How to get clients for a recruitment agency with hiring signals
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Published Oct 30, 2026
How to get clients for a recruitment agency from job posts
The quickest answer to how to get clients for a recruitment agency is a job post: a company with an open role has the problem you solve this week. Find leads turns open job postings into a list of employers and the people doing the hiring.
Field | One hiring company after one run |
|---|---|
Company | Thistle Advisory, thistleadvisory.example |
What they do | Finance consulting for mid-size manufacturers |
Matching open roles | 3: Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A Manager, Financial Analyst |
Newest posting | 4 days old, based in Chicago |
Hiring signal | Building out FP&A, written as the hook for the first email |
Fit for your desk | Strong, 81, with the facts behind the score |
Who to contact | Dana Whitfield, CFO, and Priya Nair, Talent Acquisition Lead, work emails checked as deliverable |
First message | Opens on the three finance roles, then names the analysts you place |
Example data for an invented company.
How to get clients for a recruitment agency
Four plays, from the job posts in your niche to a sequence that follows up on email and LinkedIn until someone replies.
01 · Job posts
Find companies hiring for the roles you place
Type the titles you fill, such as Senior Data Engineer, into Find companies hiring, then set the posting date, the city, and the company size. Counting matching job posts costs nothing.
02 · Who to contact
Find the hiring manager and the talent lead
In Find people, start from your table of hiring companies, then set department and seniority: the head of the team that is hiring, plus whoever runs talent acquisition.
03 · Research
Write from what each company is hiring for
Hiring signal finder reads a company's open roles, names the departments it is growing, and writes a hook. The sequence's agent writes from that hook.
04 · Follow-ups
Follow up on email and LinkedIn until they reply
One sequence mixes emails with LinkedIn connection requests and messages. Emails send from your Google Workspace mailboxes, and a reply stops the sequence for that contact.
What it costs to work a list of 50 hiring companies
0
Credits to count the job posts that match a search
5
Credits for Hiring signal finder to read one company's open roles
Up to 10.8
Credits for a hiring manager's work email and its deliverability check
Prices from the Oneprofile catalog. Credits are worth $20 per 1,000.
50 companies hiring for your roles | Credits | Worth |
|---|---|---|
ICP score with the reason on all 50, 3 each | 150 | $3 |
Hiring signal finder on the 25 that fit, 5 each | 125 | $2.50 |
Work email and email check for 2 people at each of the 25, up to 10.8 each | Up to 540 | Up to $10.80 |
Email lookups that find nothing | 0 | $0 |
Say 25 of the 50 score strong or possible. A run condition skips the other 25 after their score, and a skipped company is never charged. The scores, hiring research, and work emails for that desk's list come to up to 815 credits, worth up to $16.30 at $20 per 1,000.
Counting the job posts that match is free. Adding the 50 companies from Find companies hiring, and the 50 people from Find people, is priced per lead on top of that, and the panel shows it before anything is added. Sequence steps carry their own prices, and the editor header shows the most a sequence can cost per 100 contacts before launch.
Prices checked Oct 29, 2026.
Client development tools for recruiters: what to ask
Can you search open roles by the exact title you place? A desk that fills Identity Management roles needs that phrase matched whole, not every posting with "management" in it.
Is the count free before you pay for a company? Shape the search until the market looks right, then spend.
Can it find the hiring manager, not only HR? Search by department and seniority at the companies you saved, so the person who feels the vacancy hears from you.
Do the follow-ups stop on a reply? Email and LinkedIn steps belong in one sequence, and an answer ends the follow-ups so nobody gets chased after saying yes.
What is your basis for the first email? A hiring manager's work email is personal data, and in the EU a cold email to one usually rests on legitimate interest under Article 6 of the GDPR. Ask what each data source receives and how long records are kept.
When a data source is queried, it receives only the lookup fields it needs, not the rest of the contact's data. We never sell customer data.
How Oneprofile fits a recruitment desk
Job post searches, hiring manager lookups, and follow-ups on email and LinkedIn, all from the list your desk built.
Spot hiring managers who post about the role
Find people posting about a topic finds the people whose own LinkedIn posts carry a phrase, such as we're hiring, beside a role you fill. Each comes with the newest matching post.
Rank hiring companies by fit for your desk
Describe the clients your desk wants once. Each company gets a strong, possible, or poor band, a 0 to 100 score, and the facts behind it, for 3 credits.
Out-of-office replies hold the next follow-up
Replies on email and LinkedIn land in one inbox, and a reply stops the follow-ups. When an away notice says when they're back, the next step waits until that day.
How to get clients for a recruitment agency: FAQ
How do staffing and recruitment agencies find new clients?
Usually by starting from demand: companies with open roles in the niche they place. Search job posts by the titles you fill, find the hiring manager and the talent lead at each company, and follow up by email and LinkedIn with a reason tied to the role.
Who should a recruiter contact at a hiring company?
The hiring manager first, because they feel the empty seat, and the talent acquisition lead second, because they usually own agency terms. In Oneprofile, search people at the companies you saved by department and seniority to find both.
How does a new recruitment agency get its first client?
Pick one niche you already know and go after the companies posting those roles now. Search by job title, posting date, and city. Each company is added once with every matching role beside it, so the one with five openings stands out.
Is cold email to hiring managers still worth it for recruiters?
It works when the email is about their open role, not about your agency. In practice a generic pitch gets ignored, while a note that names the three roles they posted this month and the candidates you place reads as relevant.
What does it cost to find a hiring manager's email?
Up to 10.8 credits a person for a work email and its deliverability check, and an email lookup that finds nothing costs nothing. Team starts at $20 a month for 1,000 credits; Free has 200 credits a month, 3 integrations, 3 tables, and 100 rows per table.
Can I follow up on LinkedIn and email from one place?
Yes. One sequence mixes emails with LinkedIn profile views, connection requests, and messages. Emails send from Gmail mailboxes on a Google Workspace domain, and LinkedIn steps run in your own browser through the Oneprofile extension.
About this article
Natsuki Z.
Co-founder
Managed product across proxy infrastructure and developer APIs at scale. Now leads product at Oneprofile, which finds the right people, researches each one, and follows up until they reply.
Drafted with AI from our product docs and code. Natsuki Z. answers for what it says.