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Kelly Spencer · Recruiter, Akkodis
Her headline isn't a title, it's a mission statement: "Building Access to Opportunity." Kelly places engineering and tech talent at Akkodis — the human on the other side of San Diego's hardest hires.
Who he is
The verified quick answer
Kelly Spencer recruits engineering and technology talent at Akkodis in San Diego. Akkodis is one of the biggest names in technical staffing, but the reason this page exists is the way Kelly frames the work: access to opportunity as a thing you build, deliberately, for people. In a market where most hiring is keyword-matching at scale, the recruiters who actually know their candidates and their companies are infrastructure — the connective tissue between San Diego's tech companies and the people who make them go.
That's also why recruiters sit at the center of every local network map: they talk to more operators, founders, and engineers in a week than most people do in a quarter.
Why this page exists
the honest overlap
- Same religion, different tools — "building access to opportunity" is give-first in four words. SideGuy does it with pages and operator-owned tools; Kelly does it with placements.
- The hard-role problem — the toughest searches deserve better than a job-board listing. A dedicated, findable page for a hard role (or a standout candidate) is the kind of thing SideGuy builds in an afternoon.
- The network effect — recruiters and single-operator builders see opposite halves of the same market. Comparing notes is free and usually worth it.
Every career has a door-opener in it somewhere. Usually unthanked, usually forgotten by the résumé. The people who make door-opening their whole job are betting their career on other people's careers — that deserves a page.
Compare market notes?
First one's on the house. No Calendly · no meeting · operator to operator.
Either way · I'll give it a quick first look. Text PJ at 858-461-8054. No Calendly · operator to operator.
Find Kelly publicly
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- LinkedIn: Kelly Spencer
- Company: Akkodis · engineering & technology staffing
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