Small Businesses

So, you have a business. You have atleast one employee, but less than 100. You don't have an HR team, or a dedicated HR person supporting your employees (outside of payroll and basic admin work, which maybe you still do yourself). Your HR needs are pretty simple, and you may have a pretty small budget - or no budget at all - set aside for HR. Here's some of the most popular services we offer for small businesses to add value, protect your business, and give you back time in your day.

Outsourced HR
Let us be your HR team! This option is significantly less expensive than hiring your own part-time or full-time HR person, and is perfect for companies with less than 100 employees. It saves you time and makes sure that you're compliant with provincial and federal legislation.

Performance Management

For when employees aren't meeting expectations, and you're not entirely sure what to do next, we're in your corner to provide support. We can walk you through having the difficult conversations, documenting the process (so you're protected if things go south), and what to do if all your best efforts aren't working.

Terminations

When you have to part ways, we can help with the paperwork, the conversation, and any severance calculations. Terminations are where things are most likely to go sideways, and mistakes here can cost you tens of thousands of dollars. Even when someone is leaving on their own accord, we can do the exit interview to gather valuable feedback on why they're leaving. Knowledge is power!

Investigations

What happens when your employee comes to you and says they're feeling bullied? Or when a manager is worried that an employee is fudging their timecard? These are situations that typically warrant a trained HR investigator to ensure your organization is protected. We can do the investigation and give you a list of recommendations for next steps based on the findings.

Those Random Questions

We can help answer questions like when someone wants to know their vacation entitlement, or an employee needs more sick time, but you're not sure what your next steps should be. Or maybe you've got an employee who needs a medical accommodation request and you're scratching your head on what is reasonable for your business. We're just a phone call or email away.

Outsourced Recruitment
We get it. Recruitment takes so much time. Between getting the job posting up, and weeding through the hundreds of resumes (most of which may not even meet the minimum qualifications). Or even worse – you may have no applications! When you finally book some people in for an interview, at least one person is a no-show and you find out another didn’t read the advertisement and has salary expectations way higher than what you can offer. You finally find the right candidate, but by the time you complete references and pull an offer together, they’ve already taken another job.
Recruitment is time consuming, but unless you’re hiring every week it’s probably not cost-effective to have your own recruiter. We can be your recruiting department for a fraction of the cost of hiring someone yourself. How does recruitment outsourcing save you time?

Job Posting

We can develop a branded job posting to capture the attention of the candidates you want. We can also make recommendations on the best job boards to use based on the type of job you're posting. And because the posting is branded to your business, it'll grow a database of candidates for other roles down the line.

Resume Screening

This can be one of the most time consuming tasks of recruiting, and we've got your back. We do all the tedious work of weeding through resumes, and conducting telephone pre-screenings to make sure the candidates meet the minimum expectations you've set.

Interview Support

We can work with you to develop an interview guide specific to your company, and we pass along only the top candidates for you to interview. We can even book these interviews and be present to support during the interview if you're not sure you want to do it alone!

Hiring

After the interview, we can handle final screenings lie criminal record checks, reference checks, driver's abstracts - whatever the role requires. We can help with drafting the offer letter and presenting it to the candidate. We can even help with basic onboarding requirements to prepare them for their first day.

Employee Handbooks
Handbooks - and the associated policies that go in them - are arguably one of the most important pieces of HR that a small business can have. If you already have a handbook, we can help by reviewing it and identifying any weaknesses or ambiguous language. And if you don't have a handbook, we've got lots of ways to help you there as well.

Handbook Review

We can review your existing handbook and make recommendations. We might recommend adding additional policies to protect your business, or better defining ambiguous language. We can also identify if there are any conflicts within your policies that might leave you exposed to future risk - like areas that don't meet employment standards - and we'll tell you how to fix it.

Handbook Creation

If you're starting from scratch, we can walk you through handbook development. We'll meet with you to understand your business and your needs, and make recommendations on policies you might not have thought of. We can also create the handbook for you, from giving you a starting point all the way to full development.

Policy Writing

Whether you have a handbook or not, the policies within the handbook are really the part that offers protection to your business and sets clear expectations for your employees. We can help identify necessary policies, and can write your personalized policies from scratch according to your unique business needs.

Graphic Design

We offer graphic design services for existing handbooks, and for the ones we've created for you. Handbooks don't need to be a boring old Word document - we can help create a visually appealing design that employees will actually WANT to read. Plus, it'll be personally branded to match your business and your workplace culture.

Why Work With Us?

We speak ‘small business’. We understand the challenges that face small businesses and how often HR services are just not affordable.

We are affordable. We have industry-leading rates, and you can get help for as low as $500/month
For small businesses, we offer payment plans for projects over $2000 to help spread out your costs. We’re one of the only agencies in Canada that offer payment plans.
We offer the option to pay by credit card. We get cash-flow can be a challenge, and we’re one of the only agencies in Canada that offer credit card payment options.
We’re not going to up-sell you. Your needs at this stage in your business journey are usually pretty simple. We aren’t here to overcomplicate things or sell you services you don’t need. Let’s start with the basics – and as you grow, we can be a partner with you.

Other

Services

While we've included a snippet of popular small business services here, we offer a wide range of other services as well. For a breakdown on our other offerings, check our our Services page.

Services

Small Businesses

Outsourced HR Let us be your HR team! This option is significantly less expensive than hiring your own part-time or full-time HR person, and is perfect for companies with less than 100 employees. It saves you time and makes sure that you're compliant with provincial and federal legislation.

Performance Management

Terminations

Investigations

Those Random Questions

Job Posting

Resume Screening

Interview Support

Hiring

Handbook Review

Handbook Creation

Policy Writing

Graphic Design

Why Work With Us?

Services

Outsourced HR
Let us be your HR team! This option is significantly less expensive than hiring your own part-time or full-time HR person, and is perfect for companies with less than 100 employees. It saves you time and makes sure that you're compliant with provincial and federal legislation.