Find accounts with hiring surges in your target department in ChatGPT

Built by: Lusha
Time to build: 1 min
Difficulty: Easy
Tools: ChatGPT ▪ Lusha
Type: Prompt

Example outputs in this play are illustrative — they reflect the structure, fields, and format of real Lusha connector output, but were not pulled from a live session. Run the prompt with your own target department and ICP details to see live results.

A company hiring aggressively into a specific department is rarely standing still.

A Sales hiring surge may point to pipeline growth. A Marketing hiring surge may point to demand generation investment. An IT hiring surge may point to systems work. An Operations or RevOps hiring surge may point to process pressure, tooling gaps, or a team trying to scale.

The problem is that most prospecting starts with who the buyer is, not what changed at the account.

This prompt uses Lusha in ChatGPT to find companies with recent hiring surges in your target department, enrich the accounts, identify relevant contacts, and turn the signal into a timely outreach angle. Instead of building a list from titles alone, you start with accounts showing department-level movement.

How to start

Open in Claude Open in ChatGPT
1

Open Lusha in ChatGPT

Go to Lusha in ChatGPT and click “Start chat.” Every conversation started this way is automatically Lusha-enabled.

2

Or invoke Lusha in any existing conversation

Type @Lusha in the prompt bar and select Lusha from the dropdown. Unlike Claude, Lusha does not activate automatically in every ChatGPT conversation. You must invoke it every time.

3

Add your department and ICP

Copy the prompt below, fill in your target department, ICP, product context, and region, and send. Lusha finds accounts with department-level hiring surges and helps you prioritize who to contact first.

The prompt

Start from Lusha in ChatGPT or type @Lusha before sending.

@Lusha Find accounts with hiring surges in my target
department and help me prioritize who to contact.

TARGET DEPARTMENT:
Department: [Sales / Marketing / IT / RevOps / Operations /
Customer Success / Engineering / Finance / HR / other]

TARGET MARKET:
Industries: [industries]
Company size: [employee range]
Region: [country or region]
Target personas: [titles or personas]
Disqualifiers: [companies, industries, regions, or
segments to exclude]

TIME WINDOW:
Look for department hiring surge signals from the last
[30/60/90/180] days.

MY PRODUCT:
[One sentence describing what you sell and the problem
it solves]

Using Lusha, do the following:

1. FIND ACCOUNTS WITH DEPARTMENT HIRING SURGES
   Search for companies that match the target market and
   have a recent hiring surge in the target department.

   Only include companies where Lusha can verify the
   company profile and hiring surge signal.

2. ENRICH EACH ACCOUNT
   For each company, return:
   - Company name
   - Domain
   - Industry
   - Employee count
   - HQ location
   - Revenue range if available
   - Company LinkedIn if available

3. RETURN THE HIRING SIGNAL
   For each account, return:
   - Department with hiring surge
   - Signal date
   - New jobs posted in the department
   - Historical average, if available
   - Change rate percentage
   - Whether the signal is strong, medium, or weak

4. EXPLAIN WHY THE SIGNAL MAY MATTER
   Explain what the hiring surge may suggest based on
   my product, target department, and persona.

   Keep the explanation grounded. Do not assume the
   company is actively buying my category unless Lusha
   returns a relevant supporting signal.

5. CHECK SUPPORTING SIGNALS
   Check whether the same company also has other recent
   signals from the last 6 months.

   Prioritize:
   - Overall hiring surge
   - Headcount increases or decreases
   - IT spend changes
   - Website traffic changes
   - Commercial activity news
   - Corporate strategy news
   - Financial events news
   - People news
   - Product activity news
   - Risk news
   - Promotion or company-change signals for relevant contacts

6. SCORE ICP FIT
   Score each account:
   - High fit
   - Medium fit
   - Low fit
   - Exclude

   Base the score on industry, company size, region,
   disqualifiers, department relevance, and fit with
   my product.

7. PRIORITIZE THE LIST
   Rank the companies:

   Tier 1:
   Strong ICP fit + recent hiring surge in target
   department + clear persona relevance

   Tier 2:
   Strong ICP fit + hiring surge, but weaker urgency
   or no supporting signal

   Tier 3:
   Medium fit or unclear urgency

   Exclude:
   Poor fit, disqualified, unmatched, or unclear signal

8. FIND STARTING CONTACTS
   For each Tier 1 account, find 1-2 relevant contacts
   matching the target persona or the department showing
   the hiring surge.

   Return:
   - Name
   - Current title
   - Department
   - Seniority
   - Location
   - LinkedIn profile if available
   - Verified business email availability
   - Direct or mobile phone availability
   - DNC status if available

9. CREATE THE OUTREACH ANGLE
   For each Tier 1 account, write:
   - One subject line under 7 words
   - One opening line under 30 words
   - One discovery question tied to the hiring surge

   Do not:
   Say "I saw you are hiring a lot" in a generic or
   awkward way.
   Overstate what the hiring surge proves.
   Invent roles, projects, priorities, or internal
   initiatives that Lusha did not return.
   Make the message sound like a job-posting scrape.

10. OUTPUT FORMAT
   Return:
   - Account table
   - Department hiring signal
   - Supporting signals, if any
   - ICP fit score
   - Priority tier
   - Recommended contacts
   - Outreach angle
   - Discovery question

Do not invent companies, contacts, emails, phone numbers,
or signals. If Lusha cannot verify the hiring surge, do
not include the account.

What you’ll get back

 

A prioritized list of accounts hiring into your target department, enriched company profiles, relevant contacts, and outreach angles. Here’s what the output looks like:

Department hiring surge accounts — Lusha

FieldValue
Signal typeHiring surge by department · Marketing
Best-fit account[Company A] · B2B SaaS · 500–1,000 employees · North America
Hiring signal157 new Marketing jobs · 73% above historical average
Priority tierTier 1 · strong ICP fit + recent department-level hiring surge
Recommended contactR.M. · VP Marketing · verified email available · mobile available
Outreach angleTeam growth may make campaign operations, routing, or reporting workflows more urgent

Example outputs in this play are illustrative — they reflect the structure, fields, and format of real Lusha connector output, but were not pulled from a live session. Run the prompt with your own target department and ICP details to see live results.

 

Why use Lusha in ChatGPT to find department hiring surges

 

Hiring surges are useful because they show where the company is investing attention. A general company hiring spike can be interesting. A hiring spike in the exact department your product serves is much more useful.

Lusha helps turn that department-level movement into a prioritized account list. The prompt finds companies hiring into your target function, enriches the company profile, checks for supporting signals, and identifies relevant contacts. That gives reps both a reason to prioritize the account and a person to start with.

The department context matters because different teams hire for different reasons. Sales hiring may point to pipeline growth. Marketing hiring may point to demand expansion. IT hiring may point to systems work. Operations or RevOps hiring may point to process pressure. The prompt helps translate that movement into a grounded outreach angle without overclaiming what the signal proves.

The result is prospecting based on where the account is actively changing, not just who fits a title search.

Lusha data is sourced and used in accordance with Lusha’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Lusha is GDPR compliant and covers contacts across North America, EMEA, and APAC.

FAQ

  • Which departments can I use this for?

    You can use this prompt for departments such as Sales, Marketing, IT, RevOps, Operations, Customer Success, Engineering, Finance, HR, or any function relevant to your product and buyer.

  • Which departments can I use this for?

    You can use this prompt for departments such as Sales, Marketing, IT, RevOps, Operations, Customer Success, Engineering, Finance, HR, or any function relevant to your product and buyer.

  • Should I mention the hiring surge directly in outreach?

    Use it carefully. The prompt asks ChatGPT to turn the hiring signal into a natural business angle instead of saying “I saw you are hiring a lot.” The message should focus on the likely business pressure, not the signal itself.

  • What if there are no supporting signals?

    A department hiring surge can still be useful on its own, especially when it matches your ICP and target persona. Supporting signals simply add more context and help decide whether the account should be Tier 1 or handled later.

  • Can this help with campaign planning?

    Yes. Marketing and sales teams can use this prompt to build campaign lists around accounts actively hiring into a relevant function, then tailor messaging around the operational pressure that team growth can create.

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