About FuneralStaff | About our Founder

FuneralStaff can provide the following services:

• FuneralStaff is a professional staffing agency that specializes in placing funeral service professionals into opportunities in the funeral industry.
  
  
• FuneralStaff provides a customized service plan that a smaller funeral/cremation provider can afford to providing a full service-staffing arm for the largest funeral home corporations in the country.
  
  
• We will take every candidate’s and every client’s need on an individualized basis. We will find out the smallest details and qualities of that candidate and client, as and bring them together through our “National Career Matching” placement program.
  
  
• FuneralStaff is dedicated to recruiting the “brightest and the best” candidates available in the market today. FuneralStaff will find “blue-chip” candidates for our clients.
  
  
• FuneralStaff has the ability to recruit a high volume of qualified candidates through various means of recruiting and “head-hunting”.
  
  
• With an individualized approach using modern technology and traditional recruiting; our specialized recruiting system take full advantage of all sourcing avenues (internet, direct marketing, etc.) without sacrificing the personal touch.
  
  
• FuneralStaff guarantees all placements, so there is NO RISK to the client!

Our Founder

Kevin R. Marcy, a fifth generation funeral director, has combined his wealth of funeral service knowledge and his years of professional recruiting experience to launch FuneralStaff (www.funeralstaff.com). FuneralStaff is a professional, full service staffing and consulting firm specializing in placing funeral service professionals, administrators and support staff into opportunities in the funeral industry. With more than 20 years of combined experience in funeral service and executive staffing, Mr. Marcy and FuneralStaff can help funeral service candidates find opportunities with some of the finest funeral homes, crematories, cremation societies, pre-need or cemetery organizations in the country.

Because of their extensive experience, they can also assist funeral service organizations with their consulting and staffing services to identify, hire and help them retain the finest professionals available in the industry today.

FuneralStaff founder, Kevin R. Marcy, grew up in a family owned funeral home in Northeast Ohio, washing cars, delivering flowers and eventually assisting his father in most areas of the business. After college, he moved to Atlanta and worked in a corporate owned funeral home experiencing the corporate side of the funeral industry. During that time he worked in all areas of the business, but concentrated on the funeral homes pre-need and aftercare services. He was able to increase the pre-need sales over 200%. “I really learned a lot about how things were run on the corporate side of the funeral industry”. “I had more experience in the industry than most of my peers when I finally went to mortuary school”.

After graduating from Gupton-Jones, Mr. Marcy was hired to manage the pre-need operation of a family owned operation. About that time, they lost their GM, so he took over and managed both operations. During his tenure there, he was able to help the owner grow the business significantly, increase pre-need and at-need sales dramatically, as well as decrease receivables. “It is all about finding out what families really need, providing several alternatives, and showing them the value in their choices”. “It is also about asking the hard questions in a compassionate manner.” “Most families understand that you have to get paid for your services in a timely manner”.

Also, during this time, he helped open a second branch of their funeral operation in Georgia. “In our first year, we served almost 100 additional families just in that funeral home alone”. “It was very gratifying to see both business grow so rapidly”

“There aren’t too many areas in the funeral industry I don’t have at least a little experience in.”

After that operation was sold, Mr. Marcy took his people skills and helped a friend start a staffing agency. This agency also worked in a niche market and immediately was embraced by Fortune 500 and “high growth” companies. “I have placed hundreds of candidates into some of the finest corporations in the world, like Wal-Mart, Target, Kraft, General Electric, Frito-Lay, Pfizer and many more.”

“Now, my plans are to pass this experience on to my clients in the funeral industry and provide WORLD CLASS SERVICE along with BLUE CHIP CANDIDATES!”