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Rick Girard

CEO Stride Search Inc, Host of the Hire Power Radio Podcast

Talent Development Expert, Trainer, Public Speaker & Author

Rick Girard teaches people all over the world how to walk the “healing road of hiring” that leads to mastering the art of talent acquisition and achieving financial success with integrity.

Rick is the Founder & CEO of the internationally renowned Stride Search, host of the popular “Hire Power Radio Podcast,” unconventional public speaker and author.

Rick has been laser-focused on building tech startups in the highly competitive Silicon Valley. Over his career, he has helped build more than 200 startup teams to successfully exit. He has also learned from the few failures… goodbye Pets.com sock puppet! “Value” and “Impact” are the two main ingredients brought to every interaction, above and beyond just locating the strongest people. Contrarian in his approach, Rick has flipped the script on engagement and the hiring process to bring a massive competitive advantage to every interaction, helping his clients achieve a 98% success rate in hiring the people they need to succeed.

While not running a school for Gifted Mutants as Professor X, he hosts the Hire Power Radio Show & Podcast, a weekly series on OC Talk Radio which serves as a business leader’s resource to solve their most difficult hiring challenges. When not on the air, Rick authored his first book Career Wounds, competes in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has an affinity for any adrenaline-pumping activity such as surfing, snowboarding, rock climbing and running with scissors.

Current position (2)

Founder & CEO

Stride Search Inc.

Host

Hire Power Radio Podcast

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Presentations (3)

Your Best Hire Would Rather Visit the Proctologist than Read Your Crappy Job Description

Do you smell that? It’s another crappy company job description. Here’s the truth: job descriptions just do not attract top talent. In fact, most are talented people repellent! This crucial marketing piece, even more important than your business plan (yes I said it), must inspire and engage the emotions of your reader. Learn why the standard model is designed to fail and how to create a truly engaging job description that attracts top talent.

TakeAway 1: Why A Wish-List of Skills is No Longer Acceptable.
TakeAway 2: Learn the Not-So-Obvious 5 Key Components of a Highly Effective Job Description.
TakeAway 3: How to Poke Your Prospect’s Career Wound to Build Attraction and Motivate Action.

The Secret to Engaging Great Talent: Poke The Career Wound First

What is a “career wound?” Understanding what a career wound is, how to find it, poke it, and how to heal it is the most powerful method to attract, engage, and recruit exceptionally talented people. This method doesn’t rely on big money or impersonal, self-centered, or used-car-salesmen-like gimmicks, but rather turns the traditional model of transactional recruiting into an opportunity to genuinely help and heal someone’s pain. It doesn’t employ “spray and pray” methods but requires really listening to cultivate relationships to motivate action. By learning how to engage a person’s career wound, you will turn your traditional messaging upside down and inspire someone to actually want to talk to you, and better yet . . . to chase you.

TakeAway 1: What is the Career Wound and How to Find It?
TakeAway 2: How to Engage Through Listening & Unconventional Messaging
TakeAway 3: Connecting the Dots Between a Person’s Wound a

The Ugly Speed Date . . . What Most Call An Interview

Your disorganized interview is nothing more than a popularity contest and a guessing game. Most companies don’t take the necessary time to create an organized structure for their interviewing process, often with embarrassing consequences and quite often repelling their top prospects. Yet designing and implementing a well-organized, carefully constructed interview process is one of the most powerful and easy ways to ensure that you draw the best hire.

TakeAway 1: How to Uncover the Truth About the Person in Front of You.
TakeAway 2: How to Structure the Interview to Draw Their Emotional Buy-In.
TakeAway 3: The Anatomy of a Successful Hire: From First Conversation to Offer Acceptance.