Market Signals

Indicators (/indicators) is the Career Radar feed: comp movement, hiring trends, and notable moves in your target segment. It's tailored to the industries set in your profile — update them in Settings → Profile to widen or narrow the feed.

TL;DR — Open Indicators from the sidebar to see what's moving in your segment. The page has two tabs: Signals and News. On Signals, filter by type using the chips at the top. Toggle push delivery in Settings → Profile → Mobile push notifications → Market signal.

The Signals tab surfaces:

  • Recently published signals ordered newest-first, capped at 50
  • Type chip strip — filter to comp trends, hiring trends, demand shifts, or notable moves
  • Metric tags when present — e.g. a median comp number alongside a +/- change percentage
  • Industry tags — which segments the signal applies to (no tags = the signal is broadcast to everyone)

What's a signal?

Each signal is one of four types:

| Type | What it covers | |---|---| | Comp | Total-comp movement for a band or industry — e.g. "VP Eng comp up 6% YoY in major US metros" | | Hiring | Posting-volume shifts — e.g. "Healthcare tech postings up 23% week-over-week" | | Demand | Notable changes in skills / roles in demand | | Notable | A new company entering the hiring market, an exec transition, a funding event |

Each signal has a short headline + 1-3 sentences of detail. When the admin-curated or AI-generated source includes a metric, it shows beneath as a tag pair (value + change %).

How signals are tailored to you

The server filters the feed using the Industries you've selected in Settings → Profile. A signal tagged "Healthcare" and "Technology" shows for users with either industry; a signal with no industry tags is broadcast to everyone.

To widen the feed: add more industries in your profile. To narrow: remove industries you're no longer interested in. Changes take effect immediately — refresh the page and you'll see the new set.

Push notifications

When a new signal is published, the platform can push it to your phone if you've registered a device and opted in. Toggle this in Settings → Profile → Mobile push notifications → Market signal.

Push delivery uses the same industry-segment matching as the web feed — you'll only receive pushes for signals relevant to your industries (plus all broadcast signals).

The push payload includes a deep link, so tapping the notification opens the signal directly on mobile.

Where signals come from

The platform combines two authoring paths:

  • Curated by the WaypointCareer team — admins author signals directly when they spot a trend in the data
  • Automatically generated — twice daily, the platform aggregates the last 14 days of job-posting data (volumes per industry, salary medians, top companies, notable new entrants) and asks the AI to produce up to 5 grounded signals from that aggregate

Auto-generated signals are tagged so the team can audit them; from a subscriber's perspective the two sources are indistinguishable.

What if there are no signals?

The empty state shows the radar icon and a "check back soon" message. This happens early in a new platform deployment, or when your selected industries don't currently have matching signals. Try widening your industries in Profile to see broader coverage.

News

The News tab (/indicators?tab=news) shows recent real-world headlines about your industries, your search locations and your own news keywords. It's on every plan, including Free.

  • What you see: each item shows the headline, the publisher, the date and a link that opens the original article in a new tab. Newest items come first; use Load more for older ones.
  • What it matches on: the Industries in Settings → Profile, the active Search locations in Settings → Job Preferences, and your news keywords (below). Items from news sources the WaypointCareer team chose for everyone show for all users.
  • Where it comes from: Google News searches for each industry and location, plus RSS feeds the WaypointCareer team adds. News is refreshed a few times a day, not when you open the page, and items are kept for about two weeks.
  • No AI: WaypointCareer doesn't write, summarise or rewrite news. Every link comes from the publisher's own feed.

If you haven't set any industries, search locations or keywords yet, the tab links you to the settings where you add them. If you have, but nothing recent matches, it says there's no recent news. Try adding a broader industry, another location or a keyword.

Read, save and dismiss

  • Read: opening a headline marks it read. Read headlines show in a lighter style, so new ones stand out.
  • Save: click Save to keep a headline. Saved headlines stay available after the usual two weeks. Click Saved to unsave it. How many headlines you can save depends on your plan: Free has the smallest allowance, and each tier from Managerial to Executive keeps more. When you reach it, unsave a headline to save another. If you change to a smaller plan, you keep everything you saved and can still unsave.
  • Dismiss: click Dismiss to remove a headline from your list. It only disappears for you. If you saved it first, it stays under the Saved filter.
  • All / Saved: the switch above the list shows every matching headline or only the ones you saved.

Your news keywords

Keywords let you follow topics, companies or people on top of your industries and locations. Add them in the Your news keywords box at the top of the News tab.

  • Type a keyword and press Add. Keywords are 2 to 60 characters and aren't case-sensitive, so "Fintech" and "fintech" are the same keyword.
  • Click the × on a keyword to remove it.
  • How many keywords you can use depends on your plan. The box shows how many you've used. When you reach your plan's limit, remove one before adding another.
  • If you move to a plan with a lower limit, you keep all your keywords, but only your oldest ones up to the new limit are used. The others are struck through until you remove some or upgrade.
  • New keywords are picked up at a later news refresh, not straight away. Usually that's the next one, but at busy times it can take a few.

News in your digest

Your newsletter digest can include a News for you section with up to five recent headlines you haven't read or dismissed. Turn it on or off with News for you in Settings → Notifications. A digest is never sent for news alone.

Adjacent surfaces

  • Settings → Profile → Industries — controls which signals you see
  • Settings → Profile → Mobile push notifications — controls push delivery for new signals
  • Search Firms (/search-firms) — companion page for the same segment-targeting mental model, but for executive search firms rather than market intelligence

Source

  • Page: app/(authed)/indicators/page.tsx
  • Feed component: components/market-signals/MarketSignalsFeed.tsx
  • News component: components/market-signals/NewsFeed.tsx
  • Backing API: GET /api/v1/market/signals (see docs/v1-api.md) and the /api/v1/news endpoints
  • Keyword editor: components/market-signals/NewsKeywordsEditor.tsx
  • Schema: MarketSignal + SignalType, and NewsItem + NewsFeed + NewsBlockedDomain + NewsItemState + NewsKeyword (see docs/SCHEMA.md)