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MCPToolsJob Openings Growth Rate

Job Openings Growth Rate

Give it a LinkedIn company identifier, get back how its open job postings have moved over time.

Tool
job_openings_growth_rate
Cost
3 credits
Category
LinkedIn Company / Page
Required input
identifier
Returns
Job openings growth rate over time

What it does

  • Tracks the growth rate of a company’s open job postings over time.
  • Accepts a LinkedIn id, a full LinkedIn URL, or a company name as the identifier.
  • Returns the trend in postings — not the postings themselves. For the actual roles, use company_job_listings or company_job_openings.

Open roles lead headcount. A company posting more jobs this quarter will be bigger next quarter — which makes this an earlier signal than head_count_growth_rate.


Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredNotes
identifierstringYesLinkedIn id, URL, or company name

How to use it

Connect the MCP server

Follow the setup guide for your client. Browser sign-in, no API key.

Check one company

Is hiring picking up at linkedin.com/company/stripe?

Rank a shortlist

Get the job openings growth rate for these 15 companies. Sort by fastest growing. Report credits used.

Find out what they are hiring for

For the top 5, pull their current job listings so I can see which teams are expanding.

Example prompts

Ask your clientWhat you get back
”Job openings trend for linkedin.com/company/stripe”Growth rate in open postings
”Which of these 15 accounts is ramping hiring?”One call per company, ranked
”What roles are open right now?”company_job_listings at 0.3 credits
”Who did they just hire?”newly_hired_executives at 0.5 credits

Best prompting practices

  • Shortlist first. At 3 credits this is one of the pricier company tools. Qualify with enrich_linkedin_page at 0.5 credits before you run it.
  • Do not use it to read job posts. It returns a trend. Roles, titles and locations come from company_job_listings or company_job_openings at 0.3 credits.
  • Pair it with headcount. Rising postings plus flat headcount means hiring has been approved but not filled — a good moment to reach out.
  • Prefer the LinkedIn URL or id over the name.
  • Cap the batch. “Stop after 15 and report credits used.”

Output

{ "identifier": "linkedin.com/company/stripe", "job_openings_growth_rate": [ { "period": "3m", "percent": 18.0 }, { "period": "12m", "percent": 45.2 } ] }

Credits and limits

3 credits per call, flat. Run check_credits (free) before a large batch.

This is one of the most expensive company signals — 30 accounts is 90 credits. If you only need to know whether a company is hiring at all, linkedin_job_listings and search_linkedin_job_openings are 0.3 credits each.


ToolUse it instead when
head_count_growth_rateHeadcount trend matters more than posting trend — 2 credits
company_job_listingsYou want the actual open roles by company name or domain — 0.3 credits
company_job_openingsYou only have a company LinkedIn URL for the role lookup — 0.3 credits
premium_linkedin_page_insightsYou want hiring patterns alongside growth and employee distribution — 3 credits

Next steps

  • All MCP tools — the full catalogue with credit costs
  • Signals & ABM — workflows that turn hiring signals into outreach triggers

Keep learning

Two courses take these tools past the reference page — clustered by GTM job, then chained into workflows.