If you’ve been recruiting for a while, you probably have a pretty good sense of what works for you. You know the clients you work well with, where your strengths are, how you like to build relationships and what it takes to keep a desk moving.
You also know there’s more than one way to work in this industry.
The traditional agency structure is one of them, and it works for plenty of recruiters. TEEMA is another. The recruiting itself doesn’t fundamentally change. You’re still building relationships, understanding your market and delivering for clients and candidates.
What changes is the model around you.
At TEEMA, experienced recruiters join as Members, bringing the relationships, expertise and business they’ve already developed into an established organization with a different way of working.
You’ve built the experience. What could it unlock?
Once you’ve spent years in recruitment, you’re not starting from scratch. You understand your market, you’ve developed relationships and you know what it takes to create business.
The question becomes what kind of model you want behind you.
TEEMA operates on a full-commission structure designed to reward performance. The business Members generate and the results they deliver contribute directly to their earning potential, while greater flexibility gives them more control over how they structure their work.
But compensation and flexibility are only part of the difference.
There’s a lot happening behind the recruiting
Ask any experienced recruiter what takes up their week and the answer probably isn’t just calls with clients and candidates.
Compliance, payroll, billing and other back-office responsibilities all have to happen somewhere. At TEEMA, established infrastructure and dedicated support are already in place to handle much of that work.
That allows Members to spend more of their time where they can create value: developing business, working with clients and candidates, and delivering results.
It also means flexibility doesn’t have to come at the expense of having an established organization behind you.
You’re not building alone
A different model doesn’t have to mean going off and doing everything yourself.
TEEMA Members work alongside other experienced recruitment professionals with different markets, specialties and relationships. That can open the door to collaboration that might not exist when everything stays within one desk.
One Member might have expertise in a market another doesn’t. Someone else may have a relationship that complements an opportunity. At other times, it can simply mean having experienced people around you who understand the work.
TEEMA calls this shared momentum: bringing experience, relationships and expertise together to create opportunities that can grow beyond one person.
So, what does the difference actually mean?
TEEMA isn’t about changing how experienced recruiters recruit. It’s about changing the structure around the work they already know how to do.
Members have a performance-driven compensation model, established infrastructure, flexibility in how they work and experienced recruitment professionals around them.
For recruiters who have already built their expertise and relationships, it offers another way to put that experience to work.
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