Find Companies Hiring at Volume

Overview

A company posting one role is hiring. A company posting eight roles in the same function inside a month has a capacity problem — their internal team can't fill that pipeline alone, and every week a req stays open costs them. That's the moment an agency's pitch stops being an interruption and starts being useful.

This Hound watches hiring activity across your markets, filters for the companies whose volume and roles match what you place, finds the hiring manager or TA lead, and opens the conversation while the reqs are open and the pain is real.

How to set it up

Four things to brief your Hound. This is the exact configuration behind this play.

A · Describe the opportunity

This is the brief every source is filtered against. You describe what you're looking for in plain language, add keywords to sharpen it, then set the structured criteria.

Tell Forest what you're looking for:

"I'm looking for companies hiring at volume in the functions I place — five or more open roles in the same discipline, or roles that have been sitting open for 30+ days, which signals they're struggling to fill. I want them while the reqs are live. Prioritize companies without a large internal recruiting team, and roles in my specialty. Skip companies with hiring freezes, roles clearly filled, and functions I don't place."

Keywords to watch for: now hiring · multiple openings · urgently hiring · reposted · open roles · growing team · immediate start · [your specialty roles] · [your metro area]

Fields to extract: company · open_roles_count · role_titles · function · location · days_posted · headcount · reposted_flag

Match criteria:

• ✓ 5+ open roles in a function you place, OR roles open 30+ days

• ✓ Location within your market

• ✓ Company size where internal TA is likely stretched

• ✗ Exclude companies announcing freezes or layoffs

• ✗ Exclude functions outside your specialty

B · Choose the sources to monitor

Hiring signals are public — job postings plus firmographic context. Forest reads both against your brief, free.

Public job boards 🟡 free — scraped against your brief

• Forest reads public postings (Indeed, LinkedIn, company career pages, niche boards for your specialty) and counts role volume, velocity, and repost behavior per company. A reposted req is the strongest "we can't fill this" signal there is.

Firmographic context (built in) 🔌

• Crustdata (via Forest) — Headcount, growth rate, and firmographics, so you can tell a 40-person company drowning in reqs from a 4,000-person company with a full TA org.

News & Press 🟡 default source, always on — reads the open web against your brief for hiring-plan announcements, funding-fueled growth, and "adding N jobs" coverage.

C · Define the ICP to reach

Who to reach at the hiring company, in priority order, with fallbacks.

1. Hiring Manager for the function — Primary — feels the pain directly — PRIMARY

2. Head of Talent Acquisition / Recruiting — Owns agency relationships

3. Head of HR / Founder — Fallback at companies without a TA function — FALLBACK

D · Email & LinkedIn sequence

The play the Hound runs for each match. Fields drop in as variables.

Email · Day 0 Noticed {{company}} has {{open_roles_count}} {{function}} roles open in {{location}} — that's a lot of pipeline for one team to carry. We place {{function}} talent in this market and can usually get qualified candidates in front of you within a week. Worth a quick call to see if we can take a couple of the harder reqs off your plate?

↓ Wait 2 days · no reply

LinkedIn · connection request · Day 2 Hi {{first_name}} — saw {{company}} is hiring across {{function}}. Would love to connect.

↓ Wait 3 days · no reply

Email · Day 5 · follow-up Following up on your {{function}} openings — happy to send two or three profiles from our bench so you can judge the quality, no obligation and no fee unless you hire. Even if you're covered now, worth knowing who we are for the next crunch.

⏸ Any reply on either channel pauses the whole sequence — the conversation is yours.