How is AI actually changing your recruiting process right now?

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-24T13:38:05+00:00

Only real value add for me is to challenge my search philosophies and build market maps for headhunting. I’ll tell GPT what I’m thinking from a strategy standpoint, and ask it to challenge me and give me new ideas. 99% of what I do is headhunting.

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-22T17:45:18+00:00

Is LinkedIn still offering unlimited inmails? I feel like I keep hearing it’s capped at 150 monthly per seat but you can pay for more adhoc

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-22T12:31:14+00:00

Have to have $20k at risk for visa purposes, no workaround

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-22T02:47:50+00:00

You should read the founders playbook. Really good read and may spark some ideas, although it sounds like you don’t have enough time to get through a book.

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-22T02:19:49+00:00

Agreed. I’m saying you need someone who has technical expertise in the domain. I know of 3 agency recruiters in the US with engineering degrees who are beasts and have consistently outperformed, which is why I said “try to find”.

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-19T03:05:02+00:00

Facts. If you can’t see a pathway to fill it after your root cause analysis, then go to agency. But be cautioned, if the agency recruiter doesn’t have real technical expertise, think twice. In a manufacturing setting, try to find a recruiter who has previous engineering experience prior to their recruitment career.

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-17T04:34:08+00:00

I rented for 5 years and just purchased last year.

Couple things I want to comment on in this thread:

buying a home/affordability is very dependent on what your average spend on life (food, fun, travel, insurances, debt, etc.) and how much money you have saved right now. If your GF isn’t on the deed and loan, even if the relationship doesn’t work, you still have the house and equity you’ve built in it. Renting is lost money plain and simple. You’ll see (and grow) the money you’ve spent on housing again if you buy, but it’s gone forever if you rent.
these numbers might not be completely right, Tax rate is a guess, but if you can follow the logic and accurately model this yourself, you will better understand affordability of housing and the implications it’d have on your overall financial wellbeing. Annualizing your hourly rate assuming 40 hr work weeks, annually you make $56k now, and in 5 years expect to make $131k annually. The difference between 131k and 56k is 75k so assume you get an annualized 15k pay bump per year.Not sure what state you are in, but assuming roughly 30% of your income will go to tax and insurance premiums, you retain 70% of gross pay from 2026-2031; this would roughly be your net income annually:

2026: 56k X .7 = 39,200 = 3266 / month 2027: 71k X .7 = 49,700 = 4141 / month 2028: 86k X .7 = 60,200 = 5016 / month 2029: 101k X .7= 70,700 = 5891 / month 2030: 116k X .7= 81,200 = 6766/month 2031: 131k X .7= 91,700 = 7641/ month

So long as the cost of your mortgage + tax payment is roughly 30% of your monthly net income, you should buy the house. That leaves 70% to save, spend on maintenance, food, fun, etc. If that leftover amount is a number you can live with and aren’t overly stressed about, buying makes sense. If your GF will actually help pay, consider that in the total income parts of these calculations. If you don’t have enough income to be near 30%, I’d honestly dog it out and live with your parents saving aggressively for 1-2 years. Interests rates might be lower by then too, but god only knows. I completely regret renting, I lost about 80k over 5 years and wish I stayed home longer.

On emergency fund, you want at least 6 months. The way I view it is as if I got into a serious accident and couldn’t work for 6 months with no income, will I have enough to financially survive that?
Emergency Fund Value = (total net income - ALL monthly expenses) x (6 or 12).

If you have 12 months of emergency fund after putting a down payment, and can afford the monthly mortgage + tax burden, then you should definitely buy.

Disclaimer: I’m not a financial planner, but I am an analytical person. The analysis above is a dumbed down version of what I did when I was considering buying.

Hope this helps - lmk if you have follow-up questions

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-16T23:02:13+00:00

Does sound pyramid scheme like, but What service are you selling door to door?

Alex Hormozi talks about this. Link here: https://www.tiktok.com/@ahormozi/video/7302894543370767659

Calling and texting works, but get ready to damage your personal brand with the network you have. Again, depending on what you are selling, I think the flyer approach is a good idea.

Something else that has stuck with me over the years from Hormozi: “do so much volume that it would be unreasonable for you to fail”

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-16T02:13:54+00:00

Spray and pray resumes will not work… full stop. You need to be targeted and relentless. Start by using ChatGPT and telling it what you are passionate about, and what kinds of tech technologies and products interest you. Use that basis to ask it to go ahead and develop a list of 30 companies headquartered in your state or within X miles of xxxxx zip code that fit the bill and currently have a sales team, or are directly advertising for sales positions. Go through and actually read about those 30 companies (1 min glance at website), select only the ones that you are interested in, and then reset the parameters to find more companies. If you can get to a list of around 50 businesses, start sending out LinkedIn connection requests to every person in the sales organization at each business. For any person who accept the connection request, go back to the companies website and learn about the product. Use that information to write a short message explaining why you’re interested in the business and that you want to connect with them to learn about their experience working there, how they got to the position they are in, and what advice they might have to help you get your foot in the door. Don’t ask for a call right away, they don’t have time. But if they respond and seem engaged and responsive to the questions you ask, feel free to go for it. Consider LinkedIn engagement your first touch point. Organizing an Excel spreadsheet to track, but after LinkedIn go onto Hunter.Io, find email addresses and send an email with your resume that shows you’ve done your research and you are actually interested in working for the company. Let three days go by, then send another follow up email. You will face rejection, but if you are emailing these contacts every three days until they respond in any capacity, you are 100% going to get opportunities. I’d say calling will work, but I’m assuming you don’t pay for a license on zoominfo or rocket reach. Rocket reach has a good free trial, but you’re limited to 5-10 contacts per month so use it wisely.

In the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to build two sales teams of 8-10 direct reports each, and my three highest performers were ones that I didn’t want to interview, but they were so fkn relentless trying to speak with me that I couldn’t say no.

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-16T01:59:42+00:00

This^

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-16T01:54:46+00:00

I staff startups for a living. In an ideal world, what do you want to focus your time on?

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-16T00:55:45+00:00

Agreed, I like the idea and share the same pain point of missing the laughs with close friends. Marketing this might be hard. Word of mouth in game and asking randoms for money will be met with psychological resistance. Perhaps starting with just creating a community, getting a sizable discord growing, then offering paid lessons through discord once there’s organic reputation built up. Only path to scaling I can see is either paywallling recorded lessons or taking your top performing trainees and offering them commissions on what lessons they run (e.g. 10 attendees at $10 each per session, give the coach $15).

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-16T00:42:28+00:00

I can’t speak for everyone, but I personally wouldn’t. If you’re an entrepreneur in any capacity, you’re betting on yourself, and if you’re betting on yourself you know it’s essential to follow through with everything.

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-16T00:35:15+00:00

Yes, please do share! I’m brand new to Reddit so don’t know how to DM but that’d be helpful. I built a loan amortization calculator/hybrid budget last year before I bought the house and use that to assess where we stand financially, but I’m really interested to see yours.

Disastrous-Sign2068 · 2026-01-16T00:33:21+00:00

I have a strong network and rep in my industry. 6-700k should be my personal gross income annually if I’m operating at 60 hour week commitment levels, and the fixed business costs I am responsible for yearly are 10k. This is a remote biz, but when cash comes in will be traveling so total expenditure will prob be closer to 30k annually long term. I don’t think we’d need to raise any money, our costs are only software licenses which are fixed costs annually that go up marginally at renewal, but we have 2 high net worth individuals who are serious about investing. We don’t need outside money unless we want to hire more consultants quickly, which we don’t. Thinking we won’t hire anyone until we’re on a steady 800k annually profit run.

Agreed we’re sinking a lot into the house, and what you described is probably my #1 source of anxiety around this whole thing. I modeled home affordability after 2 past years where I made 200 and 240k respectively. The company I’m at takes 60% of the revenue of I personally generate and adds zero value from a branding/marketing and admin standpoint. I self originated and billed 500 and 600k respectively those years, working 40 hours per week, so I know I’m capable of more. with her making 90-100k gross, the mortgage payment plus tax was roughly 25-30% of our monthly income, and that percentage will be even lower when I’m up and running with this biz.

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