1. What types of positions do your gurus work on?
2. What is your fee structure?
3. Where are you located?
4. Do you only work in a specific area?
5. What are your specialties?
6. How can you help us from North Dakota?
7. How long have you been in business?
8. Can you send me some information about your company?
9. Do you have references?
10. How long does a search take?
11. What if we hire a candidate from Building Gurus and the candidate resigns or is terminated?
12. When are your fees due?
13. If I have other questions, how do I contact you?
1. What types of positions do your recruiters work on?
Our most common searches are for sales reps and for upper management, because these are the types of openings our clients most often encounter. Clients desperately need top-tier talent, and we work hard to provide them with the best possible selection. We work on many different types of searches, as well, whether in operations, manufacturing, sales, engineering, marketing, or in product development. At Building Gurus, we will take on a variety of searches, provided we feel we would do a good job for our clients. If we feel a search is not a fit for our company or that our client would be best served by another agency or source, we’ll tell them.
Are you interested in working with a Guru who has a deep understanding of the building materials industry? This form contains detailed questions that will help your Guru dig deep and find you the employee you're looking for. Please fill out the form and click here to submit.
2. What is your fee structure?
Our fee structure depends upon the type of service or search that our clients choose. Fees for contingent searches are typically a percentage of the candidate’s first year’s expected compensation, whereas fees for national accounts can be structured as flat, or set, fees. Building Gurus will listen to your specific needs and will help to set a structure that will work for your company. To get more information about types of searches and relative fees, please click here.
Curious about how this whole thing works? Click here to view our agreement. You'll quickly see how easy it is to work with us and how we guarantee our placements. Click Here for a copy of our fee agreement.
3. Where are you located?
Building Gurus is located in Fargo, North Dakota, right in the heart of the Midwest. We enjoy the city and feel we are in a location that best serves our company. Both partners are hard-working, honest, and ethical. We serve clients throughout the United States and Canada to the best of our abilities by listening well to their specific needs, culture, expectations, and by tailoring each search to each client. We employ varying methods depending on search types, locations, and specifications.
4. Do you only work in a specific area?
Building Gurus works with clients in the building and building products industries all over the United States and in Canada.
5. What are your specialties?
Our specialties include sales representatives, mid and upper management, and manufacturing management positions. We also work on many other types of searches, provided they are within our scope and are within the building industry. We do not provide our clients with laborers, contract, or temporary candidates.
6. How can you help us from North Dakota?
As a company, we invest in a wide array of technology that helps us to dig deeper and more intensely than most hiring managers or decision-makers have time to do. We are also old-fashioned, and pick up the telephone to locate individuals and to build lasting and beneficial relationships; again, something that our busy clients do not have time to accomplish.
7. How long have you been in business?
Our company incorporated in August of 2003, and has been growing in size and in client base ever since. In 2005, our company grew in revenues by 875% due to our client focus and our constant striving to deliver impact to the companies we partner with. We constantly focus on improving our processes and on how we can better serve our candidates and clients. We reorganized our business in 2008 in response to the changing economy in the building industry. We feel this reorganization has positioned us to thrive in the downturn and allow us to better serve our clients.
8. Can you send me some information about your company?
We have information you can download regarding our company, our services, and our search process. If you would like information to be mailed to you or sent to you via e-mail, please contact us at Rikka@BuildingGurus.com or Erin@BuildingGurus.com
9. Do you have references?
Please visit our Testimonials page to view what clients and candidates have to say about Building Gurus.
10. How long does a search take?
Unfortunately, this question is not easily answered. Of course, we would like all searches to close with all parties completely satisfied in days…but as with most things, many factors come into play that can make or break a search’s timeframe; compensation, location, requirements, re-location factors, hiring manager’s availability, etc.
An ideal quick search has several distinguishing characteristics:
- A sense of urgency from the client
- A competitive compensation structure
- Realistic expectations
- Prompt and helpful communication from the hiring manager
- The overall desire to locate and hire the best possible candidate
- Working as a team with the recruiter
- Poor communication or lack of feedback from busy hiring managers
- A compensation structure that is too low or that isn't competitive in the current market
- A job description that gets changed mid-stream
- A lack of urgency to fill the position.
Are you interested in working with a Guru who has a deep understanding of the building materials industry? This form contains detailed questions that will help your Guru dig deep and find you the employee you're looking for.Please fill out the form and click here to submit.
Curious about how this whole thing works? Click here to view our agreement. You'll quickly see how easy it is to work with us and how we guarantee our placements. Click Here for a copy of our fee agreement.
11. What if we hire a candidate from Building Gurus and the candidate resigns or gets terminated?
If a Building Gurus candidate ceases to be employed by our clients, for any reason except lack of work, within the first 90 days of employment, we will conduct a new search for the same position for no additional fee. This placement guarantee applies only to clients who have made timely payments. Fee due dates are set forth in our contract.
12. When are your fees due?
Our fee due dates are set forth in our contract to allow clients to review the terms prior to agreeing to work with Building Gurus. If you would like to review a contract or if you have questions
about fees or our search process, please email us at Rikka@buildinggurus.com.
Click Here for a copy of our fee agreement.
13. If I have other questions, how do I contact you?
Click here to visit our contact page for email, mailing address and phone numbers.