HR firm BLANKSLATE highlights value of human capital for business success

The most important word for human resources consulting firm BLANKSLATE Partners is “human.” Since its inception, the company has placed a strong belief in people and their strengths through a focus on goal-oriented job placement above all else.

The driving force behind this way of thinking is CEO Izzie Egan and the vision of what her company can do for her clients through personal attention. Based on the business’s three supporting pillars of partnership, learning and creativity, Egan’s mission for BLANKSLATE can be summed up with the term “lifestyle culture.” Her outlook is so simple, yet so effective and contagious.

“I started my career in HR in the agency world,” Egan says. “I always had a fundamental disconnect with the ethos of the business because I felt like essentially you were selling a person to the highest bidder, not necessarily finding the best candidate for the job or the best job for the candidate.”

Job placement should focus less on bottom lines and more about nurturing a candidate’s passion. That holds true for BLANKSLATE itself, too. As a wife and mother, with a second child on the way, Egan can relate to the difficulties and demands that many family women face in the workplace.

Egan’s all-female team didn’t come about through choice, but rather by finding the best candidates for the positions in her own office. For the employees of BLANKSLATE, Egan’s approach works best for its focus on balancing work with family. It speaks to the needs they have; the needs she abundantly understands.