Rick’s Bio

Author. Speaker. Trainer. Innovator

Rick Gillis is a speaker, author, and trainer dedicated to helping workers understand their true value on the job and be paid accordingly­. He has been sharing his expertise on fair pay for over twenty years and has helped countless individuals and companies achieve a more balanced and equitable workplace.

Rick’s mission today? To level the ‘paying’ field regarding compensation, BUT not without a FAIR RETURN TO EMPLOYERS.

Rick’s diverse background includes working in the family hardware store as a young boy, followed by a stint in the US Air Force. After that, he sold cars (“the best job I ever hated”) while completing a degree in business management. Upon obtaining that degree, Rick moved into a highly successful commercial real estate career that lasted 10 years until the opportunity to relocate to Houston, TX, came along.

In Houston, Rick, as the sales guy, became the face of and was actively involved in the remarkable success of the first two job boards in the greater Houston, Texas, area.

Over nearly ten years of calling on professionals in the staffing business and countless Human Resource professionals, Rick learned job search—really learned job search—by paying attention to what those professionals wanted to see on a résumé and hear in an interview.

Recognizing that what he was learning in the offices of people who actually hired was significantly different from what he was seeing online or hearing at career events, Rick created his highly successful, online-application-friendly, Accomplishments-Based Résumé format and has written several job and career-related books.

Rick very quickly realized that hourly and salaried workers all to often could not express their professional value. He started developing a method to help these professionals understand their worth in order to advocate for fair compensation and land that next great opportunity.

Rick’s method has come to be known as The QTNT^® (pronounced ‘Quotient’). This simple and powerful process determines the value of a worker’s contributions to their employer and helps individuals and companies develop a highly equitable and more productive workplace.

Rick’s work has been praised by the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, and Inc. among others. He has written numerous books and articles and has shared his message and methodologies with audiences across the US.

Rick is the creator of The QTNT, an all new metric for determining the value a person delivers to their company Over & Above what they are responsible for.
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And, Rick is seeking a few brave souls who would like to invest in, and learn the QTNT in order to train others in ground breaking process. An investment is required.