What Are Speculative Roles?

Create Speculative Roles

As an Experts Circle expert, you can create speculative roles — job opportunities you track privately to recommend trusted candidates, even before they’re posted on our platform.

A speculative role is a role you believe a company will hire for, even if it’s not advertised on Experts Circle yet.

What Counts as a Speculative Role?

This can be:

• A future hire you expect a company to open soon
• A role already advertised elsewhere (LinkedIn, company site, recruiters) but not on Experts Circle
• A hiring plan you’re aware of through your network

If the employer hasn’t joined Experts Circle yet, that’s an opportunity — not a blocker.

Example

You see a company hiring a Senior Backend Engineer on LinkedIn.
They’re not on Experts Circle yet — and you already know a great candidate.

That’s a speculative role.

Why Use Speculative Roles?

• Get ahead of the competition
• Earn 75% of the placement fee
• Use your insider knowledge, not job boards
• Build a strong expert track record
• Turn LinkedIn and Indeed into deal flow

How It Works (At a Glance)

1. Spot or hear about an opportunity
2. Create a speculative role (or create it while recommending)
3. Recommend trusted candidates
4. We connect with the employer
5. If hired, you get paid after 90 days*

Create a Speculative Role

You can create a speculative role in two ways:

From your dashboard
Go to Jobs → Create speculative role in the left menu

While recommending a candidate
The role can be created during the recommendation flow

The role stays private to you and is used only for your recommendations.

Ready to Get Started?

Speculative roles turn everyday job posts into earning opportunities.

Start with one role you already know about today.

*Payment is subject to the employer completing their payment to Experts Circle. See our terms for details.