FIND YOUR NEXT BUILDING PRODUCTS A-PLAYER IN 30 DAYS

PARTNER WITH A RECRUITER WHO UNDERSTANDS YOUR MARKET AND FINDS THE RIGHT SALES & LEADERSHIP TALENT THE FIRST TIME

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BUILDING PRODUCTS LEADERS (BOTH BIG AND SMALL) CHOOSE US WHEN THEY ARE:

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Recruiting & Retaining Top Talent

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Consistently Make The RIGHT HIRING DECISIONS!

Learn the strategies and tactics that ensure you’re hiring the best people without sacrificing time and money. Build a qualified team that accelerates your business growth.

If recruiting, hiring, and retaining top-performing employees has been the obstacle that’s been holding you back from building the business you know is possible. You're in the right place!

SCARCITY - THE LACK OF QUALIFIED APPLICANTS

You already know that you can’t just post a job and expect to have 5-10 great candidates to choose from. It’s this scarcity that led to 58% of construction supply companies to report that their biggest challenge is hiring, training, and retaining quality employees.

FAILURE TO ENGAGE THE NEXT GENERATION

Most companies have failed to successfully attract, engage, and keep Millenials and need to act quickly to avoid losing Generation Z to other industries and leaving a gaping hole left by retiring baby boomers.

OUR EXPERIENCED AND AGING WORKFORCE

One of the greatest strengths of your company has been your veteran employees and leaders. Unfortunately, industry wide, nearly 7% is at or over retirement age right now, and 25% are within 10 years of retirement.

Engaged Search - Let us find the talent you need

Few things are more important to the success of your business than getting key hires right. We specialize in finding sales, managers, and executives that will drive top line sales growth and improve your bottom line profitability.

Engaged search provides the expertise and high-end service level of retained search, with a strong pay-for-performance aspect.

Our fee structure includes a flat engagement fee to start the search, but the vast majority of our fee isn’t earned until your new hire starts. 

We understand that working with an executive recruiter is an investment and we’ve designed our 4-stage Recruiting Blueprint search process to ensure you get a strong return on your investment.

Of course, we also offer a guarantee. Yet, we prefer to get it right the first time, which is why our last replacement was over a decade ago.

You can learn more about each of the 4 stages of The Recruiting Blueprint here, but the best way to learn if we’re the recruiting partner for you AND that we're worth the investment is to book a no-obligation Discovery Session to learn if Building Gurus is the right recruiting partner for you. Use the yellow button below to schedule your call.

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We Can Help

Through EDUCATION, EMPOWERMENT, & EXPERTISE

Since 2001, Rikka has helped hundreds of building products manufacturers, distributors, dealers and showrooms across the US find and hire the talent they need to achieve their business's goals.

We believe (and can demonstrate) that any recruiting and retention challenge be it the lack of quality talent, an aging workforce, or a failure to engage and keep next-generation talent can be solved through education, empowerment, and expertise.

Are you interested in learning more about how we can help you solve these recruiting challenges?

Hire Power is the most robust and comprehensive training available for recruiting, interviewing, and hiring in the building products industry.

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Not every recruiting and retention challenge requires a full engaged search or in-depth consulting. Sometimes you just need the insight and advice only an expert can provide.

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Meet Rikka Brandon

OUR 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 Pop’s 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.  

If you are interested in working with Rikka for custom training programs, advisory or consulting or speaking, please schedule a Discovery Call or contact her for more information.

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