Meet Rikka Brandon
FOUNDER & CEO OF BUILDING GURUS
The nation's leading recruiting, hiring, and retention expert
for building products.
Providing Education, Empowerment, and Expertise
To Help You achieve your goals.
Meet
Rikka Brandon
FOUNDER & CEO
Rikka Brandon started Recruiting in the building products industry in 2001. Since then she's made over 600 placements with a less than 1% replacement rate.
She's the Founder and Chief Executive Recruiter of Building Gurus, an executive search and recruitment consulting firm that works exclusively in the Building Products Industry.
She's advised hundreds of building product companies ranging from mom and pops to the Fortune 100. However, her personal favorite has always been the privately held and often family owned business.
Rikka's the go-to girl for growth-minded Building Products Owners and Executives who want to hire the right people to take their manufacturing, distribution, or retail business to the next level.
Rikka is:
- The leading Recruiting and Retention expert for the building products industry
- The nation’s leading expert for LBM Recruiting, Hiring, and Retention training
- LBM Journal's Recruiting + Retention Expert for 4 years
- Host of the LBM Journal’s Recruit + Retain Podcast
- Repeat Speaker at West Coast Lumber and Building Materials Association’s (WCLBMA) National Convention
- Speaker at BLD Connection (formerly NLBMDA) Expo North
- Speaker at Building Material Suppliers Association (BMSA) Summer Conference
- Hiring Expert for Lumber Blue Book – with 2 of the top 5 most-read articles (out of nearly 10,000) in 2022
- Creating and providing recruiting and hiring content for the Northeastern Retail Lumber Association (NRLA) blog and their Lumber Co-Operator magazine.
- The leading Recruiting and Retention expert for the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA), providing articles for both the NKBA.com blog and Kitchen and Bath Business magazine (KBB), webinars, and speaking at national events.
- Recruiting and Hiring expert for ConstructioNext (formerly Roofing and Exteriors), World of Concrete, International Pool | Spa | Patio Expo, and Deck Expo.
- A best-selling and award-winning author
- Service Provider of the Year for Luxury Products Group
What People Are Saying
The process was perfect—very smooth. We gave her our guidelines, and she learned our personality. Within a week we had what we thought was a perfect candidate.
Rikka has an an uncanny ability to tap into the competition without leaving the sense that you are “stealing” our competitor’s employees away!
She understands our industry and brings high-quality candidates. She goes all out right from the beginning and if there are no candidates matching out search parameters, she doesn't string us along.
You get high energy, knowledgeable recruiters, who know not only the industry, but have a very good handle on the overall business climate.
Rikka produced quality candidates quickly. I found her to be honest and direct, thorough and prepared and to work with a sense of urgency to complete the assignment. She always presented qualified candidates.
What Lumber and Building Materials Leaders Need To Know To Hire Better
Let’s face it – hiring is one of the biggest challenges faced by Lumber and Building Materials leaders and organizations. In Hire Power, you’ll learn how to take control of the hiring game.
Hire Power the LBM Edition is for you if:
- Your market is highly competitive OR you are struggling to find qualified people to hire.
- You want to hire the best talent you can afford without a $15,000+ headhunter fee for every hire.
- Your LBM business has HUGE potential, but you’ve lost confidence you can find the people you need to turn that potential into profit.
- You’ve made a hiring mistake (or two!) in the past, and you’re sick of “best-guessing” your way through hiring.
What Lumber and Building Materials Leaders Need To Know To Hire Better
Let’s face it – hiring is one of the biggest challenges faced by Lumber and Building Materials leaders and organizations. In Hire Power, you’ll learn how to take control of the hiring game.
Hire Power the LBM Edition is for you if:
- Your market is highly competitive OR you are struggling to find qualified people to hire.
- You want to hire the best talent you can afford without a $15,000+ headhunter fee for every hire.
- Your LBM business has HUGE potential, but you’ve lost confidence you can find the people you need to turn that potential into profit.
- You’ve made a hiring mistake (or two!) in the past, and you’re sick of “best-guessing” your way through hiring.
Hire Rikka to speak
Rikka has several programs that make up the framework of most of her presentations, however she believes each audience should have a custom presentation that meets them where they are at and provides actionable advice that fits their situation and circumstance.
Each presentation starts with a conversation so Rikka is clear about your attendees, your goals, and your wishes. From there you will work together to see if Rikka is the right fit for your event.
Rikka is focused on results, she talks fast, cracks jokes, and really believes growing your business should be fun. It’s this energy and enthusiasm that has made the national media and business world take notice.
Rikka’s been featured numerous times on Fast Company, American Express’s Open Forum, the NFIB.
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Hire Rikka to speak
Rikka has several programs that make up the framework of most of her presentations, however she believes each audience should have a custom presentation that meets them where they are at and provides actionable advice that fits their situation and circumstance.
Each presentation starts with a conversation so Rikka is clear about your attendees, your goals, and your wishes. From there you will work together to see if Rikka is the right fit for your event.
Rikka is focused on results, she talks fast, cracks jokes, and really believes growing your business should be fun. It’s this energy and enthusiasm that has made the national media and business world take notice.
Rikka’s been featured numerous times on Fast Company, American Express’s Open Forum, the NFIB.
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