Recruitment & Benefits Consulting

Your people strategy
is your growth strategy

Nova HR helps business owners, CFOs, and HR leaders at growing companies attract top talent and build benefits programs that actually retain them — without overpaying.

100+ Hires placed
4 yrs In practice
50–500 Employee companies

The real cost of getting this wrong

Mid-market companies lose more money to bad hires and poor benefits design than they realize. These aren't HR problems — they're financial and operational ones.

Benefits costs rising without return

You're spending more on employee benefits each year but still losing people to competitors. Poor plan design is hemorrhaging both dollars and talent.

Hiring is slow and expensive

Lengthy time-to-fill is costing you productivity and revenue. Without a structured process, you're competing on salary alone — and losing.

HR overwhelm as you scale

Your HR team is buried in admin. Nobody owns strategic workforce planning. Compliance gaps are growing faster than your headcount.

Retention is becoming a CFO problem

Turnover costs 50–200% of annual salary per role. When the CFO starts tracking attrition, it's no longer just a people issue — it's a P&L issue.

Two disciplines,
one integrated strategy

Most consultants split recruitment and benefits into separate engagements. Nova HR connects them — because how you hire and how you reward are two sides of the same talent strategy.

01

Recruitment Strategy

Scalable hiring systems that reduce cost-per-hire and time-to-fill — from job architecture to offer strategy.

  • Talent acquisition process design
  • Employer brand positioning
  • Hiring manager training & scorecards
  • Executive and specialist search
  • Compensation benchmarking
02

Benefits Consulting

Redesign benefit programs to maximize employee value while controlling costs — turn your package into a competitive advantage.

  • Benefits plan audit & benchmarking
  • Carrier negotiation & renewal strategy
  • Total rewards communication
  • Open enrollment planning
  • Voluntary & supplemental benefits

Built for the decision-makers

We work with the people who own the outcomes — leaders at companies with 50–500 employees navigating real growth challenges, anywhere in the US.

Business Owner / CEO

You need people systems that scale

You've outgrown founder-mode hiring. You need a repeatable talent engine and a benefits structure that lets you compete for the people who'll get you to the next milestone.

Hiring that doesn't slow revenue Benefits ROI, not just cost control Strategic HR without full-time overhead
CFO / Finance Leader

You need the numbers to make sense

Workforce spend is your second-largest cost center. You want benchmarks, defensible projections, and benefit plan designs that reduce liability — not just renewals.

Total compensation modeling Benefits cost containment strategy Turnover cost analysis & mitigation
HR Director / People Ops

You need a strategic partner, not a vendor

You're managing everything from compliance to culture. You need someone who understands the full people lifecycle and can help you build the case for investment with leadership.

Scalable HR infrastructure Benefits vendor management Exec-level communication support
Sweet spot
50–500 employees · National & remote
Why Nova HR

Strategy first. Execution always.

Not a staffing agency. Not a benefits broker. The consultant who connects both.

Most companies are sold recruitment services and benefits separately — with each vendor optimizing for their own metrics. That's how you end up hiring great people into a package that doesn't retain them.

Nova HR is built on the belief that talent acquisition and total rewards are two inputs to the same output: a workforce that performs and stays.

We work with a focused number of clients at any given time — direct access, fast turnaround, and a consultant who actually knows your business.

01

Cross-functional perspective

Fluent in the language of CFOs, HR leaders, and business owners — we translate people strategy into financial outcomes.

02

Mid-market specialist

Not enterprise playbooks forced onto growing companies. Purpose-built for the 50–500 employee stage.

03

Outcomes, not activity

Every engagement is scoped around specific, measurable results — not billable hours or deliverable counts.

04

Vendor-agnostic

No carrier commissions. No referral arrangements. Every recommendation is driven by what's right for your business.

Let's talk

Ready to make your people spend work harder?

Start with a 30-minute strategy call. No pitch, no pressure — just a direct conversation about where you are and what's possible.

Typically respond within one business day