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When is the right time to hire a full time HR Executive? Is hiring an Interim HR Executive a better solution? What is the right level person to hire in HR to take us where we want to go in the expected time period? How can we be certain that who ever we hire has the capacity to deploy best practices in a cost effective manner? Why have people in the past failed to make the impact we so desperately need?

Scale of Fail is the motto of many Start Up, Fast Company and Inc 500 organizations. Much of our research tells us thousands of companies with excellent products and services fail every day. Our research also tells us that 70% of all companies that never reach their potential, fail to do so because they have the wrong people in the wrong jobs, doing the jobs wrong. In the frenzy of fast growth, many companies overlook the need for making astute people decisions. In most of these cases these companies who did not succeed failed to employ a strategic HR Executive, even on an interim basis. Most of the CEOs we spoke to realized that while they had a technology strategy, a business strategy, a revenue strategy they neglected to employ a people strategy. In most cases hiring an HR Executive was considered a luxury to be enjoyed once the company was profitable. With people costs climbing to almost 42% of operating expenses; in every case, a highly skilled part time Interim HR Executive deploying a strategic people strategy would have made all the difference.

Whether you are hiring a Sales Executive or an Interim HR Executive, you must define what you need from the role in terms of output and Key performance Indicators and in what time frame. Often when KeenHire is called in, we discover that the reason many of our new clients have a history of mis-hires is because they do a poor job of defining the KPI’s and time frames. In some cases our client should have never hired a fulltime HR Executive because they needed specific project implemented that required very focused HR domain expertise that was missing in the person they hired. Rarely does a company secure an HR Executive that comes with all the right stuff to implement a multitude of strategic HR and Talent Management programs. Often a company overpays for an HR title that under delivers. This is where hiring the right Interim HR Executive matters most.

In over 400 interviews with HR Executives and those employing them, KeenHire learned that in most cases what is really needed is an Interim HR Executive skilled in specific segments of Human Resource creation and implementation; such as Talent Acquisition Strategy, Talent Management, HRIS implementation, Workforce Planning, Performance Management, Succession Planning and Employee Retention. Rarely is one person a domain expert in all these areas, and this is where KeenHire’s Interim HR Executive program fills the gap.

We target the most talented senior level consultants in contingent workforce recruitment model. Our Interim HR Executive consultants are highly skilled in each aspect of Human Capital and HR Consulting. We save you time and money by providing you with the Interim HR Executive counsel you need, when you need it. Our HR Executive Consultants come from esteemed backgrounds and successful careers.

KeenHire’s Interim HR Executive team provides your fast growing company with deep HR domain expertise in the areas of Executive Search, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management Strategy, HRIS Selection and Implementation, Employee Retention, Succession planning, HRO, Workforce Planning and Performance Management when you need it.