About TRS
Why TRS
Exists.
The right team can move mountains. We've seen it.
Alex Ricciardelli built his career learning to read people under pressure across psychology, cybersecurity sales, and six years in private equity. He co-founded TRS with his best friend John, and his father Nicholas, whose 30+ year career placing talent at companies like Nvidia and Intel gave the firm an unfair head start.
Together they saw an opportunity to build something different. Not just a recruiting firm. A fully proprietary recruiting infrastructure, architected from scratch. The existing tools weren't built by recruiters and weren't keeping up with the most advanced technologies.
The result is a process that consistently outpaces every other firm TRS has competed against. A 50,000+ candidate network. An average time to shortlist under 9 days. And a team that takes full ownership from the first intake call to the signed offer.
Because building the right team isn't just a hiring decision. It's the most important decision a business leader can make.
Principles
What We Believe
Outcomes, not activity
We measure success by hires that stick, not resumes sent.
Technology as a tool
We built our own infrastructure because better tools mean better hiring.
Humans, not just numbers
People talk to people. Intuition, experience, and compassion are invaluable.
Judgment over volume
We'd rather send you three right candidates than thirty wrong ones.
Nothing gets lost
Every detail you share shapes your search. We build systems so context doesn't fall through the cracks.
Always building
We keep improving the system, the process, and ourselves with every search we run.
The People
The Team
A small team with deep experience. We don't scale by hiring junior recruiters. We scale by building better systems.
Alex Ricciardelli
Co-Founder & CEO
Alex brings a background in psychology, cybersecurity sales, and six years in private equity: industries where reading people and making the right call under pressure isn't optional. He leads the firm's growth, client relationships, and vision. Former NCAA D1 golfer at USF.
John Frank
Co-Founder & COO
The builder behind TRS. When the existing recruiting platforms weren't good enough, John built the proprietary infrastructure that powers everything TRS does. He keeps everything operating behind the scenes, from sourcing and scoring to pipeline management and workflow automation.
Nicholas Ricciardelli
Head of Recruiting
30+ years in technical and executive recruiting and staffing. With a background placing talent at companies including Nvidia, Bank of America, and Intel, he brings a gut instinct that no software can replicate and the track record to back it up.
Infrastructure
Built Differently,
By Design
We didn't set out to build a software company. We set out to build a better recruiting firm, and realized the only way to do that was to build the infrastructure ourselves.
Our proprietary system covers the entire workflow: intelligent auto-sourcing, candidate scoring, adaptive multichannel outreach, pipeline management, and interview intelligence. It integrates directly into your Slack or existing tools.
Our in-house software isn't publicly available yet, but it gives our clients a structural edge that no other agency can match.
By the Numbers