hr-search-strategy

hr-search-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tuanductran/hr-skills. It costs 71 tokens per session (834 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A recruiting search-planning guide for defining the target market, candidate profile, outreach channels, timeline, and success criteria before sourcing begins.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create search briefs, choose between direct sourcing, referrals, agencies, and job ads, set milestones, identify risks, and adjust the approach when results are weak.
Why use it?
It prevents recruiting effort from spreading across unsuitable companies, channels, or candidates and makes the search plan easier to defend.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to create search briefs, choose between direct sourcing, referrals, agencies, and job ads, set milestones, identify risks, and adjust the approach when results are weak.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tuanductran/hr-skills/hr-search-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tuanductran/hr-skills --skill hr-search-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tuanductran/hr-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Its marketplace also offers this one on its own, as the plugin hr-search-strategy/plugin install hr-search-strategy after adding the marketplace above.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 834 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00071 $0.00834
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00083

Measured 9d ago against content hash d5022be0526f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

hr-search-strategy scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/hr-search-strategy/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Search strategy

Design the upfront plan for a recruiting search assignment — target market, channel mix, positioning, timeline, and success criteria — so sourcing effort is focused and defensible before outreach begins.

Supported tasks

  • Translating a hiring manager brief into a structured search strategy
  • Defining target companies, functions, and candidate profiles for a search
  • Selecting the right channel mix (direct sourcing, referrals, agencies, ads)
  • Setting a realistic search timeline with milestones
  • Defining search success criteria and what "done" looks like
  • Deciding between contingent, retained, or internal-led search approaches
  • Building a search brief document to align stakeholders before sourcing starts
  • Identifying likely search risks (thin market, comp mismatch, location constraints)
  • Planning search strategy for confidential or sensitive replacements
  • Adjusting strategy mid-search when initial approach isn't yielding results
  • Aligning search strategy with employer brand and candidate positioning
  • Comparing search strategy options for the same role at different budget levels

Key prompts

Building the strategy

  1. "Turn this hiring manager brief into a structured search strategy for [role], including target market, channels, and timeline."
  2. "What's the right channel mix for sourcing [role] — direct outreach, referrals, job boards, agency support?"
  3. "Define success criteria and a realistic timeline for a search for [role] in [market]."
  4. "Should this search be run as contingent, retained, or internal-only, and why?"

Stakeholder alignment

  1. "Draft a one-page search brief to align the hiring manager and recruiter before sourcing starts on [role]."
  2. "What questions should I ask the hiring manager before finalizing search strategy for [role]?"
  3. "How do I present a search strategy that sets realistic expectations for a hard-to-fill role?"
  4. "How should stakeholder alignment differ for a confidential search versus a publicly posted one?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 65 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A d5022be0526f

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hr-search-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository tuanductran/hr-skills (58 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 834 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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