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In October 2019, when Billy Milam took the helm as CEO of Hire Dynamics, it might have seemed a surprising choice following a 22-year career at convenience store company RaceTrac. He recalls, “It felt like a way to challenge myself outside of my comfort zone, but more importantly, an opportunity to serve a growing company in a meaningful way, within a people–focused culture.”  

Just a year and a half later, Milam has been named to the SIA Staffing 100, a list of the industry’s most influential leaders. He was also recognized as a 2020 Most Admired CEO by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. 

Milam was drawn to Hire Dynamics’ commitment to building the kind of workplace you’d recommend to a friend, finding it a natural fit for the leadership style he strives for – approachable, relatable and authentic.  

Billy’s first task as CEO was ensuring a successful integration of the Trace Staffing acquisition, which expanded the company to 46 branches across Georgia and the Carolinas and significantly increased the employee count. 

Just as this sizable effort was completed, COVID-19 struck, making business as usual impossible. Without hesitation, Milam and the leadership team showed authentic servant leadership by communicating frequently and transparently, with a calm confidence. The result was accelerated growth as the economy recovered from the effects of the pandemic. 

These included drive-through hiring fairs, an aggressive company-wide hiring event called HirePalooza, and increased use of their proprietary Work4HD app. All inventive approaches that streamlined the application and onboarding processes even as they enabled socially distant and safe hiring.  

Under Milam’s leadership, HD teams also launched creative, value-added services for clients including virtual roundtables in which manufacturing and supply chain employers collaborated to find and share safe and healthy solutions to the multiple challenges they were facing. 

In a November 2020 interview with the Atlanta Business Chronicle, Milam shared how his leadership style empowers teams to respond creatively to challenges, “We believe deeply in highly visible leadership. Our senior leaders are constantly in the field shoulder to shoulder with our teams, as well as constantly and consistently communicating with all levels of our organization. So many of our most critical and strategic decisions are crafted and shaped by our team trusting us by providing timely feedback – the good, as well as the feedback that might be tough to hear.” 

COO and Co-Founder Jon Neff says, “I couldn’t have asked for a better person to have at the helm as we’ve faced the challenges of the past year. Billy’s decisive leadership, warmth and human touch, and ability to lead the organization to thrive despite historic economic upheaval, is invaluable.” 

Today, HD has weathered this year of historic turbulence with remarkable success. The expanded company ranks in the top three staffing companies in the Southeast and among the top 1% of all staffing companies nationally. Hire Dynamics puts more than 10,000 people to work every day. In February 2021, it was named a Clearly Rated Best of Staffing winner for both client and talent satisfaction for the 12th consecutive year. Hire Dynamics is one of only 10 or fewer companies to earn both designations every year.  

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