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here 40 employees are contracted by as many as 400 businesses and organizations at a time. They have been hired by the state of Oregon, the U.S. Soccer Foundation, the University of Montana and even Nike. HR Answers was named one of the fastest-growing companies in the area by Portland Business Journal for six consecutive years. At the face of it all, Clark is living marvelously well.
The company was founded, however, out of necessity and under difficult circumstances. In 1984, Judy’s job as the HR assistant administrator at an Oregon hospital was eliminated. “I was told,” she recalls, “that I was superb, wonderful, spectacular, handled the administrative process beautifully-and that we’re laying you off.” She had always been aware of the possibilities of layoffs, especially in the volatile healthcare-administration industry, but she had always considered herself to be immune. “I always thought that really, really good work was protection-and it had not been.”
This was not the first time Judy had been part of an organization that had closed or been forced to cut staff. “Every single place I have worked isn’t open anymore. And I didn’t want to lose a job again because somebody else was in charge and couldn’t make decisions. I decided to start my own organization-if I lost that job I had nobody to blame but myself.”
Judy’s private HR service-opened that year in the loft of her home-was a reaction to her unemployment, but not ill conceived or extraneous. She knew that smaller businesses needed HR help and often did not have their own private human-resources branch, and hoped to use her experience to contract that work for herself.
When it came to founding the firm, Judy put in her all. “You have to know how far you will go,” she reminisces. “My mantra was, ‘No Plan B.’ I’m going to make this work. Whatever it takes, I will make it work.” Her fear of losing focus-and, ultimately, backing into escape routes-kept her from any possible distractions.