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Jamie Porter

Jamie Porter

Founder of Build Partners, a construction recruitment firm placing talent with US construction firms; British entrepreneur featured on The Search Podcast.

Sep 9, 2026

10:22
What did you do to build that network, get your clients to trust and believe in you, other than deliver good candidates and place them? Is there anything you did differently?
10:33
I would say just be an ultra niche, because that's the only way I've ever known how to work.
10:38
So I think...
10:42
If, you know, when I was talking about being overwhelmed by the US, I realized that I had to be even more ultra niche going into it because, you know, it's like, okay, I specialize in the East coast.
10:55
Well, that's, that's, you know, are you going to be working with a client in New York? And then the next day, Miami, like you're talking, it's some totally different markets.
11:04
And, you know, even if we go in even more specific, how you build in South Florida or North Florida is totally different.
11:11
Like that's how niche we have to go.

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