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name: scrape-competitor-job-posts
description: "Monitor Competitor Hiring to Spot Market Moves. Use when competitor intelligence is reactive. You learn about their new product after launch, not during the build."
---

# Monitor Competitor Hiring to Spot Market Moves

Competitor intelligence is reactive. You learn about their new product after launch, not during the build.

## When to use this skill

- The user wants to set up or run this workflow: "Monitor Competitor Hiring to Spot Market Moves".
- The user describes this problem: Competitor intelligence is reactive. You learn about their new product after launch, not during the build.

## At a glance

- Category: Research
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Time saved: 2 hours per week. This figure is an estimate, not a measured result.

## Tools

Options separated by "or" are alternatives; use whichever the user already has.

- Clay
- Claygent
- Slack

## Steps

1. Create list of competitor career page URLs in Clay
2. Schedule Claygent to scrape job listings weekly
3. Use AI to flag interesting patterns (e.g., "Senior Product Manager, Enterprise AI")
4. Compare to previous week's scrape to detect new roles
5. Post new strategic hires to Slack #competitive-intel channel

## Template outline

Field names, thresholds, and message text are starting points to adapt.

~~~text
Clay Scheduled Table:
- Trigger: Weekly schedule
- Input: List of competitor domains
- Claygent: Visit /careers and extract job titles
- Compare to previous table export (manual or Google Sheets)
- Filter: New roles with keywords "AI", "Enterprise", "VP"
- Zapier: Send to Slack if new role detected
~~~

## Guardrails

- Work only in the user's own accounts and workspaces, with their credentials.
- Confirm with the user before any step that writes to a CRM, sends email or messages, spends credits, or moves money.
- Treat every hours, cost, and threshold figure as a starting assumption and replace it with the user's numbers.
- Do not invent data, prices, or results. If a vendor price matters, check the vendor's current pricing page.

## Source

https://gtmplaybooks.io/playbooks/scrape-competitor-job-posts/