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Daniel O. Hydrick is the founder and CEO of Hygun Group, Inc., a Veteran owned, National and Global Executive Recruiting firm in the Engineering and Science business for over 20 years.  Hygun Group works in conjunction with Engineering Consulting firms to help with their strategic recruiting efforts.  These clients range from start up firms to some of the world's largest Engineering Consultants.  Hygun recruits all levels of candidates from Executives to Entry Level and is known for "Building Companies".  Through Hygun Group's "CORE" practice, he and the Senior Partners have established a system of coaching candidates and clients on the right approach to career moves, hiring practices and interview capture, to work toward a win/win hiring system.

Dan joined the United States Army after high school, graduating from the US Army school of Engineering with Honors.  He proudly served as a Sergeant attached to the Americal Division in Viet Nam.  Continuing his engineering experience from the military, Dan furthered his education in Colorado and graduated with his degree in Sanitary Engineering. After completing his tenure with Public Service Company of Colorado and as a Union negotiator for Local IBEW, he assisted the company in the transfer to the newly formed City of Evergreen, its Municipal Water Infrastructure.  He served as the City Manager while working with the educators of the State of Colorado in the development of the first state Water Treatment Plant Operators Licensing Board's testing procedure.  He was recruited to be both National and International Director for a Geological Oil and Gas Exploration Service Company, assisting in the education and development of new technologies in exploration drilling.

Dan then started his recruiting career with Management Recruiters International in the Corporate Banking business during the challenging Savings and Loan Crisis in the 1980's, assisting banking institutions rebuild their human capital need.  After several years as one of the top billers and trainer for the MRI recruiting teams, Dan went back to his roots to focus on Engineering and decided to open up his own recruiting firm and founded Hygun Group, Inc. 

On a personal note Dan is an avid Martial Artist (7th Degree Black Belt, Korean Karate, 6th Degree Okinawan Karate and a Weapons Master) and has served as a National Chief Referee for the United States Amateur Athletics Union, Tae Kwon Do Associations and has gone on to develop a nationally recognized women’s self defense coarse known as A.C.T. (Assailant Control Techniques) for women.


Christian Hydrick is COO and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for Hygun Group, Inc.    He started with the firm as a research assistant and after graduating from the University of Alabama with a degree in Business was chosen to open the Los Angeles, CA recruiting office for Hygun Group. After successfully establishing a West Coast presence, he was promoted to Regional Vice President and expanded the region to include the Bellevue, WA office.  He was then promoted by the Board of Directors to COO and relocated back to Corporate Headquarters in Atlanta, Ga. where he was given the operational responsibilities for the success of the largest, multi-million dollar retainer in Hygun Group history. Thru all these responsibilities, Christian has continued to maintain an active retainer recruitment role, and while heading up the National Land Development Desk his teams also have experience in Environmental, Water/Wastewater, Water Resources and Geotechnical. With the engineering talent pool continuing to decline in numbers, Christian’s teams have continued to achieve a placement rate of 97% on retainers.

While working at Hygun Group he also built and ran a nationally ranked martial arts school.  Christian has taught/coached multiple AAU Jr. Olympic Gold medal Tae Kwon Do champions and has been studying martial arts for 24 years.  He is also an instructor for a women’s self defense system he and his father developed and have done seminars on, across the country. 

“The greatest downfall for an employer in this industry today, is the belief that there will always be talent available.  So the urgency in the hiring process when you identify the right person is not necessary.”  Christian Hydrick


Dana Morelly is the Administration Manager and serves on the Board of Directors for Hygun Group, Inc. Dana has over eighteen year’s professional administrative experience, the last ten years with Hygun Group, Inc.  Her career with Hygun Group started when she was recruited for the Office Manager position.  Within a short period of time she was promoted to her current position and is responsible for the full scope of running the office and the administrative staff. She is a key member of the Hygun Group Management team and in 2006 Dana was appointed to the Hygun Group, Inc. Board of Directors. 

Prior to joining Hygun Group, Inc. Dana was the Executive Assistant to the Sales & Marketing Department at Royal Oak Enterprises headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.   


Ryan Goodman, Senior Associate, has been in Recruiting for over 15 years since his days at Iowa State.  In 2003 Ryan was recruited by Hygun Group as a Senior Executive Recruiter for Federal Programs and International Infrastructure.  His responsibilities include client management, business development, strategic planning, staff mentoring and development.  His primary goal is to develop long term partnerships with his clients and candidates. 

 Ryan started his Executive Recruiting career right out of college by recruiting Engineering Contractors in the Midwest for an Engineering Contract Shop in Davenport.  He later moved to Des Moines to start an Engineering Recruiting Division of a franchise for one of the top three Recruiting firms in the world.  After several years in Des Moines, Ryan was recruited to Atlanta and went into the corporate arena as a Technical Recruiter for an Inc. 100 company.  In 2003 Ryan was recruited back into the agency side of the business.  This time to play a major role in a firm that specializes in strategic Retained Executive Searches in the Engineering & Science industry, Hygun Group, Inc.  He graduated from Iowa State with a BS in History, a BS in Public Relations and from the University of Phoenix a MBA in E-Business.   


Bob Collins, Sr. Networking Recruiter, is a highly skilled & trained recruiter of Professional Engineers in the Civil & Environmental engineering industry.  With 15 years of sales, marketing, networking and recruiting experience he was asked to join Hygun Group as our Sr. Networking Recruiter due to his networking and sourcing expertise. Bob is a Senior Networking Executive Recruiter specializing in Geotechnical, Land Development, Transportation, Water/Wastewater and Water Resources. 

Bob started his career in sales with AFLAC as an independent agent in Americus, GA.  He then joined Comcast and relocated to Charleston, SC to work in the marketing department.  His sole responsibility was sales and public marketing.  He also played a key role in the development of new specialized marketing teams.  At which time he returned to Georgia and assisted Comcast in the launch of the Comcast @Home product.  Bob helped to build a new marketing team as well as planned & coordinated events to promote the new service.  Bob was then recruited away from Comcast by a cabling and integration firm in Atlanta. Within a year Bob established his own consultant firm.  He successfully ran his firm for 6 years before being approached with a recruitment opportunity with MRI International.  Bob’s focus with MRI International was in the recruitment of medical sales professionals.  He very successfully recruited on the VP & district management level, as well as specialty representatives. 

Bob is a native of Georgia, growing up in Americus, GA. Bob earned his BS in Sociology and a minor in management from Georgia Southwester University.

 


 
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