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Stop Waiting for the Market to Come Back. Rebuild Your  Recruiting Operations for Reality.

When: Thursday Morning, March 12th @ 8:30am arrival

Speaker 9:00am-11:30am; Q&A and networking 11:30am-12:00pm

Who: All Wisconsin Recruiters (Members & Guests Welcome)

What: Workshop on recruiting firm operating systems that actually work

Where: QPS Conference Room, 250 N Patrick Blvd, Brookfield, WI

The Reality Check

Most recruiting firms are stuck between knowing they need to change and not knowing what to actually do differently.

Let’s face it – 2026 isn’t like the market we had a few years ago. Fewer “ripe” roles. Harder searches. Candidates who won’t pick up the phone. AI tools everyone’s playing with but not actually leveraging. And metrics that tell you what already happened instead of what’s coming.

The firms that adapt are winning. The ones waiting for the market to come back are bleeding.

This isn’t a motivation speech. It’s a workshop on recruitment operating systems you can implement Monday morning.

What’s Actually Keeping You Up at Night:

🤖 AI Anxiety + AI Confusion

Everyone’s asking “Will AI replace us?” while simultaneously using it as a toy instead of a productivity lever. If you’re either paralyzed or playing – neither is a strategy.

📞 The Connectivity Collapse

Candidates aren’t picking up. Your voicemails aren’t getting returned. Yet you’re still running 8-5 office hours like it’s 1997 and wondering why connection rates tank.

📊 Weak Business Development Metrics

You’re tracking job orders and contracts signed (lagging indicators) that tell you what already happened. Meanwhile, you have no idea what’s actually in your pipeline or how deals progress.

⚡ Lost Recruiting Fundamentals

The industry got soft when easy roles were everywhere. Muscle memory for consistent outreach, compelling voicemails, and multi-channel persistence is gone.

📉 Standards Drift

If you tolerate 25 calls when you asked for 50, you accept mediocre performance because hiring recruiters is hard, then underperformance became the new normal.

What You’ll Walk Away With (No Fluff Edition):

AI Strategy: From Prompt Theater to Real Workflow

What AI should actually accelerate in your recruiting process. The clean model: One person builds the prompts, everyone else executes.

The Modern Hours Strategy

A practical staffing model that aligns with when candidates actually answer (5-8pm) without burning out your team. Why this improves connection rates AND quality of life.

BD Pipeline Overhaul: Stop Sounding Like a Salesperson

Stop tracking outcomes, start tracking progress. Sell By Recruiting: If your voicemail smells like sales, callbacks drop to single digits.

The Weekly Operating System

Plan, then repeat. Four-Lane Outreach Pattern. How to persist without being annoying. How to leave voicemails that get returned. How to call people at work (yes, really).

Accountability Reset: Standards as Competitive Advantage

Why you lowered expectations (hiring is hard). What it’s costing you (capped billing + weak client leverage). How to rebuild performance standards without being a tyrant.

Client Leverage Through Documentation

How to document complete market coverage. Turn your effort into client leverage.

Led by Greg Doersching

Practical. Operator-focused. Mildly allergic to excuses. Greg brings real operational systems built from running recruiting teams.

We’ve been forced back into true recruiting—and the firms willing to adapt are winning while everyone else is waiting for the market to come back.

What You’ll Actually Leave With:

✓ A modern hours model to increase connection rates without burning people out

✓ A conversation-based BD pipeline with measurable milestones (not hope and vibes)

✓ A repeatable recruiting cadence that creates real client leverage

✓ A realistic view of AI as process acceleration, not recruiter replacement

✓ A renewed stance on standards + accountability (because “trying hard” is not a KPI)

Recruiters of Wisconsin offers No Fluff, Just Systems That Work

Sign Up to Join Us on March 12!  You can pay with PayPal or bring a check to the event.