The freight hiring invoice keeps growing. The seat stays empty.
Most freight forwarding companies are paying for a hiring stack that was never built for them. The HR manager. The job board subscription. The intake call with a generalist recruiter who had to Google what an NVO is. The onboarding consultant. The process architect. And the seat is still open.
Here is the invoice nobody asked for:
✦ HR Manager Annual Overhead: $90,000+
✦ Premium Job Board Access (Freight Irrelevant): $4,800/yr
✦ Generalist Recruiter Retainer (Will Google Freight Terms): $18,000
✦ Candidate Pipeline That Came From LinkedIn Alone: $0 value
✦ Three Months of Vacancy on a Revenue-Generating Seat: Incalculable
Every one of those line items adds overhead, process, and infrastructure that has nothing to do with whether the final hire can sell ocean or air freight.
Do the math. For the cost of keeping one dedicated HR manager, a specialist recruiter can place three to five freight forwarding hires a year. A generalist HR function works from inbound resumes only. A specialist already knows who in the industry is open to a move before a role is ever posted, and another forwarder's loss becomes your gain.
What you actually need is one thing: a closer who fits your platform, knows the lane, and produces revenue.
Everything else is overhead.
We keep it lean, with deep contacts inside the freight forwarding talent pool across the United States. Stop paying the bloated invoice. Talk to us about what specialist freight recruitment actually costs and delivers.
Darius and Company. Freight Forwarding Commercial Growth Partners.