Producer recruiting for community and regional banks

The recruiting team your bank doesn't have.

Without one, the hunt falls to your market presidents — turning your best producers into part-time recruiters. We do the recruiting, so they can keep producing.

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For sales organizations
Hiring revenue producers outside banking?

The same method runs for commercial sales organizations — same Discover / Define / Deliver, calibrated to a different industry's economics.

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What we hear from bank leaders

You may have had this conversation before...

The bank size changes. The seat changes. The conversations rhyme. Here's what bank leaders tell us — and how we answer.

"I know exactly who I need. The problem is landing that person before my competitors do."

Market President · Multi-County
Our answer

We approach the bankers you want before they're looking — because the producers worth hiring don't post resumes. They take a discreet call from a third party.

"My HR team is built for compliance, not for finding bankers who actually produce."

CEO · $5B Community Bank
Our answer

Producer recruiting is our only job. We do nothing else — and we run it as a discipline, vetting on book size, origination history, and cross-sell ratio. Not on credentials.

"The producer I want already has a job. He'll never respond to a posting."

City President · Single-Market Anchor
Our answer

We make the introduction on your behalf — leading with your bank's name, because real opportunities at real institutions get real conversations. When the search calls for discretion, we run silent. Most of our placements never saw a job board.

"I've taken 12 coffee meetings this year. I still don't have the producer I need."

Chief Banking Officer · $15B Regional
Our answer

Profile Review puts 5-10 vetted producers in front of you up front. The only coffees you take are with bankers worth landing.

Proof

Right targets. Right pace.

A recent Commercial Banking search. Conservative ratios, no inflation — these numbers are what you should expect.

4
specific candidates targeted
3
engaged and presented to the bank
3
interviewed
2
finalists
1
hire — under 90 days

The bankers we presented were not on any open job board. We knew who they were before the bank did — and we knew which one would produce in their market.

Who you'll meet

A small team. The ones doing the work.

No account managers, no bench. The two of us run every search, end to end.

Brad Hawley — Co-founder & President of Talnted
Brad Hawley
Co-founder, President & Head of Client Engagement

20+ years across enterprise sales and business development. Started in pharma at Eli Lilly, led teams at CEB (now Gartner), and spent the last decade running client work at OnBoard Legal — most recently as Chief Development Officer. His client portfolio has spanned AmLaw 200 firms and growth-stage corporates scaling past $100M.

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Lucy Poole — Co-founder & VP of Candidate Engagement at Talnted
Lucy Poole
Co-founder & Vice President, Candidate Engagement

10+ years of executive search and talent acquisition. Director of Search Operations at Wheless Partners (one of the top exec search firms in the country), four years placing senior legal talent nationwide at OnBoard Legal, and Recruiting Manager at PangeaTwo. Runs Talnted's profile-first search process end to end.

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Ready to see what your bank's producer profile looks like?

Two meetings, no charge. The first 45 minutes is a Discovery conversation. The second is a Profile Review — we present 5-10 real bankers we went out and found in your market, you say yes or no on each, and we calibrate until the producer profile is yours. The work is consultative. The profile is yours. Then you decide whether to engage.

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