The brief
Recruiters work in Portland
Portland has a deep recruiting market. Agency recruiters, in house talent teams and independent headhunters all compete for the same searches, and the competition is spread across many small firms rather than a handful of national brands. The demand splits along industry lines. Technology and software hiring runs through the downtown and the Pearl District. Healthcare hiring runs through the hospital corridor on Marquam Hill and the east side clinics. Manufacturing and logistics hiring runs along the Columbia and out toward Gresham. Trades and construction hiring runs through the outer east side and across the river into Vancouver. Each of those is a separate set of searches, and each one is worth a page of its own. Paid search in this trade is expensive because a single placement is worth a lot, so the firms that rank organically get the enquiries without paying per click.
