Employee job changes are valuable business signals. People change roles, join new companies, and take on new responsibilities every day, creating opportunities for sales teams, HR tech platforms, talent intelligence providers, and market researchers.
However, tracking these changes at scale can be difficult. Manually monitoring profiles is inefficient, while constantly polling an API for updates can consume unnecessary resources.
Employee API webhooks solve this problem by sending event-based alerts whenever relevant employee experience records change. As a provider of fresh, structured B2B data, Coresignal helps organizations stay informed about workforce changes as they happen.
What are job change alerts?
Job change alerts are automated notifications that inform you when an employee's work experience or position information changes. Rather than continuously checking records for updates, you receive alerts only when a relevant change occurs.
These changes can include a person starting a new job, leaving a role, closing a previous position, opening a new position, or making multiple career moves over time.
Tracking employee career movement is valuable because it often reflects broader business events and opportunities. A job change can signal the need to update CRM records, identify new sales opportunities, monitor talent movement, analyze company growth, or detect emerging workforce trends. When combined with job posting data, these signals can provide additional context about hiring activity and workforce demand. By receiving timely alerts, organizations can act on these developments as soon as they become available.
How Employee API webhooks help track job changes
Employee API webhooks allow you to subscribe to employee experience changes and receive notifications when relevant records are updated. Instead of repeatedly checking for changes, you can monitor specific employee profiles and receive alerts only when qualifying events occur.
Choose which employee profiles to monitor
To create a subscription, you first define which employee records you want to track. There are three available options:
- List of profile IDs: monitor a specific set of employee profiles.
- Elasticsearch DSL query: track profiles that match custom search criteria.
- Track all experience changes: receive notifications for all qualifying employee experience updates.
This flexibility allows organizations to monitor a targeted group of professionals or track changes across a broader employee dataset.
Provide a callback URL
Next, provide a callback URL where notifications should be delivered. When a relevant employee experience change is detected, Coresignal sends an event-based notification to the specified endpoint as an HTTP POST request.
This approach eliminates the need to continuously poll for updates and helps ensure that downstream systems receive change information as soon as it becomes available.
Receive job change alerts
Once the subscription is active, notifications are triggered when any of the following employee experience changes occur:
- A new position is created, but no previous experience is closed.
- A previous position is closed, but no new experience is created.
- A previous position is closed and a new position is created.
- Multiple positions are closed or opened.
These events can help organizations track job changes, monitor career transitions, and identify important workforce movements as they happen.
Collect the latest employee data
The webhook notification indicates that a change has occurred. After receiving the alert, you can use the relevant employee data collection or enrichment endpoint to retrieve the latest available employee record.
This enables teams to keep CRM systems, talent intelligence platforms, internal databases, and automated workflows up to date with fresh employee data. Rather than processing unchanged records, systems can focus only on profiles where a meaningful update has been detected.
Webhooks vs. API polling for job change tracking
Organizations typically use one of two approaches to track job changes: API polling or webhooks.
With API polling, an application periodically sends requests to check whether employee records have changed. This approach can work well for scheduled data refreshes, but it may generate unnecessary requests when no updates are available.
Webhooks follow an event-driven model. Instead of repeatedly checking for changes, the system receives a notification only when a qualifying employee experience update occurs. This can help reduce unnecessary API calls and make it easier to react to workforce changes as they happen.
Why should you use webhooks to identify job position changes?
Career transitions can reveal opportunities, risks, and changes across organizations. By receiving automated alerts when employee experience records change, organizations can react faster to important workforce events while reducing the effort required to monitor data manually.
Keep employee records fresh
Employee data can become outdated quickly as professionals change jobs, receive promotions, or take on new responsibilities. Job change alerts help organizations keep CRM records, HR tech platforms, talent databases, and internal systems aligned with the latest available employee information.
Act on career movement faster
Career transitions often create valuable business signals. A new role, promotion, or company move can indicate a sales opportunity, a recruiting prospect, a customer success touchpoint, or a meaningful development for investment and market research teams. Receiving alerts when these changes occur allows organizations to respond more quickly.
Automate enrichment workflows
Job change alerts can serve as triggers for downstream workflows. For example, an alert can initiate employee profile enrichment, update CRM records, validate existing data, or activate an AI-driven workflow that requires fresh employee information.
Reduce manual monitoring
Without automated alerts, teams may need to manually monitor profiles or rely on scheduled API checks to identify updates. Webhooks simplify this process by delivering notifications only when relevant employee experience changes occur, making job change tracking more efficient and scalable.
How employee and jobs data work together
Employee and jobs data provide complementary views of workforce activity. Employee data reveals how people move between roles and companies, while job posting data shows how organizations hire and what types of talent they are seeking.
Job change alerts are based on changes in employee experience records, making them useful for identifying career transitions and workforce movement. When combined with jobs data, these signals can help organizations better understand hiring intent, company growth, talent demand, and broader market trends.
Coresignal provides access to both employee and jobs datasets, enabling teams to analyze workforce activity from multiple perspectives. The jobs dataset includes more than 451.8 million job postings, including 18.8 million active postings, with historical coverage dating back to 2020. Data is collected through 24/7 discovery from multiple public sources, including job boards, company websites, and applicant tracking systems. Entity resolution and deduplication help create a more consistent view of hiring activity across sources.
How to get access to Employee API webhooks
Employee API webhooks are available to users on higher-tier API plans. The feature enables organizations to receive automated notifications when employee experience records change, helping them track workforce movement more efficiently.
Users can configure subscriptions in several ways, including monitoring a specific list of profile IDs, using an Elasticsearch DSL query to track matching profiles, or subscribing to all qualifying employee experience changes.
