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One of the sharpest debates inside our community last week: will an AI sales coach replace your L&D hire? The case for it: a good L&D salary is £60k+. Even the best can only sit closely with 15-20 consultants. The remaining time, your rookies are dialling out, hitting voicemails, and learning nothing. An AI sales coach can score every call, give instant feedback, and run unlimited reps for a fraction of the cost. The case against it: humans build culture. They model behaviour. They coach the moments the AI can't see. The likely outcome sits between the two extremes: - L&D won't disappear. It will consolidate. - One L&D + an AI coach will do the work three used to. - The 80% of call review that is admin gets automated. The 20% that is genuinely strategic gets sharper. If you are hiring an L&D in 2026, the brief is changing. 👉 Where do you sit? Reply below, or join 3,400 founders inside RecWired: https://recwired.com/ #LearningAndDevelopment #RecruitmentTraining #RecWired

A new AI sales agent landed in our community chat last week. Paste in your website URL, and it cold-emails your entire target market on autopilot. Thirty-second setup. £20 a month. The reaction split the room. One side argued this is the end of the BD differentiator - anyone with a credit card can now flood prospects with rapport-faked outreach. The other side argued the opposite: when inboxes drown in AI, the trusted recruiter becomes more valuable, not less. Both views agreed on one thing: distribution will eat tooling. If anyone can build it, the question is no longer what's your tech stack; it's what the relationship is that gets you in the room.

A founder in our community was asked by a client to produce a salary benchmark document. They had no idea what to charge. So they asked the room. The answers ranged widely: - £350 per day, billed as consulting time - £3,500 flat, treated as the first stage of a retained search - Free, for existing clients, as a relationship investment - Six figures. Yes, really. The large consultancies charge this for what is essentially the same deliverable. The consensus from 40+ founders was clear: stop pricing market data on your time. Price it based on the value it gives the client. An organisation about to run an annual salary review across 30 roles, looking for a defensible benchmark, is not buying two days of your work. They are buying confidence in a board-level decision. The recruiters treating market data as a product, not a favour, are winning retainers off the back of it. #RetainedSearch #RecruitmentBusiness #AgencyOwners #RecWired

Three things our members flagged on LinkedIn this month: - A wave of accounts losing 1,000+ connections overnight, with no notice - Warnings issued to Recruiter Corporate licence holders for sending "too many InMails over two days." - A quiet clamp-down on Chrome extensions that automate searches or scrape contacts Two ways to look at it 👇 One view is that LinkedIn is tightening control around how recruiters use the platform. The other is that they’re preparing for a much bigger shift as AI-native sourcing tools become more advanced and competition around recruiter workflows increases. Either way, it’s a good reminder for recruitment founders: If too much of your candidate flow, outreach, or network sits inside one platform, you’re exposed the moment the rules change. The agencies building the strongest long-term position right now are usually diversifying where relationships, data, and audience attention actually live. #LinkedInRecruiter #Sourcing #RecWired

If you run a recruitment agency without a network like this around you, you're probably making things harder than they need to be. The right founder network can save months of trial and error, because the answers are coming from people already dealing with the same challenges in real time. Over the past few weeks, founders in the RecWired community were helping each other with salary benchmarking, backdoor hires, sourcing tools, BD strategy, and more. Every question was answered the same day. No theory. No recycled advice. Just practical insight from people actively building recruitment businesses. 👉 Tag a founder who'd get value from this, or join the network for free: https://www.recwired.com/ #RecruitmentFounders #AgencyOwners #RecWired #RecruitmentCommunity

Recently, a question came up in our community: "Who is the go-to EOR for contractors in LATAM?" Founders in the group replied within minutes, and every answer pointed to the same name: Workwell Global. If you're placing contractors across multiple geographies, a compliant EOR isn't a nice-to-have; it's the difference between scaling internationally and being stuck inside one market. Our partner Workwell Global supports contractor onboarding and compliance across 80+ countries, with a particular focus on helping agencies expand into major growth markets like the US through their Global Help Desk and "Recruit From Afar" strategy. For founders exploring international growth, having direct access to employment experts who understand the operational side properly makes a huge difference. 👉 Check it out: https://lnkd.in/dd55rBwM #GlobalContracting #EOR #WorkwellGlobal #RecWired

One of the biggest scaling challenges for staffing firms is what happens behind the scenes. Placements are increasing, revenue is growing, but payroll and working capital start to become the pressure point underneath the business. That's where funding structure starts to matter. Our partner Agile Partnering breaks down the different payroll funding options available to staffing firms in this piece, looking at how agencies can support growth without creating unnecessary operational strain or cash flow pressure along the way. 👉 Read more: https://lnkd.in/dgYMckvc

Strong recruitment businesses are built on strong networks. The challenge is making sure those networks stay active, accurate, and usable as the business grows. Our partner Woo.io is focused on helping agencies keep candidate and company data continuously enriched so recruiters can reconnect with the right people faster and work from a CRM they actually trust. Better data creates better timing, stronger reactivation, and far more value from relationships agencies already own. 👉 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dB56FBNn

Growth in recruitment can create pressure just as quickly as it creates opportunity. More contractors. Larger payroll exposure. Longer payment cycles. Suddenly the challenge becomes supporting momentum financially while the business continues to scale. That's what our partner Workwell Outsourcing explore in this piece, looking at how specialist recruitment funding can help agencies grow with more stability and flexibility behind the scenes. Because for a lot of contract businesses, the real bottleneck isn't demand. It's cash flow. Download guide 👉 https://lnkd.in/evrhah5e

Join our partners CoRecruit (formerly Quil) and Bullhorn for an upcoming webinar exploring one of the biggest missed opportunities inside recruitment businesses right now: The value already sitting inside your database. The session will look at how leading teams are combining AI-powered data capture with AI sourcing to uncover hidden talent, improve matching, and get more from the recruiter conversations already happening every day. Less manual admin. Better ATS data. Faster rediscovery of candidates recruiters already know. A strong session for founders and leaders thinking seriously about recruiter productivity and how AI can improve performance in practice, not just theory. 📅 June 2, 2026 | 1PM GMT 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dMgAPjcK