HR Collaborative provides human resource consulting and management services to small and medium-sized organizations. In the last 18 months, the firm has added seven employees and moved from a one-room, shared office suite to a new office with triple the space.
Beth Kelly, founder, says the firm's growth is a combination of factors, including a resurgence of the economy and employers needing more assistance in "finding the best people for the company." Kelly says before the last recession, it was simple enough for many employers to take out a help wanted add and fill the position. Now, she says it is a much different story; many talented individuals left Michigan during that time and firms are not getting the response they used to when they had jobs to fill.
Another factor in the growth was strategic. Kelly says for many years, she worked with a team of contractors to provide her services but companies were wanting a longer-term relationship with her firm. "We worked for years with partners and consultants but our model began to change and we wanted more stability when clients called and we wanted to work more as a team," she says.
Although Kelly has experience working with organizations ranging from two employees to large corporations, she describes their firm's "sweet spot" as organizations with between 25-50 employees, growing at a pace that the the human resource issues are becoming more complex but, at the same time, are not in a position to create a full-time, internal human resource team.
Kelly says she hired her first employee in June of 2013 and now has a team of eight. Her new office space is at 678 Front Ave NW, Suite 265. She says future hiring needs will be evaluated in 2015.
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Writer: John Rumery, Innovation and Jobs New Editor
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