Rick Girard, Healing Career Wounds

Today's episode, we talk to Rick Girard, entrepreneur, executive recruiter and author of Healing Career Wounds.  This episode is all about hiring and finding the right talent for your organization.

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Bio:
From the moment he sprung from the womb, Rick Girard has been a pain in the ass.

He can’t help it. The guy is a born rebel.

In school, he challenged his teachers when he thought they were shallow. He questioned his coaches when he thought they were making bad calls. He even grilled his friends when he saw them doing things he regarded as not so smart choices.

Why? Was it because he wanted to be helpful? Because he cared just that much? Nope. It was because, more than anything, Rick liked—and still likes—to win. And, like George Costanza on Seinfeld, he’s figured out that the way to win, which almost always turns out to be the opposite of what everyone else is doing.

That’s why he developed his proven system for hiring—and gave the start-up world a much-needed kick in the ass.

Rick didn’t grow up dreaming of changing the game in recruiting…or business of any kind. His dream was to be a Playboy photographer (don’t judge!) until he decided that as much as he loved creating art, he liked eating and having a roof over his head even more. So he took a job in recruiting, and even though he phoned it in, he wound up making a lot of money. However, when a friend derisively referred to him as a “resume-slinging cowboy,” Rick knew. It was time to up his game…by changing everything he was doing.

He studied many approaches to recruiting, ultimately perfecting the process into a single system that is both seamless and highly-successful in achieving the right results. The result is the Hire Operating System (Hire OS), a secret weapon that focuses on hiring consciously that consistently attracts the best people. As the founder and CEO of Stride Search, Rick used (and still uses) this system to build top-performing teams for Silicon Valley start-ups and other cutting-edge companies. His mission has been to give committed start-ups the clarity, power and system to make hiring a win, every time. And somehow, he has turned his unsettling impulses, unruly nature into success for hundreds of clients.

In case you were wondering, those clients aren’t the only people who get to enjoy Rick’s unique take on the world. His value driven nature, insights and systems are enjoyed by audiences every week on the Hire Power Radio Show & Podcast. In his spare time, he competes in a laundry-list of alpha-male activities, from Brazilian Jiu Jitsu to surfing to rock climbing to running with scissors.

Rick has a wife, a child and a dog, who all put up with him for some unknown reason.