For Independent Recruiters

Bring the business you've built.
Hand off the back office you never wanted.

You already know how to recruit and build client relationships. Goodwin puts a proven platform behind you: LinkedIn Recruiter+ (RPS+), our database, invoicing, collections, accounting, legal, the Business Launch program, and more. You keep your focus on recruiting. We handle the infrastructure behind it.

Live Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 3 PM ET · 30 minutes · no obligation
A commission-based business. Built for people who bet on themselves.

Live Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 3 PM ET · 30 minutes · no obligation
A commission-based business. Built for people who bet on themselves.

27 years in business

300+ partner-owned businesses

10+ industry verticals

You went independent to recruit. So why are you also the accountant, the collections department, and the IT desk?

You know the week. Monday is invoices, Tuesday is chasing one, Wednesday the website breaks, and every tool on the desk comes out of your own pocket. Partners who ran solo desks all say the same thing: the actual recruiting got whatever hours were left over.

The partners who moved their desks here didn’t give up their independence. They brought the business they had already built onto a platform designed to give them more time to focus on the work that generates revenue for them: recruiting, developing clients, and making placements. And the model has staying power: Independent Recruiters have the longest average tenure of any partner profile at Goodwin.

Clayton C. · Partner · Engineering · 1+ year

The people who already own these businesses.

Goodwin partners are the people running their own recruiting businesses on the Goodwin platform, 300+ of them, many of whom ran solo desks or agency desks first. Here's what they say about it.

"You're in business by yourself but not for yourself."

Miguel S. · Partner · Hospitality Operations · 7 months · 21 years at a major fast food chain

"Goodwin give you the opportunity to truly build your own business, but you are never building it alone. You have the independence of being an entrepreneur while having the support, training, technology, and resources of an established recruiting firm behind you."

Jessica J. · Partner · Legal · 9 months

"It is an amazing opportunity to build and grow your recruiting skillset and business with the best tools and training I have seen throughout my 10 years of recruiting for a few different agencies. I would also be realistic that you get what you put into it of course, and that motivation, self-discipline, and reaching out for help is key to having success."

Chase T. · Partner · Construction · 1+ year

Run the math on your own desk.

Years of hiring, evaluating talent, and knowing your industry from the
inside. Goodwin teaches you how to turn that into a recruiting business.

A full recruiting tech stack gets expensive.

You can read a candidate in ten minutes because you've hired for every seat in the building, and lived with the results.

The hours that never bill

Invoicing, collections, accounting, legal, IT, the website. Goodwin's back office absorbs all of it. You'll never chase an invoice again, and the reclaimed hours go back to the work that pays you: recruiting.

Turning opportunities into revenue

A nationally recognized, award-winning brand opens doors that solo recruiters spend months knocking on. Inbound leads and shared searches bring the opportunities to you, and with 300+ Partners across 10+ verticals, even the ones outside your expertise can become revenue.

One partner ran his own recruiting business for 13 years, topping out at $350K annually. On the Goodwin platform,
he now regularly bills more than $100K a month.

Bring the business and relationships you've built. Leverage the Goodwin platform to fuel what you build next.

What's yours, what's funded, and how you get paid.

What you own

Your own business. You operate through your own LLC under the Goodwin Recruiting brand.

Your relationships. You develop and manage your client and candidate relationships as a Goodwin Recruiting Partner.

Your flexibility. You choose your schedule, the verticals you focus on, and how you organize your work.
What Goodwin funds

Roughly $32K per year invested in every partner.

A full LinkedIn Recruiter+ (RPS+) license with 140+ InMails per month, full funded, plus the LinkedIn RPS+ Hiring Assistant, plus a database of 2M+ contacts.

Invoicing, collections, accounting, legal, and the tool stack. The back office disappears.

Mentorship and a community that solo desks don't come with.
How you make money

Commission-based. No salary, no draw. You earn when clients hire the people you place, and you keep roughly half of what you bill.

No buy-in. No inventory. No downline. Nothing to purchase, ever.

No ceiling. What you build is yours to grow.

What you own

Your own business. You operate through your own LLC under the Goodwin Recruiting brand.
Your relationships. You develop and manager your client and candidate relationships as a Goodwin Recruiting Partner.
Your flexibility. You choose your schedule, the verticals you focus on, and how you organize your work.

What Goodwin funds

Roughly $32K per year invested in every partner.
A full LinkedIn Recruiter+ (RPS+) license with 140+ InMails per month, full funded, plus the LinkedIn RPS+ Hiring Assistant, plus a database of 2M+ contacts.
Invoicing, collections, accounting, legal, and the tool stack. The back office disappears.
Mentorship and a community that solo desks don't come with.

How you make money

Commission-based. No salary, no draw. You earn when clients hire the people you place, and you keep roughly half of what you bill.
No buy-in. No inventory. No downline. Nothing to purchase, ever.
No ceiling. What you build is yours to grow.

"It's your own business under a nice big Goodwin umbrella, which is wonderful because
you don't have to do everything by yourself."

"It's your own business under a nice big Goodwin umbrella, which is wonderful because you don't have to do everything by yourself."

Anita M. · Partner · Hospitality Operations · 9+ years

The part most opportunities won't tell you.

This is a commission-based business. No salary. No benefits. You own the outcome.

Arrive with an active book and plan on 60 to 90 days to the first dollar. Even with an active book, there's a cash-flow gap: a placement cycle can run about six weeks, and many clients pay on 30-day terms, so even a second-week placement becomes cash around day 60. You know the recruiting business, so you know the math. We say this up front because partners tell us the honest is why they trusted everything else.

We know what that means for you: you've already lived without a salary. What changes is the platform, resources, and network behind you as you continue to build your business.

Who thrives here

Self-starters. Disciplined, consistent, resilient people who treat this like the business it is.

What lowers the risk

You are not paying to start a business. There is no Goodwin buy-in or franchise fee, and Goodwin invests roughly $32K a year in the tools, Business Launch program, and infrastructure behind every Partner.

The flip side

No salary also means no cap. There's no limit to what you can make.

"It's the best career move I've made, but I'd also tell them it's not easy. You're building your own business, and nobody's going to hand it to you. There are definitely days when you question yourself, especially in the beginning, but if you're willing to put in the work, it's absolutely worth it."

Cassandra W. · Partner · Manufacturing · 2+ years

Independent doesn't have to mean alone.

You built your business for independence. We built a platform so you can grow it with the support of a national network behind you.

You keep the independence.

We surveyed our Partners: 90% named freedom as a reason they joined, and nearly half called it their single biggest reason. You already have that freedom. Here, you keep it: your hours, your clients, your verticals, and how you structure your work. What changes is how much you have to carry by yourself.

"I love the flexibility and freedom that comes with making my own schedule. Having control over my time and being able to structure my day around what works best for me has been a huge benefit."

Jeff T. · Partner · Hospitality Operations · 3+ years

It comes with a trade: no salary, no safety net, and an income ramp measured in months. Partners describe it as hard and worth it, usually in the same sentence.

You gain the network.

Across 60,000 words of partner feedback, one word showed up more than any other: Support.

Mentorship, training, and 300+ Partners who share leads, collaborate on searches, and bring expertise across industries. You still run your business, but you don't have to solve everything alone.

"It is collaboration, not a competition, at Goodwin Recruiting. Partnering with Goodwin gives you the opportunity to build your own business while never feeling like you're building it alone."

Stacey B. · Partner · Healthcare · 10+ years

"I am a former chef, and this was not as easy as I thought it was going to be. But anything worth it, never is. This has been the best professional decision I have made."

"I am a former chef, and this was not as easy as I thought it was going
to be. But anything worth it, never is. This has been the best
professional decision I have made."

Francesca B. · Partner · Hospitality · 2+ years

The questions independents ask. Answered straight.

Why would I give up half of what I bill?

Because half of more beats all of less. One partner ran his own recruiting business for 13 years, topping out at $350K annually. On the Goodwin platform, he now regularly bills more than $100K a month. The seat, the database, the brand, the lead flow, and the reclaimed hours are what move the number. The info session walks through the split math in full so you can run it against your own desk.

What happens to my existing clients and candidates?

Bring the relationships you've built. For established clients where you have a proven history of placements and Goodwin has no prior relationship, we may identify those clients in your ICA and exclude them from post-partnership non-solicitation restrictions. We'll walk through exactly how that works before you make a decision.

I already pay for my own tools. What do I actually get?

The full ledger: a complete LinkedIn Recruiter seat with 140+ InMails a months, a database of 2M+ contacts, the ATS, invoicing, collections, accounting, legal, and training, roughly $32K a year invested in every partner. Most solo desks pay real money for a fraction of the first line item.

I went independent to get away from firms. Why join anything?

Because you're not giving anything up. You're adding to it. You still control your schedule, your focus, and how you build your business. What changes is what you have behind you: the tools, infrastructure, brand, and a network of 300+ Partners, with the back office off your plate so more of your time does to recruiting. You keep the independence, and fuel your growth on the Goodwin platform.

Is this an MLM?

No. This is a recruiting business, and Partners generate revenue by making successful placements for their clients, not by recruiting other Partners into Goodwin or building out a team beneath them.

So how much can I actually earn?

It depends on what you build, and that's the honest answer. There's no salary and no company-set earnings cap. Your production determines your income. The info session walks through the economics, placement fees, commission structure, and real ramp scenarios so you can run the numbers for yourself.

Still have questions? Bring them. The session is live for a reason.

Build a Recruiting Business with Goodwin

27 years of doing what we say.

In 1999, founder Eric Goodwin was a restaurateur with a knack for hiring great people, so much so that other businesses kept asking him to find theirs. When he turned that into a company, he made two things non-negotiable: relationships and integrity. Do what you say. Treat every client, candidate, and partner as a relationship, not a transaction.

His vision went beyond building a recruiting firm. He wanted to build a company where people could create something of their own, with more control over their leives and the opportunity to benefit directly from the success they created.

27 years later, those values still drive Goodwin. Today, 300+ Partners run their own businesses on the Goodwin platform across 10+ industry verticals. And when we asked them what keeps them here, one of Goodwin's founding values kept coming back word for word: "Creator of Your Own Success."

"These people are amazing, I mean, they really do what they say and they say what they do."
Simon D. · Partner · Hospitality Operations · 7+ years

What happens after you register.

Pick a live info session.

Sessions run Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 3 PM ET, 30 minutes each. Choose the one that works and you'll get a confirmation with everything you need.

See the whole model.

The economics, the ramp, the support, and real partner stories, with time for your questions. No obligation at any point.

Tell us where you stand.

At the end of the session, you say whether you're interested or not. If it's a yes, you book a one-on-one conversation, and we call you within one business day.