Hungry
You want difficult goals, you create activity without being chased, and you keep looking for another way when the first approach fails.
AM I A GOOD FIT?
This can be the dream job you have always been looking for. It is also really hard.
Compass is being built around a small, eight-person office, elite tools, meaningful earnings, real teamwork and enough time away from work to enjoy your family and your life. In return, we expect exceptional effort, judgment, resilience and an absolute commitment to clients and candidates.
THE COMPASS OFFICE MODEL
Eight people. One team. One scoreboard.
Every Compass office is intentionally capped at eight people. We would rather open another office than keep adding people until everyone’s share becomes too small to matter.
We spend heavily on the best recruiting, sourcing, CRM, AI and communication tools we can find. The goal is to give a small group of outstanding people tremendous leverage and build each office toward $2–3 million or more in annual billing.
OFFICE CAP8 peopleWe do not dilute the team endlessly.
TEAM GOAL$2M+$3M and beyond is absolutely possible.
EARNINGS PHILOSOPHY6-figure pathFor successful team members.
LOCATIONMissoula, MTCurrent employee roles are in-office.
WHAT THE WORK REALLY IS
Recruiting looks simple from the outside. It is not.
A Compass recruiter owns the process of finding the right person for a manufacturing company that needs help. That means understanding the job, finding people who may never apply on their own, contacting them, qualifying them, presenting the opportunity honestly, coordinating interviews, solving problems and staying involved through offer and start date.
This work is part sales, part research, part interviewing, part psychology, part problem solving—and a lot of follow-through.
On a normal day you might search Compass Core for CNC machinists in Spokane, call a maintenance technician who has never heard of the client, text a candidate you spoke with yesterday, review a résumé, prepare someone for an interview, get feedback from a hiring manager and help another recruiter solve a difficult search.
We use technology heavily, but technology does not replace the recruiter. Compass Core, sourcing tools, AI, email, SMS and job boards help us move faster. Your job is to turn those tools into conversations, trust, interviews, offers and hires.
Humble
You share credit, accept coaching, admit mistakes and care more about the result than being the person who gets recognized for it.
Smart & curious
You can learn manufacturing roles, ask intelligent questions, think outside the box and adjust when the obvious answer is not working.
Resilient
A “perfect” candidate will get rejected. An offer will fall apart. You have to recover quickly and keep the same energy.
Positive & accountable
Problems are real. Excuses do not solve them. Our question is always: what are we going to do about it?
You genuinely like people
This is still a people business. Curiosity, empathy, communication and trust matter every single day.
WHY OUR HIRING PROCESS IS EXTENSIVE
With only eight seats, we have to be extremely choosy.
We are not necessarily looking for Harvard graduates or perfect résumés. We are looking for people who are hungry, humble, smart, adaptable, competitive, team-oriented and extremely difficult to discourage.
HungryHumbleSmartRefuse to loseAdaptableTeam-firstPositiveClient-first
If the screening process feels demanding, that is intentional. If you make it through, the seven people around you will have been held to the same standard.
TEAM-BASED COMPENSATION
We do not operate eight individual desks that happen to share an office.
Recruiters, business development, account management and leadership all participate when Compass completes a placement and the client pays the invoice. The model is designed so people benefit from helping the whole office win—not from hoarding candidates, clients or credit.
What we want
If another recruiter has the right candidate for your job, they should give you the candidate.
If you find someone who fits another recruiter’s search, you should help them make the placement.
Some months you may have sourced half the people who were hired. Other months you may have directly sourced only a few. You have to be comfortable with both.
What will not work here
Resenting teammates because they benefit from a placement you helped create.
Resenting the team because someone else contributed more than you did during a particular month.
Protecting “your” candidates, “your” clients or “your” commission at the expense of the client.
| Annual Compass billing | Recruiter / BD Specialist | Recruiting / Marketing Manager |
|---|---|---|
| $1.5 million | $75,000 | $112,500 |
| $2.0 million — OUR GOAL | $100,000 | $150,000 |
| $2.5 million | $125,000 | $187,500 |
| $3.0 million | $150,000 | $225,000 |
Illustrations are based on the current team-production model: approximately 5% participation for individual-contributor roles and 7.5% for the two department-manager roles, including the management component. Every current in-office role has a $60,000 guaranteed annual earnings floor. These examples are not guaranteed earnings forecasts, and $3 million is an illustration—not a ceiling. Compensation is tied to collected revenue.
THE JOB SHOULD SUPPORT YOUR LIFE
Work hard while you are here. Have a life when you are not.
We want Compass to be the dream job people spend years looking for: strong earnings, a fun and capable team, meaningful time off, and enough room to enjoy hobbies and spend time with family.
Monday–Thursday shifts
To serve clients and candidates across the country effectively, we operate three standard shifts. We need at least two people on each shift. Preferences matter and will be accommodated when possible, but every employee must be able to work any of the three if coverage requires it.
7 AM – 4 PM
8 AM – 5 PM
9 AM – 6 PM
Rotating Fridays
Every Friday, half of the eight-person office is off. The remaining four provide coverage.
4 people off
2 work until noon
2 work until 5 PM
In a typical four-Friday month, that means roughly two Fridays completely off, one half-day Friday and one regular Friday.
BENEFITCompany-paid cell phone
BENEFITHealth insurance plan
BENEFITDental insurance plan
BENEFITWork only about 1.5 Friday-equivalents per month
PAID HOLIDAY BREAKRoughly Dec. 20/21 through Jan. 4/5
PAID VACATION2 full weeks
PAID SICK TIME1 full week
PLAY DAYS3 paid personal/fun days
THE MENTAL SIDE
Some days recruiting feels like playing chess all day.
You are constantly thinking several moves ahead. Candidates stop responding. Clients change priorities. Someone you were sure would get hired gets rejected. A search that worked last month produces nothing this month. There will be peaks and valleys.
Adapt
When one approach stops working, try something else. The answer is not always more of the same activity.
Stay positive
A setback cannot be allowed to destroy the enthusiasm you bring to the next call, candidate or search.
Keep moving
Accept the client’s decision, learn from the feedback and continue searching with the same urgency as before.
WHO COMES FIRST
It is not about you. And it is not about Compass.
We work for our clients and candidates. Our job is not to convince a company to hire the person we like best. Our job is to understand what the client is actually looking for and help them find it.
You may believe a candidate is perfect. The client may disagree. That is their decision. We listen, learn from the feedback and keep searching.
The same applies to candidates. We should never push somebody into a job that is wrong for them simply because we want a placement fee. A successful placement should work for the company and the person accepting the job.
The client and candidate come before individual credit, internal politics or a quick fee.
OPEN POSITIONS
Current Missoula office openings
These are full-time, in-office roles in Missoula, Montana. All four participate in the team-production model, have a $60,000 guaranteed annual earnings floor and share in collected placement revenue according to the compensation plan.
Benefits included with all four current Missoula roles
Health and dental insurance · Company-paid cell phone · Rotating Fridays · Paid year-end shutdown · 2 weeks paid vacation · 1 week paid sick time · 3 paid play days.
Based on the normal four-Friday rotation, employees are off two Fridays each month and work one half-Friday and one regular Friday. Two half-Fridays equal one full day for time-off-equivalent purposes, so that rotation alone represents about 30 full workday-equivalents away from the office per year.
OPEN POSITION · MISSOULA, MT · IN OFFICE
Marketing Manager / Business Development Lead
This is not a traditional brand-marketing role. You are responsible for making sure Compass has companies to recruit for.
- Win new clients, search agreements and job orders.
- Make significant outbound calls and follow up consistently.
- Build target-company strategy, scripts, cadences and standards.
- Coach the Business Development Specialist and help build the department as Compass grows.
- Track conversion rates and continuously improve the business-development system.
COMPENSATION
$60,000 guaranteed floor + team production + management component
Illustrative annual compensation at office billing levels:
$1.5M → $112,500$2.0M → $150,000$2.5M → $187,500$3.0M → $225,000
Benefits: health + dental, company-paid phone, rotating Fridays, paid year-end shutdown, 2 weeks paid vacation, 1 week paid sick time and 3 paid play days.
OPEN POSITION · MISSOULA, MT · IN OFFICE
Marketing & Business Development Specialist
Your job is straightforward to explain: find manufacturing companies that need people and turn them into Compass clients.
- Make outbound calls every day.
- Identify hiring managers and decision-makers.
- Generate new job orders and search agreements.
- Reactivate former clients and work inbound campaign responses.
- Keep Compass Core current and hand clean opportunities to the recruiting team.
COMPENSATION
$60,000 guaranteed floor + team production
Illustrative annual compensation at office billing levels:
$1.5M → $75,000$2.0M → $100,000$2.5M → $125,000$3.0M → $150,000
Benefits: health + dental, company-paid phone, rotating Fridays, paid year-end shutdown, 2 weeks paid vacation, 1 week paid sick time and 3 paid play days.
OPEN POSITION · MISSOULA, MT · IN OFFICE
Recruiting Manager / Manufacturing Recruiting Lead
The Recruiting Manager is still a recruiter. This is not a management job where you stop producing and spend the day watching everybody else work.
- Personally recruit candidates and close placements.
- Coach recruiters on sourcing, qualification, calls and search strategy.
- Own recruiting standards, pipeline discipline and candidate quality.
- Help interview, select and train future recruiters.
- Make every recruiter better instead of keeping the best searches for yourself.
COMPENSATION
$60,000 guaranteed floor + team production + management component
Illustrative annual compensation at office billing levels:
$1.5M → $112,500$2.0M → $150,000$2.5M → $187,500$3.0M → $225,000
Benefits: health + dental, company-paid phone, rotating Fridays, paid year-end shutdown, 2 weeks paid vacation, 1 week paid sick time and 3 paid play days.
OPEN POSITION · MISSOULA, MT · IN OFFICE
Manufacturing Recruiter
You receive real manufacturing job orders and are responsible for finding the people who can fill them. You are not an order taker, and this is not a “post a job and forward applicants” position.
- Learn each client’s job and what actually makes someone qualified.
- Search Compass Core and outside sourcing channels.
- Call, text and email passive candidates.
- Qualify skills, motivation, compensation and relocation.
- Coordinate interviews, debrief both sides, manage offers and stay involved through start date.
COMPENSATION
$60,000 guaranteed floor + team production
Illustrative annual compensation at office billing levels:
$1.5M → $75,000$2.0M → $100,000$2.5M → $125,000$3.0M → $150,000
Benefits: health + dental, company-paid phone, rotating Fridays, paid year-end shutdown, 2 weeks paid vacation, 1 week paid sick time and 3 paid play days.
OPEN POSITION · REMOTE · 1099 INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR
Remote Full-Desk Recruiter
This opportunity is for proven recruiters who already know how to run a successful full desk from home. It is not an entry-level remote recruiting job.
- Previous successful recruiting experience in a work-from-home environment is required.
- You must be able to verify at least $200,000 in annual billings for two or more years.
- This is a 1099 independent-contractor position with no salary, no employee benefits and no set work schedule.
- If selected, you may receive up to 90 days of access to Compass systems and tools to begin producing.
- If you go more than 30 days without a sendout, system/tool access may be withdrawn.
- If you go more than 120 days without a placement, system/tool access may be withdrawn.
- You receive access to Compass recruiting technology, sourcing systems, support from a manager and collaboration with other approved 1099 recruiters.
CONTRACT STRUCTURE
Commission-based 1099 contractor · No salary · No benefits · No set schedule
Specific contractor compensation terms are discussed with candidates who meet the experience and qualification requirements.
This is a performance opportunity, not a remote starter job.
Full-desk recruiters are expected to prospect, win business, recruit, manage client relationships, close and stay disciplined without day-to-day supervision. The qualification process for this track intentionally tests self-management and discipline harder than the employee tracks.
NEXT STEP
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