She Was Almost Fired. Then Became Top Biller. Now Runs a Global Firm.
She was almost fired in her first seven months. 100 calls a day. No placements. Then at month seven everything changed — and she went on to become the top junior biller at her firm. Today Augusta Mirchandani runs AAA Global across five countries in the quant finance space. In this episode she breaks down why the best women recruiters keep leaving the industry, what firms are getting structurally wrong, and the exact billing methodology that made her a top producer for over a decade.
If you run a recruiting firm or want to build one, this episode will challenge how you operate.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🕐 TIMESTAMPS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
00:04 — Why women have a natural edge in relationship-driven recruiting
00:07 — Three things male firm owners need to fix right now
00:09 — What really happens to a woman's desk during maternity leave
00:12 — How having a daughter made Augusta open four countries in one year
00:18 — Seven months, 100 calls a day, no placement, nearly PIP'd
00:21 — The process-led billing methodology that made her a top producer
00:22 — Information-led selling: how to close candidates who aren't looking
00:29 — What the first year of running your own firm actually feels like
01:04 — The nudge Augusta would give every woman afraid to make the leap
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🚀 SPONSORS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Atlas — AI-first ATS & CRM. Captures every conversation, surfaces candidates instantly with MagicSearch, and drives BD through generative AI. Atlas customers have reported over 40% EBITDA growth and over 80% increase in monthly billings after adopting the platform.
Try it free → https://recruitwithatlas.com
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🎯 EVENTS & COMMUNITY
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
This Is Your Year — Recruiter Summit → https://this-is-your-year-recruiter-summit.heysummit.com/
Elite Recruiter Community — Summits, replays, Billers Club, split space → https://elite-recruiters.circle.so/checkout/elite-recruiter-community
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔧 TOOLS & FREE TRIALS
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Free Trial: PIN → https://www.pin.com/book-a-demo?via=recruiter
10% off your first 3 months code: JRS02DRI
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📬 STAY CONNECTED
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
Newsletter → https://eliterecruiterpodcast.beehiiv.com/subscribe
Follow Augusta on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/augusta-aiken/
Benjamin Mena → http://www.selectsourcesolutions.com/
Benjamin LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminmena/
Benjamin Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/benlmena/
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
#recruiting #recruitingpodcast #agencyrecruiting #womeninbusiness #staffing #talentacquisition #recruitingtips #executivesearch
