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Why Your Recruiting Desk Is Quiet Right Now
Your desk goes quiet. The calls slow down, the interviews dry up, and you start wondering what changed. John Ruffini has an answer, and it usually starts with what is sitting in your pipeline.
The Firm Leaders Summit runs November 16 to 18, three days built for recruiting firm owners and leaders on hiring, training, BD, and growth: https://firm-leaders-and-owners-recruiting-summit-2026.heysummit.com
Money Makers 2.0 is on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover: https://amzn.to/4AYuOqu
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Oct. 12, 2026
Why Your Recruiting Desk Is Quiet Right Now
Your desk goes quiet. The calls slow down, the interviews dry up, and you start wondering what changed. John Ruffini has an answer, and it usually starts with what is sitting in your pipeline. The Firm Leaders Summit runs November 16 to 18, three days built for recruiting firm owners and leaders on hiring, training, BD, and growth: https://firm-leaders-and-owners-recruiting-summit-2026.heysummit.com Money Makers 2.0 is on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover: https://amzn.to/4AYuOqu This
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Oct. 8, 2026
We Trained Our Clients' Recruiters. They Kept Calling.
Firm owners, the Firm Leaders Summit runs November 16 to 18. Save your seat: https://firm-leaders-and-owners-recruiting-summit-2026.heysummit.com This episode is brought to you by Atlas, the CRMx that actually understands context. It captures every interview, client call, LinkedIn message, email, and WhatsApp automatically, then tells you the next action to take. Learn more at https://recruitwithatlas.com/ Brooke Weinert and her husband Tommy had a plan: one of them would keep the paycheck while
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Oct. 5, 2026
How To Build An AI-Native Firm That Beats Firms 4x Its Size.
How To Build An AI-Native Firm That Beats Firms 4x Its Size. Firm Leaders Summit, Nov 16 to 18, free live sessions: https://firm-leaders-and-owners-recruiting-summit-2026.heysummit.com/ Atlas, the CRMx built for recruiters: https://recruitwithatlas.com/ Alex Papageorge is back. Since his last appearance the idea he was duct-taping together with n8n, Clay, and OpenAI has become a fully built recruiting firm running on Azure, with three AI agents named Donna, Sunny, and Mina sitting on Mac Mini
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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 t
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Recruiting Pipeline Math: How Much Do You Actually Need to Bill $30K?
If your recruiting desk is quiet and you want to bill $30,000 a month, veteran trainer John Ruffini explains that you need roughly $100,000 of interview-stage deals in motion. Because only about 30 percent of an active pipeline successfully closes, …
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How to Train In-House Recruiters Without Cannibalizing Your Agency
Adding an in-house recruiter training program to your staffing agency might sound like a recipe for losing clients, but industry leaders prove otherwise. By teaching client hiring teams best practices through specialized platforms like Shadow Labs, …
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How to Build a Custom AI Recruiting Agent Stack for Under $200 a Month
Building a custom AI recruiting agent stack requires moving away from rented SaaS tools and establishing a centralized data architecture on Azure. By utilizing local Mac Minis and specialized AI agents like Donna, Sunny, and Mina, solo recruiters an…