At some point during the life of a business, business founders tend to question whether they really need a HR department. While many HR departments only comprise of a handful of people, businesses are looking to cut on cost of running HR departments by hiring HR consultants to carry out recruitment of new staff on behalf of the firm on per-need basis. Understandably enough for many businesses, HR consultants are not high on the list of their priorities as they have to worry about business development managers and marketing managers as their priorities to help drive business growth. Ironically, you will need the help of a HR consultant to hire these same people that are on top of many businesses list. So what exactly are the duties of a HR consultant? Being that startup hr is a common challenge for many businesses, executive hr recruiters are supposed to develop policies and procedures in startup hr, recruit new staff, ensure training and development of employees as well as ensure