The store closed. Its people walked into new jobs.
Oliver is HR director at a large department-store chain in London. In six weeks its Croydon store closes, and forty people need new jobs.
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The challenge
He wants to place every one of them, not just hand out a leaflet. His team searches job sites at night, and the jobs they find are an hour away, or already gone. Most staff will only start looking after the doors close.
How the flow works
With xMap Flows, Oliver built Bridge. Bridge is an AI employee: a flow of 6 blocks.
Every Monday until the store closes,
Every Monday until closing (Schedule)
around Croydon,
Croydon and around (Area of interest)
Bridge finds the shop and warehouse jobs within ten kilometres,
Shop and warehouse jobs (Job postings)
finds the hiring manager at each,
The hiring manager (Apollo)
matches each job to the colleagues who fit it,
Match the team’s skills (xMap LLM)
and emails the whole store the week’s list.
The week’s jobs to all (Gmail)
What it solves
- Forty people to place: solved by Apollo and xMap LLM
- Jobs an hour away: solved by Area of interest and Job postings
- Six weeks to closing: solved by Schedule and Gmail
The result
Every Monday, all forty get a list of jobs near home, each with a named hiring manager. Oliver’s team makes the introductions. When the doors close, thirty-one have new jobs, and nine more have interviews booked.
The store still closed. Thirty-one of its people walked straight into new jobs.
An illustrative scenario: the figures are modelled to show what the flow produces, not a customer's results.
The flow, block by block
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Croydon and around
Sets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
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The hiring manager
Apollo · Apollo contacts
The people to talk to at each company, and the company’s details, from your own Apollo account (apollo.io): decision makers by job title with their LinkedIn and work email; or the company’s size, industry, revenue and LinkedIn page; or a person from their email.
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Templates to build it
Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.
- Growing companies and who buys thereGrowing companies, sized with Apollo, with their purchasing managers.
- Write to companies hiring, with two follow-upsCompanies hiring, each written to with two follow-ups that stop when they reply.
- Busy employers with low ratings, for HR compliance adviceEmployers hiring a lot with low ratings, as HR compliance clients.
- Universities for my career fair partnershipsUniversities with their careers lead and an approved invitation.
- Companies building CSR teams, for corporate volunteeringCompanies building CSR teams, with a volunteering offer.
- Follow up a trade show listTrade show contacts scored and followed up from your Gmail.
Industries
Learn how it works
- How to find companies hiring for a role near youHiring signals by role and city, with the company's details and the person to call.
- How to build a B2B lead list from the mapEvery business of a type in your territory, with contacts, scored, in a sheet or CRM.
- Location intelligenceUsing where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Write to people with OutreachA first message and follow-ups to each result, approved first, stopping when they reply.
- Build your first flow in ten minutesFrom a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Enrich a list onceA CSV of addresses or companies back with phone, website, rating and an AI score.
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Build this flow on your own city
Run a live search on the home page without an account, or let Ask xMap build the flow from one sentence.