Welcome to The Pinnacle Take, the podcast powered by the Pinnacle Society — an exclusive network of the top 1% of recruiters across North America. Each episode dives deep into the minds of elite search professionals who consistently achieve industry-leading results. From proven business development strategies to candidate mastery, leadership insights, and navigating market shifts, you’ll hear what it truly takes to reach the highest levels of success in recruiting.
Whether you’re a recruiter looking to break through plateaus, a staffing leader aiming to scale, or simply curious about how the best of the best operate, this show gives you a front-row seat to the strategies, tools, and mindset of world-class recruiters.
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Welcome to The Pinnacle Take, the podcast powered by the Pinnacle Society — an exclusive network of the top 1% of recruiters across North America. Each episode dives deep into the minds of elite search professionals who consistently achieve industry-leading results. From proven business development strategies to candidate mastery, leadership insights, and navigating market shifts, you’ll hear what it truly takes to reach the highest levels of success in recruiting.
Whether you’re a recruiter looking to break through plateaus, a staffing leader aiming to scale, or simply curious about how the best of the best operate, this show gives you a front-row seat to the strategies, tools, and mindset of world-class recruiters.
Unfiltered Insights: How Michael Silverstein Builds Elite Recruitment Teams
The Pinnacle Take
55 minutes
1 month ago
Unfiltered Insights: How Michael Silverstein Builds Elite Recruitment Teams
Ready to break free from the recruiting hamster wheel and discover the strategies top billers use to scale their success? In this eye-opening episode of the Pinnacle Take Podcast, host Benjamin Mena sits down with Michael Silverstein, a powerhouse recruiter consistently one of the top in the industry. Michael reveals how he leveraged his toughest years—starting in 2008’s economic downturn—to build not just a desk, but an entire healthcare tech and life sciences practice at Direct Recruiters.
Listeners will uncover:
Relationship-Driven Success: Mike shares his playbook for developing authentic, high-value connections, building a networking “mafia” of 650+ industry leaders, and becoming the go-to trusted advisor in his space.
Scalable Business Development: Discover how Mike’s uniquely curated networking group serves as his #1 source of inbound business and lucrative search assignments from VCs, PEs, and top operators.
Team-Building & Leadership: Learn how Mike develops entrepreneurial recruiters, focusing on long-term partnership over transactional hiring—and why cultivating loyalty to people, not just companies, is the real competitive advantage.
If you want to elevate your recruiting career, master referral-based business development, and future-proof your desk, this is the episode you can’t afford to miss. Listen now to seize actionable insights from an industry leader who’s truly off the treadmill.The Pinnacle Society: https://pinnaclesociety.org/Michael Silverstein LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelsilverstein123/
The Pinnacle Take
Welcome to The Pinnacle Take, the podcast powered by the Pinnacle Society — an exclusive network of the top 1% of recruiters across North America. Each episode dives deep into the minds of elite search professionals who consistently achieve industry-leading results. From proven business development strategies to candidate mastery, leadership insights, and navigating market shifts, you’ll hear what it truly takes to reach the highest levels of success in recruiting.
Whether you’re a recruiter looking to break through plateaus, a staffing leader aiming to scale, or simply curious about how the best of the best operate, this show gives you a front-row seat to the strategies, tools, and mindset of world-class recruiters.
