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How to track what a competitor is hiring for
Watch a competitor's careers page and Rival Radar finds their public job board, counts open roles by team, and tells you what opened and closed in the last 30 days.
Updated November 9, 2026
Watch how, in a short video
Hiring is one of the earliest public signs of where a company is going. A first salesperson in a new country, a run of enterprise sales roles, a sudden need for security and compliance people: all of those show up months before the thing they're building does.
Watch a competitor's careers page and Rival Radar looks for a public job board behind it, then tracks the roles on it every day.
Step by step
Watch their careers page
Add it as a watched page with its type set to Careers. That's the only setup there is.
Wait for the board to be found
Each time the careers page is checked, Rival Radar looks for a Greenhouse, Lever or Ashby board linked from it. Most growing companies use one of the three.
Open the competitor
The Hiring section appears on their page once a careers page is being watched.
Read the headline number
The big number is how many roles are open on their board right now, with the board itself linked and the date it was last read.
Look at the teams
Underneath are the teams they're hiring into, with a count each. That's usually more telling than the total.
Read the last 30 days
Last 30 days gives how many roles opened and how many closed, and lists the new ones with their team and location. Each links to the role itself.
What the first look can't tell you
The first time their board is read, every role on it is new to us. There's no way to tell a role posted yesterday from one that's been open since March, so the card says so and leaves the new-and-closed counts out.
From the next daily check onwards it knows what was already there, so new and closed roles are real from then on.
That's a day's wait, not a fortnight. The open roles count and the team breakdown are right from the first read.
When there's no board to read
Not every company has one, and the card says which case you're in.
- We haven't found a job board we can read means their careers page lists roles on the page itself, uses a provider we don't read, or has nothing open. Rival Radar keeps looking every time the careers page is checked, and you still hear about changes to the page itself.
- Their job board has disappeared means a board we were reading has gone. That happens when a company switches provider. The new one gets picked up the next time their careers page is checked.
- The last check of their job board didn't work means the numbers may be a day old. It's tried again the next day.
Reading the signals properly
Hiring is a leading indicator, which also means it's a noisy one. Some roles sit open all year as a standing pipeline, some get reposted to look fresh, and plenty are replacements for someone who left.
What's worth acting on is a pattern across several roles: a first hire in a new region, several roles opening in one team at once, compliance and security appearing for the first time, or a team whose roles quietly disappear.
The guide on what a competitor's job postings tell you goes through the signals one by one.
Questions
Is hiring tracking on the free plan?
Yes. Hiring signals are on every plan, including free. You just need a careers page as one of your watched pages for that competitor.
Which job boards can you read?
Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, all through their own public endpoints. Those three cover most companies that use a board at all.
How often is the board checked?
Once a day, separately from the careers page's own check schedule. So a careers page set to weekly still gets daily hiring numbers.
Does it include roles not on their board?
No. It reads their own public board and nothing else. Roles posted only to a job site, a LinkedIn page or a recruiter won't be there.
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