About Rikka
The Building Products Industry’sPeople Expert
For over 20 years, Rikka Brandon has helped LBM dealers and building products companies solve their most persistent challenge: finding, hiring, and keeping the right people.
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:
Industry Recognition
- 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
- Service Provider of the Year for Luxury Products Group
- A best-selling and award-winning author
Speaking
- 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
- Speaks at National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) national events
Publishing & Media
- Host of the LBM Journal’s Recruit + Retain Podcast
- Hiring Expert for Lumber Blue Book – with 2 of the top 5 most-read articles (out of nearly 10,000) in 2022
- Recruiting and hiring content for the Northeastern Retail Lumber Association (NRLA) blog and their Lumber Co-Operator magazine
- Articles for the NKBA.com blog and Kitchen and Bath Business magazine (KBB), plus webinars