David Stephen Patterson

Recruiting veteran. Marketing obsessive. I install the machine that ends feast-and-famine. | The Digital Headhunter

Greater Tampa Bay Area

About

Most recruiters think they have a lead problem. They don't. 👇 They have a structural problem. No positioning that makes prospects pre-sold before the first call. No authority that makes their name mean something in their niche. No follow-up system that works whether they're billing or not. No infrastructure underneath the activity. So they buy another sourcing tool. Try another cold email sequencer. Watch another crappy webinar. And the hamster wheel keeps spinning. I fix that. I'm David Stephen Patterson, DSP. 25 years in recruiting. Two seven-figure search firms built and scaled. Founder of The Digital Headhunter and creator of The Lighthouse Method, a done-for-you marketing infrastructure system for independent recruiters and search firms. The Agency Growth Machine installs your complete client acquisition engine in 30 days. Built in your accounts, trained to your niche, configured to run. You can run it yourself after handoff or have my team run it for you as your fractional marketing operation. Either way, the machine is yours. The Candidate Revenue Machine installs a second revenue stream alongside it. A white-labeled career coaching practice that monetizes the candidates you can't place, turning relationships you already own into paid engagements. A recession-resistant income stream that holds when hiring slows and your clients go quiet. I've watched too many talented recruiters get outgunned in their own market. Great at the work. No system underneath it. No authority. No pipeline that fills itself. Just hustle and hope and the same slow month conversation every quarter. Never show up to a gunfight with a banana. realdsp.me/build

Experience

  • Founder | Fueling Executive Search Growth Engines at The Digital Headhunter, LLC
    2017 - Present · 9 yrs 7 mos

    Do You Want To Build A Best-In-Class Search Firm? In The Middle Of The Greatest Recession We've Ever Faced? Omnipresence & Relevancy Is The Answer Or In Other Words, Showing Up With The Right Message, To The Right Hiring Executives, At The Right Time [RELEVANCY], On The Right Channels Consistently Over Time [OMNIPRESENCE] You Achieve The Holy Grail Of Marketing: MINDSHARE ...Creating Mindshare [MARKETSHARE] When Your Competitors Are Struggling To Stay Afloat Does More Than Recession-Proof Your Business It 'FUTURE-PROOFS' Your Business Working with us to implement Omnipresence & Relevancy goes beyond just transforming your marketing and sales efforts. When you can consistently generate a flood of high-quality leads, close sales exponentially quicker, and skyrocket your revenue when others are flailing, guess what happens? You build an entirely better recruiting practice; one filled with clients who value you as a partner, a loyal candidate community who looks to you as a thought leader, and status as the search firm of choice for top-performing recruiters who want to plug into your system. You build a business that operates out of the weeds, and allows you to scale faster than ever without sending you to an early grave (where most high-stress entreprenuers are headed). Bottom-line, you create a valuable asset that serves you, your business, and your family for years to come. At The Digital Headhunter, we've put together a powerful set of programs that help you build a client-attraction system that actually works for the modern recruiter. Think of us as your virtual CMO. Wherever you're at in your entrepreneurial journey, we are here to help with a variety of Do-it-Yourself, Done-with-You, and Done-for-You programs that are designed to produce epic results. Interested in learning more? - Book your call with me at : https://book.thedigitalheadhunter.com/bookdsp

  • Co-Founder / Co-CEO at The Career Hunters
    Jul 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

  • SAP Recruiter / President - www.TheSAPRecruiter.com at The SAP Recruiter / The Kineta Group, Inc.
    2010 - Present · 16 yrs 7 mos

    I am The SAP Recruiter In this 4th generation of SAP, where the demand for talent continues to outstrip supply during the tightest labor market the US has seen in 50-years, access to the top SAP talent has become ever-more critical to not only the success of companies in the SAP ecosystem, but the success of the individual SAP leaders themselves. ‘The War for SAP Talent’ has officially been declared, and The Kineta Group (TKG) is your surest path to victory. We have consistently been recognized as the leading global executive search firm in the SAP space. Since 2010, our singular focus has been on one thing, and one thing only; you, the SAP Leader. Our mission is to help you, “Empower Your Enterprise” through hiring Rockstar talent. We attribute our massive success not only to our SAP industry-focus, but also the 4 Pillars of our proprietary Rockstar Delivery System: ☑️ Total SAP Talent Map: Our near complete (98%) market map of North America's entire SAP candidate pool ensures that you have access to automated deep talent search processes to identify the top 10% of talent. ☑️ 1-To-Many (p)Recruitment: Our 24/7/365 digital marketing platform is an ‘always on’ platform that engages passive candidates and accelerates our ability to influence and attract the top-performers you want to hire ☑️ Laser-Focused Engagement: Our unique hybrid blend of 'old-school' outbound executive search and 'new-school' inbound digital strategies ensure that every top-performer that matters is aligned with your opportunity. ☑️ Bullet-Proof Selection: Using our data-sets gleaned from thousands of interviews, we work with you to design a 5-part Bullet-Proof Selection Process that essentially 'de-risks' your hiring decision. We are true headhunters, recruiting in the digital age. Check out The SAP Rockstar Blueprint, our FREE 100-page guide on Eliminating The Mis-Hires, Building Elite Teams, And Crushing All Expectations: 👉 https://thesaprecruiter.com/the-blueprint 👈

  • President at Uber, Inc.
    2004 - 2010 · 6 yrs

    SAP sales leader, individual contributor, and hands-on technical recruiter. End-to-end business leader and resource to identify strategic and transactional client staffing needs, manage the delivery of resources, and build client relationships throughout the Eastern and Mid-Western US. Directly provide multiple ongoing SAP end-clients with flexible and scalable consulting/contract, contract-to-hire, and direct-hire solutions. (Contract: Project based and time and materials. Direct-hire: Retained and contingency search assignments. Contract-to-hire: Hourly contract term with pro-rated direct-hire placement fee stipulations) • Launched SAP contract services division for this traditional boutique executive search firm • Individually established over 50 new client MSA contracts yearly since joining firm in 2004 • Sold and delivered over $12 million in top-line revenue with $3 million gross profit yearly (average) across Defense, Manufacturing, Automotive, Financial, and Healthcare industries • Coached associates with no experience in opening cold territories, resulting in an average of 80K gross profit per associate by end of their first employment quarter

  • Sr Account Executive at MRINetwork
    2001 - 2004 · 3 yrs

    Senior Account Manager focused on delivering both retained and contingency search services to SAP/ERP and software clients across North America. ‘Full-desk’ search consultant role. • Ranked in the company’s top ten producing search consultants in the South Atlantic region • Top producing search consultant in the office during first full year of employment • Instituted new sales and recruiting methodologies adopted by several new staff members • Recipient of numerous ‘Account Executive of the Month”, ‘Account Executive of the Region’, and ‘Account Executive of the Year’ awards • Consistently recognized locally and nationally for individual and team production, customer satisfaction ratings, and KPI performance evaluations