David Fishman

David Fishman built a $1.5 million recruiting desk with no college degree, an eight-year Coast Guard stint, and a chip on his shoulder that never went away. Thirty years in, his longest client has been with him for three decades, and he just ran a streak of ten placements from ten straight presentations, first candidate presented, first candidate hired. He breaks down the intake questions that shape every search, why he reads resumes like photographs, how he wins back lost clients by outliving the HR leaders who cut him, why he tracks deals instead of dollars, and the Monday-through-Wednesday rhythm that protects his momentum. At 58, something is still chasing him.