software-income-playbooks/playbooks/recruiting-market-radar.md

Recruiting Market Radar

One-Line Summary

A hiring intelligence dashboard that helps recruiters and talent teams monitor job demand, employer activity, and talent hotspots.

Customer

• Primary buyer: recruiting firms, internal talent teams, sourcing leaders
• User: recruiters, recruiting ops, founders hiring in volume

Pain Point

Recruiters often work from anecdote instead of real market signal when deciding where to source, pitch, or specialize.

Product Idea

Track jobs by role, company, and region, then combine that with company growth signals to show where hiring demand is rising or cooling.

Best APIs To Use

• Linkedin Jobs Scraper
• LinkedIn Profile Scraper
• Similarweb Scraper

Why This Is A Good Business

• Recruiters pay for time-saving intelligence
• The output can be delivered weekly
• It creates a path from report product to software

MVP Feature List

• Track selected role keywords
• Show hiring counts by company and city
• Flag employers with rising demand
• Export a weekly recruiter brief

Monetization Model

• Team subscription
• Per-niche report package
• Agency intelligence retainer

Pricing Ideas

• Solo recruiter: $79/month
• Agency team: $249 to $499/month
• Custom reporting: $1,000+/month

Build Difficulty

Medium

Time To First Version

1 to 2 weeks

Go-To-Market Approach

• Focus on one niche like B2B SaaS sales or AI engineering
• Share sample labor snapshots on LinkedIn
• Offer pilot reports to recruiting firms

Risks / Caveats

• Recruiters need signal quality more than raw volume
• Tight scope matters or the product becomes a generic job board clone

Best Fit For

SaaS / internal tool / recruiting ops product