Tracey Austin, director of our Fairfield, New Jersey office, talks today about the dilemma faced by small business owners trying to grow their businesses while keeping costs in line.
Success has its drawbacks for entrepreneurs when they discover the challenge of simultaneously growing their business and doing the work. They need help fast.
How can you hire the top pros you need – with the right expertise, who can hit the ground running – without paying top salaries and benefits that big companies can offer?
Use a ‘secret weapon’ — a virtually untapped workforce of “MBA moms” who are eager to put their advanced degrees and years of in-depth expertise to work on a part-time and flexible basis.
They are innumerable CFOs, marketing executives, senior brand managers, public relations, human resources, and financial executives who are looking for non-traditional work arrangements and are willing to weigh that desire against top salary and benefits to work on a flexible basis. As a result they are coming to the aid of small business owners who cannot offer top-tier salaries or benefits but are ready and willing to offer flexible scheduling. Telecommuting is particularly appealing to entrepreneurs who can ’staff up’ without having to take on the additional overhead of bigger office space.
These MBA Moms are women who may have been downsized or quit for lack of flexibility from their employers in the past. They are a human resources pot of gold for the small business owner. Not all have MBAs, of course. But all are highly regarded in their fields, women who have put in 10 - 20 years in the workplace, have diverse backgrounds and years of expertise and are able to get down to business ASAP. The highest level of productivity is the reward.
Tracey Austin
taustin@flexibleresources.com
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