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Systems for Running a Boutique Recruiting Firm

A boutique lives or dies on systems. Talent gets you started. Systems let you scale.

A boutique recruiting firm scales on systems, not heroics: a documented daily rhythm every desk runs, a consistent business-development engine, standardized candidate and client workflows, and honest metrics reviewed weekly. When the operating system lives in the founder's head, the firm can never grow past the founder. Writing it down and running it consistently is what turns a good biller into a firm.

Who this is for

Boutique firm ownersFounders hiring their first recruitersSmall-team leaders

Why recruiters run with AISS

What a scalable boutique runs on

What to take away

Frequently asked questions

Why can't a boutique scale on talent alone?

Because talent is not transferable and the founder is one person. Systems are what let a second and third desk perform without the founder in every deal.

What is the first system to build?

The daily rhythm and the BD engine. Get consistent revenue-producing behavior documented and repeatable, and everything else has something to hang on.

Who built this

Lee Fossey, Founder of AISS
Lee Fossey
Founder, AISS · 30 years in executive search

Lee Fossey has spent nearly thirty years in executive search and talent acquisition, running business development, building desks, and billing at the top of the market. AISS is the system he built to run his own desk: the BD, sourcing, sequencing, and follow-up handled by an engine in his own voice, so his hours go to the conversations that actually close. He would rather show you the desk working than sell you on it.

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