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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. |
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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