May 30, 2024
Goodwin Recruiting Response
2yWe are saddened to hear about your experience and would love an opportunity to discuss this with you personally as we take great pride in our culture, our core values, our positive environment, and our leadership ethos. Although a live conversation would be best, I would like to address some of your concerns as we believe in full transparency.
1. We are sorry if this somehow was missed. We are very open in the interview process about how important business development is to build a long-term sustainable business. Although you can make placements with other partners from the beginning, building your own client base is imperative and allows you to maximize your sales. We also support our partners by distributing additional leads to our partners to help them grow their portfolio and provide excessive training for anyone who needs support and looking to improve in their business development efforts. Please come to us if you would like additional support as we are always here to help people overcome their fears and help them become better business developers.
2. Regarding work/life balance, we have many partners who have a great balance, but work/life balance is something that is achieved with success. Just like opening any business, it takes hard work to build, and the balance comes as your business grows. For most people the balance comes with the ability to have flexibility, to be there for family and important life events. We are happy to help you try to figure out how to achieve the balance you are personally looking for as ultimately, we want that for everyone. We do provide extensive support, but we don’t micromanage and if you feel this way, please discuss with us so we can resolve. If you have a concern on your RDR, we would love to learn more and are very open to switching you to another support person who better aligns with your style.
3. Although we strive to only bring on motivated partners who are excited about opening a recruiting business, we do understand this isn’t for everyone and some people unfortunately come in and try it out. We do our best to weed this out in the interview process, and our extensive support team works diligently to help make everyone successful. Ultimately, success is up to the person. Although we always strive to have less turnover, we are proud our turnover is far better than the industry average and we are happy to share numbers with anyone who asks. We can also share the amazing tenure of our team where we have 100 partners here 3 years or more and many with partnerships of 5-20 years.
4. This is disappointing to hear, and we would love to learn more. Our leadership team cares immensely about all our partners, and we take great pride in helping people find success and helping them change their lives. Of course, sales are important as they are in any organization, and we would think that is ultimately important to each recruiting partner as each partner's income is based on their sales. Also, we would like to learn about any concerns about DEI as we take this and all our core values very seriously. We have a team fully dedicated to DEI.
In addition, regarding the advice to “stop recruiting new recruiters and use your resources to improve training, development, and mentoring of current recruiting partners” - it is not one or the other to us. We believe in always improving training, development and mentoring our current partners. We never limit resources for the sake of new partners. In fact, if we didn’t bring on new partners, that would actually limit the resources we have to help our current team. New partners and new sales are imperative to our growth and ability to continually support our existing partners. We are happy to discuss this with you directly as well. Lastly, we are sorry if you have ever felt intimidated. We simply want to help our partners find success, but this is a partnership, where we supply an extensive amount of tools and support, so we do have a minimum sales expectation after 6 months; that is discussed during the interview process and would hope that your desire to earn income far exceeds these minimal sales expectation. We will do anything in our power to help our partners find the success they desire. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts, and please know that our door is always open to discuss anything further.