Andrew is a Co-Founder of Recruitcha GTM. After 10 years as an agency recruiter working both sides of the desk, he writes about how recruitment agencies can build a consistent client pipeline with hiring signals and outbound systems instead of relying on referrals.
- Experience
- 10 years in agency recruiting
Expertise
- Agency recruiting
- Recruiting BD
- Client acquisition
- Outbound
Articles by Andrew Schuessler

The 90-Day-Old Job Posting Is the Best Sales Signal in Recruiting
A job posting open for 90 days is the richest sales signal in recruiting: budget approved, pain compounding, and the internal team out of ideas. Here is why—and how to capture it from ATS data, not job boards.

The Feast-Famine Cycle Is a Choice
Feast and famine is not a discipline problem—it is the predictable output of a structural flaw. Here is why delivery always wins contested hours, and how to break the cycle.

Referrals Are Not a Pipeline Strategy. They're a Lottery Ticket.
Referrals are a payout from a network you spent decades building—not a process you can scale on demand. Here is why veteran agency owners need a system, not another cold-calling pitch.

We Love What Juicebox Proved. So We Built the Unlimited Version for Hard-to-Find Talent.
AI-native sourcing has changed what recruiters can find. For hard-to-fill roles, though, the real challenge is coverage at scale: mapping the full market, enriching every candidate record, and contacting the people who are usually passive, hidden, or hard to reach.

Why We Built Our LinkedIn Outreach Team Out of Junior Recruiters
Most LinkedIn outreach fails because it feels automated, generic, or disconnected from the market. Recruitcha GTM uses junior recruiters, signal-qualified lists, and fast human follow-up to turn LinkedIn outreach into qualified conversations.

The Fastest Way to Kill Your Agency's Pipeline Is to Send Cold Email Wrong
Cold email is not usually the problem. The setup behind it is. Recruiting agencies often burn deliverability by sending from their primary domain, skipping warmup, using bad lists, and pushing too much volume too quickly. Here’s why that damages pipeline, and what proper outbound infrastructure actually looks like.

I Spent 10 Years Learning That Recruiters Hate Half Their Job. So I Built a Company Around It.
A look at why the “full desk” model often leaves recruiters choosing between business development and delivery, and how that creates the familiar feast-or-famine cycle for staffing agencies.

