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What if the best investment you could make in your recruiting firm had nothing to do with hiring another recruiter? Reyhan Khan has seen inside hundreds of agencies — and the ones scaling fastest all made the same unexpected move first.

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Why This Episode Matters

The recruiting industry is still early on the GTM adoption curve. The firms that figure this out now will have an unfair advantage over every competitor still running manual processes. This episode gives you the exact framework to stop trading time for revenue and start building a business that scales without you doing everything yourself.

What You'll Learn

• The exact 5 things a GTM engineer should do in their first 90 days at your firm
• Why intent-based outreach crushes cold volume — and the signal-stacking system that makes it work
• The HR ratio playbook: how to identify companies actively hiring with zero internal TA
• How to build a total addressable market table that shows you exactly how big your niche really is
• The honest truth about where AI replaces recruiting work within a year — and where it never will
• Why fewer than 5% of recruiters are building personal brands and what that gap is costing them
• How to vet GTM vendors so you don't hand $10K to someone who just took a Clay course

About the Guest

Reyhan Khan is a systems and operations expert and founder of RecruiterGTM. Over the last four years he has built GTM systems for recruiting firms, placed offshore talent to run those systems, and coached hundreds of recruiters on scaling lean without adding headcount.

The Transformation

Imagine starting 2027 with a pipeline that runs without you, a market map that tells you exactly where your next client is coming from, and a personal brand that generates inbound while you sleep. That's what the recruiters applying these systems are building right now. This episode is the starting point.

Listen Now

If you're ready to stop being the bottleneck in your own business, this is the episode you've been waiting for. Hit play.

Timestamp Highlights

• 03:06 – Reyhan's origin story: electrical engineer to GTM expert for recruiters
• 07:18 – Why a GTM engineer may be more valuable than your next recruiter hire
• 13:07 – Intent-based outreach: how to fish in a smaller, higher-converting pond
• 15:27 – How to vet GTM vendors before you waste $10K–$15K
• 23:50 – The 5 priorities for a GTM engineer's first 90 days
• 28:15 – Market mapping and building your total addressable market table
• 36:38 – AI's real impact on recruiting over the next 3–5 years
• 42:13 – Can a 5-person firm double revenue with the right GTM hire?
• 47:07 – What it actually takes to go from good to elite
• 55:41 – The question recruiters never ask but should

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