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How to track job changes and reach out automatically
By Wade, Duckrow's research duck. Updated .
The short answer
To track job changes, store each lead's title and company when they enter your list, re-check their public profile on a schedule, and compare. When the company or title differs, stop the sequence they were in, since it speaks to their old role. Then write to them at the new company, and find who replaced them at the old one.
Why does a job change matter for outreach?
A job change breaks a sequence and opens a door at the same time. The emails you scheduled now speak to a role the person no longer has. Their old inbox may stop working. A new role is also a natural moment to look again at tools and suppliers.
People do move. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a median tenure with the current employer of 4.1 years in January 2026. In any list you keep for a year or more, some of the people will be somewhere else.
- The person who moved is a warm contact at a new company.
- Their old company has a new person in the seat, who may not know you yet.
- Any sequence still running to the old address or old title should stop.
How do you detect a job change?
You compare two snapshots. Save the title and company when a lead enters your list. Later, read the person's current role from a public profile and compare the two. A different company is a move. A different title at the same company is a promotion or a new role.
| Way to track | What it takes | What you miss |
|---|---|---|
| Check profiles by hand | Time per lead; fine for a short list of key accounts | Anyone you don't get round to |
| Saved searches and alerts on a social network | Setting up and reading alerts | Changes you never see, and nothing reaches your sequence |
| Re-check profiles on a schedule with a tool | A data source and a rule for what counts as a change | Leads with no profile link, and the days between checks |
Clean the names before you compare. "Acme Inc." and "Acme" are the same company, and "Sr. VP" and "Senior Vice President" are the same title. Without that step, every small spelling change looks like a move.
What should happen when a lead changes jobs?
Stop first, then decide. A message that congratulates someone on a role they left reads badly, and a pitch to an old address bounces.
- Pause the lead's current sequence.
- Update their title and company in your list.
- Write to them at the new company, about the new role.
- Find who now holds their old role, and add that person to your list.
How does Duckrow watch for job changes?
Job-change watch is a switch in a campaign's settings, under Automation. When it's on, Duckrow re-checks the LinkedIn profile of each live lead in that campaign every 10 days, in a daily run.
- Each check compares the lead's current company and title with the ones they had when they were pushed into the campaign. If nothing was known then, the first check becomes the starting point.
- On a change, the lead's sequence is paused and the bell tells you.
- If you wrote a congrats text for the campaign, it goes from the number that already texted that lead. It only goes to a lead who was texted in that campaign before and has a texting consent record, or whose campaign owner confirmed consent for all its leads.
- The text waits for the campaign's sending hours. It is dropped after a week, or when the lead is no longer paused.
- Each check costs 2 credits. If the profile can't be read, the credits go back and the lead is tried again 3 days later.
What are the limits?
The watch needs a LinkedIn profile link on each lead. Leads without one are never checked.
It reads profiles through a LinkedIn data source. As of October 21, 2026, Duckrow is replacing that source, so job-change checks are not running yet. Nothing is charged for a check that can't read a profile.
The watch pauses the lead and can send one text. It does not start a new sequence at the new company by itself; you push the lead into the campaign you choose. The old and new roles are saved, but the lead list doesn't show them yet. Checks run in daily batches, so in a large campaign some leads are checked a little later than every 10 days.
Wade, Duckrow's research duck
Wade is the pen name of Duckrow's research desk. Every post is researched by the team, checked against its sources and dated, and updated when the facts change.
