HR Companies & HR Consultants in Holmdel, NJ

EnformHR, LLC is a human resources consulting firm based in Holmdel, New Jersey, founded in 2008. Its original target was growing businesses with no in-house HR capability, a segment its founder considered underserved. Over time it has also begun supporting well-established companies whose HR departments want added bandwidth or specialist expertise. Clients choose how much help they want.

The firm can create an HR function from the ground up, act as the official HR manager, or be available for occasional questions and one-off projects.

How Engagements Are Structured

The firm describes its work in three modes. Compliance work involves auditing HR practices, files and forms, updating handbooks and policies, and training managers. Outsourcing means serving as a full-time HR department on a part-time basis. Consulting covers single questions and discrete projects. Roughly half of its clients rely on fully outsourced support, while the others engage it for specific tasks such as payroll, recruitment, investigations or audits.

What Sets It Apart

EnformHR points to flexibility, customization and expertise as its distinguishing traits. Its consultants may work on site or remotely, adjust their time commitment up or down, use either the client's systems or their own, and either perform the work or teach internal staff to do it.

Rather than handing over stock templates and lengthy white papers, the team shapes its output around each client's operations and culture. Its consultants come from varied professional backgrounds, which helps when serving organizations ranging from professional offices to blue-collar operations.

Services

• HR audits, including I-9 and personnel file reviews
• Employee handbooks reflecting current federal and state requirements
• Payroll administration, covering new hire setup, time tracking and reporting
• Recruiting and hiring, from postings and screening to offer letters and background checks
• Performance management, job descriptions and management coaching
• Compliance training, team building, and training and development
• Discipline and termination support and impartial workplace investigations
• Anonymous employee surveys and coordination of drug testing and medical exams
• Strategic partnering focused on advancement paths and bonus structures

Benefits administration is a particular strength. The team works alongside insurance carriers, brokers, third-party administrators and payroll providers on medical, dental, vision, retirement and other plans. It handles enrollments, changes, terminations, COBRA, claims and coverage questions, and invoice review. At renewal it helps shop plans and rates, makes recommendations, and runs open-enrollment meetings. Clients who prefer to manage benefits themselves can have a staff member trained to do so.

Clients and Industries

The client list is wide-ranging. It includes accountants, architects, law firms, medical practices, veterinarians, construction firms and HVAC companies. Manufacturers of chemicals, food, steel and pharmaceuticals appear alongside breweries, distilleries, trucking and logistics companies, venture capital firms and hedge funds. Municipalities, fire departments, churches, charitable foundations and other nonprofits are served as well, along with union and non-union employers, private and publicly traded companies, and businesses operating across several states or abroad.

Leadership

President and CEO Cristina Amyot brings more than 25 years of HR experience. After earning her bachelor's degree, she built the HR infrastructure at a consumer market research start-up, then supported small and mid-sized businesses at Paychex.

During that period she earned the SHRM-SCP credential and worked toward a master's degree in human resources management at Rutgers, where she also completed her undergraduate studies. She opened EnformHR as she neared graduation, and the firm has since served more than 400 clients.

Amyot has spoken at events hosted by the Tri-State Human Resource Management Association, the Garden State SHRM Council and the Minority Business Council of NY/NJ. The company is certified as a Woman's Business Enterprise by the State of New Jersey and through a united certification program tied to several regional transportation agencies.