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Luck & Leverage

Advisory · Search

Most firms want great recruiters.
Few are obsessive enough to hire them.

Successfully attract, close and retain the best recruiters and talent leaders.

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Who we help

We help companies build the best recruiting, executive search and talent teams in America.

Our clients include

  • ● Recruitment firms hiring specialist IC recruiters
  • ● Executive search firms hiring Partners, Principals, and Consultants
  • ● VC-backed CEOs hiring Heads of Talent
  • ● Head of Talent building IC and Executive Recruiting Teams

Trusted by

PERCoastal RecruitingGreco AdvisorsBrunelTitanUpstartQuantum Talent

The problem

The hard part isn't finding great recruiters. It's getting the right ones to move.

Your offer, outreach, process, and follow-through will be judged by people who know exactly what to look for.

Most firms waste months interviewing the wrong people and end up with sub-par, expensive hires because they were not obsessive enough about the process.

A great recruiter can generate $1m a year. A Head of Talent shapes every hire that follows. The cost of getting it wrong, or taking too long, is obvious.

Finding them on LinkedIn is easy.
Hiring them is not.

The Obsession Framework

Nine points where recruiter hiring is won or lost.

It highlights nine points that decide whether the right candidates listen, engage, hesitate, or walk away.

Read the full framework
  1. 01Opportunity
  2. 02Brand
  3. 03Search Strategy
  4. 04Engagement
  5. 05Sourcing
  6. 06Selection
  7. 07Interview Process
  8. 08Offer Construction
  9. 09Nurture

How we help

Two ways to work with us.

Advisory

For firms that need to hire top recruiters consistently.

Most recruiter hiring problems are not one-off bad luck. They are the same mistakes repeating across every hire.

We find what is stopping the right candidates from engaging, progressing, accepting, or succeeding once they join. Then we fix the system around it.

Best when

  • You are hiring recruiters repeatedly
  • Strong candidates are not engaging
  • Hiring managers are wasting time
  • New hires are not ramping fast enough
  • Too much depends on instinct
  • You need the process to work without you carrying every hire
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Search

For firms that need a key strategic, urgent or confidential hire.

We run the search end-to-end, from the first market conversation through to offer, acceptance, and post-acceptance management.

Every search is personally run through the Obsession Framework by the founders and backed by a six-month guarantee.

Best when

  • The hire is urgent or senior
  • The obvious market is not strong enough
  • Leadership time is limited
  • Budget is tight
  • Confidentiality matters
  • You need the heavy lift handled properly
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Why us

30+ years combined experience hiring recruiters. Hundreds of successful placements. We've seen enough failed processes to know where things go wrong.

We personally run every project.

300+

Recruiter and executive search placements in America

10+

Businesses launched in America

4

M&A transactions, with $20m+ enterprise value created

$0→$50m

Organic growth in a previous recruitment business as part of the senior leadership team

90%

Referral-led client base

6 Month

Guarantee on every search

Who we are

Jack Saxton, Co-Founder of Luck & Leverage

Jack Saxton

Co-Founder

Jack helps search and recruitment businesses build the internal talent systems they need to scale.

He started and built the first R2R business in America and has trained and managed teams responsible for more than 300 successful industry placements.

As the first hire at a venture capital group that grew organically from $0 to $50m in revenue in five years, Jack led venture origination and group-wide talent strategy. He has also spoken on this topic at the Hunt Scanlon Private Equity Conference in New York.

Ollie Medwin, Co-Founder of Luck & Leverage

Ollie Medwin

Co-Founder

Ollie helps search and recruitment businesses build scalable talent acquisition, training, and growth systems.

He has led global talent acquisition across Technology, AI, Data, and Product at Bain & Company, scaling teams across eight cities and closing over 100 strategic roles in under 18 months.

Earlier, Ollie built and led technology recruitment teams across financial services, cloud, data, and AI — including scaling Eximius Group's Technology practice into a multi-million revenue division.

Most firms hiring recruiters are solving the wrong problem.

They think it is sourcing.

It is usually something further upstream.

Obsession is what it takes to get every part of that right.

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