Recruiter Platform
Earn more.
Own your outcomes.
SIG is a platform for senior recruiters who have outgrown the traditional firm — keep 80% or more of what you bill, with the back-office, brand, and a community of peers behind you.
You built the book. Time to own the upside.
Peak earning years don't repeat. Every search you close at a traditional firm mostly funds someone else's business. At SIG, it funds yours.
Keep what you earn.
At most firms the house keeps 60–75% of everything you bill. At SIG it flips. Same work, same clients, same hours — a completely different outcome.
Senior peers, real collaboration
Going independent doesn't mean going alone. SIG recruiters share candidates, split searches, and trade market intelligence — a partner desk, not a solo shop.
A back-office that just works
Contracts, invoicing, collections, legal, compliance — handled. You run searches; the platform runs the business underneath them.
Own your outcomes
Your book stays yours. Your clients stay yours. And a path to equity in the platform itself is coming — so what you build, you own. Equity Program →
Same $500K in billings. Very different income.
What a recruiter billing $500,000 per year actually takes home.
Illustrative, based on standard SIG platform terms. Splits start at 80% and rise as you clear annual revenue hurdles.
Run your own numbers.
Estimate how much more you'd take home on the SIG platform.
The years you spend at a traditional firm are the years you never get back.
A career of billings, and what you keep of it. Drag the shaded window across the years you would spend on SIG — five to twenty of them — and see what a traditional split would have handed to someone else over that stretch. Uses the billings and split you set above.
What you do with the difference is your call.
A traditional firm funds its benefits package out of the 60–75% it keeps — and you take the plan the firm picked. On the SIG platform that money reaches you first. Direct it to healthcare, retirement, disability coverage, continuing education, or whatever your situation actually calls for. Your dollars.
SIG recruiters are independent practitioners who select and hold their own coverage. SIG does not sponsor a group benefits plan, and nothing here is tax or insurance advice.
We’ll build your model and get back to you shortly.
Want the real numbers, not the slider?
The calculator above uses round numbers and a flat 80%. Tell us how your book actually works — retained vs. contingent mix, average fee, what you currently pay for benefits and tooling — and we’ll build a personalized model and walk you through it. Confidential, no obligation.
Don’t take our word for the math.
Hear it from a recruiter who made the move.
It’s all and more of what I hoped for.
“It’s absolutely a gem to have this back office always here with me. I reach out, I send them emails — less than 24 hours, they get back to me. They held my hand through all of it. I have complete trust in everything they do to support me.”
We don’t run your business. We make sure you’re not running it alone.
Billing & collections
Invoicing, fee collection, and payout handled by the platform. You get paid without chasing.
Legal & contracts
Client agreements, engagement letters, and compliance infrastructure — reviewed and ready.
CRM & tooling
Enterprise-grade recruiting stack, sourcing data, and outreach sequences included.
An established brand
Pitch with SIG's 20-year executive search track record and client roster behind you.
See the client-facing brand →Peer community
Weekly collaboration with senior recruiters — shared searches, split fees, candidate referrals.
Equity ownership
A program for qualifying recruiters to own a real stake in the platform. Currently in development.
Learn more →Built for recruiters at three inflection points.
The independent
You’ve already built it alone. SIG gives you the brand, back-office, and peers you’ve been doing without — while you stay fully independent. No retainer, no overhead: we earn only when you do.
The agency veteran
Ten years building someone else’s firm. Bring your book somewhere your payout finally matches your production — and keep enough of it to have real choices.
The rising partner
Ready to build your own book but need infrastructure and mentorship. Senior SIG recruiters help you get there faster.
The people behind the platform.
Marie Bernardino
Decades of executive search expertise leading SIG's client relationships and recruiter network.
Andy Crewell, JD
Runs the legal and administrative infrastructure that keeps the platform seamless for recruiters.
Andrew Altholz
Strategic advisor on finance, growth strategy, and the economic model behind the SIG platform.
See how SIG recruiters show up in the market.
"Fortune 500 CFO tenure averages 4.5 years and declining. The gap between tenure compression and search timelines is where finance leadership gets quietly broken."
"150–200 hours. 6–9 months. Access to 20–30% of the market. Run this math before your next in-house search."
"Golf, certifications, saying yes before I was ready — what turning 55 taught me about growth, competence, and staying a beginner on purpose."
Recruiters on the SIG platform build their own voice in the market — with content support and an engaged peer network amplifying every post.
Search isn’t the only thing your clients will pay you for.
SIG recruiters place consultants and bill advisory work through the same platform, on the same terms. You keep more of the revenue generated from your clients — the engagement never leaves your desk, and the client never stops being yours.
Keep the revenue from your clients.
It is the most common way a recruiter loses a client without doing anything wrong. The client asks for contract or consulting talent. The firm routes the engagement to another group. You get a referral fee on a margin you never see — and that group now owns the conversation with a client you spent years earning. When they get something wrong, it is still your relationship that absorbs it.
Most recruiters do not place consultants because they cannot run payroll and processing on their own — not because the work is not there. SIG runs it. What comes back is revenue that repeats month over month, steadying the stretch between placements instead of leaving you to wait on the next one to close.
Somebody has to carry the gap between payroll and payment. Here, it is you.
Placing a consultant is not like closing a search. A search pays out once, after the placement. A consultant has to be paid every week from the day they start — while the client pays on thirty- or sixty-day terms. Somebody funds that gap. At a large firm it is the firm, which is exactly what they point to when they keep the margin. On this platform it is you — and that is the same reason you keep 40% of the fee instead of 15%.
This gap is the single reason most independent recruiters never place consultants — carrying it takes working capital, and running it takes a back office. SIG solves the second problem, not the first. The contracts, payroll processing, invoicing and collections are handled. The float is yours.
The exposure is front-loaded, not permanent. Your first placements are the ones that require capital. Once those consultants are running and their invoices are landing on a rolling cycle, those receipts cover payroll on the placements that follow — and the gap largely closes itself. You own the client, the economics, and the risk that comes with them. That is what owning your outcomes actually means.
What is your advisory work worth to the house?
Run the same math on the consulting side of your practice — both the advisory work you deliver yourself and the consultants you place.
On the SIG platform, materially more of that stays with you. Scope an engagement and we’ll show you the exact terms.
See your consulting terms →The client side feeds the recruiter side.
SIG runs two connected properties. One brings in the client demand; the other is where that work gets done. Recruiters on the platform sit on the receiving end of both.
joinsig.com
The client-facing search practice — methodology, verticals, case work, and the team. This is the brand your prospects will look up after your first call.
Visit the client site →recruitsig.com
The platform side — economics, back-office, consulting, and the equity program. Where searches sourced through the client brand get staffed.
Apply to join →Client engagements that come in through joinsig.com are staffed from the SIG recruiter network. Your desk is not the only thing filling your pipeline.
Bring your book. Keep your earnings.
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