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Headway Workforce Solutions is a leading B2B (Business to Business) provider of workforce solutions with an array of contract-based integrated services and national staffing solutions.
Our managed services approach provides substantial operating performance improvements and cost savings over traditional staffing for industries with complex, recurring, multi-location human capital needs.
Over the past five years Headway has provided services to over 500 discrete companies, primarily in the retail, financial services, survey research, and marketing and scientific research sectors.
History
Founded in 1974, Headway has transitioned in the last five years from a traditional staffing company to a technology-driven centralized business process outsourcing model.
Our approach leverages advances in technology and social media connectivity to meet the complex challenges of large-scale contingent and/or permanent employee recruitment, contingent workforce outsourcing, human resources and workforce optimization.
Headway’s breadth of coverage in our focus sectors is unparalleled, covering 90% of all US zip codes for retail and survey research personnel. Central to Headway’s vision and strategy is the partnership driven methodology with clients, candidates, employees and stakeholders.
Mission Statement
Our mission at Headway Workforce Solutions is to set the standard for the human capital profession by implementing a client-focused approach that provides both job seekers and employers with a high-touch, best-in-class service model. Our ongoing commitment to the provision of impeccable service to our clients is exemplified by the numerous multi-year service delivery contracts; our top ten customers have an average tenure with Headway of almost 20 years.
Vision and Focus
Passionate about our work and dedicated to our clients, Headway is committed to exceeding expectations in the human capital service sector.
Job Seekers
We strive to place qualified job seekers in positions that best suit their particular needs and aspirations. Headway helps you connect with some of the most prestigious brands in the market—matching you with our client projects and employers nationwide.
With more than 40 years’ experience, our staff works with each candidate to understand their current needs and career goals. With open positions in the research, retail, professional, light industrial and contact center sectors, we are able to find the job that best fits our candidates skills—and helps them succeed.
We are passionate about connecting our clients with superior talent and creating workforce solutions. Leveraging our 40 years’ of experience in the retail, research and professional sectors—in conjunction with our proprietary candidate pool of over two million nationwide—Headway offers substantially more than the average staffing firm.
Our employer of record, workforce management, payroll services and HR administrative outsourcing services enable us to provide high-quality, customized process driven solutions that meet our clients’ specific needs. We are an established leader among recruitment process outsourcing companies.
JP Sakey has a passion for business with over three decades of experience in executive leadership roles, having served, for the past 13 years, as CEO of Headway. He began his foray into the human capital sector with the buyout of SPEC Group Holdings, and subsequently fostered a ten-fold growth over a six year period before SPEC was acquired by TMP Worldwide. JP has served as president of Monster.com’s e-Resourcing Americas group, has been an advisory member of the North Carolina Governor’s Innovation Council, and was recognized by Human Resource Outsourcing Today with their prestigious HRO Super Star Provider Award for his vison, influence and tenacity.
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Joe Yelenic President & COO
As a licensed CPA with over thirty years of financial management experience, primarily in HR outsourcing and temporary staffing industries, Joe provides strategic financial and operational leadership for Headway Workforce Solutions managing a team of senior executives in the provision of human capital solutions that promote innovation, drive efficiencies and exceed client expectations. Joe and JP Sakey have long been an effective entrepreneurial team, beginning with the buyout of SPEC Group Holdings, where Joe helped facilitate six years of accelerated growth before its acquisition by TMP Worldwide. In 2004, the two joined forces again when Joe became the chief financial officer at Headway. Since then Joe has been instrumental in overseeing Headway’s tremendous growth with revenues currently exceeding $130M.
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John Schuller EVP & COO, CORE
With over fifteen years of complex project management experience and an MA in business administration, John Schuller provides strategic leadership for the CORE Service Delivery team. He manages a team of program and account managers focused upon the achievement of client-based objectives while implementing cutting edge technologies that keep Headway Workforce Solutions at the forefront of the human capital solutions sector. John oversees pricing, budgeting and contract management while working closely with the Sales and Business Development team to ensure client satisfaction through adherence to contractual SLAs.
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Joshua Rivera EVP & CAO
Shared Services
Joshua Rivera has been employed with Headway for 25 years in a number of different positions, including payroll processor, billing coordinator and systems analyst. Currently, Joshua leads and coordinates the Shared Services Group, which combines the management functions of payroll, billing, and onboarding. He establishes and implements short- and long-range departmental policies and objectives with the view to maximizing efficiencies while simultaneously providing a high level of consultative services to all levels of field office and client management. In addition, Joshua manages payroll and billing on a weekly processing schedule for 15,000 employees a year.
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Mary Thornbury
With fifteen plus years’ experience working in the staffing industry, HR Certifications from HRCI and SHRM and a degree in psychology from Meredith College, Mary Thornbury provides strategic HR support at Headway Workforce Solutions in legal compliance, employee relations, benefits administration and compensation review. Together with her HR team, Mary manages unemployment and workplace safety and injuries, compensation, corporate payroll processing and all leaves of absence. She is responsible for managing benefits plans and compliance in fifty states, filing applicable government reports, and, in addition, works with various offsite HR teams in the management and resolution of employee grievances. Mary is a professional member of both SHRM National and the Raleigh Wake Human Resources Chapter.
Center for Operational and Recruitment Excellence (CORE)
CORE is a shared-services delivery platform that functions as a central resource for our offerings. It was strategically developed its to optimize and centralize talent networks and acquisition, candidate screening and database management, and centralized support processing for payroll and HR administration.
HEADWAY’S CORE: Advanced Recruiting Power
High-Volume, High-Quality Talent Sourcing, Screening, and Placement
CORE uses cutting-edge tools and technologies to provide nationwide recruitment solutions, specializing in the identification and placement of skilled and hard-to-find candidates when and where you need them.
Nationwide Recruitment
Sourcing, Screening, and Assessment
Dedicated Recruitment Teams
Advanced e-Recruiting Technologies
Regional Service Delivery Network
Proprietary Database of 2 Million Candidates
Through CORE, Headway enables organizations to achieve superior recruitment results at a cost-effective price point relative to typical internal hiring efforts.