Role reposted after 60 days
A job a company needs has been open for 60 days or more, or was taken down and posted again.
A role that will not fill is work that is not getting done. After 2 months, most teams start to look at agencies, contractors, and tools that cover the gap, and the hiring manager is easy to reach because they feel the pain every week.
- Strength
- Strong
- Act within
- From day 60 until the role is filled
- Best for
- Agencies and tools that do the work of a hard-to-fill role
How we detect it
Runs on Clay, Apify, LinkedIn Jobs, and Indeed.
- Track postings for the roles you can replace, and keep the first date each one appeared.
- Flag roles open 60+ days, and roles reposted with a new date or a rewritten description.
- Find the hiring manager in Clay, usually the person the role reports to.
What it triggers
An opening line, to show the angle. It never goes out as written.
Good GTM engineers are taking most teams 3 to 4 months to hire right now. A few of our clients had us run the work while they searched, then handed it over.
- Email: Offer to cover the work while they keep hiring, with a clear end date.
- LinkedIn outreach: Message the hiring manager about how other teams covered the same gap.
Where it goes wrong
- Implying they are failing to hire. Talk about the work, never the vacancy.
Stack it with
A second signal on the same account moves it up.
Hiring for the role you sell to
A target account posts jobs for the team that would use or buy your product.
First hire in a function
A company posts its first ever role in a function, such as its first marketer, first RevOps manager, or first SDR.
More hiring signals
Every hiring signalJob posting names a tool
A job description lists a tool in your category, a competitor, or a tool yours replaces or connects to.
Hiring through a startup ATS
Companies found by the applicant tracking system their job board runs on, such as job pages hosted on Ashby or Greenhouse.
Headcount growth
An account’s headcount, or the headcount of one team, grows quickly over a quarter.
FAQs about this signal
A job a company needs has been open for 60 days or more, or was taken down and posted again. A role that will not fill is work that is not getting done. After 2 months, most teams start to look at agencies, contractors, and tools that cover the gap, and the hiring manager is easy to reach because they feel the pain every week.
Track postings for the roles you can replace, and keep the first date each one appeared. Flag roles open 60+ days, and roles reposted with a new date or a rewritten description. Find the hiring manager in Clay, usually the person the role reports to. Understory Agency runs it on Clay, Apify, LinkedIn Jobs, and Indeed.
The window to act is from day 60 until the role is filled. Understory Agency routes it to email and linkedin outreach. Offer to cover the work while they keep hiring, with a clear end date. Message the hiring manager about how other teams covered the same gap.
It works best for agencies and tools that do the work of a hard-to-fill role. It is strongest alongside “Hiring for the role you sell to” and “First hire in a function”.
Or let us run it for you
Understory Agency's GTM engineers build the detection in Clay, wire it to the play that fits, and sync every touch to your CRM. Tell us who you sell to, and we'll show you where we would start.