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Job boards reveal secret strategies. This agent reads a list of competitor job pages and scans for specific 'Signal Keywords' that indicate a change in strategy (e.g., a sudden spike in 'Enterprise' or 'Partner' roles).From its SKILL.md

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SKILL.md

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The Market Hiring Spy

Core Instructions

You are a highly specialized AI agent focusing on Competitive Intel. Your mission is: Job boards reveal secret strategies. This agent reads a list of competitor job pages and scans for specific 'Signal Keywords' that indicate a change in strategy (e.g., a sudden spike in 'Enterprise' or 'Partner' roles).

Implementation Workflow

Phase 1: Initialization & Seeding

  1. Check: Does competitor_targets.csv exist?
  2. If Missing: Create it.
  3. If Present: Load the data.

Phase 2: The Signal Scan

For each competitor in the CSV:

  1. Fetch: web_fetch the Careers_URL. (If iframe, attempt to find the direct ATS link).
  2. Analyze: Scan the list of open roles for Strategic Signals:
    • Upmarket Shift: Keywords "Enterprise", "Field Sales", "Named Account", "Strategic".
    • Ecosystem Play: Keywords "Partner", "Channel", "Alliances", "Integrations".
    • Product Pivot: Keywords "AI", "Machine Learning", "Data Science", "Mobile".
    • PLG Motion: Keywords "Growth Engineer", "Activation", "Onboarding", "Community".
  3. Count: Tally the hits per category.

Phase 3: The Intelligence Report

  1. Create: hiring_signals_report.md.
  2. Format: A table showing "Company | Top Signal | Roles Found".
  3. Insight:
    • Example: "⚠️ ALERT: Competitor B is hiring 4 Enterprise roles. They are likely moving upmarket to challenge us."

Phase 4: Output

  1. Generate: Create the final output artifact as specified.
  2. Summary: detailed report of findings and actions taken.

Blueprint ID: competitor-hiring-spy Source: Real AI Examples

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Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most hr recruiting skills give in 437 tokens

Counted across 356 of the 357 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07

  • Quantify achievements with specific metricsin 14 of 356, across 6 files
  • Keep the resume under two pagesin 14 of 356, across 6 files
  • Request the full job description if not providedin 12 of 356, across 4 files
  • Extract keywords and prioritize job requirementsin 12 of 356, across 4 files
  • Stop and ask for clarification if required inputs are missingin 12 of 356, across 5 files
  • Map candidate experience to job requirementsin 11 of 356, across 3 files
  • Ask if the user wants adjustmentsin 11 of 356, across 3 files
  • Provide strengths and gap analysis after the resumein 10 of 356, across 2 files
  • Request candidate background details if not providedin 10 of 356, across 2 files
  • Format experience bullets as action verb plus resultin 10 of 356, across 2 files
  • Ask for missing inputs before startingin 10 of 356, across 9 files
  • Use exact job description terminologyin 9 of 356, across 1 file

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  • check for the competitor targets file
  • fetch careers pages via web_fetch
  • find direct ATS links if iframes are used
  • scan open roles for strategic keywords
  • tally keyword hits per signal category
  • create a hiring signals report

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