Job Search Guide

Introduction

TheirStack is a sales tool designed to discover purchase intent signals through job postings. It helps SaaS companies, recruiting agencies, and consulting firms find their next customer by analyzing 40+ million job listings across 100+ countries.

We monitor more than 16 different sources, with a major proportion being derived directly from job boards and company career pages. By finding companies hiring for certain positions and mentioning certain keywords or technologies, you can identify companies with the problems that your company solves.

Create a new job search

Go to your app and click on "New search"

Select "Job Posting database"

You'll be taken to a screen like this. By default, the search that will run with the selected filters will return jobs found in the last 5 days in the country where you are. We'll explore some more useful filters below. To run the search, click on the big green button in the top right part of your screen that says Search.

After a couple of seconds, you should be able to see the last jobs posted for that specific search.

See job information

We store all historical information, so even if a job is expired in the job board where we found it, it will always be accessible via TheirStack.

To see the details about a job, click on the job title of any of the jobs found that appeared. For example:

See company information

Similarly to how you see the details about a job, when you click on a company name a new modal will open displaying as much information we have about a company. In it, you can see data like their headcount, revenue per year, funding data and more in the Overview tab.

Seeing the technologies of each company

If you click on the Technologies tab, you will see a list of the companies we found and some details about each one, like the number of jobs where the company mentioned, when was the first and last time they mentioned it and more.

Seeing all the jobs posted by each company

By clicking on the Jobs tab, a new tab will open in your windows where you'll see all the jobs posted by the company you were browsing before, all-time.

Available filters

We let you filter jobs by attributes and company attributes. To see all attributes you can filter by, click on the Add filter button in the top left corner of your screen.

You can type the name of an attribute and if it's possible to filter by it, the list of filters will show only the ones related to what you've typed.

Note that for some attributes, more than one operator is allowed. This lets you, for example, include and exclude data related to the same attribute.

Job filters

Filter jobs by job title

The most basic kind of filter you could make is filtering by job title. By default, the filter operator that is selected when you filter by job title is the "contains any" filter. You can pass multiple job titles and our search engine will return jobs that match any of the job titles passed.

To pass multiple job titles, pass each one of them in a separate line (don't use commas to separate job titles!)

💡 Useful resource: How to get tech jobs only

Exclude jobs by title

If you don't want to get jobs that include certain keywords, select the is not any of filter.

Filter jobs by technology

If you want to find jobs by technology, you have 2 options:

• Pass the technology name in the Job title filter.
• Use the Job technology filter.

Using the Job technology filter will look for jobs mentioning that technology in the description and will return more results than if you use the Job title filter. But if you use the Job title filter you'll get jobs where that technology is very relevant.

Filter jobs by text in the job description

Using the Job description filter, you can get jobs that match any of the words (or even regular expressions) that you pass. You can pass more than one, separated by line break. And you can also get jobs that don't match any of the words or patterns you pass if you select the filter type to be "not matches".

Filter jobs by country

To filter jobs by the country where they were posted, you can use the Job country filter. You can pass multiple countries here. If you select the is not any of operator, you can also exclude jobs from certain countries.

Company filters

Filter jobs by company size

If you select the Company employees filter, you'll be able to get jobs from companies of only a specific size.

Filter jobs by industry

The Company industry lets you get jobs from companies that belong to a certain industry. If you select the is not any of operator, you can also exclude jobs from companies from certain industries.

Filter jobs by company name

If you want to include or exclude jobs from certain companies, this is also possible. Type "company" in the filter list and select Company name. Depending on the operator you choose, you can match company names totally or partially.

This could be useful if you want to manually exclude jobs from your competitors, for example.

Filter jobs by company description

You can pass a list of words to include or exclude jobs from companies that have these words in their descriptions. To do so, select the Company description filter and choose one of the operators.

Filter jobs by whether the company is the final employer or not

Most times, recruiting and staffing companies post jobs on behalf of others. Sometimes they set the industry right, but other times they don't, so if you just exclude jobs by industry you'll get some false positives.

We have classified all companies into 2 kinds: direct employers and recruiting companies, considering their industry but also patterns in their names and in their company descriptions.

To get jobs only from direct employers, choose the Company type filter and select Direct employer.

💡 Useful resource: How to get jobs from recruiting agencies