Strategic HR

Strategic HR

Outsourced HR services: recruitment, compliance

Overview

Clark Schaefer Strategic HR provides outsourced HR services for businesses across industries, offering recruitment, compliance, training, and development. They work by assessing client HR needs, handling end-to-end recruitment and job placement, ensuring labor-law compliance, designing and delivering training programs, and supporting leadership development. Billing can be hourly, project-based, or retainer, and they offer SHRM-recognized professional development credits to help clients maintain HR certifications. What sets them apart is a relationship-focused, tailored approach that combines recruitment with compliance and development services, serving a broad range of clients—from small businesses to national corporations—from their Cincinnati base. The company's goal is to improve the lives of its clients, employees, and communities by delivering high-quality HR services.

About Strategic HR

Simplify's Rating
Why Strategic HR is rated
C+
Rated C on Competitive Edge
Rated B on Growth Potential
Rated C on Differentiation

Industries

Consulting

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

M&A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Cincinnati, Ohio

Founded

1995

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • March 2026 webinars show active demand for HR guidance around delegation and workforce shifts.
  • January 2026 plant-startup recruiting delivered 50-plus hires, proving high-volume execution.
  • The 2026 AI policy article positions Strategic HR to sell urgent compliance advisory work.

What critics are saying

  • AI-driven HR policy work commoditizes consulting as clients automate screening and documentation.
  • Cincinnati rivals and national firms can undercut pricing on outsourced recruiting quickly.
  • A failed integration inside Clark Schaefer could dilute Strategic HR's brand by 2026.

What makes Strategic HR unique

  • Clark Schaefer acquired Strategic HR in 2021, pairing HR outsourcing with accounting depth.
  • Strategic HR specializes in fractional HR, recruitment, compliance, training, and benefits support.
  • Its January 2026 Kadant case study shows startup manufacturing recruiting execution at scale.

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Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Holidays

Paid Vacation

Health Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Company News

The Business Journals
May 3rd, 2021
Clark Schaefer Co acquires Strategic Human Resources Inc

Downtown-based Clark Schaefer Hackett acquired Strategic HR Inc., a Sycamore Township-based o utsourced human resources management firm that also has offices in Dayton, Northern Kentucky and Louisville.

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