A good recruiter does not just fill today's open roles. They know which cities, industries, and job titles are about to get busy, before the phone starts ringing. Tracking that manually, across job boards, LinkedIn, and news sites, eats hours every week.
Meet Priya, a Tech Recruiter in Austin
Priya specialises in placing software engineers and product managers across the United States. Her clients call her when they need someone fast, which means she needs to know the market before her clients do.
Her old routine looked like this: scroll LinkedIn every morning, skim a few job boards, check a couple of tech newsletters, and hope she had not missed anything important. She was spending close to an hour a day just gathering information, not actually recruiting.
She needed a way to watch the market for her, and email her a clean summary she could actually use.
How She Set Up AIDular
Priya went to aidular.com and set up a weekly search in plain English. No coding, no spreadsheets. She typed something like this:
"Every Monday morning, search for new software engineering and product manager job postings in Austin, Seattle, and Chicago. Include any news about tech companies expanding, opening new offices, or announcing new hiring rounds in those cities. Flag any companies posting more than 10 roles in a single week."
That was it. AIDular took those instructions, runs a web search on her chosen schedule, and emails her a sourced report every Monday before she starts her day.
What She Gets in Her Inbox
Each Monday, Priya opens one email. It includes:
- A list of companies in her three target cities that posted a notable volume of new roles that week
- Any news about funding rounds, office openings, or hiring announcements from tech firms in those areas
- A short note on which job titles showed the biggest jump in postings
One week, the report flagged that a mid-size fintech company in Chicago had posted 14 engineering roles in five days. Priya had never heard of them. She looked them up, found they had just closed a Series B (a type of investment round that often triggers rapid hiring), and reached out to their VP of People that same morning. She placed two engineers with them within six weeks.
She found that lead in about 30 seconds, because the email surfaced it for her.
Why Tracking by City Matters
National hiring trends are useful, but they can hide what is actually happening on the ground. A city like Austin might be cooling for general software roles while heating up fast for AI infrastructure jobs. A recruiter who watches at the city level catches those shifts early.
Priya also tracks seasonal patterns. She noticed that her Chicago clients tend to post heavily in February and September. That used to be gut feel. Now she has a written record in her inbox every week to back it up.
The Difference a Weekly Summary Makes
Priya is not smarter than other recruiters. She just has better information, delivered to her without lifting a finger. She stopped spending an hour a day gathering market data, and started spending that hour calling clients and candidates.
The Lite plan at aidular.com is free, so she started without spending anything. She just told AIDular what to watch, picked a weekly schedule, and let it run.
If you are a recruiter trying to stay ahead of where hiring is picking up, that is a pretty good trade.