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Hire an HR consultant in Greece and Cyprus
A people practice beyond payroll: hiring, retention, structure, and development built for the company you actually run.
In much of the Greek and Cypriot mid-market, HR has meant payroll and paperwork: contracts issued, leave tracked, the annual review form circulated and filed. The real people questions land on the founder or general manager instead: how to hire in a scarce labour market, how to keep the people the company just trained, what the organisation should look like after the next stage of growth. An HR consultant builds the practice that answers them, from hiring and onboarding through performance and retention to organisational design, workforce planning, and learning that follows the business.
The HR consultants on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals who have led people functions in corporates and multinationals, built HR from scratch at scale-ups, and advised on organisation and workforce at Big 4 and consulting firms. They know how the labour market here actually behaves, and they know family businesses, where professionalising the people side without breaking what holds the company together is the real assignment.
What does an HR consultant actually do?
- Build hiring and onboarding that hold up in a scarce labour market, from a credible offer to the first months in the seat
- Replace the annual review form with a performance practice managers actually use between reviews
- Design retention around why people really leave, not what the exit interview politely records
- Redesign structure as the business changes: clear roles, workable reporting lines, decisions placed where the information is
- Plan the workforce against the business plan, so hiring follows strategy instead of chasing vacancies
- Build learning and development that follows what the business needs next rather than a catalogue
How to choose the right HR consultant
What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.
Stood up a people function
Has built people functions, not only administered them.
Local hiring reality
Knows the Greek and Cypriot labour market: where the scarce profiles sit and what makes an offer credible.
No machinery you cannot staff
Right-sizes the practice: no corporate-grade machinery for a company that cannot staff it.
Direct about the structure
Comfortable with owners and family dynamics, and direct when the structure itself is the problem.
Knows where counsel starts
Clear about the boundary with employment counsel, and used to working alongside them.
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Tell us what you are trying to get done
A short call is enough to understand the situation and tell you honestly whether the network has the right HR consultant for it.
Engagements run remote, hybrid, or on-site, for clients in Greece, Cyprus, and the rest of the world.