# Recruiter

Concept · [Talent and hiring](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/talent)

Also called: recruiters, recruiting, headhunter, talent acquisition, job posting, job post, jobs channel

A person whose job is to find and contact candidates for open roles. Some work inside one company. Others work for an agency that serves many companies.

**For example:** A recruiter messages an [engineer](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer) about a role. The engineer asks for the [pay range](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/equity-vs-cash) before agreeing to a call.

## Connects to (13)

- [Talent](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/terms/talent): The skilled people a company can hire or work with, such as software engineers and designers.
- [Equity vs cash compensation](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/equity-vs-cash): The two main ways a startup pays people.
- [Contractor vs employee](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/contractor-vs-employee): A contractor is an outside person or firm you pay for a defined piece of work, and they decide how to do it.
- [Software engineer](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/software-engineer): A person who designs, writes and maintains code for a living.
- [Code of conduct](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/code-of-conduct): The written rules for how people in a community or at an event must treat each other, and what happens when someone breaks them.
- [Job description](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/job-description): A short written summary of a role: what the person will do, the skills it needs, who they report to and how it is paid.
- [Brain drain](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/brain-drain): When skilled people leave a place for jobs elsewhere, so the place loses the talent it trained.
- [Tulsa Visa Network](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa-visa-network): An Experience Tulsa program that helps skilled international workers in science and technology fields, and their families, move to and…
- [Techlahoma jobs channel](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/techlahoma-jobs-channel): The #jobs channel in the Techlahoma Slack, where members post open tech roles.
- [LinkedIn](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/linkedin): A social network for work.
- [American Job Centers](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/american-job-centers): A nationwide network of local workforce offices set up under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and supported by the US…
- [Oklahoma Department of Rehabilitation Services](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-rehabilitation-services): The Oklahoma state agency that helps people with disabilities find and keep work, through local vocational rehabilitation offices and…
- [Oklahoma Works](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/oklahoma-works): Oklahoma's statewide workforce partnership of several agencies, with offices that connect job seekers and employers.

Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/recruiter