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Your teamโ€™s average billings might look healthy.But averages donโ€™t tell you whoโ€™s carrying the numbers.Say five recruite...
14/10/2026

Your teamโ€™s average billings might look healthy.

But averages donโ€™t tell you whoโ€™s carrying the numbers.

Say five recruiters bill $150k between them in a month.

Thatโ€™s an average of $30k each. Not bad on paper.

But what if two consultants are responsible for 70% of it?

Now youโ€™ve got a few questions worth asking.

Are your top billers carrying the team? Are others struggling with BD, job qualification or conversion? Or are they simply working different desks at different stages?

The answer matters because each problem needs a different fix.

Increasing activity targets across the whole team wonโ€™t necessarily solve an individual performance gap.

๐—•๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ž๐—ฃ๐—œ๐˜€, ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ.

Thatโ€™s where the useful conversations start.

โ€œGlad I responded to his outreach.โ€That last line means a lot to us.We know recruitment agency owners get plenty of mess...
09/10/2026

โ€œGlad I responded to his outreach.โ€

That last line means a lot to us.

We know recruitment agency owners get plenty of messages, so earning someone's time and trust is something we don't take lightly.

A big thank you to David for the kind words and for recognising the work Ez puts into helping recruitment agencies.

We're glad we connected, David. Looking forward to continuing the relationship.

Billings dropped this quarter.The first fix on the whiteboard?"More BD.""More calls.""More activity."That only works if ...
07/10/2026

Billings dropped this quarter.

The first fix on the whiteboard?

"More BD."
"More calls."
"More activity."

That only works if activity is the problem.

A drop in billings can come from fewer jobs, weaker conversion, lower fees, poorer-quality jobs or something much further down the funnel.

So the better question is: where did the numbers start to change?

Follow the desk from client conversations through to placements and billings. Find the weakest point. Fix that.

Not every billing problem needs more activity. Some need a better diagnosis.

Save this for your next performance review.

Recruitment Playbook: The L&D platform for recruitment agencies
Humescope: High performance coaching

โ€œGood billingsโ€ only mean something when you know what you're comparing them against.Two consultants can work in similar...
30/09/2026

โ€œGood billingsโ€ only mean something when you know what you're comparing them against.

Two consultants can work in similar agencies, with similar experience, and produce completely different results.

The number is the starting point.

The useful part is understanding why.

Before increasing targets or telling someone to do more BD, look at the context around the performance.

That's where the real problem usually becomes clearer.

Recruitment Playbook : The L&D platform for recruitment agencies
Humescope: High performance coaching

๐— ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ปโ€™๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ-๐—ผ๐—ณ-๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ.They have a use-the-contacts-we-already-have problem.Be...
29/09/2026

๐— ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐˜๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ปโ€™๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ-๐—ผ๐—ณ-๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—บ.

They have a use-the-contacts-we-already-have problem.

Before your team goes back to LinkedIn to build another list, ask:

โ€ข Can we actually find the right people in our database?
โ€ข Is the data clean enough to segment properly?
โ€ข Do consultants know who to contact first?
โ€ข Are old candidate relationships being reactivated?
โ€ข Are we measuring whether the database is generating conversations and placements?

A bigger database isnโ€™t automatically a better database.

The value comes from making the data you already own easier to search, easier to trust and easier to act on.

Weโ€™ve been working on this problem a lot recently, and today weโ€™re adding **Double Your Database** to Recruitment Playbook.

But whether you take the course or not, start here:

โžœ Before adding more data, work out how much value is sitting unused in what you already have.

Recruitment Playbook : The L&D platform for recruitment agencies
Humescope: High performance coaching

25/09/2026

AI is coming for recruiters' jobs.

That's what people keep saying online. It's not true.

AI is coming for recruiters' admin. That's a very different thing.

Our value has never been in the admin. It's in our ability to engage with people, influence, match and keep relationships alive. That's not something AI can do.

Here's the actual gap forming right now. Great recruiters are already using AI to offload the admin heavy work, so they've got more time for the part that actually matters, the relationship building.

The recruiters who get left behind won't be replaced by AI. They'll be outpaced by recruiters using it properly.

Ez's Claude for Recruiters course is built exactly for this.

Link in the comments.

24/09/2026

Recruiters love a bit of healthy competition.

So how do your billings actually compare?

Our free Billings Benchmark Calculator shows you where you rank against recruiters in your sector, seniority and state.

It's built on live data from thousands of recruiters across Australia, refreshed weekly.

Takes 2 minutes. No cost.

Link in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡

22/09/2026

The most underused piece of data recruitment agencies hold?

Transcripts.

Most agencies already record client and candidate calls. Then the transcripts just sit there. Nobody looks at them again.

That's a mistake. Those transcripts hold huge amounts of value.

What are clients pushing back on? What questions keep coming up? What are candidates struggling with? Claude can go through all of it en masse and pull out patterns you'd never spot manually.

That same data feeds straight into better market intel, sharper conversations with clients and candidates, and content for socials, email campaigns, newsletters, podcasts.

If you're not recording transcripts yet, start. If you are and they're just sitting there, that's the gap.

Ez's Claude for Recruiters course is 16 short sessions, covering setup, integrating your systems, projects, and exactly how to unlock this from your transcripts.

Link in the comments.

Recruitment Playbook : The L&D platform for recruitment agencies
Humescope: High performance coaching

ChatGPT for Recruiters is live.15 sessions on using it for the actual job, not generic AI hype.Ez built this because mos...
22/09/2026

ChatGPT for Recruiters is live.

15 sessions on using it for the actual job, not generic AI hype.

Ez built this because most AI training skips what recruiters do all day. Writing roles, chasing BD, keeping candidates warm, juggling a hundred things at once.

What it covers:

Setting ChatGPT up once with your context, so you're not re-explaining yourself every session
A prompt library for the stuff you write every week: job ads, follow-ups, market updates
Getting it to do your BD research and prep
The safety basics, so you're not putting your agency at risk

Built for the desk, not the boardroom.

Link's in the comments.

A client came to Hume Scope with a JobAdder database that had never been verified, coded or mailed.Five people. Thousand...
20/09/2026

A client came to Hume Scope with a JobAdder database that had never been verified, coded or mailed.

Five people. Thousands of contacts.

The only way anyone found someone was if they happened to remember them.

A quarter of the emails were dead.
Ten custom fields sat empty on every record.
80% of contacts weren't in a folder at all.

That's not a database. That's a spreadsheet with good intentions.

Hume Scope rebuilt it from scratch. First send: 46.4% open, 22.2% click.

Full breakdown in the comments.

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