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.

Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

• Multi-state presence enables hybrid workforce compliance across Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan.
• Fractional CHRO services meet rising demand from small-to-mid-market companies.
• Leadership development taps urgent succession planning needs in mid-market firms.

What critics are saying

• BambooHR and Workday automate services at 50-70% lower cost, eroding retainers.
• ADP undercuts pricing with payroll-HR bundles targeting Ohio-Kentucky clients.
• Ohio SB 142 mandates AI bias audits July 2026, exposing manual processes to lawsuits.

What makes Strategic HR unique

• Clark Schaefer Strategic HR provides outsourced HR since 1995 for lean departments.
• Firm offers full-cycle services aligning HR with business strategy in Ohio-Kentucky-Michigan.
• Customized recruitment, training, and compliance without adding client headcount.

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