The Goodwin Partnership
Build a recruiting business of your own. We'll handle the back office.
Goodwin funds the tools, the business launch program, and the infrastructure. We handle the back office. You bring the drive, relationships, and expertise to build a recruiting business of your own, but not on your own.
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
Emily L. · Partner · Hospitality Operations · 2+ years
Emily L. · Partner · Hospitality Operations · 2+ years
Hear from the people building these businesses.
We call them Partners. 127 put their names on their experiences, and 37 volunteers to share theirs on camera. Here's what they say the partnership is really like.
"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
"It's one of the most rewarding decisions I've made professionally. Goodwin gives you the independence to build your own business while providing the support, tools, and collaborative culture of an established organization."
Rob G. · Partner · Hospitality · 21+ years
"It's a blend of independence, support, and high expectations, in the best way. You're given exceptional training, proven systems, and a team that genuinely wants you to success, but you're also empowered to build your own business, your own pipeline. and your own momentum."
Mike M. · Partner · Healthcare · under 1 year
A business you own. A platform behind it.
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What you own
- Your own business. You operate through your own LLC under the Goodwin Recruiting brand.
- The business you build. 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.
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What Goodwin funds
- Roughly $32K per year invested in every Partner.
- A full LinkedIn Recruiter+ (RPS+) license with 140+ InMails per month, fully funded, plus the LinkedIn RPS+ Hiring Assistant.
- The Business Launch program, mentorship, and proven systems from day one.
- Invoicing, collections, accounting, legal, IT, and the recruiting tech stack. We handle the back office so you don't have to.
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How you make money
- Commission-based. You earn when clients hire the people you place.
- No Goodwin buy-in or franchise fee. No inventory. No downline.
- Unlimited earning potential. Your production determines your income.
What you own
- Your own business. You operate through your own LLC under the Goodwin Recruiting brand.
- The business you build. 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, fully funded, plus the LinkedIn RPS+ Hiring Assistant.
- The Business Launch program, mentorship, and proven systems from day one.
- Invoicing, collections, accounting, legal, IT, and the recruiting tech stack. We handle the back office so you don't have to.
How you make money
- Commission-based. You earn when clients hire the people you place.
- No Goodwin buy-in or franchise fee. No inventory. No downline.
- Unlimited earning potential. Your production determines your income.
"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.
Plan on four to six months to your first dollar and real effort from day one; the first six months take a full commitment. Building consistent income takes longer, and your ramp will depend on your market, your activity, and your execution. The info session walks through the economics and ramp in details so you can plan for it before you make a decision. We say this up front because partners tell us the honesty is why they trusted everything else.
Who thrives here
Self-starters. Disciplined, consistent, resilient people who treat this like the business it is.
Backed by Goodwin from the start
There is no 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
The three most common paths into this business.
Years of hiring, evaluating talent, and knowing your industry from the
inside. Goodwin teaches you how to turn that into a recruiting business.
Industry Operators
You've hired hundreds of people. You've just never owned the business that does it.
General managers, directors, and operations leaders: you've run the busniess and done the hiring. That experience is the foundation of a recruiting business you can build. No recruiting experience? Neither did some of our top performers.
Independent Recruiters
Bring the business you've built. Hand off the back office you never wanted.
You went independent to recruit, not to be the accountant, collections department, and IT desk. Bring the business and relationships you've built, and leverage the Goodwin platform to fuel what you build next.
Agency Recruiters
Keep more of what you bill.
Build something for yourself.
You already know how to recruit, win clients, and make placements. At your firm, your percentage comes with a ceiling and the business you build belongs to someone else. At Goodwin, that same skill and effort goes into building your own business.
Don't see yourself in these? Partners have come from sales, executive leadership, and a dozen other backgrounds. What they share isn't a resume, it's a mindset: the drive of a self-starter, the discipline to keep going, and the resilience to treat this like the business it is.
Live Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at 3 PM ET · 30 minutes · no obligation
What partners say matters most.
The freedom is real. So is the trade.
We surveyed our partners: 90% named freedom as a reason they joined, and nearly half called it their single biggest reason. Not fewer hours. Their hours: which days, which clients, which verticals, and who they answer to.
In practice it looks like this: a business you run from anywhere, in the industry you already know, built around your strengths, and scaled to your own ambition. Nobody assigns your accounts, or decides what your year looks like. You do.
"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.
Reviewing more than 60,000 words of Partner feedback on what matters most, one word appeared more than any other: Support.
Mentorship, training, a network of 300+ partners who share leads and split searches, and a culture partners consistently describe as collaborative rather than cutthroat.
"I would tell them that Goodwin gives 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. The culture has been one of the biggest surprises for me, in the best way. People genuinely want to help each other succeed, share ideas, and celebrate wins rather than compete against one another."
Jessica J. · Partner · Legal · under 1 year
"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 everyone asks. Answered straight.
Correct. Plan on four to six months to the first dollar. But you're not ramping alone or from scratch: there's no buy-in, and Goodwin invests roughly $32K a year in every partner, in tools, training, mentorship, proven systems, and an active job board of 3,000+ open roles you can start working from day one. All of it exists to shorten the road to that first dollar.
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.
You may not be ready to, and that matters. This business requires a financial runway and a willingness to trade the certainty of a paycheck for the opportunity to build something of your own. For many Partners, a career change, restructuring, or other life event created the right moment. The timing has to be right for you.
Independent doesn't mean unsupported. You operate your own business through your LLC under the Goodwin Recruiting brand, with the Business Launch program, mentorship, technology, back-office support, and a network of 300+ Partners behind you. You're responsible for your results, but you're not building alone.
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. 127 partners put their names on their words, 37 volunteered to say it on camera, and the company has done this for 27 years.
You may not have carried a sales title, but you've been influencing decisions your entire career. You've recruited employees, built vendor relationships, negotiated, solved problems, and earned people's trust. This business requires those same skills, along wit a willingness to call prospective clients, hear no, and keep going. Goodwin teaches you how to apply the skills you already have to recruiting.
The network isn't your competition. It's one of your advantages. Partners share leads, collaborate, and split searches, with expertise across 10+ verticals. That means an opportunity outside your expertise doesn't have to be an opportunity you lose; the network can help you turn it into revenue.
Still have questions? Bring them. The session is live for a reason.
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
How to get started.
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.
A two-way interview process.
A first conversation, a deeper second one, and a full information session before any offer. You evaluate Goodwin as much as Goodwin evaluates you.
If the timing isn't right, no pressure. You'll hear from us occasionally with partner stories, and the door stays open.
