The role of the HR department in the enterprise is given more and more attention and resources, and for good reason, because a modern manager understands that a successful business is the personal success of each of its employees, and it is HR that is called upon not only to find and successfully apply the very creative way to identify and attract the right candidate, but also constant training and assistance in self-realization to each member of the team for the sake of general growth and harmonization of both relations within the company’s community and business success in general.

But how exactly to select specialists in the HR department, and what qualities should they have – this is a good question that requires experience, because such a specialist should not only be a professional in certain area, but the one who can develop staff in all areas, regardless of specialization and type of expertise of each team member, we also can help you to hire sales and marketing specialists.

Only a true Human Resources Professional can find a good specialist for the HR department, and this is the work that we, a VIP HR recruiting agency, have been successfully doing for more than 10 years for leading companies in New York and Miami.

What positions of HR department do we cover?

Depending on the size of the company’s staff, as well as the specialization of the business, a specialist in the human resources department can be either a highly specialized employee or a specialist combining several key functions. As for our agency, we have experience of successfully filling vacancies for up to two weeks for such positions:

Human Resources Positions

• Benefits/Compensation
• HR Manager
• Employee Relations
• Recruiting
• Team-Lead
• Training and Development Specialist (T&D)
• HR Generalists
• HR Analyst
• Executive Management
• HR Business Partner
• HR Consultants

In addition, we successfully consult and conduct trainings for colleagues from different companies, which is especially important during the period of working adaptation.

What should an HR employee be able to do?

The HR specialist is a person who:

1. Has a fine command of psychological techniques, because you need to find not just a specialist with a certain diploma and experience, but exactly the right piece of the puzzle
2. Knows how to immerse himself in the profession of the one to be found. It is extremely important for a recruiter to see the nuances, understand the meaning of terms, speak the same language with the candidate
3. Has idea how to create a portrait of a candidate based on the wishes of the employer, as well as register a vacancy in such a way that it is of interest to the candidate for the position, that is, who knows how to sell the brand idea and, at the same time, who knows how to hear and motivate
4. Is able to clearly set tasks and plan the workflow competently, who understands that delaying hiring leads to a loss of candidate interest, as well as company profits

How to understand that a company needs its own HR specialist?

According to our experience, the need for in-house HR appears when the number of employees approaches a hundred. However, this indicator entirely depends on the type of activity. Nevertheless, as a rule, recruiters and HR managers from outsourcing do an excellent job of resolving issues related to the work of personnel up to this point.

If the number of staff has exceeded a hundred, this is a sure sign that you already need your own HR department, and if up to this number of employees one specialist can easily cope with the work, then the number of HR managers will grow with the increasing number of staff.

The advantages of their own HR department are that such specialists will understand and know much better from the inside how the company lives, what personal, and not only professional qualities are important for a new employee, what the staff lacks for better work, who would do better, while he is in another position, etc.