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 Market Signals from the sidebar to see what's moving in your segment. Filter by type using the chips at the top. Toggle push delivery in Settings → Profile → Mobile push notifications → Market signal.
The page 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.
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 - Backing API:
GET /api/v1/market/signals(seedocs/v1-api.md) - Schema:
MarketSignal+SignalType(seedocs/SCHEMA.md)