How I Achieved Financial Freedom By Maximizing Recruitment’s Best Times

“Work hardest when times are best, not worst” – this counterintuitive philosophy helped Brock Boyd build a 25-year tech recruitment empire that’s survived three major market crashes.

When Brock Boyd started his recruitment firm in 1998, he ran his business from his bedroom in a shared house, where suited colleagues would show up to work daily – sometimes while he was still sleeping from late-night prospecting. 

Today, 25 years later, he’s a member of the prestigious Pinnacle Society leading an international tech sales recruitment practice. Through multiple market cycles – from the dot-com crash to 2008’s recession to today’s tech slowdown – Brock has built Career Management Inc. (CMI) into a sustainable business while developing wealth-building principles that have given him true financial freedom.

Watch and Listen to my Conversation with Brock Boyd

Episode Outline and Highlights:

• [01:49] How a friend needing a ride to a job fair led to recruitment.
• [04:27] Taking the entrepreneurial leap after just 11 months!
• [10:47] Recalling the early days: Cold calling from his bedroom while colleagues showed up in suits.
• [15:26] Discussion of peak performance periods: 1999-2000 and 2021-2022.
• [18:17] Focus on resilience: Surviving 2002 and the $63,000 bankruptcy challenge
• [24:22] “I work by far the hardest in the best of times” – Brock’s contrarian business philosophy
• [27:47] Smart financial moves most recruiters miss: The “two boulders” theory
• [38:51] How to retire early as recruiters: The three key factors
• [54:56] Tech stack deep dive: What works in modern recruitment
• [1:03:19] Understanding market cycles: “It’s like winter and spring will come”

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