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Embedded recruiting
Dedicated recruiting support operating as an extension of your team—from intake and sourcing through candidate management and close.
Best for ongoing or multi-role hiring
Flexible recruiting for growing technology teams
Build the team you need—without the traditional agency approach.
Open Source Talent gives startups and scaling companies experienced recruiting support that adapts to the work: embedded partnership, focused search, or contingent hiring.
The right model for the work
Senior recruiting capability, matched to your hiring stage.
Built for
Startups
Scaling teams
Specialized technical hiring
Engagement models
Recruiting support shaped around your actual need.
No oversized process. No forced one-size-fits-all agreement. Just the right level of partnership for the hiring in front of you.
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Focused search
A retained-hybrid approach for critical or hard-to-fill roles that need concentrated attention, accountability, and market feedback.
Best for priority senior and specialized hires
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Contingent search
Targeted candidate delivery with a success-based structure when you need access to a trusted network without ongoing embedded support.
Best for clearly defined individual roles
Why Open Source Talent
A recruiting partner—not another layer between you and the market.
OST combines the ownership and context of an internal recruiter with the reach and urgency of external search. You get direct communication, honest market insight, and a model that can flex as hiring priorities change.
Operate with context
We learn the business, team, and real hiring constraints before taking the role to market.
Keep communication direct
Clear feedback loops and practical market intelligence keep the search moving.
Stay flexible
The engagement fits the hiring challenge instead of forcing every client into the same agency structure.
Founder-led recruiting
Experienced partnership, without the layers.
Raj Chatkara founded Open Source Talent after more than a decade in technical recruiting. He works directly with growing technology companies to bring internal-level context, honest market feedback, and focused execution to every engagement.
Let’s build deliberately
Tell us what you’re hiring for.
We’ll help you identify the recruiting model that makes sense for the role, team, and stage of growth.
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