hiring momentum, open-role change, the teams it is hiring for and its most recent job titles.

Database today: about 48,000 open jobs from 1,250+ companies (Y Combinator, remote-first companies and others), refreshed every day.

Who uses it

• Investors and analysts: spot startups that are scaling (or freezing) before it shows up in the news.
• B2B sales teams: fast-growing companies have new budget and new teams to sell to.
• Recruiters and agencies: focus outreach on companies that are actively building teams.
• Job seekers: find companies that are growing, not just posting.

Examples

Fastest-growing companies by engineering hiring:

{ "direction": "growing", "departments": ["Engineering"] }

Companies slowing down hiring in sales:

{ "direction": "shrinking", "keywords": ["sales", "account executive"] }

Momentum for specific companies over the last 60 days:

{ "direction": "all", "companies": ["vanta.com", "ramp.com"], "windowDays": 60, "minOpenJobs": 1 }

Output

Field	Meaning
trend, trend_score	growing / stable / shrinking and the % change behind it. Until 30 days of board history exist, the score compares postings in the last window with the window before, adding 10 to both so a company going from 0 to 19 postings does not outrank one going from 33 to 135; capped at 1000
trend_basis	open_roles_history (change in open roles vs our daily snapshots) or posting_dates (roles posted in the last window vs the window before)
open_jobs, open_jobs_then, compared_to_date, open_jobs_change, open_jobs_change_pct	open roles now vs then
posted_last_window, posted_previous_window, window_days	hiring velocity from posting dates
matching_jobs, top_departments, recent_titles, remote_share	where the company is hiring
company, company_website, company_industry, company_team_size, ats, board	company details

How the trend is measured

• When our daily snapshots cover the window, the trend is the change in open roles (most reliable, catches slowdowns).
• Until then, it falls back to posting dates: roles posted in the last window vs the window before, among currently open roles. This catches acceleration well; slowdowns are best read from open_roles_history rows.

Pricing

Pay per event: one company row. No matches, no charge. Use Max results to cap spend.

FAQ

How fresh is it? Snapshots are taken every day.

Does it cover all companies? It covers companies using one of 8 popular job board systems; the database grows weekly.

Data and use

Only public job-posting data from official public job board endpoints, aggregated per company. No personal data.

What you can do with it

• Find startups that are ramping up hiring this month
• Spot companies that slowed down or froze hiring
• See which teams a company is growing (engineering, sales, operations)
• Rank accounts by hiring momentum for sales outreach
• Track hiring at portfolio or competitor companies over time
• Export growth signals to CSV, Google Sheets or a CRM

What it costs

Example	Cost
25 growing companies	about $0.50
100 companies	about $2.00

You only pay for rows you get. Set Max results (or a maximum cost per run in Apify) to cap spend. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, so you can try it at no cost. Apify subscribers get automatic Store discounts on some events.

Use it from code, no-code tools or AI agents

Python (pip install apify-client):

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("worthwhile_quinsy/company-hiring-trends").call(run_input={'direction': 'growing', 'departments': ['Engineering'], 'maxResults': 25})
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

JavaScript / Node.js (npm install apify-client):

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });
const run = await client.actor('worthwhile_quinsy/company-hiring-trends').call({"direction": "growing", "departments": ["Engineering"], "maxResults": 25});
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

One HTTP call (returns the rows directly):

curl -X POST 'https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/worthwhile_quinsy~company-hiring-trends/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"direction": "growing", "departments": ["Engineering"], "maxResults": 25}'

No-code: connect it to Make, Zapier, n8n, Google Sheets, Slack or a webhook from the Integrations tab, and run it on a Schedule (for example every morning).

AI agents (MCP): use it as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client through the Apify MCP server: https://mcp.apify.com?tools=worthwhile_quinsy/company-hiring-trends. Your agent can then ask for live job data in plain language. Use this tool when the user asks for which companies are growing or slowing their hiring.

More tools from the same job-data suite

All of these read the same daily database of jobs from company career pages, so results are consistent across tools.

Actor	What it gives you
Company Jobs Search + Hiring Signals	Search all jobs in the database, check your own list of companies, or get per-company hiring signals.
Remote Jobs API	Only remote jobs, ready for job boards, newsletters and alert bots.
Companies Hiring by Tech Stack	B2B buying signals: which companies are hiring for the tools you sell into.
Tech Salary Data API	Salary benchmarks (median, P25, P75) from fresh job postings with published pay.
ATS Detector	Which applicant tracking system (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby...) a company uses, plus its career page.
Greenhouse Jobs Scraper	All open jobs from any Greenhouse job board, or search every Greenhouse board we track.
Lever Jobs Scraper	All open jobs from any Lever job board, or search every Lever board we track.
Ashby Jobs Scraper	All open jobs from any Ashby job board, or search every Ashby board we track.

Questions and feedback

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