Headway Corporate Resources Inc., a leading human resources company, will move its corporate headquarters and central administrative offices from New York City to Raleigh, and will open a national recruitment center in Tarboro, creating a total of 188 full-time jobs and an investment of $4.25 million over the next five years.
Headway Corporate Resources, established in 1974, provides personnel recruitment, professional and temporary staffing and other human resources services to a wide range of business sectors including financial services, healthcare, education, government, energy, publications and entertainment. The company ranks among the top 75 recruitment and staffing companies worldwide, and placed approximately 15,000 people with more than 1,000 businesses last year.
Headway Corporate Resources chief executive officer and president Jean-Pierre Sakey said Raleigh was selected after a nearly yearlong process of evaluating alternatives that provided not only economic incentives but addressed quality of business environment and quality of life for our employees.
“The clear partnership between government, business and the education sector in developing knowledgeable workers was central in our decision-making process," said Sakey.
Headway plans to lease space at One Hanover Square on the Fayetteville Street Mall in downtown Raleigh and hire 49 workers in management and administrative positions over the next three years. While individual salaries will vary widely, the average wage for these new positions will be $109,000 annually plus benefits.
The company also plans to use the vacant Sprint building in Tarboro for the national recruitment center, where it will hire 139 workers in positions paying an average salary of $38,000 a year plus benefits over the next four years. Both salaries are well above the average yearly wages for Wake and Edgecombe counties, which are $32,900 and $26,600 respectively.
Headway Corporate Resources is the 30th recipient of a Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) since the program began in 2002 to help strategically important businesses and industries locate and expand in North Carolina. Under the terms of the JDIG agreement, approved unanimously by the state Economic Investment Committee that oversees the program, a 10-year grant will be established.
JDIG grants are awarded only to projects whose benefits exceed their costs to the state and which would not be undertaken in North Carolina without the grant. Since 2003, JDIG is responsible for bringing more than 10,000 jobs and $1.9 billion in investment to North Carolina.
Other partners who contributed to this project include the N.C. Department of Commerce, N.C. Community College System, North Carolina’s Eastern Region, Raleigh and Wake County Economic Development Programs, Carolina’s Gateway Partnership, the City of Tarboro and Progress Energy.
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