As a Hiring Consultant, I love to help businesses like yours to create a recruitment and hiring process that is cost effective, easily repeated and allows you to find the talented employees you need as you need them. No more having to justify paying tens of thousands of dollars to a staffing agency for a single hire OR being left unable to find the right employee for the job despite your best efforts OR WORSE settling for a “they will have to do” hire. Instead, your money gets spent on building your own recruitment and hiring process that gets you the results you want and need. Now I have no hard feelings toward the staffing industry. They serve a function, and I am very grateful for the time I spent in that industry. There just needed to be a better option for businesses like yours, and I provide that option. My goal has always been to help as many companies like yours as possible to find the talented employees you need to achieve the greatest business success possible, and I love what I do.
My journey into the world of recruitment and hiring began back in 1992 as an Assistant Manager working at a McDonald’s restaurant. During this time, I found that I most enjoyed the human resources aspects of my position. A realization that led me to leave McDonald’s and go back to school to get a Human Resources Management Diploma. My newly acquired education, combined with my years of experience at McDonald’s, allowed me to quickly find a position with UPS as an HR Generalist. A key responsibility for this position was recruitment and hiring and… I LOVED IT SO MUCH!! Helping to make sure that the company was hitting its hiring goals while ensuring we were finding the right employees for those positions was so challenging and exciting. It gave me a sense of purpose like I had never felt before. This was the part of HR that I wanted to do more than any other, so I made the decision to find a way to focus on it. This led me to apply to staffing agencies since recruitment and hiring were what they did. I landed a job with a local agency and thus began an 18-year career in the staffing industry.
In 2009, I decided to open my own staffing agency called HireSuccess Staffing. A business that I ran for 10 years during which time we received multiple “Top Choice” and “Consumer Choice” awards for our service. As owner and CEO, I constantly looked for ways that we could improve how we recruited and hired the perfect people for our clients. A quest that consistently took me to conferences and training courses with many of the top recruitment and hiring experts in North America. There I learned the latest and best practices. Knowledge that allowed me to continuously improve the systems and processes we used to recruit and hire the people that helped our clients take their businesses to the next level of success, but I could see a problem brewing.
Over my ten years as a staffing agency owner, the number of small and medium businesses opening increased exponentially. Just like the large and mega businesses who regularly used staffing agencies, these small and medium businesses needed help in finding the talented employees to succeed in their markets. The problem was that the cost was just too much for many of them to afford or justify. This left these businesses to muddle through some ad-hoc recruitment and hiring process that usually left them disappointed. I did everything that I could to help these businesses including rolling out a flat-fee structure that offered pricing unheard of in the staffing industry, but I could see this was not enough. After much personal and professional consideration, I came to the decision to close my staffing agency and focus on helping these small and medium businesses as a Hiring Consultant. A decision that I have never looked back on.
I hope that I have the chance to help your business to develop a recruitment and hiring process that not only finds you the talented employees you need but also becomes a competitive advantage. Great employees build great companies. Let’s find your great employees together.