Andy Roads
CEO
Andy started his recruiting journey after college working for a travel Physical Therapy agency, having to make either 100 daily phones calls or 10-hours of phone time a week. It was a grind but he loved it. Shortly after working, he was recruited to a large healthcare company allowing him to manage the East Coast recruiting of Doctors & Nurses. After a few years he was recruited to an Executive Recruiting Agency where he went from Entry Level Executive Recruiter to running Operations. After 10-years he decided to launch his own agency, High Altitude Recruiting where he landed his first Executive client in less than 10-days of launch.
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April 24, 2025
Zero to Booked: How Andy Roads Started His Own Firm and Landed Clients Instantly (No Bullshit)
Welcome to another episode of The Elite Recruiter Podcast! In this episode, host Benjamin Mena sits down with Andy Roads, founder of High Altitude Recruiting, for a no-fluff conversation on what it really takes to launch your own recruiting firm and land clients right out of the gate.Andy shares his journey from grinding it out at a high-turnover recruitment agency, to moving internal as an HR generalist, and eventually spending a decade at a boutique search firm—only to find that his anticipated “takeover” as the next leader was not in the cards. Instead of going back to square one, Andy decided to carve out his own path, and what happened next is nothing short of inspiring.We dig deep into Andy’s first three months of business: his high-impact outreach strategies, the creative offers that got potential clients saying “yes” immediately, and how he leveraged his personal network and reputation in the food & beverage and aviation industries to build momentum from day one. Andy …
Guest: Andy Roads