Human Resource Consultants New Mexico

HR consulting for growing New Mexico employers

The firm behind this listing is headquartered in Albuquerque and offers human resources consulting across the full range of HR work. Its client work began in 1999, mostly with small and medium-sized organizations, and it either runs HR on an outsourced basis or adds support to a department that is stretched. The firm says it knows all aspects of HR and New Mexico employment law, and its stated mission is to give growing companies high-quality, cost-effective HR help where they need added staff or outside expertise. Its goal is to become part of each client's management team.

Problems clients bring

The firm describes the signs that a company needs it: no employee handbook, job descriptions or policies; a pay plan that does not attract or keep people; a benefits plan nobody has reviewed for cost and fit with the workforce; difficulty hiring and checking criminal history and backgrounds; HR projects that never get done because daily issues take over; worry about compliance with state and federal rules; and uncertainty about how to carry out a termination lawfully.

Services in detail

• Policy manuals, employee handbooks and job descriptions
• Compensation consulting, including executive and board of director programs
• Recruitment, talent acquisition, drug testing and background investigations
• HR audits: an on-site review of policies, procedures, forms, personnel files and I-9 documents, ending in a confidential report with recommendations
• In-house investigations of harassment and discrimination complaints, conducted under the supervision of a labor attorney, and responses to formal agency complaints
• Sexual harassment training, management and leadership development, organizational development and succession planning
• Affirmative action plans, family and medical leave compliance, and safety programs

Case work it describes

One example involved a mortgage funding company of about a hundred employees that had set pay by salary history and negotiating skill, and engaged the firm to design a compensation program from scratch. Another was a non-profit association of thirty-five staff that had few HR processes: the firm audited its HR, recruited a first HR manager and built a first-year plan from the audit.

How an engagement starts

A telephone call or online inquiry begins it, followed by a meeting to understand the scope. The client then receives a proposal setting out the work, project plan, delivery dates and consultant credentials.

Human Resource Consultants New Mexico is a full-service HR consulting firm headquartered in Albuquerque. It has worked since 1999 with small and medium-sized clients, either as an outsourced HR function or as extra support for an existing one. The firm covers employment law in New Mexico.

Services

• Policies and handbooks: writes employee handbooks, job descriptions and policy manuals.
• Compensation: designs pay structures, including programmes for executives and board members.
• Recruitment and talent acquisition: sourcing candidates, with background and criminal-history checks.
• Compliance: audits and policy work for federal and state employment law, plus support with terminations.
• Training and development: management and leadership courses, organisational development and succession planning.
• Safety programmes and benefits review: checks whether a benefits plan fits the workforce.

Clients

Organisations without a full HR department, or with one that is stretched, and that want practical help with day-to-day people issues.

Key facts

• Based in: Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Operating since: 1999