Agent skill · marketing growth · jeremylongshore
find-recruiting-firm
Use whenever the user wants to find, shortlist, vet, or enrich US recruiting and staffing firms — executive search/retained search, RPO, tech/sales/healthcare recruiting, contingent/contract staffing, and temp staffing. Triggers on "find me an executive search firm for a CFO search", "shortlist three retained-search boutiques in NY focused on tech", "we need RPO support for a 50-engineer hiring push", or "pull contact info for these 8 staffing firm domains", even when described indirectly (need help hiring at scale, executive recruiter for senior roles). Drives the ServiceGraph API (api.servicegraph.co) — a 100k+ US firm catalog filterable by industry, services, location, size, ratings. Skip when the user wants to hire someone as their own employee (job-board questions, in-house recruiter hires, "where should I post the role"), individual job-seekers looking for recruiters to represent them, candidate-side career coaching, non-US firms, individual freelance recruiters.
Why this skill is useful
Integrates with the ServiceGraph API to access a specialized dataset of US recruiting firms, providing capabilities beyond generic search methods.
What it needs
Requires servicegraph account access. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
find-recruiting-firm Overview Drive the ServiceGraph API (https://api.servicegraph.co) to find, shortlist, and enrich US recruiting and staffing firms via the proservices dataset. This skill is for procuring an external recruiting/staffing firm to do hiring on the user's behalf. It is NOT for: recruiting an in-house employee (the user wants to hire someone for their own team — that's job-posting, not procurement), candidate-side asks (an individual job-seeker looking for someone to represent them). Both share keyword overlap with the positive case ("recruiter", "hire"), so the boundary matters. Always pin industry:hrrecruitingstaffing. Sub-types (executive search, RPO, contingent staffing, temp, vertical specializations) are NOT separate tags — sub-type specialization is a keyword substring search on firm text. Any HTTP client works (curl, fetch, requests). Examples below use curl. When NOT to use this skill "I want to hire a [role] for my team — where should I post the job?" → recruiting-an-employee. "Find me a recruiter to represent me in my job search" → candidate side. "Hire an in-house recruiter / Head of Talent" → recruiting an employee. "Help me write a job description" → DIY/do-the-work. ATS or HR-software comparisons (Greenhouse vs Lever, Workday). Career coaching for individual job-seekers. Non-US firms / individual freelance recruiters. Prerequisites ServiceGraph access, either: the ServiceGraph MCP server (https://mcp.servicegraph.co) loaded in your harness — this plugin's .mcp.json wires it up; OAuth 2.1 + PKCE keeps credentials in the harness sandbox — or a ServiceGraph API key (vk…, minted at <https://servicegraph.co/profile/api-keys>) available as SERVICEGRAPHAPIKEY in the environment or .env.local for the REST path (setup steps under Auth below). An HTTP client for the REST path — the examples use curl. Instructions The loop is free-first: discovery, validation, search, and brief reads cost nothing; only unlock after the user confirms the spend. 1. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills jeremylongshore/find-recruiting-firm