From Civil Service to Multi-Million Dollar CEO - Marnice Miller

Empowering Lives Business Magazine for Women Entrepreneurs with Marnice Miller

Marnice Miller, CEO of Human Capital Resources and Concept, Inc.

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Marnice Miller, a 22-year veteran of the Civil Service. She has served within various sectors of the Government where she has received numerous awards. She is a wife and mother of three adult children, who are all graduates of higher education. She is affiliated with multiple professional organizations. She is the CEO of multi-million company, Human Capital Resources and Concept, Inc.

Talk to us a little about how to transition from a steady paycheck every two weeks to the uncertainty of entrepreneurship?

I can sum the transition with a capital A, and that word is Anxiety (Laughing). After 22 years of serving as a Civil servant, i left the government to start a company doing for myself what I had done for the government for 22 years. I was a Senior Human Resources Officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency, and that was a six-figure salary.

It was very tough. I had a lot of anxiety. So what I did before I actually left, I started doing the groundwork, and when I say the groundwork, I mean, I started talking to people, I started talking to a lot of companies and started getting advice on what things I should start with. Then I took all of that advice, and I tailored it for my schedule, for what was realistic for me as it related to the amount of funds I would need, would I have to expend towards travel to networking and conferences? Because of all of that cost money. I would seek out all of the free conference, free seminars, and ways to network. Of course, when you are talking to people, they want to know that you are serious about doing business, or collaborating and partnering. You have to have a website. You must have business cards because those are the things on the surface that people are going to look for right up-front.

There are going to be a lot of sleepless nights and anxiety because when you are accustomed to a steady paycheck coming in, and then it is not happening, it is all on you and what decisions you make

Human Capital Resources and Concept is a premier federal contractor, which means that 100% of our base is the federal government. When I started this company, because of my background in Human Resources, naturally, I am going to start a human resource company. In hindsight, I wish I would have made the company something different because I know a lot of other things now about this type of business. You don’t want to pigeon hole your business into a name that would deter various types of business from your company because of the name. In this realm of work, you are a service company so for the most part, if you read a solicitation and you can do that job, or you can hire individuals to do that work, you can go after that contract. You don’t want your name to avert whoever is looking at that proposal and steer them away from you because they are thinking that you are only HR. A lot of times, I go for HCRC versus Human Capital Resources and Concept. I use the acronym because HCRC could mean anything, so I am not pigeonholed. But again, my true passion is HR. So every time I see that HR solicitation, my eyes get big and I am very excited about it. But we also do anti-terrorism training. We have the largest contract with the Department of Army for their anti-terrorism training, which primarily has not been a woman-owned company.

Marnice Miller, CEO of Human Resources Capital and Concepts, Inc.

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Marnice Miller, CEO Human Capital Resources and Concepts, Inc. Website: www.hcrconcepts.com Email: marnice.miller@hcrconcepts.com Phone: (844) 564-6253

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