How to use the job board hiring signal for outreach

Last updated 28 October 2026

When you want to start LinkedIn job board hiring signal outreach, HeyLead finds the right contacts and drafts the campaign.

What the job board hiring signal is

The job board hiring signal means a company's careers page lists open roles. HeyLead is an AI agent for LinkedIn outreach: it finds the right people, writes to them in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts, follows up, and handles replies. It runs from Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client or a web dashboard.

It runs from the cloud with your laptop closed. The client's source is on GitHub under MIT. The hosted backend is not. Free costs $0 for one connected account with 2 follow-ups. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account.

Why the hiring signal matters

HeyLead watches 40+ signal types, scored, matched to your ICP and expiring. The ats hiring signal comes from a mention on the web outside LinkedIn. HeyLead searches Reddit, Hacker News, G2 and careers pages for the companies and words on your watchlist. A strong signal starts outreach and the opener says why now.

The signal has a weight of 0.25 in HeyLead's score.
Scores run from -0.30 to 0.90.
A negative score lowers priority.
The signal expires after 14 days.

What to write when you see this signal

This signal is attached to a company. HeyLead attaches it to campaign contacts at that company. It raises priority but does not write the invite note. When you write your message, say where it came up. Mention the careers page and ask for their view.

Opening messages, follow-ups and answers to replies wait for your approval until you switch to autopilot. Invitations, not-now check-ins and meeting nudges are not held. It reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post.

Type a one-sentence brief in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or the HeyLead dashboard.
HeyLead drafts the campaign.
You review it and press Launch.

The brief to type into HeyLead

You can use a custom brief to hire people, find partners or investors and research interviews. One sentence creates a draft campaign. Nothing is sent until you press Launch.

HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with. Google Calendar is the calendar it books into. It works in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and claude.ai, any MCP client and a web dashboard. It also works in ChatGPT as a custom MCP app. This is tested on ChatGPT Pro. Custom apps depend on your ChatGPT plan and settings.

Find contacts at companies with the ats hiring signal and ask for their view on the open roles.

Limits and campaign goals

HeyLead offers six campaign goals: sell a product or service, find a job, hire people, find partners or investors, find a vendor, research interviews. Before an invitation, HeyLead warms up with a profile view, a follow, and a comment on a recent post.

An invitation with a note, an opening message, up to 2 follow-ups on Free and 5 on Pro, InMail and email fallback.
Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts.
Anything ambiguous is held for you.
A not now reply gets a check-in in 30 days.

Questions people ask

How does HeyLead find the hiring signal?

HeyLead searches Reddit, Hacker News, G2 and careers pages for the companies and words on your watchlist.

Does the hiring signal write the invite note?

No, it raises priority but does not write the note.

How long does the signal last?

The signal expires after 14 days.

What is the weight of the hiring signal?

It has a weight of 0.25 in HeyLead's score.

HeyLead sends from your own LinkedIn account at a human pace: at most 20 invitations a day and 100 a week on a free LinkedIn account (more on Premium or Sales Navigator: a newly connected paid account starts at 20 a day and doubles each week up to its limit), Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone, minutes apart. It backs off when LinkedIn pushes back and resumes on its own. You can pause any campaign at any time.

HeyLead is not affiliated with LinkedIn. It reaches LinkedIn through Unipile, which is also not affiliated. LinkedIn's own rules are in the Terms.

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