Novo Recruiting Announces Launch
Posted on Thu, Oct 30, 2003
(Milwaukee, WI) – Novo Recruiting, Inc. announced today that it has opened an office at 789 North Water Street in downtown Milwaukee. The new professional services firm provides a range of innovative and affordable recruiting solutions to large, medium and small organizations. Working across industries, the firm finds executive, managerial, sales, technical and professional talent for its clients and helps clients improve their recruitment process.
“From this initial office in Milwaukee, our plans are to open offices across the United States in the next five years,” said Mike Harris, co-founder, President and CEO of Novo. “We are off to nice start with over a dozen searches in progress already,” said Harris. Harris, 43, was formerly Chairman and CEO of Jefferson Wells International, the professional services firm headquartered in Milwaukee. He founded Jefferson Wells (originally known as AuditForce) in late 1995 and led its growth to 25 offices, 1,600 employees and $131 million in sales in five years. Jefferson Wells was sold to Manpower, Inc. of Milwaukee in 2001. Harris also co-founded SilverTrain, a Milwaukee-based information technology services firm where he currently serves as Chairman.
Harris’ partner at Novo Recruiting is Cindy Lu, Vice President and Managing Director of the Milwaukee office of Novo. “Effective recruiting can have a significant impact on the success of any business,” said Lu. “At Novo, we help organizations maximize return from their recruitment spending and efforts by minimizing recruiting costs and maximizing the contribution from the talented people we find them,” Lu stated. Lu, 39, previously was the owner of J. Galt & Associates, a Milwaukee boutique recruiting firm. She was also a senior executive for five years at the Parson Group, one of the fastest growing professional service companies in America.
Novo provides a range of recruiting services including:
- Search
- Complete recruiting outsourcing
- Interim support for existing internal recruiting departments
- Consulting and training for improved recruiting results
“Our vision is to be one of the preeminent recruiting services firm in the U.S., offering the market a high-value alternative to the expensive and often inflexible executive and management search firms” said Harris. Lu stressed the strong focus on client service. “In order to stand out in an already crowded recruiting field, we need to serve our clients in a memorable way. At Novo, we are not satisfied until our client has hired great talent at a fair price in the timeframe they specified up front,” said Lu.
Novo Recruiting provides a range of recruiting solutions including search, complete recruiting outsourcing, supporting existing internal recruiting departments and consulting and training to improve recruiting results. The Novo business model allows the most affordable, flexible, innovative and effective recruiting solutions to be offered to the marketplace. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Novo plans to expand across the U.S. over the next five years.