Recruiter Discovery Workflow
Weekly recruiter discovery finds high-fit talent contacts, recommends engagement, and keeps career targeting current without sending anything automatically.
The recruiter-discovery automation supports Kevin's outbound career motion alongside Career Pipeline Workflow. It is relationship discovery and outreach planning, not a message-sending loop. Source: automations/recruiter-discovery.md, 2026-05-31
Routing
Use this workflow for recruiter and talent-partner discovery. Use Career Pipeline Workflow for role discovery and Application Standout Protocol for a specific application package.
Trigger
- Weekly automation from
automations/recruiter-discovery.md. - Manual request when Kevin changes target companies, starts a search, or wants warm recruiter relationships before needing them.
- Follow-up when a previous connection request was accepted and needs a next action.
Inputs
- Target company list, role archetypes, and career strategy from Career Profile.
- LinkedIn profile, public LinkedIn search, recruiter posts, and company hiring pages when available.
- Prior recruiter-discovery outputs and any known connection status.
- Cloud, Data, and Service Skills for personalized notes.
Runbook
- Read Career Profile and identify current target-company tiers.
- Search recruiters, talent partners, recruiting leads, and founders who publicly hire for relevant engineering roles.
- Deduplicate existing connections and pending requests.
- Score each contact by company tier, active role relevance, mutual connections, public engagement, and cross-company network value.
- Recommend 5-10 priority contacts with a reason, pre-connect action, and concise personalized note.
- Identify 2-3 posts worth engaging with before connecting when public activity exists.
- Record accepted, pending, stale, and follow-up states when known.
Promotion
Update Career Profile only when company targeting, role targeting, or networking strategy changed. Do not create person pages for every recruiter from a scan. Create or update a person page only when the recruiter becomes materially relevant beyond a one-time recommendation.
Output
Write outputs/<YYYY-MM-DD>/recruiter-discovery/<agent>.md with target updates, recruiter discoveries, engagement targets, connection recommendations, and pipeline status. Never auto-send connection requests or messages.
Validation
Every recommended outreach item needs a company, role/title, why-connect rationale, and personalization signal. Generic recruiter lists are a failed run with extra formatting.
Run Contract
This workflow follows Workflow Run Contract: name the sources, write output or no-op proof, promote only durable facts, update state only when the run really completed, refresh generated surfaces when durable pages or skills change, and log user-visible work.
Timeline
- 2026-07-01 | Expanded into a weekly relationship-discovery contract with routing, trigger, inputs, scoring, promotion boundaries, output, and validation. Source: User request, 2026-07-01
- 2026-05-31 | Workflow page created from recruiter-discovery automation. Source: automations/recruiter-discovery.md, 2026-05-31