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How To Build A $1.9M Firm With Just 2 People
Finish The Year Strong is live this week, September 28 through October 5. It is the final free virtual summit of 2026 and every session is built to help you close Q4 hard. Big billers, AI, automation, mindset, all week. Register here: https://recruiters-finish-the-year-strong.heysummit.com/
If you are hearing this after October 5, the Firm Leaders Summit runs November 16 through 18, presented by Crelate. Three days for owners and firm leaders. Register here: https://firm-leaders-and-owners-recru
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Sept. 30, 2026
How To Build A $1.9M Firm With Just 2 People
Finish The Year Strong is live this week, September 28 through October 5. It is the final free virtual summit of 2026 and every session is built to help you close Q4 hard. Big billers, AI, automation, mindset, all week. Register here: https://recruiters-finish-the-year-strong.heysummit.com/ If you are hearing this after October 5, the Firm Leaders Summit runs November 16 through 18, presented by Crelate. Three days for owners and firm leaders. Register here: https://firm-leaders-and-owners-recru
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Sept. 24, 2026
How To Take A $300K Recruiter Past $500K.
Finish the Year Strong 2026 kicks off Monday, September 28. It is free, it is virtual, and it runs through October 5. Register here: https://recruiters-finish-the-year-strong.heysummit.com/ This episode is brought to you by Atlas: https://recruitwithatlas.com/ To give you a taste of what is coming, we pulled one of the most rewatched sessions from last year's Finish the Year Strong out of the Elite Recruiter Community Library. Dante Nino, co-founder and Managing Partner of Tiello, built his talk
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Sept. 21, 2026
$1M At 25. What's Possible In Your First Two Years
Before the episode, two dates. Finish the Year Strong runs September 28 through October 5, and the brand new Firm Leaders Summit runs November 16 through 18. Live sessions for both are free. Register at https://recruiters-finish-the-year-strong.heysummit.com/ and https://firm-leaders-and-owners-recruiting-summit-2026.heysummit.com/. Replays, VIP access, and the Elite Recruiter Community are there if you want to go all in on the rest of 2026. This episode is brought to you by Atlas, the CRMx tha
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Sept. 19, 2026
The $5.3 Million Tax You're Paying Without Knowing It.
Jay Veniard was the very first guest on the Elite Recruiter Podcast, back when the whole thing was one recorded conversation during COVID thrown on the internet to see what happened. This session is his first ever summit talk, pulled from the Elite Recruiter Community Library ahead of Finish the Year Strong, and it was the one that hit the audience hardest. Finish the Year Strong 2026 is a free virtual summit for recruiters running September 28 to October 5. Firm owners, coaches, and top biller
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Sept. 17, 2026
How To Beat Korn Ferry With 4 People And AI.
James Homer left a regional director job in Singapore with two young kids, a third on the way, and not enough savings to cover the risk. Eighteen months later his firm has billed just over a million dollars and takes retained searches off Korn Ferry, Egon Zehnder and Michael Page with a team of four. The number is not what makes this worth your time. The way he got there is. Before any of it worked, James spent ten thousand dollars on an AI outreach system that booked him exactly zero meetings
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Sept. 14, 2026
The Hidden Truths of High-Performing Recruiters
Sign up for the Finish The Year Strong 2026 Summit (Sept 28 to Oct 5): https://recruiters-finish-the-year-strong.heysummit.com/ Check out Atlas, the AI-native CRM and ATS built for recruiters: https://recruitwithatlas.com/ What does the person who has sat across from some of the top billers in this industry actually see when he looks at them? In his first podcast appearance ever, Kevin Parker sits down with Benjamin Mena for a conversation that goes where recruiting content almost never goes.
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Sept. 30, 2026
Why Boutique Recruiting Firms Outperform Large Agencies on Profitability
Building a boutique recruiting firm with just two producers can actually yield higher take-home profit than running a bloated 20-person agency. By keeping overhead minimal, maintaining tight operational control, and leveraging systematic business de…
Sept. 25, 2026
650,000 Downloads: The State of The Elite Recruiter Podcast
The Elite Recruiter Podcast just crossed 650,000 all-time audio downloads. That's Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and every other podcast app, and it doesn't include YouTube. Add that in and the picture gets bigger: another 359,000 views on the channel. …
Sept. 24, 2026
Why 3 to 5 Six-Figure Clients Beat 100 Low-Fee Accounts for a $500K Recruiting Desk
Breaking past a $300K recruiting plateau requires a fundamental shift in client acquisition strategy. Instead of chasing dozens of low-fee accounts, top-performing recruiters build a concentrated portfolio of three to five six-figure clients. By foc…