Forging Legacies
One Company at a Time

Legacy Forge

Talent Management

Forging Legacies
One Company at a Time

A Better Way to Hire, Retain, and Grow Your Team

Legacy Forge Talent Management provides embedded, fractional talent management for small and mid-sized businesses that need experienced hiring and people support without the cost of building a full internal talent department.

We go beyond filling an open position. We become part of your team, learn your business, understand where you are going, and help build the people, processes, and structure needed to support sustainable growth.

Talent management from hire to retain to transition — built around your business.

Recruiting Should Solve More Than One Vacancy

Traditional recruiting often focuses on a single transaction: find a candidate, make the placement, collect the fee, and move on.
But hiring challenges rarely begin or end with one open position.
A growing business needs to understand who it should hire, how that person fits into the organization, how to attract the right candidates, how to evaluate them effectively, how to onboard them properly, and how to retain great employees once they are there.
Legacy Forge provides a different approach.

We work alongside business owners and leadership teams as an embedded talent partner, helping develop long-term solutions instead of temporary fixes.

Recruiting Should Solve More Than One Vacancy

We work alongside business owners and leadership teams as an embedded talent partner, helping develop long-term solutions instead of temporary fixes.

Fractional Talent Management

Experienced Talent Leadership Without the Full-Time Overhead

Growing companies often reach a point where hiring becomes too complicated for the owner or leadership team to manage alone — but hiring a full-time Talent Director or recruiter may not make sense yet.

Legacy Forge fills that gap.

You gain access to experienced talent management leadership that can help establish the systems, processes, and strategy your organization needs while adapting our involvement to your company’s actual needs.

Support Can Include:

Talent and workforce planning
Hiring strategy
Job description development
Candidate sourcing
Applicant management
Interview coordination
Candidate evaluation
Offer letter support
Hiring process development
Employee retention strategy
Current talent management
Hiring manager support
HR and compliance assistance
Employee transition and termination support
Recruiting process documentation
Internal hiring team development

Our goal is not to make your company permanently dependent on us.

Our goal is to help build a stronger organization.

We Don't Just Recruit for Your Company. We Learn Your Company.

Finding someone with the right experience is only part of making a successful hire.

The right person also needs to fit the company’s leadership, expectations, culture, growth plans, and long-term needs.

That requires understanding the business behind the job description.

Legacy Forge works directly with owners, executives, and hiring managers to understand what the organization truly needs before recruiting begins.

From there, we can manage the hiring process from initial strategy through offer while helping establish the infrastructure needed to retain employees after they join the company.

This creates a talent strategy designed to support the next hire — and the next stage of growth.

We Don't Just Recruit for Your Company. We Learn Your Company.

Finding someone with the right experience is only part of making a successful hire.

The right person also needs to fit the company’s leadership, expectations, culture, growth plans, and long-term needs.

That requires understanding the business behind the job description.

Legacy Forge works directly with owners, executives, and hiring managers to understand what the organization truly needs before recruiting begins.

From there, we can manage the hiring process from initial strategy through offer while helping establish the infrastructure needed to retain employees after they join the company.

This creates a talent strategy designed to support the next hire — and the next stage of growth.

Embedded Talent Management

We Don't Just Recruit for Your Company. We Learn Your Company.

Finding someone with the right experience is only part of making a successful hire.

The right person also needs to fit the company’s leadership, expectations, culture, growth plans, and long-term needs.

That requires understanding the business behind the job description.

Legacy Forge works directly with owners, executives, and hiring managers to understand what the organization truly needs before recruiting begins.

From there, we can manage the hiring process from initial strategy through offer while helping establish the infrastructure needed to retain employees after they join the company.

This creates a talent strategy designed to support the next hire — and the next stage of growth.

An Alternative to Traditional Recruiting

Stop Paying for Placements. Start Building a Talent Strategy.

Traditional recruiting firms commonly charge a significant percentage of a new employee’s salary for a single placement.

Once the hire is made, their involvement often ends.

Legacy Forge was created around a different idea.

Instead of approaching recruiting as a transaction, we approach talent as an ongoing business function.

We help answer larger questions:

Are you hiring the right position?
Is the job structured correctly?
Does compensation align with expectations?
Are managers prepared to interview effectively?
Does your onboarding process support retention?
Are there internal issues causing employee turnover?
What talent will the company need as it grows?

Sometimes the best recommendation is to hire immediately.

Sometimes it is to change the role.

Sometimes it is to develop an existing employee.

And sometimes it is to build enough internal capability that you eventually need less support from Legacy Forge.

Our recommendations are based on what is best for your business.

From Hiring Problem to Hiring Process

A Talent Management Partnership Built Around Your Company

1.

Understand the Business

We begin with an intake conversation to understand your company, leadership team, current challenges, growth plans, and hiring needs.

2.

Build the Strategy

Before searching for candidates, we determine what the organization actually needs and develop the role, job description, hiring process, and recruiting strategy.

3.

Find the Right People

We manage sourcing, applicants, interviews, evaluations, communication, and the steps required to move strong candidates through the process.

4.

Support the Hire

Once the right candidate is identified, we help move the process through final decisions and offer.

5.

Strengthen Retention

The work does not stop when someone accepts the job. We help evaluate onboarding, management practices, employee experience, and other factors that influence retention.

6.

Prepare for Growth

As your company develops, we help establish repeatable processes and can train internal team members to manage routine recruiting while Legacy Forge remains available for strategy, difficult searches, or higher-level talent needs.

Long-Term Solutions for Long-Term People Challenges

Embedded Partnership

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Tailored Strategy

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Integrity Over Transactions

Support Beyond Hiring

People-First Approach

Embedded Partnership

We work closely enough with your company to understand the people behind the positions and the business behind the hiring decisions.

Tailored Strategy

People-First Approach

Integrity Over Transactions

Support Beyond Hiring

When You Need Talent Leadership — But Not Another Full-Time Salary

Legacy Forge is designed for small and mid-sized companies that are growing, hiring, or experiencing people-related challenges but are not ready to build a large internal recruiting or HR department.

We can help when:

Owners are spending too much time recruiting
Hiring managers are overwhelmed with applicants
Positions remain open too long
The company is preparing to scale
Recruiting feels inconsistent or reactive
Employee turnover is becoming expensive
Hiring processes have never been formally developed
Leadership needs experienced guidance before making a major hire
A full-time recruiter or Talent Director does not yet make financial sense

Instead of adding another permanent executive-level salary, Legacy Forge gives growing companies access to experienced talent leadership when they need it.

Experience Matters When You're Building a Team

Legacy Forge Talent Management is backed by more than a decade of recruiting and HR experience across organizations of different sizes and industries.

Our experience includes hiring everything from entry-level employees to C-suite leadership, working within union and non-union environments, developing recruiting systems and processes, managing teams, and helping organizations scale.

With more than 500 hires throughout a career in talent and leadership, we understand that the impact of a hiring decision extends far beyond filling a position.

The right hire can help move a company forward.

The wrong hire can affect productivity, culture, leadership, customers, and profitability.

That experience is why Legacy Forge focuses on understanding the entire situation before recommending the next hire.

Support Can Include:

Recruiting experience since 2013
10+ years of HR experience
8+ years of management experience
500+ career hires
Experience hiring entry-level through C-suite positions
Union and non-union workforce experience
Recruiting system and process development
Manufacturers Business Association training
Basic HR certification
Advanced HR certification
HIPAA training
15 years of business ownership experience

Our Values

Integrity: We make recommendations based on what we believe is best for the client.
Transparency: You will always know what we are seeing, what we recommend, and why.
Service: Our role is to support the people building the business.
Respect: Candidates, employees, managers, and owners deserve to be treated professionally throughout every stage of the process.
People First: Hiring is ultimately about connecting good people with organizations where they can contribute, grow, and succeed.

Integrity Isn't a Marketing Statement

It’s How We Make Decisions.

There have been times when the easiest decision would have been to move forward with a candidate and complete the placement.

But when something did not feel right, we recommended stopping the process — even knowing it would delay the engagement.

That candidate ultimately moved through multiple jobs shortly afterward.

Those decisions define Legacy Forge.

We would rather lose a placement than recommend a decision we do not believe is right for your company.

Because a real talent partner should be willing to tell you what you need to hear, not simply what moves the transaction forward.

Bring the Human Back to Hiring

Hiring should not feel like repeatedly paying large placement fees and hoping the next candidate works out.

It should be part of a thoughtful strategy for building the organization you want to become.

Legacy Forge Talent Management helps growing businesses build that strategy — combining recruiting expertise, talent management, retention support, compliance guidance, and long-term workforce planning into a flexible partnership.

Let's Talk About Your Talent Strategy

Legacy Forge Talent Management
814.673.3315
Kartman@legacyforgetm.com

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Bring the Human Back to Hiring

Hiring should not feel like repeatedly paying large placement fees and hoping the next candidate works out.

It should be part of a thoughtful strategy for building the organization you want to become.

Legacy Forge Talent Management
814.673.3315
Kartman@legacyforgetm.com