About Tricia Tamkin
Tricia’s youth in the Chicago burbs was spent divided between reading and sports. She was the only girl in the boys’ league for baseball, and still managed to sneak in gymnastics, cheerleading, and a starring role in Grease.
Tricia’s prep school made college comparatively easy. When something is too easy, Tricia moves on. At 19, she interviewed for a job she’d never heard of – Headhunter. The day after her interview, she called the agency owner and told him she’d made a decision. She was going to be a recruiter, either for him or someone else. She was immediately hired, and went on to be the top producer in the firm before she was old enough to have a cocktail.
In the early days, Tricia was content to be the top biller anywhere she went. Then her boss told her she needed to play nicer in the sandbox with the other employees. A month later she opened Wolftec, her executive search firm.
Nearly a quarter century later, she’s been widowed twice, fought and won several court battles, given birth, and lost a parent. She’s expanded her staff to more than a dozen, and then slimmed it back down, outsourcing everything.
Then, a client asked her to stop recruiting tech salespeople, and instead to build them a recruiting team. With her years of owning a firm, constant professional development, and help from Jason, she did just that. She recruited the team, made the hiring decisions, trained them, and worked herself out of a client… but into a new industry.
Tricia has spent the last thirteen years speaking on the most prominent stages in the recruiting industry, developing and delivering acclaimed training programs, and coaching some of the highest producers in our industry. She’s an F’n gladiator, who does random acts of kindness every day. She also still makes cold calls and answers her own phone.
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Enthusiastic Love from Tricia's Clients
Scott Love
Niched Legal Recruiter/Specialist
Tricia’s presentation to our difficult audience of seasoned and salty legal recruiters in a wonky room setup of an historic hotel’s antique ballroom was both masterful in delivery and rich in content. She earned the trust and respect of the audience multiple times by effectively responding to several difficult questions from audience members, which were even asked in a challenging tone. I have never seen anything like this before and it was truly impressive to observe. Many other presenters would have simply eked out moderately acceptable answers to the cranky questioners, losing the frame of authority in front of the 300 people in the room. But not Tricia. At that point we all observed firsthand a rare mix of masterful stage presence, confidence, and technical competence in how she responded. Tricia offered both gravitas and grace through her command of the room, respecting the questioners but still maintaining and even increasing in her credibility and like-ability with the room. This won the audience over, again and again, with each point she made for the rest of her presentation. Her technical expertise, credentialed authority on her subject matter, and her friendly ease of presenting with warm audience engagement makes her my top choice in a speaker. I highly recommend Tricia Tamkin for any business meeting looking to boost skill with A.I., tech, and related topics.
Christina Moffett
Executive Coach to CEOs & Founders
Working with Tricia has transformed my business! This program is worth its weight in Gold! Highly recommend.
Shane Fairchild, CPA, MBA
CPA-Turned Headhunter | Executive Search Partner to CFOs & CEOs
I highly recommend Tricia and Jason for a number of reasons. Given they both are married and work together it made sense to do this review together. For context, I’ve spent a great deal of time on my personal growth and development for over a decade having read, studied and trained with many well known trainers in the recruiting world and executive coaches. I have always been a believer it’s important to find good mentors along the way to help shorten the learning curve. Before we started our mentorship together, I spent several months researching other trainers globally along with interviewing each to better understand their approach and what resonated with me and where I felt I would get the most value. What can I say but they had me at “hello”. The thing I loved about them is they’re genuine, kindhearted and they always do the right thing. They really took the time to get to know me both personally and professionally and look under the hood to diagnose where I could make improvements in both my personal life and business. They challenged me outside of my comfort zone and pushed me in a good way. They truly care about me and helped me with my blind spots to protect me. They helped in areas where I struggled by providing great insight. Tricia has a remarkable way with words. Definitely her gift. Both are well educated. Jason is super witty so you have to pay close attention or you miss his subtle jokes. They are fun to be around. They train you in so many areas. Everything from recruiting, sourcing, BD/sales and marketing, negotiation, contract guidance, going in depth to how best to handle situations you encounter real time and tons of information around artificial intelligence and using tools such as ChatGPT as they’ve hired AI prompt engineers to help augment their training. The other thing I love is getting to know everyone in their private coaching church of executive search group from all over the globe. Phenomenal people with amazing hearts that I’ve become friends with and would do anything to help them out. We all work together and support one another. It’s been amazing and I’m truly grateful. I’ve worked closely with them for a few years now and continue to do so. I enjoy the weekly training classes and camaraderie. We’ve had a lot of fun together and shared many laughs. For anyone interested in finding some top-notch recruiting trainers, I highly recommend Tricia and Jason with Moore Essentials and if you’re able to get into their private coaching CoES (Church of Executive Search), I’d encourage it. The impact that they have had on my family and my business has been amazing. For anyone on the fence, just do it. You won’t regret it. For anyone looking to hire accounting or finance professionals, I’d highly recommend Four Pillars Talent. 😉
Ankita Sherkhane
Translation Coordinator at the Ontario Ministry of Health
It was great getting trained from Tricia and Jason.
They both are really good at what they do. Just give them your job requirements and they will come up with good Boolean strings and you would find people.
Thank you both.
Jennifer Meyer, CSM
Jennifer Meyer, CSM
I had the pleasure of collaborating with Tricia at Moore Essentials, and her expertise and insights were nothing short of transformative. Dedicated to elevating our game, she generously shared her time, tailored strategies to align with our objectives, and displayed an impressive knack for innovative thinking. Tricia’s professionalism stands out in an industry where genuine commitment can be rare. She isn’t just in it for business; she’s passionate about uplifting the industry standard, making every interaction both meaningful and impactful. If you seek a strategist who truly understands and can pivot to meet unique challenges head-on, Tricia is your go-to. Our industry needs more trailblazers like her.
Anastasia Fairchild
Chief Heart Officer at Four Pillars Talent
Tricia and Jason are the real deal! I was very skeptical at first about the investment that is required in order to begin their training. But my husband assured me that you have to continually invest in yourself to be successful in business and life. I trusted his decision and thus far have not been disappointed with the results. Over the course of a year, their business acumen and knowledge of the industry has fine-tuned my husband’s recruiting business elevating it to the next level. He has learned how to fine tune his craft. Tricia has a wonderful way of wordsmithing in a polite but firm way that is needed in the industry. And on top of it all, they are genuinely good humans. They value helping their community and go out of their way to help others. Wonderful people to work with, and I couldn’t be prouder of the growth I’ve seen in my husband as the result of having worked under them.
Annette Eskenazi
Executive Search Partner (Agencies+Startups)
Tricia and Jason have been exceptionally valuable, offering comprehensive training in AI (chat) and adeptly navigating the updates with these tools. They consistently bring a ton of knowledge and resources to our community of talent partners every month. Their training program is tailored to all levels of expertise. Meeting you in person was fantastic as well! I deeply appreciate the work you’re doing! Thank you, Annette.
Steven Martin
AtWork Personnel | Veteran Owned
Our office recently transitioned from low-skilled contract work to an executive search firm. The executive search requires a completely different mindset and a different set of skills with both marketing and sourcing than our old way of doing business. We took the courses for sourcing and marketing from Moore Essentials which provided us with a wealth of knowledge and provided us with the fundamentals for success. This was a great investment in our future and long-term growth. We highly recommend Moore Essentials to any recruiter, no matter their background or career stage.
Lance LeFort
CEO/Founder @ Retained Executive Search
Trish always keeps the fun first while teaching great tips and tricks to sourcing and recruiting. She always packs the courses at Moore Essentials with tons of information. I definitely recommend checking out the service offering and great curriculum at Moore Essentials.
Lore R.
Ardith Rademacher & Associates, Inc.
Tricia’s knowledge, patience and humor combined to create one of the best teachers I have ever met! Her classes are always engaging and insightful.